…“remove the alliance”. As soon as you mention it, we know you are a bad faith actor and we disregard your opinion entirely. When you say “Blizzard should just add mercenary mode”, what we hear is “Blizzard should just remove the alliance”. Anyone who advocates for mercenary mode is in our eyes either delusional or a troll.
I’m being 100% straight and honest with horde players right now. The reason alliance players don’t want your issue fixed isn’t because we hate you, it is because the fix you presented shows you are completely and utterly selfish and out of touch. Simple as that.
You can check all the damage mercenary mode did to retail and it didnt get any better because of shadowlands pvp system in general.
It might sound overdramatic to the zug zugs but it’s another tantrum… drop the training wheels horde players play on the non popular side and don’t wait for wotlk for the EMFH meta.
This didn’t happen in retail. Alliance players didn’t just throw their hands up and say, “That’s it boys. Pack it up. We’re no longer needed here.” And unsub. People still played the alliance because they wanted to.
Saying that if they add merc mode it would kill the alliance is really selling the alliance short and what draws people to them anyways. In retail I play Alliance even though merc mode exists. Why? Because I simply enjoy NE druids more than any other race and that’s my main. Plus I liked the zones more in BFA like Boralus and Drustvar. When I make a new character they’re always a NE.
Sure, I could still play horde and just merc mode but that would mean giving up the race I prefer for horde races.
People play Alliance for many reasons. Merc mode wouldn’t single handedly shatter them all.
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Ask a horde player to sell you on mercenary mode. They literally can’t. You see it in this very thread. They can only explain benefits to themselves. They actually can’t process that alliance players exist and have their own desires and interests.
Classic doesn’t have faction changes though. With faction changes, it’s simple and very quick to swap over to horde. Without faction changes, very few alliance will actually decide to leave everything behind and reroll horde. To think that the alliance as a collective is just going to either quit or swap to horde really is dramatic.
Times were different back then we didnt had all the data, simulations and more. Trying to compare it to the past is a bit pointless as the community and playing games in general has been changed forever since metas are a thing.
Again alliance was know as the pve faction. This is a pvp issue. Its very well known that pve players can’t stand pvpers. Alliance happened to be the side constantly making fun of pvpers and demanding blizzard stop balancing wow with pvp. It hurt their game play so they did what they could and chased all the pvpers to horde.
Oh of course not everyone but people playing for the edgy side of the horde is a casualty of the meta gaming it’s unfortunate but it’s bound to happen on any classic server blizzard will release from now on.
So I ask you to sell the alliance on mercenary mode, and your response is to insult alliance players…
…and you wonder why we aren’t sympathetic to your concerns? Again I’m totally and completely baffled. What do you expect our response to be? Of course we are going to be scornful.
Ok but again…Thinking the only reason to play Alliance for fast queues is throwing so many other reasons out the window like, “I prefer the zones,” “I like how X race looks in gear I plan on getting,” “I like the lore behind X race “ “My friends play X faction so I did too.”
Thinking the Alliance is only desirable for fast queues or Horde is only desirable for X racial is severely glossing over so many other personal reasons for decisions being made.