The fact you have abandoned the “War” in World of Warcraft is beyond me. Invest in your infrastructure so we can battle it out. Having Open world PVP is the backbone of this franchise and because your servers cant handle it you’ve abandoned it. Id guess the release of Classic Wrath will paint a pretty good picture of things to come in this franchise when Old content is more popular than Retail.
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Lets be honest, they abandoned the ‘craft’ part too.
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Open world pvp is mostly just gankfest. Not really particularly engaging
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War against the Legion
War against the Scourge
War against Twilight’s Hammer
War against Kor’kron
War against Iron Horde
War against Nagas
War against the Maw
The war of the tittle is about all wars, not only Alliance vs Horde. A world of many wars.
Never was.
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I don’t think that’s been true for a long while.
In the day, there wasn’t much to do in wow besides raiding and pvping and a college player had time in abundance to do both. Excessively.
Once the option to opt-in of pvp was offered, (war mode) people simply opted out.
The truth is that WoW has an aging demographic on its hands. The average player is a middle-aged professional nowadays; not the college dorm dwelling young adult they used to be.
People want to do what they came to do and log out. They’ve got kids to feed, dinner to prepare and work to get ready for. World engagements can slow and even stop that endeavor. (I remember. I was on a PvP server.)
The war ended when people grew up and inherited responsibilities.
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Well…that was heavy and a bit sad. 
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There were like only 1-2 pvp servers that wanted this . Rest every other pvp server were dominated by one faction so basically pve server with name tag pvp.
Then Blizzard did a brilliant thing to create a lot of rage among world pvpers “Cross realms” 
. Now you were no longer the dominant side and had to actually pvp on a pvp server in the world and got ppl mad to a point they said this is not the server I joined. Lets face facts, most if not all players have shown time and again they don’t like world pvp especially fair pvp .They just want to pug stomp.
The introduction on warmode was another funny rage edition when ppl who opted for the bonus rewards in warmode were getting owned in pvp.
I like world pvp, I always camp flight points during the start of the expansion to get muh nerd points but in general it does not work in wow.
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You can find the war in a lot of forum threads.
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Frankly I’m tired of the War part of Warcraft.
I miss the exploration.
I forget where I heard it, I think it was the Twitter Space, and I’m paraphrasing here, the dev basically said that the Dragon Isles are unique because we are going there not to conquer but to explore and learn.
And it really is true.
SL? We invaded the afterlife to take the fight to Sylvanas and stop her.
BFA? We conquered new zones and gained new alliances over military interests.
Even MoP an expansion people incorrectly call a peaceful childish expansion, we went to Pandaria for military reasons.
I’m excited to land in a new zone and not have unrealistic armies breaching every stronghold.
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That is a good question,it seems we are abandoning all war for utopia ,where we all get along socially,economically, in peace with both sides.
It should be where conflicts always rears it’s ugly head every while either through greed or power with some type of craft either through making up some stupid excuse,(which we seen in the past this has happen).
Here’s a good read link on this matter,
https://owlcation.com/social-sciences/The-Main-Reasons-For-War
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Massive open world pvp hasn’t been a thing since Battlegrounds were introduced and Southshore was destroyed.
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Open world siege based pvp objectives is nothing new to MMO’s. The game has an amazing world that is outdated, ignored and left to die. Having Open World PVP events in these zones with rewards that matter, will encourage participation. Siege based warfare Horde vs Alliance. Objective based warfare. These events were popular when they had them in game. The only reason they have abandoned these objectives is their servers cant handle it.
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Honestly,I agree we are changing the wars to be more computerized pattern boards than actual in field strategies but I guess that is what’s to come so people don’t view the conflict as ‘personal’ , better to send robots in the field than a actual person.
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Listening to the podcasts and videos of late with all the new announcements, it sounds more like they are trying to make PVP more fun and meaningful. Even though they are removing some of the faction lines, being able to group with the other faction… they are not removing the faction itself. Warmode, battlegrounds, etc will all still be a thing.
In fact, since you will have more in game communication while grouping, you can also plan squirmishes for fun with the other faction.
They said that in the beginning of Dragonflight there is a PVP opportunity for fun on the way to Dragon Isles.
They are adjusting the gear according to feedback we’ve seen even in these forums.
I think they are putting the FUN back into Warcraft!
Fun in war? omg,there is no “fun” in war in games or reality.
If that were the case, make it stupid fun.
It’s a GAME. So yeah, it’s fun. Otherwise why would people want to play it.
Real War? No. No fun. But why on EARTH would you project that onto a GAME.
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I’m all for this. Don’t get me wrong.
I’d love for them to double-down on the war effort while revitalizing the old world and making it relevant again.
For the story, it makes no sense.
However.
If new opt-in factions became available, it’d make all the sense ever. Think about it. You could have privateers like the Venture Company and a rival corporation vying for control over resources.
Signing on with either company would have you working side-by-side with alliance and horde.
It’d be perfect.
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Some love just the conflict other, love strategies of careful planning and there are those that have no reasons what so ever(warcraft being one of them) .So tell me the reasons the warcraft is a warcraft?
It’s gone.
They killed it for Sylvanses arch.
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