I’ve told it before, but I always like answering these threads:
For Warcraft III, I adored night elves. I wanted to play them since the day I started seeing commercials for WoW. Fast forward to my first experience, I made a Hunter because 13 year old me figured “I like animals, so I can tame them!” But then while I was dallying around in sheer confusion, I saw someone running around as a bear, and I just go “Why tame them when I can become them?!” So I ran up to try and flag him down to ask him how he could turn into an animal. Remember this was my first time playing a game like this, I was mostly PS1 prior to it outside of Warcraft III and Starcraft, so I didn’t know about classes or how to whisper or anything like that.
The guy told me I was an idiot noob for not knowing classes, and that I should kill myself.
That kind of upset me quite a bit, so I logged out and did some research. I finally found that Druids could turn into animals, that was the class, but only night elves and tauren could be them. After experiencing that type of hostility, I made a tauren on the same server. And as luck would have it, my first experience there was a level 60 handing out free, white quality bags to any new player. Sure, they weren’t expensive or amazing bags, but that was my first experience Horde side vs. Alliance.
Been Horde ever since, I don’t think that’ll ever change.