I mean, Blizzard’s awful story writing aside, Horde characters seem to be a big driving force for moving the story forward. Very few alliance characters make big plays that drive the narrative anymore. Not since Arthas, and we all know what happened there.
If you’re a fantasy writer and can’t write a compelling for the concept of these vastly different kingdoms being loosely united for security against the other faction despite some differences, I would consider you a failure.
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A good example is Legion when Turalyon & Alleria were introduced.
Tagging along, following them, repairing their spaceship, all of this, and the whole time I’m just looking around and like… (1) why are there no Horde NPC’s around, I thought this was a joint effort, and (2) what happens to the spaceship when this is over?
But Blizzard doesn’t think ahead. Nor, apparently, do they give any consideration to what the Horde players think.
It’s not that Blizzard writes the Alliance as stupid, it’s that they don’t write the Horde at all. Then occasionally somebody in a meeting seems to say, “but what about X?” and they’re left having to come up with some absurd plot fix because of their previous ineptitude.
(But seriously, the Horde was M.l.A. for 2 years in Legion, and that was simply unforgivable.)
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Well, let’s hope Blizzard actually delivers with Tyrant Turalyon being the scourge of azeroth for the next few years, before we kill him.
Although I fully expect them to chicken out.
Beats the heck out of me. The writing has been horrible. Thrall went from being leader of the horde to a weak sissy whose afraid of responsibility and Sylvanus went from leader of the forsaken with shades of grey to a one dimensional villain. We don’t even have a warchief anymore thanks to a “council” which makes no sense for a people raised in a head chief, barbaric type culture.
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Remember when Genn comitted a war crime on a hunch and was given a mere slap on the wrist after?
Even if Sylv used the lamp exactly as he thought she would, what he did was hilariously stupid.
Or how despite BEING ON A BLOODY AIRSHIP the alliance never noticed that the Horde were overrun at the broken shore.
I’m still not sure what that lamp thing was all about. I think the Alliance quest version explained things more (although I admittedly haven’t taken an Alliance character through Stormheim to find out).
Well part of the problem there was that only the Horde version of the cinematic shows the Horde being overrun. And only the Horde gameplay shows the Horde being decimated by the Legion’s battlecruisers.
Meanwhile, both versions show Varian Being Awesome because that’s something that everyone has to see. Because, ya know, Horde bias.
Breakdown of Broken Shore cinematics:
Alliance version is FOUR MINUTES OF VARIAN BEING AWESOME BECAUSE HE’S THE BEST
Horde version is 6 seconds of Horde stuff and then FOUR MINUTES OF VARIAN BEING AWESOME BECAUSE HE’S THE BEST
Horde bias.
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That’s actually a problem, before it launched the Broken Isles had a clear cut zone to zone story progression, in that version we find a journal of Sylvanas’ detailing her goals in Azsuna before Stormheim, when they took out the order of the zones on launch for a delinearized path, this didn’t make it in.
I know about the letter, it doesn’t justify his actions, though.
You lost an airship and hundreds of men at least for a stupid squabble when the Legion is invading.
Not only that…
Varian gets the most glorious death imaginable, while poor ol’ Vol’jin gets stabbed in the back by felguard #435.
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Can we trade Malfurion for Voljin back instead of Ysera?
Much more worthy trade.
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What was Slvanas punishment for blighting Gilneas again?
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Becoming god, duh.
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Garrosh was mean about it.
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In the Alliance cinematic, Varian is somehow the only one to notice.
But that’s sort of irrelevant, because the airship is there the entire friggin time. Do they not have a navigator? That seems like a problem.
Like seriously lol
How many Horde cities did Alliance raze? I could go on all day.
All I want, is to see is the Alliance be the evil irredeemable villain for an expansion, at least once
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I mean the main attraction outside of their headquarters is an orc… most of the high quality cinematics center around Horde characters perspectives, there are numerous examples of Devs trolling alliance players or allowing alliance players to be trolled at blizzcons, granted those OG devs are by and large gone now. Game play wise it doesnt really matter now that they are starting to open up the faction barrier.
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I’m pretty sure this is all this ever comes down to, people just wanting Alliance to be evil.
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And all the Blizzard service rewards are Alliance-themed.
Weird how people never mention that.
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