Why can’t we choose our faction after we choose our race? It makes no sense that our character’s race defines their… politics? Preferred living area? Like, what do these factions even stand for? If it’s just aesthetic differences, might as well let every race choose their own factions.
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because lore wise a human isn’t going to side with the horde? It’s not really that hard to wrap the mind around. You are just some random goblin that decided to join the alliance, you’re specifically a goblin that was helped by the horde and therefore sided with the horde.
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Welcome to Warcraft! Where there literally was a game called “Warcraft : Orcs and Humans”.
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The better question is why are champions of Azeroth bound by petty things like politics at all?
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Welcome to WoW, where we’ve been fighting along side the other faction for like 12 expansions.
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And fighting against each other as well!
I seem to remember burning down a tree.
Hatred doesn’t over come uneasy alliances made for survival.
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And what? You burnt down the tree because of your goblin blood? We could have Goblins who are against what happened, in fact, I distinctly recall a whole cinematic dedicated to Sylvanas leaving because she didn’t think the Horde was cool with her BS anymore.
EDIT: Actually, I bet some humans wouldn’t mind burning down the Tree themselves but because these races are allied they can’t.
Well, ultimately, I feel race based factions actually gives a storyline.
Choose your own factions would give a much worse storyline (if that is even possible).
And well, its a gameplay mechanic. Its pretty common in games to use races as a faction divide.
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It’s the way the game is designed.
It wouldn’t hold appeal to me if suddenly Orcs were Alliance and Humans were Horde.
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Because the writing of this game is pretty much red vs blue and people love it for some reason.
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Which is surprising because faction conflicts are always the most boring and uninspired stuff in the game.
Leave the Horde and Alliance as they are, sure, but there’s no reason the player character should be bound by them at this point. The number of literally world ending threats we’ve stopped, you’re telling me the faction leaders couldn’t convince their people to not stab us on sight? Us, the people who stopped elemental lords, the Burning Legion, the Lich King, an invasion from an alternate dimension, the Burning Legion again and for good, and now the Black Empire, they can’t talk the average citizen into begrudgingly letting us walk around? What an absolute joke.
The writers need to decide if we’re a random adventurer or a hero who regularly saves the world. Either one could work, but they need to pick one and stick with it.
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I for one have always found the times we work together to be far more compelling writing wise than the times we fight against each other. BFA felt so hamfisted in the way they started the war, that I am GLAD this expansion is over and done with.
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Well, lets be honest. They pretend it’s red vs blue, but then every ten minutes we have to have a session where everyone holds hands.
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Agreed, unfortunately the fact is the lore will most likely not be able to shake off the faction restrictions because most people really don’t follow the lore or care for it.
Now I do like having the factions in game, but I would like to see them evolve into something more than “these people good, these people bad”.
It also gets messy when you realize a lot of these races are in the same faction already lore wise.
Pandaren
Humans
Elves
Goblins
Undead
Etc
Working together through an uneasy alliance can be fun in doses.
“Choosing your own faction” would imply there is still a war going on (at times) and the two sides are still fighting each other (at times).
Where you are born and raised, the society around you, absolutely colors your world view. Especially in an ostensibly pre or early-industrial setting without things like TV, Internet, or other means of fast and easy communication outside your immediate circle.
I kind of agree with this. I like being human, but I disagree with the ally leaders more than not. I also like the horde leaders(besides Sylvanas) more.
We see this is very not the case though in real life. That would be like saying everyone from X state is in X political party
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In real life I can hop onto the magic infinity-box I keep in my pocket and make direct small talk with someone who lives on literally the opposite end of the world. My character does not share that luxury.
(Commentary): There are certainly a number of races that’d have nothing to do with the opposite faction, but most of them fall under the, ‘Core,’ races of a faction. Humans, Dwarves, and Gnomes, and then Orcs, Trolls, and Ogres. I’d say Tauren but they’ve been written to be about as neutral as the Draenei at this point.