Is this an attempt to break up Horde guilds and attempt to balance the faction numbers by shamming Horde players into rolling Alliance? Or is this part of some social experiment? I’ve yet to hear any developer address this question.
Right now the story team is a bigger threat to the Horde than the Alliance.
I don’t think it has anything to do with faction balance since the people most likely to switch to Alliance aren’t going to help the faction in high level end game stuff, which is where the imbalance has the greatest effect. Unless they’re just going for the illusion of balance.
Most players don’t give a damm about the story and roll Horde for the racials.
There’s always been the division amongst Horde players, it’s just BfA is bringing it to the fore.
I agree that it can’t be about faction balance - the number of players who choose their faction on basis of moral uprightness is near-zero… and such players were probably already in the Alliance anyway.
I think Blizzard just thinks that this is good storytelling. They think that people arguing means that they’re deeply engaged with the story and engagement = quality.
I play on an RP server so things are a little different here. The writing has had effect on guilds and what faction people choose to spend time on.
That’s exactly what it is. Which is why they thought Teldrassil was going to be such a great moment. They think bickering over Red vs Blue means we love the story, so they actively encourage the player base to hate each other based on faction.
I purposefully emote kind gestures to horde players I see, because it’s stupid that Blizzard thinks I’m going to hate the people behind their computer because Blizzard forced them to do stupid crap.
I think this is absolutely true. The Forsaken were always that different.
All the same, it definintly looks like Blizzard is sowing side for people and because of that, it’s not clear how you resolve it.
My personal theory is Saurfang dies. Can’t revolt for a new warchief if your pretender dies.
Sharding has made RP servers almost meaningless.
You’re deflecting my point. I’m talking about players as individuals and guilds as communities not numbers filling a space on a shard.
Unless the new leader of the Horde takes a back seat and does nothing next xpac (like Vol’jin and Legion Sylvans outside of Stormheim) I don’t think there will ever be a good compromise warchief.
There is not much middle ground between “there is no honor for a corpse” and “never forsake honor” (quotes aren’t exactly right I know)
So what if you just don’t have a warchief? 
This isn’t about Warchiefs, there are a thousand threads about that already. This is about the decision by Blizzard to create a divide in one specific faction.
Yeah but the Alliance is divided all the time. Difference is the Alliance is just that and don’t have a Warchief holding total soveirgnty over everyone else. I mean, I think there’s even moves already in this direction: Sylvanas constantly musing about how she doesn’t like being Warchief and preferring to do her own thing and Talanji agreeing only to be an equal ally, not a subject.
Maybe, but then the question becomes, why do they want it to be front and center? It’s a bug, not a feature.
Prolly cause the Horde is gonna stop having Warchiefs and will become a looser coalition.
That’s not addressing the question either. You’re just playing down the issue which is fine if it doesn’t affect you, which I expect it doesn’t in your community. I don’t expect you to have the answer as to why Blizzard is pushing a Horde inner faction conflict.
I don’t think that’s their reason. If they wanted to get rid of the warchief position, the easy thing would have been for Vol’jin not to name a successor. Cue an expansion of confusion where various claimants try to jockey for power, eventually settling into a situation where no one is strong or popular enough to take over the position and they end up forming a council (with each leader representing a particular bloc) instead.
Well isn’t that sorta what’s happening now?
Because the Alliance isn’t allowed to have division.