that has always been the case LOL
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Tbh Im fine with sylvannas being unrepentantly evil. Its what the forsaken were supposed to be, allies of convenience with the hordeā¦ But some kind of redemption arc would just be ham-fisted and lame and not really necessary.
Stop trying to make me empathize with your plot-armor mary sue.
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i joined horde because its the evil side im sick of people trying to push horde has to been good, no we are the villains the forsaken are villains its just how some people like to play. i always play the evil faction on games .
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Exactly! āRedeemingā sylvanas would only take away from her character.
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i think the problem is we got alot of newer players who didnt play the older warcraft games or dont pay attention to lore and just skip it.
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I want her to come back and be redeemed.
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To be fair; Sylvanas has always been a villain to Alliance players even prior to her elevation to main baddie for both factions.
The Alliance are supposed to hate Sylvanas.
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Cause she IS a good character, baby
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Imagine being made to empathize with the character who destroyed your favorite raceās big treehouse by the writing team? You canāt exactly blame them for wanting her to get her comeuppance.
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I only ever liked Sylvanas at all when she was a mysterious monochrome night elf in undercity that I knew next to nothing about. I canāt stand RTS games so I came into this blind to all of that. I honestly wish theyād just drop all that baggage, you canāt have a character commit genocide and then be like āsatan gave her back her soul, itās all good.ā That would be a dumb story any way you tried to spin or justify it.
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i know i actually believe she didnt put all the weapons we had to kill off alliance once and forall. it would have been easy to have her dark rangers bring nightborne telemancy beacons all over alliance areaās and than port in a ton of mana bombs or/and forsaken plague.
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I donāt and I donāt think any of my posts have tried to do so.
Sylvanas was a Horde character in a game that has used the narrative to pit the two factions against each other in some fashion - even when not officially at war with one another.
Alliance players SHOULD hate Sylvanas.
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indeed however alliance players and alliance should HATE horde not just one person. factions never offcially ended the war.
A new player cannot āpay attention toā lore that was never presented in the game. Yet the game presumes that every new player played old warcraft games and has purchased and read every story that ever was presented in outside media. And kept up on the constant stream of retcons, too.
It is not realistic for blizzard to expect new players to know things in this way.
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Alliance players should hate sylvanas sure, but then how do you reconcile that with the writers trying to write out a redemption story for her that is the central story focus for the entire playerbase, alliance players included? It seems like a good way to disappoint a good portion of your playerbase imo. All the more reason main faction leaders should NEVER be the central focus of the story.
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thats the thing if they dont know the lore they cant have a say on this type of thing because it predates their valid view point so what needs to happen is blizzard needs to work to present the lore to the players ingame .
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I donāt.
I let Blizzard write the story they want to write and if I like it I say so, and if I donāt I say so and why I think so.
Then who should be if anyone?
They can form an opinion from what they see in the game. And basically the opinion I formed is that the story appears broken to new players and devs donāt care about that.
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the current dev team is focusing to much on raiding mythic plus and such at the expensive of the lore and everything else in game.
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The āmistakeā in the eyes of a lot of Horde players was to go full garrosh on Sylvanas in order to sell more books through the use of inexplicable plot twists that required outlay of cash to comprehend.
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