So Horde players have been given the choice to side with either 1 of them in multiple questlines…but will anything like actually COME of this in-game, are they keeping statistics or something, will you get the chance to fight alongside Sylvanas when things come to worst, or is it just a Blizzard gesture to try to satisfy the loyal sylvanas fans in the faction?
This in all likelihood. Not to try and rain on anyone’s parade but of the two “loyal” options presented thus far they either just have you doing the traitor quest anyway but with slightly altered context or just cut the questline short outright. Unless Blizzard is really going to look into changing that dynamic in the 2-3 patches we have left that’s pretty telling.
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I’m not expecting any real differences. Maybe just missing out on a toy or azerite reward here and there. It’s probably too much effort to explore actual branching outcomes when the developers have to assume everyone’s reaching the same story beats in each patch, so the quests are just to provide a fig leaf for players who do or don’t want to feel complicit in the horde’s nonsense this expansion.
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They’ve promised (or, frankly, threatened) that it will:
I’m betting we won’t see the consequences until the final patch of the expansion, though. For one thing, I don’t expect the whole warchief situation to be resolved until then. For another, you have to give them time to program in the consequences of a quest they added hurriedly.
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The “consequences” will probably be something like you get different a title. I guess we will wait and see.
Maybe, but that bit about “We’ll see if you’re right or wrong” sounded pretty ominous.
Maybe if you choose Sylvanas you’ll get the forced title “the Collaborator,” which you won’t be able to change for the entire next expansion. Or something.
Can we get a better toy than the lame cloak?
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Unlikely because they will be afraid of losing subscribers. You will just get to see some cinematic that if you sided with the “wrong” side you should feel bad
Who knows, maybe they’ll do something radical and those who sided with Saurfang and Baine, at the end of BFA, can defect to the Alliance with them.
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I don’t think it will happen, but it would be interesting. I sided with Sylvanas with one of my horde, and will side with Saurfang with the other. So I will get to see both sides of what happens. I’m sure plenty of horde have done something similar.
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Yeah, I rather doubt defection will be an option as well. It’s something that players have requested in the past, mind you, but it’d be weird to offer it only to the Horde.
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i wonder if they’d make any of the core races neutral though one day
Well the races that make the most sense being neutral would be the Night Elves/Blood Elves. Both are heavily connected to their lands, and if they got assurances that neither faction would mess with their lands for leaving their faction, I could see them taking it. Tyrande heavily feels like the Alliance is failing her, and Lor’themar is just waiting for the right moment to act against Sylvanas since he’ll only have one shot at it.
Arguably Draenei and Forsaken could work. Draenei are neutral enough and if the Mag’har can make a distinction between normal Draenei and Lightforged Draenei, they might actually be friendly towards the normal Draenei. As for the Forsaken, they’d have Calia to vouch for them.
I’d say Tauren have the potential to go neutral as well, but I don’t know who on the Alliance out of the core three races would do so for parity.
If they weren’t worried about losing subscribers over anything else they’ve made the Horde do this expansion, I don’t think a title would cause them to worry. But they’d probably do the “feel bad” cinematic as well.
I don’t see that happening unless they dissolve the faction boundaries completely. And I know it’s a popular theory that this is coming any day now, but I don’t expect it to happen any time soon.
I tried this on one of my alts, almost puke in my mouth doing Saurfang’s quest…
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I’m just waiting to see how this all plays out before I subject myself to that. If there’s no separate quests aside from killing the Horde soldiers then there’s really no point in doing it. It’s not actually part of the War Campaign so it’s not required to advance that story like Baine’s dumb quest.
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An elven exclusive faction! My dream come true!
It’d be cool if we get a shuffle to current factions to have let’s say 3.
You can be friendly to your new faction members, neutral or something like that to one faction and hostile to another.
That or just have factions stay the same but each individual race gets different reputation status toward the other faction races.
As an example: Night elves remain an Alliance race so internally nothing changes but they get to be “Friendly” to Tauren, “Neutral” to Blood elves/Nightbourne and “Hostile” to Orcs and Undead.
That can open up new social dynamics without screwing up guilds and raid groups.
They should start by allowing elves to understand each other just like in Norway/Sweden/Denmark people can understand the other two languages pretty easily.
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Here is how BFA will end:
The Alliance and Horde will work together to fight Sylvanas. She will survive. Then she will either have a dramatic change of heart or become an ally of convenience against a bigger threat.
So in the end both sides will feel “justified.”
(Or so Blizzard thinks.)
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I know this would never happen, but a part of me wants the choice to mean that everyone who picked Saurfang gets executed as traitors and then raised as undead versions of their race, and then the horde LEGITIMATELY plays the evil faction. Just because I know everyone would hate it and after Teldrassil I have zero faith Blizzard will be able to pull off a satisfying conclusion to this story.