Wow hasn't had a good story in a while

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Speak for yourself. I was absolutely looking forward to it. Even went back to wearing my Knight-Lieutenant title for a good deal of that expac.

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There are a dozen of you. Wrath though, major selling points was not the factions wars. It was death knights and dance studios. The dance studios never came.

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What part of NO ONE I KNOW did you miss before responding?

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It’s to point out the logical fallacy of arguing by anecdote.

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So you honestly think my PERSONAL friends were excited for the faction war?

You’re going to argue what conversations I had with MY OWN FRIENDS?

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And thus the qualifiers begin.
:popcorn:

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I guess the Rarely have I part must have been skipped over

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Faction war is good.
Just shouldn’t be the focus.
Making the horde objectively wrong is what made the story bad, to boot.

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Faction war bad.

Merc battles good

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Remember when the game treated us as actual mercenaries and not gods of war?

Pepperidge Farms remembers :dracthyr_hehe_animated:

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You are going to argue that you and your little club represent the ENTIRE playerbase?

B ack in the day before all of this server sharding nonsense, I’d get involved in Alteraac Valley wars that would last up to three days at a time,and I’d be queueing in multiple times during that period. We would come to recognise our foes across the divide, sometimes we’d spit at them, sometimes we’d salute them and vice versa.

I was really hoping that BFA would bring some of that qualtiy PVP back and I am reasonably sure that I was not the only one who felt thatway.

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Good thing I didn’t say anything about the entire playerbase. That’s your own baseless assumption

I said NO ONE I KNOW.

I don’t care nor am I interested about what you were into. I didn’t ask

The least you can do is make an attempt to try and comprehend what your reading before responding

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That’s chasing nostalgia now. Those were fun days but those days are gone.

We either can evolve from that or keep the same old same old. All that can come back, with Merc groups and revamping of PVP.

Doesn’t have to be faction wars to feel like that.

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Faction conflict however is still useful for giving justification for new battlegrounds such as what we have in the new expac.

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Could be, but at this point it will be contrived. It would be more interesting seeing mixed Merc groups fighting over contracts, resources. Like imagine a group of mixed factions hired by the venture Co and you join the Merc group hired by bilgewater cartel.

You can fight over the trade wars and it had nothing to do with horde vs alliance but a new form of trade wars between goblins.

Can be literally about anything really. Plunderstorm showed us this with new and interesting PVP modes with hostile intentions that isn’t horde vs alliance. literally just pirates in the Highlands fighting over loot.

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Even the newest BG is basically a resource war between two different Earthen. Alliance helps one and the horde helps the other

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And there are a Merc mode that you can join both factions if you so wished. Faction wars stopped making sense to me long ago.

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They stopped making sense to me after 30th time both sides suddenly stopped a world war to put down the latest big bad

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I kinda think the faction conflict faded for practical reasons. WoW’s still the king of the MMO but that’s a genre who’s popularity is past it’s prime. The workload of having to create multiple separate hubs and questlines for every single zone probably doesn’t look economical on a spreadsheet when only a miniority of players do both anyway.

And mixing the factions for certain ques just makes things go smoother at this point. The wait time for BG Blitz is like 12 minutes on DPS when we have peak player activity. I’ve been in and out of the DMV faster than that. I don’t need it to be 30 minutes just so I won’t be grouped up with a gnome.

Like I really adore the aesthetics, world building and WPvP of the Old WoW faction conflict. But I gotta ask if it’s even still viable to play things that way.

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ppl always hating on the story but guess what. its not that bad just inconsistent a lot of the time
it works for the most part.

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