I am probably making fun of the people who can’t stop complaining about how much Blizzard hates them and their favourite race, I guess. But since I also make fun about people complaining about dozens of other things, like why the Alliance hasn’t gotten a story choice, or how much Horde-players hate traitors or how the Alliance is allowed to get away with all their dastardly deeds, etc… I can’t really see that unfair.
But you can call me mean, if you like to.
But the Worf effect is strong here, hence each subsequent victory becomes less and less impressive. The writers want to tell us how badass and powerful the Night Elves are - and by extension the Alliance - but what we see in the lore simply doesn’t reflect that.
At this point the reputation of the Kaldorei as a military power is so thoroughly degraded that any Horde commander who is legitimately intimidated by them starts to look a bit neurotic.
This kind of inconsistency drives a lot of the complaining Night Elf fans do. The race’s plot throughout WoW is so disjointed and devoid of build-up or consequence that feels like a 6-year-old’s story about what they did over the summer. “The Night Elves were nice and they helped to beat Archimonde and then they joined the Alliance and then their tree got burned down and then they went to the zoo and then they had soup and ice cream for their tea and that’s what the Night Elves did on their holidays.”
I won’t argue against any of that. The writing isn’t anywhere close to what I would call good.
But it isn’t any better for most groups, so I will happily make fun of any group that tries to claim how uniquely hated they are, because of that writing. Yes, the writing is bad. We get it. We got it 10 threads ago. No, not all the Night Elf players are doing it. But enough in numbers and volume to make a trope.
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