Well thatās just not true, is it. also what the heck are you doing posting from Argent Dawn about faction imbalance? Alliance outnumber Horde on that self contained server by more than 2 to 1! Seriously, it is 70% Alliance!
Actually the majority of the posts seem to indicate otherwise. Not a big PvP fan myself, I find it dull as ditchwater, but I know many who are, and they complain of a -lack- of opposition, even on a server where they are outnumbered more than 2:1ā¦
That sort of behaviour is generally left to the Classic forums, not seen any Horde complaining about losing in Retail, even when all the top Guilds went to Alliance for the OP racials a few years back.
Again, thatās just not actually true, is it? I mean that didnāt actually happen
I mean lets leave aside this āHall of Fameā rubbish, which is just that, rubbish, I mean who actually -cares-.
Even on shards where Alliance massively dominate the population spread, they do not turn War Mode on. I mean Alliance always have higher numbers on Argent Dawn Warmode, but not to the degree that the imbalance is weighed in their number. It is still pretty much the case that playing with War Mode on as Horde is an in game suicide pact, but many Alliance just wonāt use it.
Lets just examine that for a moment. Alliance make up 70% of the playerbase in that shard. For some reason DazarāAlor city guards donāt engage Alliance in the city, whereas in Boralus they are all over Horde like a dog eating hot chips. Because the War Mode bonus is -regional- and not -the outnumbered faction get the bonus- it should be a massive happy hunting ground for Alliance. They have all the odds stacked in their favour, and even get a bonus for outnumbering the enemy!
Why the constant whines about Blizzard favouring the Horde then?
Probably for the same reason people stereotype Brits as always banging on about the Weather. Weāve gotten so used to doing it, that it is a self fulfilling prophecy.
Alliance mains will whinge about imbalance or bias, meaning other Alliance mains will whinge about it, -even- the ones who were playing during the time when everyone and their maiden auntās pet dog had rolled Human for EMFH.
This gives a bad impression of the faction as being a bit petulant, self-defeatist, and heck, if I was a new player, Iād buy into that hype. Iād think the Alliance was this tiny little faction, constantly getting curb stomped by the big bad Horde. I wouldnāt necessarily look at the EU Faction Population numbers (Thereās 4% in it) but would go āGee, Alliance sounds Rubbish, everyone complains, I think Iāll roll Hordeā
The Alliance playerbases biggest enemy is -themselves-. If you go into a situation half-ar$ed and convinced the odds are against you, and you will lose, then the chances are, you -will- lose, which then just promotes this victim mentality, which is not an attractive lookā¦
Alliance should be riding high on the crest of a wave right now, they just had āLegionā which was pretty much an Alliance expansion (Disagree? I got three words for you. āVindicaar command deckā Point out any Horde or Horde/neutral characters. Iāll save you the bother, there arenāt any, its all āAlliance save the Galaxy!ā )
You all know that complaining here is pointless. We just lost our last Blue, and Blizzard really doesnāt give an ounce of dog toffee about what the EU playerbase think. This constant barrage of Alliance whining is as meaningful as an angry Glaswegian tramp shouting into a bin after chucking out timeā¦
All it does is create this weird tribalism, which is almost incomprehensible to those of us who do in fact play both factions, and it perpetuates this victim mentality, and there is -nothing- Blizzard can do about that. Not WM bonuses, not free high level items, not even massive focus in lore and plot. Nothing is ever good enough for people who -want- to find something to complain about.
So buck up your ideas, stop exaggerating and complaining about things even when they favour you, but more importantly to me, stop making me feel soiled when I log my Draenei Vindicator or Gnome GCO Agent, for being associated with the Victim Complex. Just stop it. You are only perpetuating it yourselvesā¦