pat pat no vulpie can get away with everything forever, my friend.
This is kind of a swallow observation but I’ll honor it. The main issue with the writing, in general is, how Brigante has already written about it in the pats, is that everything is homogenized. There can no true outbreak of the norm because the writers aren’t that good to begin with and the player base has evolved with each storyline.
The Horde - and the color red - are generally about aggression, passion and the underdog mentality to survive against all the odds. The Horde-aesthetics are the dominating factor in the overall design, similar how we have the classic fantasy setting on the Alliance-side.
Story-wise the Horde is needed as the bad guys because that’s their overall role to fulfill. Misunderstandings, wrong decisions and all the jazz. That’s the purpose of the Horde, you cannot have two good factions at once. No, I’m actually mocking you here. Of course can have it but the writers lack talents or are unwilled to go the Legend of Korra-way which is also present in the promo- and video material to Hearthstone where both faction coexists without the “war-aspect”. What most people forget about it is that “war” does not mean blue vs red. You can easily bring in a Korra-season 1 conflict which involves revolting against the system and that coexistence isn’t given out for free without problems.
Blizzard purposely dismisses big “events” because it leads to disaster. However, after Legion, they needed something so desperately stupid to give both sides a reason to fight again with only the Alliance being the one who have rightfully being pissed about the nelf-genocide. The backlash was evident and how the developer scrapped the datamined warfronts. They underestimated how much the current Horde-fanbase sees them as the “good” ones. And that’s an overall problem which ends in a vicious cycle and how we can break it at all. The only logical step forward is to dismiss the blue/red-faction system at all and bring in smaller stories about the races and an overall endgoal which will constantly force everyone to work together.
The Alliance writing is stronger in the books, because we have a somewhat fanboy-writer in Golden who actually gives them moral-grey conflicts which is not present in the MMO-story while these parts are canon. I think most people will start to see the full picture when they release an animated TV show based on Warcraft - which will likely happen within this decade, given that Diablo gets their own animated show as well (confirmed and in production as far as I have read it years ago).
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Alliance seem content with Humans, Humans and more Humans and then cry wolf, when they get mocked for playing the boring faction[/quote]
While not wrong, it still does not reflect the actual problem: Lacking diversity and Blizzard’s inability to adept accordingly without compromises.
