What determined you to chose the faction you’re playing?
I’ll go first I guess.
I always liked Orcs more than Humans in the rts games. They were just “cooler” and more “metal” than the plain, generic Humans. I liked their overall aesthetic and their units way more. Especially in Warcraft 3 where they added Tauren.
Since I played a ton of Warcraft 3 and I mained Orc I instantly went for the Horde when WoW came out. I also wanted to see Orgrimmar since I helped in its founding with Rexxar in the TFT campaign. So yeah, I went Horde without even considering the Alliance side. And I’ve exclusively played Horde ever since.
I never had a single Alliance toon in almost 20 years of playing this game on and off. I don’t even know their quests, their areas, their capitals (only from grieving lowbies and from the For the Horde achievement).
Almost all of my characters were Tauren because they’re Native Americans and I’m a huge fan. I haven’t had a Paladin for example until Cataclysm came out and Tauren could be Sunwalkers. 
I know a lot of people don’t care about factions and choose them based on their racials or have played both sides due to external factors (like having irl friends who already played the game).
But I think it’s interesting to see why other people chose to be either Horde or Alliance.
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I wanted to play mage in classic 2019.
But did not want to ride a horse or mechanostrider.
+Raptor is the best mount any way
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Yes. Horde has the best mounts. Raptors, wolves (like Thrall and all Farseers and the Raiders), skeletal horses (basically Arthas’ DK mount from WC3), giant kodo beasts. The only goofy looking one is that Blood Elf ostrich but I’m still not convinced Blood Elves belong in the Horde .
The only Alliance mount I actually like is the Dwarven goat or ram. The rest… Not so much.
If you mean how i choosefaction from 2006 then my thought process was…
I wanted to be orc, because that is what i got to try at a friends house and for some reason i thought you could only be warrior.
So before i made the orc i tried other races.
The undead made it to like 10-11 before i decided to try out the next race, Which was this tauren.
Even warrior was my first 60, I quickly fell out of love with it and rogue was first 70, Paladin first 80.
Tho then i made the Death knight ”Draknalor” which has been the first max level every expansion since.
Thus why the classic mage is also draknalor.
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Tiger is my favorite mount ever.
But did not want to ride either of the other two mounts until i got enough runecloth for exalted.
I whas a total noob with 12 back then and got told the false hint, that Curse of Language is a human only spell with what you can be a translator.
While I later found out, that it whas blatantly false I kind of got used to Konstantino already.
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In 2006 I had been playing AD&D for years. I always wanted to be a Paladin, but we always had someone of Chaotic alignment in our team.
The choice in WoW was easy: Paladin => Human as I did not feel like playing a Dwarf lady with no beard (Read Tolkien, Dwarwen ladies have a beard too).
He is still my main in Retail - although not played for years - and I wanted to re-live this in Classic. Which I do with gusto.
PS:
I’m an altoholic, I play Tauren, NE, Orc, Draenei, and Dwarf too, I have since reconciled with not having a beard, so I now play Dwarven ladies as well 
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I play both. September-march horde. March-september ally.
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Zabra, like you, played the old Warcraft games before WoW and found the orcs cooler than the humans.
When I finally started playing WoW in 2006, I had one look at the troll race and I knew I wanted to play one. Unfortunately, my friends who got me into WoW all played Alliance, so I had to roll the coolest race out of the blue squad. I was a dwarf.
However, I played Horde on a different realm, and eventually got a second account to play Horde on the same realm where we all played because it would be more fun, I thought.
Over the many years of playing this game, I have switched between factions a few times. Even when Classic first came out, for the same reasons mentioned above, but have mainly played Horde since TBC and will continue to do so for the remainder of Wrath.
Overall, I have always preferred the Horde races and the fact that they exist as a faction out of necessity. To survive in a world that hates them. The races at varied and have a lot of different flavours.
Also Trolls are the coolest race. Said it back in 06 and I stand by it till this day.
Oh, and apart from the rambunctious nature of the dwarves (who are similar to orcs, for instance, with their value of honor and their love for a good fight (and ale), the self-righteousness of the Alliance was always somewhat off-putting to me.
Did I mention trolls?
Darkspear never die.
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Friends of mine played alliance in vanilla so i started alliance. 
But i always preferred horde looks like trolls and tauren.
If i had to choose now alliance for me because i prefer ally capitals and horde feels naturally more like evil enemies.
It was kind of random, it took me multiple characters to finally figure out how to just reach level 10.
My very first character was a Night Elf and it got stuck in a tree at like level 3 or something. Then I made a human and it was a Warrior and I kept dying. Didn’t even get to see Stormwind.
Finally I made a Troll Hunter. I still died a lot but for various reasons I managed to get through it and the experience of taming a pet for the first time and then taking it to Orgrimmar was enough for me to play mostly Horde.
Always been an altoholic, it was too good an experience as a Wrathbaby to make characters over and over.
Because of Lordaeron, Uther and his knights of the Silver Hand!
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Dwarfs. The End.
Saw a painted Warhammer army in a shop one day as a kid, discovered Lord of the Rings, many years later watched the movies, around the same time WoW came out. The rest is history.
Also, did I mention Dwarfs?
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Alliance good, defenders, nice-looking, nice-looking cities, cozy areas, nice music
Horde evil, invaders, ugly (belves aren’t ugly but they’re a Barby caricature), ugly cities, barren areas, music resembles belches
Seriously though, check out “The Broken Front” Icecrown quest. Or recall the fact that 2 out of 3 Classic BGs are purely a Horde aggression (but muh Thrall “didn’t approve” of Warsong Clan to attack Ashenvale, well lol). Horde’s just evil that’s it, for me this is the main reason. I tend to play good in computer games whenever there’s a choice.
My very first character was a Gnome, based on size only. Gnome Warlock, little but powerful - as I had seen similar things on Everquest.
When all my friends rolled Horde, 1 month into Vanilla (sad times, I was 32), I went for a Troll due to the caribbean accent and in-game culture.
I kill two dwarfs in the morning, I kill two dwarfs at night.
I kill two dwarfs in the afternoon and then I feel alright.
I kill two dwarfs in times of peace, I kill two dwarfs in war. I kill two dwarfs before I kill two dwarfs, and then I kill two more.
The faction was chosen based on that I guess.
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Orcs are originally satanized invaders from Outland/Draenor, yes, but they redeemed themselves and went across the ocean to Kalimdor to escape conflict with the humans and establish a new homeland for themselves. The Orcs in Warcraft 3 didn’t want to fight the humans anymore. They just wanted to be left alone and return to the old ways.
Also remember that after the Orcs lost the second war your “good” humans put them into concentration camps just like you-know-who. If you do Old Hillsbrad Foothills în the Caverns of Time the human guards you kill say “I was just following orders” which was the perennial excuse of all those who stood trial at Nuremberg in 1945.
So much for your “good” humans bro.
The Darkspear Trolls are displaced refugees who were rescued by the Orcs on their voyage to Kalimdor.
And the Tauren are native Kalimdorians who were fighting for survival against encroaching centaur marauders. They, too, were rescued by the Orcs.
And that’s how the original (Warcraft 3) Horde was founded.
The Forsaken joined later. And they’re not invaders nor evil either. They’re actually native to the fallen kingdom of Lordaeron of which they control the capital and adjacent areas.
The Forsaken are in a way “survivors” of the Scourge who regained their free will but continued to be persecuted, hunted and destroyed by hateful humans.
Horde aren’t invaders or evil or any of the things you listed. They’re survivors.
If you were doing some sort of Alliance rp you nailed it though being so self-righteous and judgemental.
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Just one correction. The internment keeps where actually already mercy where King Terenas pleaded for it because both Genn Greymane and Thoras Trollbaned demanded that even the last of the orcs should be executed for not only them trying to kill humanity but then making those humans even after the war suffer more by eating them the food away that could be instead given to good citizens.
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Nice bro.
Blizzard really did them dirty in Warcraft 3 though. Lv 2 DK Arthas killed Uther and massacred the entire Order with nothing but flimsy ghouls and a handful of meat wagons.
It still bothers me. There’s no way Uther would have lost that confrontation if the dumb plot didn’t require it.