Exactly, greater threat is rarely ever done well in WoW especially when they use these huge cosmic entities like Titans or Old Gods, which ultimately end up feeling really small and weak.
If Blizz can do greater threat better as you claim they can equally write a better and more compelling faction war.
One thousand years to go…
Neither is the faction war. But at least the former doesn’t screws up the factions and turns them into abominations we have now.
That is a limitation of the game engine unfortunately, and Blizzard not managing expectations well enough. Basically buying into their own hype. It’s not so much a writing issue but more presentation.
I think people don’t want the faction war because it makes second-life rp with Alliance characters really difficult
Yeah they do. They make them bland and samey, because there’s no difference between them and everyone talks to you like you’re Generic Hero instead of part of your specific faction.
I think its more we’re bored.
Its OK you can still have some campfire rp with that Blood Elf I won’t judge you
I don’t like Blood Elves.
All of those patches also had faction conflict, the war was some of the best parts of Wrath, MoP, and Legion likewise.
You know what I mean, WoW and it’s namesake is founded on the Alliance vs Horde narrative, fighting side by side with the Alliance against tentacle monsters is not the sort of war I had in mind.
Maybe it’s time to do away with the factions then and focus on each race individually.
At least I can still hope for the black empire next expac…
Exactly, when it was on the backseat.
(where they were fringe conflicts)
lol they can’t focus on two factions why would you think they’d be able to focus on the 16 races or however many we have at the moment?
I’m pretty sure WoW was founded upon Warcraft 3 which didn’t have the faction war. Hell, we didn’t have the faction war until WotLK.
I honestly enjoyed it the best when we were in a Cold War from vanilla to WotLK personally.
I think the faction leader of the Horde being bombed by the second in command (?) of the Alliance riding in a state of the art superweapon gunship isn’t very fringe
Perhaps Genn was simply fighting !!fer the True Horde!! at that moment in time
I will concede that’s true in Wrath, but in MoP the faction war was a massive focus, and Genn vs Sylvanas was far more interesting than any of the drivel spewing out of Illidan’s mouth.
No more than the Mogu, Sha and Mantid.
So still not fringe.
I never said faction war could be the only focus or narrative.
It did only come to the front at the end however, which is fine. A patch dedicated to the faction conflict is fine. An entire -expansion- is ludicrous.