This thread is meant to serve as a containment zone for faction conflict arguments about the Horde and the Alliance that keep on derailing other threads, especially the PTR Spoiler thread whenever we get any new information, as some members of the community immediately try to tie that new information to faction conflict stuff that was resolved over five years ago.
With that, I’ll start with my response.
Are we forgetting Mists of Pandaria and Battle for Azeroth, in which the Horde were the bad guys and the plot revolved around rebels navel-gazing and self-flagellating about how monstrous the Horde was, while they helped the Alliance fight against it so that it could be reformed, a process that has left the Horde with a very small roster of recognisable characters that are still alive and basically no plot development at all in the past five years?
There’s no need to go “but what about the Horde and their crimes,” we already had our big story arc about their atonement that resulted in the Horde getting gutted and now ignored for half a decade, and people still complain to this day that said story arc paid too much attention to the Horde.
Yes, the Horde did worse in the past and of the two factions, the Horde is guilty of far worse crimes, primarily thanks to the decisions of Garrosh and Sylvanas. That doesn’t mean that people aren’t allowed to mention the comparatively smaller sins of the Alliance that Blizzard often ignores or whitewashes.
That is precisely why some people talk about these smaller sins so much - some people still feel like there’s been no resolution or apology for the Dalaran Purge, for example, when compared to the consequences that the Horde suffered for its Battle for Azeroth story arc - having its leadership completely gutted and overhauled, to the point where it has very few recognisable characters left in comparison to the Alliance and subsequently receiving no attention, because there’s no one interesting left for Blizzard to write about.
