Why Is NO ONE Playing ALLIANCE?! Too Boring/Bland?
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Is the Alliance really so boring that so many people are choosing Horde?
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Even though back in World of Warcraft Classic the Alliance was the more numerous faction the rations have gotten crazy over the years in certain regions the Horde is overwhelming the Alliance in the case of 90/10 although on average it is closer to 70/30 which causes quite a lot of issues for Alliance players.
This is the main reason they added cross faction grouping in 9.2.5 and let us examine why are so many people picking the Horde over the Alliance? Is the Alliance just to bland, does the Horde offer more variety?
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The Horde has surged since the forth war, if the Blizzard hadn't killed off Varian, people would still be flying the Alliance flag proudly. The Horde is just metal, honor, strength and loyalty are displayed in the lore, players get drawn into it, that's what happened to me. I needed a break from the "blood and thunder" so I decided to roll some Alliance toons while waiting for the Dragonflight pre-order to drop, I feel that the Alliance need a story arc that brings back players into the fold, everyone played had a connection to Arthas in WCIII as he lead his paladin's against the undead and we need Anduin to have a badass story arc on his way back to his throne, I'm sure Blizzard will find a way to fuck up the lore, they do it well!
Actually, a lot of Alliance Players are Republican or hold right-wing views. It's actually because Blizzard is super Horde Bias and have a favoritism towards the faction and neglect the Alliance. Hell Blizzard even try to demonize the Alliance, despite so clearly showing the Horde committing more grievous acts of aggression and warmongering and even War Crimes.
in my opinion I just find the alliance to much typical of any generic fantasy faction, while horde is unique enough to be its own thing.
I think the biggest problem with the factions is that the Alliance has developed a bit of a bad reputation for being “for kids” or “immature players”, and I gotta say, they’re not entirely wrong. I love the Alliance, but I find Horde side more fun and engaging. The RP stuff on Horde side is also much better. The Ally side seems to only be interested in “weirdo” stuff…. If you know what I mean…. 😕
Outside of the worgen, I find it much easier to identify with the Horde. That and the sense of government is much different between the factions.
I completely disagree with Draenei being too human-like. The most they have in common is they have arms, torsos and heads. Draenei have horns, double jointed legs, tails, tentacles/tendrils, fangs, bone plates and extremely tall. Not to mention the males are as wide as fridges. They're one of the most unique races in the game and it didn't feel right for you to dismiss them.
And there OGs.
Humans are just subraces
How can being too human be the issue if belf is the most popular race lol.
Blood elves are the most popular race, and hummans ae in the top 4, draeneis are less popular then almost all horde races but dwarves and gnome are less popular than this, so i think beng too human like can be a factor for some races but not all
It's kinda weird when you think about it, draenei womans are really thin and males look like fridges But not just about body i really like the Draenei story it's really sad, depressing when they left Argus and all, poor Velen he witnessed every suffering. Draeneis are underrated but i like em
Couldnt agree more, myself coming from wc3 rts i straight jumped into trolls because i loved them in WC3 but by the time i got my priest to level 50 in BC i decided to jump into Draenei Paladin as it looked so fucking nice and appealed to my gaming fantasy. However i do agree with him that adding the Blood Elves to Horde really made this problem bigger as i believe people liked blood elves even more than draeneis, in every server i could see thousands of blood elves but definitely not thousands of draeneis, if they added BE to Alliance perhaps the factions could have been even.
“Alliance races are bland” meanwhile there is 90% of horde’s playerbase playing pointy eared humans
Amen to that, and lets not forget how back in tbc it was the blood elves that rssurrect the horde from the dead.
@Oscar Blood Elves used to have a story way more morally grey and interesting than the Humans in TBC (even if that changed eventually, at least for now), so that's why most Blood Elves stayed with the Horde despite the model of the race is avalaible in the Alliance right now too (with stronger Void racials too)...even with Alleria and her Void Elves in the Alliance, the past (and future) story of Silvermoon is just way more appealing than Stormwind for most players
@@vados8500 That's because there has been the model for alliance for only just over four years now and even so, they are not an option for new players, let's face it most people do not want diverse races, want good looking ones and it is the main reason why people went horde that and the 2-3 expansions where Horde's racials were really OP for all kind of content.
The "tough" guys love to play theire barbie-dolls. ^^
@Good Christian Bottom💅🙏 Horde wasn't dead. What's so hard for people to understand? It had lower players than Alliance, but not enough to really have queue problems or be considered "dead". And the truth is, most of the belf players are just Alliance players in Horde clothing. If it weren't for belves they wouldn't play Horde. Which really says about their faction loyalty.
60% of Horde is Blood elves. Does that even count as Horde majority?
When it comes to vanilla servers: people prefer the horde racials
When it comes to modern wow: their friends are already playing horde so they join up on that side.
Ha imagine having friends in WoW...
I am an Alliance main (with some horde toons), and so far I have had no problems. I think that this is more problematic for the elite part of the playerbase, who compete in speedrunning the mythic raids.
99.99% of the playerbase didn’t even notice this problem, however Blizzard has spent 10 years coddling the “elite playerbase” so they just crying the loudest.
The Alliance has had better racials for a very, very long time. The reason competitive PVE players stuck with the horde is because larger communities were build in Vanilla, when Bloodlust was exclusive to horde.
You notice just how powerful ally racials are if you watch any tournament PVP or PVE it's almost always ally toons since tournament realms just let you make and pick whatever.
@@vtheman1850 imagine being the faction Blizzard spends so much development time attempting to prop up and people still don’t want to play that wack faction 😂🤣
@@vtheman1850 Bloodlust was never Horde exclusive. It was added in TBC.
Isto brate. Igrao sam casually i moja gilda nikad nije imala problema sa nalazenjem ljudi
This is why they should have made the Seth'rak an Allied Race and instead made the Mecha Gnomes a cosmetic appearance set for Gnomes
I agree....Mechagnomes bother me so much.....such an ugly lore crappy race
@@ethanparker4309 I think the Mechagnomes could have been really interesting story wise. As an example of the Alliance taking the Gnomes and their talents for granted. The war having huge consequences for the Gnomes. Mechatorque and a vast number of Gnomes getting horrificly injured in the battles and left with little recourse but to use their engineering to fix their broken bodies. These Gnomes physically represent the dedication that they have to the Alliance but also are a clear sign that they are not being truly appreciated. The Alliance war machine would come to a halt without them. It could be interesting to see the Gnomes pissed at their treatment and the lack of acknowledgment for their efforts or even the things that still plague them as a people. Like Gnommreggan still not being taken back for example. I'm sure there are plenty other issues that they could have but I really like the idea that the Mechagnome as a cosmetic appearance could represent a Gnome who has been through the Hell of the war, which also adds weight to the conflict. Lorewise you can justify the mechanics as something Gnomes physiology can handle because they used to be machine people for the curse of flesh. That way other races just can't get cybernetics.
Lmao, as a Horde player, Mechagnomes are the only ones that took my attention.
But there is no way in hell I am lvling an Ally up to 60 and do bunch of missions just to try a mechagnome xD.
I have nothing against Alliance, but as a Horde player I tried to lvl one up and the first thing I heard was "The evil horde", while the Horde never mention the Alliance in the intro. I felt insulted xD
Mechagnomes were a mistake honestly. But your idea is very noice.
Only if they added Seth'rak in the Horde and Vulpera in the Alliance.
I think you completly missed the mark. The dying of the alliance started in cata, written clearly in favour of the horde. If you write one faction times and times again down the number will decrease over time
i agree, most of the latest expacs have been horde focused, the only bigger one centered around the alliance that i can remember is wotlk
I agree. CATA is when the Alliance really got shafted. Look at all the Alliance settlements that got destroyed by the Horde and how stupid/incompetent the Alliance was written. Blizzard even scrapped the Alliance's intro to the Twilight Highlands while the Horde got their own epic intro. The Human starting experience in CATA is awful. Westfall was turned into an eyesore and Westfall/Redridge are just popculture parodies with poop jokes. Not much actual lore/story advancement.
Agreed 100% the alliance is the red-headed stepchild of wow since the Horde was created back in Warcraft 3, when your game creator/writes self insert themselves into one faction and then make that character a god-like being of course players are going to be on that one faction, I mean look at garethos he was literally just made to make the alliance look like the bad guys and make people sympathize with the horde.
This cope tho lol. In no way is this true, come on man
@@biggshoverwelder3690 but it happened exactly this. The numbees went down after the horde was shown and shown again to be more powerfull, to have an story and and and
I am with the Alliance since Warcraft II, but they have basically done nothing but react to the horde since WotLK, Blizzard doesn't know how to write a good Malfurion/Tyrande and Anduin is really a just a bland good-doer, which dragged down every other sub-leader. All in all, my impression is Blizzard is just unable to write good, honored character and keeping them interesting anymore.
I agree with that. And the last intresting character they had , was varian who nonetheless made a lot of whoopsies with unpredictable aggression during a truce
The Devs literally said they gave Horde Blood Elves in TBC so they could have a pretty race because Alliance was outnumbering them. So this doesn’t make sense at all. Alliance has low pop Bc the story shits on them every expac and all elite players went Horde due to racials a while back which started a snowball effect. If the Devs took Blood Elves away from the Horde tomorrow and gave them to Alliance the faction numbers would shift drastically. Also Humans and Night Elves are literally the most popular Ally races and Belves are the most popular horde race so again, this argument falls flat.
The Alliance has kind of the Belf model now though.
You can even get normal skin tones to them now.
Also there is not a Single Expansion.
Where the Alliance where Disadvantaged in the Story...
They even won all of the Warfronts.
However barely nothing happens within the Alliance Either in the game: While the Books are overwhelmingly Alliance focused, with Sometimes Horde Guests.
@@warllockmasterasd9142you're wrong beyond belief. Teldrassil and Night Elven lands being burned to the ground, Aszhara terraformed to the Horde symbol, Gilneas plague bombed, Southshore plague bombed, as well as Horde controlling significantly more territory and basically winning Azeroth in Cata. Alliance has literal demigods and a spaceship that can blow up anything yet they can't decimate the Horde? Tyrande and Malfurion can't beat a dead guy with a bow? You don't even see the warfront victories in game. And Horde gets off after their genocidal war campaign again and everyone is supposed to forget about it. Now Horde gets Dwarves, an og Alliance race, giving then 2 unique allied races and Alliance 2 reskins, one of which is a fucking travesty (walmart mechagnomes). Not to mention the effort put into Horde heritage armor vs Alliance. Soon a full Blood Elf expansion to save the narcissistic traitors AGAIN. You have to be willfully ignorant to not see the devs' outrageous Horde bias which STILL continues.
The horde has green humans, short green humans, pointy eared humans, blue humans. See where this logic jumps the shark? No, people wanted to play with others and this led to a snowball effect of one faction after one arbitrarily got an advantage over the other in the form of racials. Blizzard just neglected one faction balance for too long and people drifted to one side. It really is as simple as that.
actually the alliance just got boring over time and the races are so basic and boring
Human
Short Human
even shorter human
long ear human with darker skin
furry human
alien
and pandas
they are to close to realistic and just bleh and the way the city was made makes walking around a pain so i constantly have ask a guard where to go and sometimes i forget where i am even when looking at the map
origrimar is better then stormwind
and its funny cause alliance have very passives then horde but most people are elitetiests and are more casual
plus sometimes i have seen how strict some alliance players are in classic in loot then horde players are
i main pandaren races mostly and im not even gonna touch alliance due to a bad experience being there
@@eionr99 Alliance is hella toxic, and the argument that Horde races are also generic is pretty dishonest, I want you to tell me the last time you could play an undead, troll, orc, or minotaur (tauren), hell, even goblins or little fox creatures...I will wait
@@Ubertrollz69420 60% of Horde playerbase are blood elves, most human-like and pretty race in the game. Taurens are down there below 10%.
@@MrVlad12340 Giving alliance proper high elves would probably counteract the faction imbalance quite a bit.
@@MrVlad12340 The "tough" guys love to play theire barbie-dolls. ^^
I have at least 1 of every race of both factions, but the ones I like the most are all alliance
Quick question do you have them all in one server or in multiple? I want to do the same but I don't know if it is a good idea to have alliance alts in area 51
@@leonvschris1 22 alliance 21 horde + 2alliance name holders and 1 horde name holder for dracthyrs, all on the same PvM server, and 3 random characters on 2 different servers that I never play
When I was a new player in BC, I chose alliance specifically because it was familiar. I came from RPGs and DND as a kid and it fit the hero type faction. Horde felt ugly and foreign. I play both now (well, alliance and undead), so while I expanded, I’m still considered “boring” or as I put it, comfortable and familiar.
Yeah, Alliance teally seem D&D generic protagonists type. But I liked Horde BECAUSE you can play as the "monster" faction who are just fodder in other settings. It was really refreshing to play Horde (until belves came and ruined it). And bot the goody two show generic humans and dwarves in the Alliance, who looked ugly by their basic-ness. Although I play both, I only play Worgen and Draenei because they don't look that human-like like the other races in that faction.
Imagine if back in TBC they gave both factions Eredar (Draenei for Alliance and Manari for Horde) while giving both factions Quel’dorei (Blood Elves for the Horde and High Elves for the Alliance).
Without a doubt blood elves played the biggest role in the horde popularity. 30 percent of horde is blood elf. I remember before BC alliance was bigger due to night elves.
@@FartKnight777 *60% actually.
@@FartKnight777 Also due to Paladins. Not only did they appeal to a larger audience (Holy Warrior vs. Tribal Elementalist), the things they had were pretty crazy.
Honestly think this would've been an awesome idea to be honest.
Horde had better racials for like 10-12 years. That created a change in top guilds, which snowballed more people wanting to play better towards the Horde faction. This hit the peak with Kil'Jaeden which needed a certain Horde racial to fix the mechanics of the fights. Afterwards that was an accelerated snowball effect that Blizzard couldn't slow down. Cross-faction is not a solution, unless WoW becomes factionless this problem aint gonna go away. My personal solution would have been make Alliance racials A LOT bettter than the Horde ones, at least for a year or 2, force the competitive community to switch to Alliance and when its about 50-50 pop wise, balance everything once more and this time for good.
I think Blizz is figuring out how to implement cross-faction guilds, and that will probably come with 10.0.5 or 10.1. Alliance already has better racials for competitive PvE (Void Elves and Night Elves are the best races for raid and M+ respectively). Kil'jaeden was an outlier because of how ridiculous that knockback was.
@@Kylora2112 dwarf/dark iron are better than night elf in m+ these days by far.
Humans racial is just OP. The fact they don’t need a trinket to break cc makes it, overall, the best pvp class by far.
Ya they really made a bad decision giving horde such good racial in the beginning it truely should of been balanced
@@juamercado yo it’s fine tho we need more alliance players
Combination of a few things causing a domino effect.
The devs had a favorite child. So one faction ended up having much better racials, plus they hyped and promoted it in every media and blizcon, unlike the other faction.
Minmaxer players and the PvPers (PvP vids) chose that faction. So not only was it the better faction technically, it also became the cooler faction.
And in TBC they had the bright idea to add the most anticipated race, put it in the cooler faction, and give it an amazing racial. Which tipped the scales.
Then it was just a matter of people going with the flow. It's like when shops in asia pay people to just stand in a long line outside their newly opened shop. which makes everyone wants to go there.
The funny thing is that they managed to make both sides feel screwed over. The Alliance gets less story than the Horde, and the Horde story is so badly written recently that it feels like they are antagonizing us HARD.
Spot on, since the moment game came out, Horde has been favored by Blizzard, and favored immensely.
They nerfed the ONE great racial Alliance players had "Every Man For Himself", which meant a lot of players switched to Horde.
Horde got a cool new Bat/Ghoul mount in BFA. Alliance got a reskinned Hippogriff.
Horde got the Vulpera, a brand new cute looking race. Alliance got overweight/malnourished humans. The list just goes on and on...
*Looks at all of the books*
*Looks at the Game at the start*
You do know the blood elves got added to the Horde, because the Alliance outnumbered them massively yes?
Most played the Alliance due to everyman for himself more or less.
I mean that war happened like way before.
Anyhow the Alliance is actually build on a Different Concept to begin with, where Political Story fits more than Anything.
It's an Alliance Between Nations of supposed Equal Value.
Then at Some point ( Cataclysm)
It just became Humans and Their Side Kicks.
Not hard to see why it lost Attraction once Everyman for himself vanished.
There is Alliance players, but there is so much unbalance with the factions, I have been enjoying my Dwarf's and to my surprise I have been able to level without being ganked...true story!
If your playing modern wow of course your not getting ganked no one’s done that since wotlk while lvling the games dead the only live players are doing the same thing you are or mythic weekly’s
@@Cheekijake9 Horde players are like unicorns until endgame, I didn't see any since my last post, but they're all over the place at max lvl. I'm just lvling Alliance toons for gold making and xmog runs, I have what I set out to accomplish on the Horde side of the spectrum =)
@@I_am_Fred-788 I will always fight for the Alliance, because the Horde is way too aggressive and evil, and their players all were crazy in supporting Sylvanas and her genocide. :(
i love the alliance, i'been playing alliance for 14 years...but on this expansion i had no choice, the alliance side was SO dead...i had to reroll horde :\
found a nice mythic raiding guild and i'm living everything i wish i could on the alliance side :\
I love the alliance areas more but always feel like I’m missing out if I’m not horde. Although the faction team up thing should stop that for me
I started as Alliance, played a night elf priest for years and only a few years ago switched my main to the Horde, because most friends had switched sides. I think by design Alliance has always been at a disadvantage. Chris Metzen LOVED the Horde and you could tell in the way both sides we're written. Horde has always received more love. Also people love playing an underdog, which the Horde represents. "For the Horde!" just sounds better than "For the alLiAncE!" They just need to make the Alliance cool, not just aesthetically, but also lore-wise.
I'll always be a proud blueberry though and I'll pick Stormwind over Ogrimmar any day. Dusty crevice located on the s-hole of the world, no thank you. Bustling harbour city with a cool mage tower, sign me right the f up.
Even though alliance had more advantages during gameplay huh?. Like ratchet for example. And to be more exact they had such an advantage in av that 90 percent of av battles were won by alliance players. And when after some updates had a pseudo advantage (meaning that their advantage would not win them the game but just make it easier for them to defend their base) alliance cried soooo hard they gave them back their advantage... And since then i don't recall anyone playing alterac valley
I switched to horde in mists and as of the end of bfa I came back to alliance cause horde players left a bad taste in my mouth for group content.
Been on arthas for like 12 years and while it isn’t horrible it is noticeable as far as getting groups and even /2 trade.
When I started playing WoW, I was Horde. After many many years, a friend of mine wanted me to come to Redridge Mountains because he wanted to kill someone that was ganking him. And then I saw the Alliance base in Redridge Mountains. I was amazed how nice and organized it looked. Needless to say, I played Alliance for the next 7+ years with breaks. Then I was forced to go Horde again because I had nobody to play with on Alliance. I still dislike Horde and want to be Alliance but hey.
I honestly play Alliance because I can't stand Horde cities and IronForge is probably the pinnacle of convenience. I never truly played past Wrath so maybe they fixed this but I couldn't stand having to go to Orgamar or Undercity for anything because of how clusterfucked everything felt.
samesies, literally
why not goind into an alliance server?
Alliance city’s suck ass.
@@magapiff1 I completely understand this. I fucking hate undercity, and after cataclysm Orgrimmar became a fuckfest
Bro , Varian and Greyman carry the damn Alliance
For The Alliance my brother , for the Alliance
Personally, if I could play as ANY race I would go alliance. I find the alliance side more aesthetically pleasing. I play horde because I like the races and here, on the west coast, there are larger horde servers vs alliance servers in my time zone.
I like both factions, but I think just from a story perspective there should be more conflict within the Alliance. They seem to work so perfectly together, while there is always some kind of tension within the horde. Maybe the alliance could have a conflict about the throne now that Anduins gone. Though he will probably return. Or maybe just a conflict of who should be leading the Alliance in his absence. There‘s a lot of things they could do to make it more interesting
What happens when the developer makes one faction the loser of every war, losing capitals and territory?
Oh, come on, they still have stormwind and ironforge, give em another expansion and you ll see...
....yeah, they Will probably lose those too
Hey be fair. Horde won the first war, so it's not every one.
18 - 19 years Alliance only, here, Elune is my Homegirl
@Rainswept Flower well, after Elune did nothing to stop the burning of Teldrassil just "to help" her sister in Ardenweald, she's not really a "homegirl" of the Night Elves anymore I guess 😅
@@vados8500 it was already explained that she COULDNT do anything. And neither Light did anything to save High Elves from Arthas, and so what?
@@vados8500 i darenot question the motivation behind the actions of the Gods; i know my place. learn yours.
My main 2 toons are on separate factions, human pala and orc warr, that being said I do play ally more on a very 1 sided server favouring alliance, so I didnt rlly notice it.
Weird, on my server there appears to be way more Alliance Players than Horde. While killing Bosses in Zerath Mortis, there are about 10-20 Alliance whomping on the Boss with me and maybe 1 or 2 Horde.
Cause that’s a alliance server. Go to illidan and you never see alliance.
@@Treyfox24 Bah. I've been playing on Dunemaul since the beginning of the game. It's just 'home' ya know?
I think the lore since MOP has also had a role. Lorewise, the Alliance is objectively a much stronger faction, but have constantly been knocked down by the Horde. Theramore is bombed, Teldrassil is burned, Darkshore and Gilneas are lost to the Horde. Meanwhile, the Horde lose one small Tauren village. Lordaeron itself doesn't even count, since neither faction can use it. The Alliance come off as losers who get bullied, and the Horde just get a stern finger wagging.
I'm an Alliance mainly, because the Worgen is my favorite race. Most of the part you're right. And "For the Horde!" cry sounds cooler than "For the Alliance!". I think this is one of the most reasons, why players choose Horde characters more than Alliance.
Don't forget that the horde has way more bases throughout the vanilla zones than the alliance. And not just the vanilla zones but you are also treated to a much bigger starting zone in northrend right off the bat with a huge tower right in the middle of it. The same goes for the rest of the zones.
Well it is known that blizzard mostly prefers horde themselves. So why wouldn't the developers give themselves an advantage?
I have always been alliance. What happens to me is that since realms merged, I stopped seeing the regular amount of horde I used to see and started to realize how many more horde there was. All my friends stopped playing or switched to the horde. We have a couple of communities now to alleviate the issue, but it still feels like I am with the dying group and people are just leaving. With cross faction I went from 4 groups in LFG to 12 for RBGS... its crazy. I want to stay on the alliance side, but the game is just horde now.
Hey Doran, can you do a dive into how you would change or improve the pandarens to make them more popular or less of a stigma?
Honestly, I stopped playing alliance after Anduin became king. I've always played only alliance, but I really dislike him as king, he is much to soft for someone in his position.
I admit I started playing Alliance because that was the faction of the friend who invited me to try the game and gave me a free trial disc. It was vanilla, so my only options for races were human, short human, even shorter human, and elves whose eyes creeped me out (at the time...I love NElfs now.) I made my character a human who looked as much like me as possible, so it was "me" having adventures, casting magic spells, and exploring the world--a fantasy which really appealed to me. Since then I've created a huge army of alts across both factions, but that first character who is basically my self-insert is still my main. I haven't noticed a huge difference in populations, but then I also haven't played for a year, so....yeah.
The Vulpera's constant attacks with the full power of their inner furry overpowers the alliance everytime.
To me actually Alliance was always been more interesting story wise, that is why i picked it way back in vanilla when i started playing. I chose a Night Elf druid and played that one class since, up until Legion when Artifact weapons made me want to roll some other classes to see those storylines and i had done each of them at that point. But then when BfA was announced a lot of people decided to switch to Horde for whatever reason (Probably because at least some wanted to support Sylvanas, but then she went bat sh*t crazy lol) and so soon my server ended up almost entirely Horde. So at that point i decided to switch as well since i had no one left to play with. That is the only reason i switched from Alliance. If there was a radical shift in population to where things would be more balanced at least i would switch back to Alliance. And it is not because ''they are basically humans'' lol, you could have the same argument on a bunch of Horde races as well. BE are humans with long ears as well lol for instance
Well, I at least will ALWAYS fight for the Alliance against the Horde, no matter how unpopular it might be! :)
*May the seven kingdoms of humanity ― Stormwind, Gilneas, Lordaeron, Dalaran, Stromgarde, Alterac and Kul Tiras ― one day stand again reunited as ONE for the Alliance!*
Lorewise, I love both factions equally. Everyone has an interesting stories to tell, a great variety of races, an iconic places like Elwyn Forest or Barrens, or important and legendary figures.
It's just that I like playing Horde more often because of how impressed I was by their place in the story.
They aren't a union of independent races , like Alliance.
They are a bunch of misfits and outcasts, who have no home outside the Horde.
Alliance turned it's back on Sin'dorei and Forsaken.
Trolls had been through many wars with humans
Goblins were almost sold as slaves in Cataclysm
Taurens weren't able to protect themselves without the help from orcs
Orcs had no home to return to
People are out of their mind.. FOR THE ALLIANCE!
Racials :all of Alliance ( non allied races ) have dogshit racials , Humans can remove one STUN each 3 MIN , meanwhile Undead can remove Sleep , Charm and Poli each 2 MIN.
Lore : Alliance never atacked directly the Horde , they just react to them atacking and they don't do jackshit about after.
Appearence : Alliance has Humans , Short humans , shorter humans , very tall humans , goats , furrys .
Meanwhile the horde : Orcs , Undead , Trolls , Taurens , Humans but gay , Mini orc that is greedy.
@@bobothehippo Alliance never committed a genocide against a Horde race. And if you meant Troll Wars then high elves started it... high elves who became blood elves.
@@bobothehippo Southshore ? Teldrassil ? Gilneas ? All of them were major cities filled with civilians , not a proper military base for the horde to atack, The Forsaken for example only atacked Gilneas because they were weakened after Civil War and Worgen Invsion.
bUt CaMp TaUrAjO ?
I picked human and customized him to be a clone of myself. Self inserts make you feel like you are part of the game. My spec is fury warrior because being a raging berserker is cool. I have good reasons for playing the "basic human warrior".
@Xshadowx32 HD basically you did the same of Asmongold then.... he played in the Alliance only for this reason.... 😅😂
@@vados8500 Yeah pretty much. Great minds think alike.
do you remember when people used to form groups in the dead scar to do the ziggurat stitches bosses? my god. bye gone age
is this goanna remain for ever or in dragonflight its goanna be like past?
Started with an Alliance toon, I have 31 Alliance, 15 Horde. I have all the races and the various classes. My mains are all Alliance (gnomes, worgen, draenei are the mains) and the few Horde are Belfs but I have one of every race. I have a Blood Elf mage main on the Horde side, maxed out so I can see that side. More of my Alliance are maxed out, with the Gnome mage as a main. I'm currently levelling a LFDraenei Priest. I'm holding out for the Gnome paladins.
When Sylvanas burned Teldrassil, I almost deleted every Horde toon I had. I kept my BElif maxed out but I only have 3 now that are max Horde. I have switched my lore to Thrall and Saurfang (damn her for killing him) to keep me from just walking from that faction.
I'm a fan of Anduin and Chromie so It stands to reason I'm Alliance first.
they need to add dungeon finder cross faction. If i have to physically go to a portal to group with horde/alliance, im just gonna stick with the same faction and not worry about it.
also, just get rid of the faction barrier completely.
I’m with alliance only cuz I want to see something pretty walking in stormwind is like walking in France while orgrimar is like an average street in Brazil
I always played Horde since I started playing WoW back in Wrath in Bfa I decided to max level an Alliance char to see their side of the story so now I'm trying to have every Race (both Horde and Alliance) at max level
I started Warcraft as it was still a Rts. I really loved playing Warcraft 2 so when the Horde became what the Horde is today I switched to Alliance. That’s not the Horde for me. This one reason I appreciated Garrosh story arc and his resentment of the Forsaken. And Blizzard why can I play undead but no Naga?
You know EXACTLY why you can't play Naga.
In TBC, the Horde had the competitive edge when it came to PvE, so cutting edge guilds started rerolling Horde. Players hoping to get recruited into those cutting edge guilds also rerolled, and it's been snowballing ever since (my guild had to do this following WoD, as we just couldn't sustain players as an Alliance guild). It hasn't been an aesthetic or competitive issue for over a decade; it's 100% a social issue. Once cross-faction guilds become a thing, we'll see the numbers shift RADICALLY as there will be zero downside to playing Alliance races (at least half of my characters will go either Draenei or Void Elf as soon as that happens), and Void Elves and Night Elves have some of the best competitive PvE racials out there.
I dont think that will fix people want a pve edge wont re-roll alliance because of Cross-faction guilds they will just not pay the cost and remain horde.
I'm planning to play Alliance as my first experience in WoW.
Mostly because The Alliance has the Worgen, Dwarf, and the Draenei which are some of my favorite races in WoW.
They need to make void elves available to play at the start to fix the issue. And fix their hair w/o tentacles
The Alliance has always been the redhead stepchild of the game this dates back all the way to Warcraft 3 when the game's Creator put a self insert in the game as one of the faction leaders/creators and then gave him a prophesied vision of leading his people to freedom from the tyranny of the Alliance, mind you a tyranny caused by them invading azeroth, raping killing and burning at civilians and finally when they were defeated they were put in camps instead of all executed like they should have been.
9:24 just imagine playing those forest trolls as horde. Please Blizzard
I am a Horde player, but I have one alt on Ally's side, I play a long time and I've seen a lot, the problem is not in the game, but in the players' behavior, I know a lot of players who changed faction because they experienced hatred in game on ally side, they were insulted, reason? dps is too low, they dont know the tactics, they won in duel, yes yes DUEL :)
sorry but even in the game no one likes spit or slap emotes, because, for example, they did not give gold for transmog, haters were in game not only now, but in Cata and Pandaria, Draenor, remember Ashran someone wrote "gj bois" and some girl said "and girls", misogyns insulted her, no one reacted!!! first you have to write to that moron "wtf you doing, calm down"
after on the Horde side there are more players who do not accept this behavior, I often read the texts in the raid chat "we dont need haters, go away, get back to the Alliance"
sometimes I have the impression that there are players who have not succeeded in real life, but in the game they are strong and they offend the weakers, maybe they want to be appreciated who knows, its sad
same like hard to believe that only adults play on Ally's side
I'll pretend the same doesn't happen in the horde. I didn't have 1 char in the horde. I got 3. And the level of stupidity in the horde is the same. No one in the horde poops only roses and no one in the ally has only cesspool breath.
@@celiovicenteribeirofilho9740 yes, I'm a Horde player, but I forgot to write that I started as Ally and just like ally players insulted me and my friends, I will never forget it, sorry never, years have passed and nothing has changed, neither in Cata nor in Draenor, and now the cesspool is everywhere , but from the Horde that I experienced more cordiality, understanding, support in the game and, above all, RESPECT and I am sorry, but I am not alone, who also thinks so
maybe on the Horde side I'm luckier with the friendly players
If people don't want to play human like characters how come blood elf is by far the most popular race on the Horde?
Cross faction is one of the best moves they could've done for the betterment of the game. Sounds like a long shot, but I think it would be nice to eventually be able to just be neutral with both factions, not saying you can go into both major cities, obviously have some drawbacks to being neutral, but it would be cool since lorewise we can see that there plenty of subgroups that are mixed alliance, and horde. Also from what I can remember for the story for whatever race you pick. You are just an adventurer. You aren't really tied to the alliance/horde as a soldier, or a loyalist. Atleast that's how I've taken it.
It could be because the horde is more unique culturally speaking, they feel more foreign and thus more interesting. The alliance feels more like what you would get in other MMOs.
There are a few number of servers here in the EU Region, where we have less than 1% Ally/Horde players in some servers
4:20 I mean here's the thing. Since you couldn't group cross server at all in vanilla, the problem was even worse and there were servers back then with faction inbalance. While true, there were more players back then, keep in mind servers were capped at 3k and most servers had far less then that so there being millions of players in total who plays the game wouldn't matter.
So far i have 47 Alliance-characters only , 3 open Alliancespots for future classes & 1 Alliance-tattoo on my wrist ^^
One faction has blood elves baseline and the other has to work for their Blood Elves
Trolls are skinny orcs, tauren are furry orcs and goblins are small orcs
I know back when I used to play, I mainly did pvp (quit in legion, was disappointed with the long awaited demon hunter). The horde racials were (probably still are) superior. I still mained the alliance.
Yeah, Horde racials have pretty much always been better than Alliance with the sole exception of Wrath, when humans were the PvP meta. In particular, a lot of undead sweaties played human instead for WotLK since not only was Every Man for Himself the best racial, but Will of the Forsaken had just gotten a big nerf
Hasnt it always been horde for pve and alliance for pvp?
There is nothing worse than people who play both factions as they are the same, I think they should add some feature that you can chose only 1 faction and the other gets blocked completely.
i main alliance because I like the original four races, there's something about the character of each of them that is simply irreplacable.
Humans are your stereotypical dashing heroes, paragons of justice and order in a broken world.
Dwarves have grit and rugged determination, as well as a penchant for exploration.
Night Elves are secretive defenders of nature, much older than the kingdoms of men, and try to mediate the differences between the alliance and horde alongside the Tauren.
Lastly, the Gnomes have the silly streak, being the comic relief of the alliance while still being marvelous engineers and reeking of contagious positivity.
They all fit their own little niches, maybe it is because WoW has had such an impact on my childhood, but I love each and every one of them, the alliance has a wonderful blend of what you perceive the ideal good guys to be, with a well-written and serious story for classic, while still maintaining a level of slapstick humor and comedy that makes the game so much fun.
Perfect!!!
I have been an Alliance main since I started playing in 2009 with a night elf druid, eventho I first tried an undead mage and didn't really like it. I do have some Horde characters that I only level and not do end game content with. The huge disparity is due to raiding and people min-maxing. The racials, eventho they're very small increases, can still do the trick, such as the troll racial for haste or goblins rocket jump. High end mythic raiding guilds are Horde due to those racials, not because they couldn't find players to raid with.
One solution would be to just make one faction servers and then connect them together as a conected realm. That way you'd be allowed to make only Horde characters on one server but make only Alliance characters on another. And just make the AH across all servers, so some servers don't have prizes 10 times higher then the others, aswell making them cross-faction, so Horde doesn't have higher prizes and vice versa.
A lot of Horde players want to play Light forged Dranei because at least aesthetically they look powerful and good compared to what we think of when we think of Human Paladins: The Scarlet Crusade. The trouble is we'd have to play something else first to unlock LFD
Almost like they should have done xfaction and Alliance High Elves like the player base told them to for years and years.
The funny thing with the High Elf issue is they could have avoided the carbon copy blood elf model if blizz had just listened to the Alliance player requests for all those years. There were lots of fan concepts to give the High Elves a different model/look and a new culture to make them distinct from Blood Elves. But they dug their heels in and a lot of the anti-Alliance types protested that. And now we ended up with the same model on both factions.
Credit to @Demitrije Jovanovic for starting the very good point, honestly I see no issue with it. I feel like Alliance players want to have fun and chill while horde players mainly want the hardcore content, and that is what leads people to believe that the Alliance has few players. In reality. There is a lot. They just don't really do the same things as horde players.
For me its because I only played alliance and realized I was missing half the story so I started playing horde to get the full story. I have several of both
I stopped playing Horde on my server. Trade and General are always silent, cities are always empty. As an RP'er Playing Horde, I legitimately felt like I was completely alone.
I'm hoping things will start to turn around for the alliance in this year and 2023. Wrath is known for everyone wanting to reroll to alliance for the busted racials and now that cross-faction play is out, people can play alliance again without sacrificing end game content
Too Toxic for my liking, every time I played as an Alliance character I was greeted with hazing & intimidation.
Complete opposite on the Horde, everyone was friendly, forgiving when I made a mistake & always willing to help out anyone when they had a problem.
io play alliance only for worgen and night elf.
I note that the horde seems to have more major characterization than the alliance.
At the head of our faction we always find a human possibly a paladin-like, for once I like to see a member of another race on command, for example also a dwarf (a race strangely little considered by the authors), a draenei or etc. .
Speaking of races allied with the horde in my opinion they were more generous (Nightborne, zandalari trolls and the Tauren Highmountain).
For approximately two years I've been using a free-to-play toon to conduct an informal anthropological study of the RP and Twinking community in the game (my education is in anthropology). What I have seen happening in the PvP community is trial players start off alliance, usually Nelf or Human to try the game out. The Horde has a slight advantage in PvP as they have more Twinks. Back when Levellers and F2Ps were in the same bracket the Horde would win random BGs about 6% more than Alliance. It's not a very big difference but it is big enough to be felt.
This gives the impression to the players that Alliance is for trying the game out. You roll a human as a trial because it will be easiest to integrate into the game but once you've got the basics of the game down pat you roll Horde to play because they win more games. That 6% difference is enough to be felt and if you want to win you go where the wins are. So the Horde gets more of the hard core PvP players and the Alliance is left with more casual PvPers.
A few months before Dragonflight dropped Blizzard radically changed the way PvP works at that bracket. It used to be F2Ps and Levellers were in the same bracket and XP Off were in their own bracket. The vast majority of Twinks were F2Ps and while some of them had a huge advantage due to squished gear most were just trial accounts wearing TBC socketed gear. A Leveller could in theory curb stomp a F2P Twink, but it would require an investment in time to get the gear needed to stomp them.
This investment in time needed to gear up enough to curb stomp a "baby" Twink makes no sense in the game the way it is currently structured. Modern WoW practically catapults you into the End Game and even at a casual rate of game play a Leveller will be levelled out of a PvP bracket in a day or two. Blizzard doesn't really want you playing the old content, they want you subscribed an in the current expansion as quickly as possible. It was common to see casual levellers in random BGs with empty gear sockets. Why invest in the time and trouble to get a piece of gear for your toon when in a few more days you'll be in End Game and the gear will be useless. So for ungeared Levellers the Twinks were a nuisance. On top of that the meta for random BGs in the twink brackets was completely different from the meta in End Game and most Levellers never remained in a bracket long enough to learn the meta for that bracket. So since Levellers are Blizzard's targeted players keeping them happy seemed to make the most sense, since F2P Baby Twinks in theory don't make Blizzard money and are not playing the game the way Blizzard intends it to be played.
As I said previously, a few months before DF dropped Blizzard separated the F2Ps from the Levellers. Levellers are now entirely in their own PvP queues and F2Ps have now been put in the same queues as XP Off. Level 20 Baby Twinks are now in BGs against level 29 Daddy Twinks. The win ratio for Horde in this new system has increased to approximately 10% from the previous 6%. This is a difference that is definitely perceptible to even the most casual of players. The results of this change have been very dramatic. Horde twinks now vastly outnumber Alliance twinks. Baby Twinks are almost completely obsolete now (there are a few Baby Twinks that are still respected in the BGs, mostly healers).
This change to the way the PvP brackets work has had a big impact on the queues. Where before the segregation of Levellers a night where the queues lasted 25 minutes to a half hour were considered a slow night, it is not uncommon now to get queues as long as 3 hours before a BG will pop. When queues do pop now, it is extremely rare for both sides to have 10 players. There are not enough XP Off Twinks to carry a bracket on their own and the F2P Twinks are pretty much obsolete and most have stopped playing. I had studied the Twink culture for about a year before the segregation of Levellers and found a fascinating and vibrant community to study. Since the segregation I have been studying a culture in decline and it's quite heart breaking for an anthropologist to study a culture that is going extinct even when that culture only exists in a virtual space.
Nowadays it is becoming increasingly uncommon for either side to have 10 players in this bracket. The Horde frequently outnumbers the Alliance because they have more Twinks. The only people playing this bracket are either complete noobs just using the Trial Account the way it is intended to be used (to try the game before deciding whether or not to buy it) or hard core Daddy Twinks. The Baby Twinks are virtually gone. From the perspective of a Noob exploring this game using the trial account it becomes pretty obvious that Alliance is for losers and Horde is for winners. Horde has more Twinks, and even if you don't want to be a Twink the impression the Trial experience gives a Noob is that playing anything other than Horde is a waste of your time.
Now how many of these Noobs decide to become subscribed players after the trial experience I don't know as it would require me to have access to data that only Blizzard has. I suspect that from the trial experience that PvP seems to be completely dead in this game. If you're trying out WoW for the first time and are faced with queues up to 3 hours long only to end up in a BG where one side has 4 players and the other side has 8 and the match eventually times out because one side never has 5 players it can't possibly give you the impression that World of Warcraft is a vibrant game with a growing population. If you were to judge this game based on the trial PvP experience then WoW feels very much like any other Coma MMO, a game still being kept alive on life support but clearly no longer viable.
Now it would be very easy to assume that killing off the Baby Twinks is a win for Blizzard because those players are playing for free but my study has shown that's not the case. Most Baby Twinks had multiple WoW accounts with at least one subscribed account. They would use the subscribed account to augment their F2P account and they would buy and sell WoW tokens like crazy, subbing and dropping the sub on their F2Ps as needed to acquire the best gear they could get. When the segregation of Levellers happened most Baby Twinks jumped over to their subscribed account where they had a Daddy Twink waiting. It was actually something incredible to see happen at the time. For a brief period of time the queues in the 20s bracket were popping like crazy as the Twinks started flexing with their Daddy Twinks. This wasn't sustainable though. With the bracket being made up of only F2Ps and XP Off 29s there were not enough players to maintain it. Those F2Ps who did not have an additional subscribed account were obsolete and left the game. There were very few Baby Twinks who could keep up in any useful way against the power of a Daddy Twink. When you encounter a F2P in this bracket now, they're usually someone genuinely new to the game, just trying it out. For most of the Daddy Twinks this made Twinking less fun.
The common misconception amongst WoW players is as follows. "Twinks are losers who can't cut it in End Game and so they make over powered low level toons to beat up on noobs". This has not been indicated by my research. There certainly are some Twinks who just want to kill everything and everyone in their path. I call them the "Krombopulous Michael" Twinks. They are the minority in the Twinking community. The actual truth is Twinks are very diverse in their reasons for Twinking and many Twinks are actually very effective End Game PvPers. Twinking is just another way to play the game. It used to mean something to be a Baby Twink that could curb stomp a level 29 Leveller. It was minmaxing to the max. Now, being a Daddy Twink who curb stomps complete noobs just trying the game out for the first time means nothing, and that's pretty much all they have to fight now.
So where have the Twinks gone now? A few die hard Baby Twinks are still playing the bracket. There are some Daddy Twinks still playing the bracket but the majority seem to have migrated to Wrath Classic. The Twink bracket is dying, quite rapidly. The Horde has the majority of the Daddy Twinks but there are not enough Alliance Daddy Twinks to make PvP worth it for them. Noobs using the Trial Account to sample the game before buying see a system where the Horde is the only path to victory so
if they do decide the game is worth a purchase and subscription they are highly incentivized to play Horde.
In short, Alliance is for trying the game out and Horde is what you play if you want to "win".
Ironically this creates an interesting paradox with the lore of the game. As the game is presented the Horde are depicted as the scrappy underdogs, the misfits who struggle against overwhelming odds to survive. The reality of the game is completely different. So if you just want to role play as the underdog then rolling Horde is the way to go. If you actually want to experience being the scrappy underdog struggling against overwhelming odds, then roll an Alliance Twink. Because the Horde have a numerical advantage in the number of Twinks they have, if Alliance could get more Twinks there is a chance the bracket could survive as the Horde Twinks would return to the bracket finally having someone worthy to fight. The problem is the misconception of Twinks discourages people from making Twinks.
Now that the Levellers are in their own bracket rolling a Twink should not be seen as dishonourable and should actually be seen as a legitimate and different way to play the game. We all know this game has lulls between expansion patches where you grow weary of doing the dailies and the content becomes a little stale. Twinking should be seen as a legitimate way to spend time in the game when the End Game grind becomes dull. Daddy Twinks should naturally fall into a role as protectors and educators of the Baby Twinks. Yeah there are Daddy Twinks who are Krombopulus Micheals who just want to pound the Baby Twinks without mercy, but those are the Daddy Twinks on the OTHER side. On THIS side ones job as a Daddy Twink is to protect the Baby Twinks from the OTHER side's Daddy Twinks.
I'm very sorry to have cluttered up your comments section with an essay on Twinks but hey, nerds gonna nerd out when they find something that crosses with their field of academic interest and while your video certainly does highlight the cosmetic reasons why Horde is more popular than Alliance (and why the heck are Goblins not a neutral race when they have been canonically neutral longer than Pandarans and Dragonborn have been in the game) there are also other contributing factors that are hard wired into the most basic levels of this game that give an advantage to the Horde over the Alliance.
In short, if one would like to adjust this factional imbalance as well prevent the extinction of an entire virtual culture then please consider rolling an Alliance Daddy Twink. And if you do roll an Alliance Daddy Twink and see a lowly gnomish rogue Baby Twink named Pookamhura, then please, please, PROTECC THE POOK!
My first character was alliance because all of the horde were so ugly. If there had been blood elves when I was choosing my 1st character, I might have picked that
its wierd. in my experience in Europe Alliance outnumber horde dramatically. Is this end game content is mostly horde and under max level is all alliance?
I think at this point every race should be able to choose which faction..
this aged well
I play both factions I have a horde main and an alliance main, I play them both and gear them at the same time as well doing casual rp. although because horde rp is dead I mostly play my alliance main
Back in BFA i transfer my mains to the Horde cuz it was way easier to find PvP groups to play in the horde. With cross facction grouping I finally transfer my Paladin back to the Alliance and I enjoy the game much more playing Alliance
OMG that anduin in the Thumbnail XD
Thats a long story which started around early BC when they added blood elves to the Horde after Korean gamers demanded a pretty race and were so loud about it Blizz actually caved in and moved blood elves to the Horde. Then were the overpowered racials on the horde side, only leaving Alliance with good human ability and decently good night elf stealth skill. The rest was pretty much either too weak or too situational.
And of course i cannot forget about general attitude Blizz have towards the Alliance, from mockery and insults at Blizzcons to straight up inviting a "rock star" who shit talked Alliance fans from scene, called for violence against Alliance players (i specify PLAYERS not characters) and then later on in an interview continued to insult them, while Blizz covered for him until someone actually sued them.
Blizz devs mostly main Horde, aside from Christie Golden who plays Alliance but only for Anduin and Jaina. She even said that she writes Anduin as a "role model" for her kid.
And now of course the no-good, the bad and the ugly - Steve Danuser. Simping for Sylvanas so badly he actually scrapped half the plot of Shadowlands and messed with BfA just to keep her alive.
Alliance never allowed to win in game, retaliate against Horde aggression and generally shown as inept, pathetic punching bags who just stand there waiting for Horde to attack them. While also constantly forgiving their abusers (i wonder why would Blizz want to send that kind of message, hmmmm...). Thats why people keep leaving - nobody wants to play a faction that is treated like garbage by the developers, its just straight up disrespect of your own playerbase, what ELSE they expected?
The Alliance never winning ingame is a prime example of this decline. Look how ridiculous the Alliance was written just in 9.2.5? The Alliance came out on top of the 4th War, yet they seemingly just surrendered Lordaeron back to the Forsaken. Not only did they do that, you as the Alliance player, HELP the Forsaken cleanse the blight from Undercity so they can move back in.
@@Trollbane96 and Calia will "ask" Forsaken to return Gilneas. Excuse me what? Alliance GOT IT BACK by the end of BfA! So they rewrote the plot again just to make Forsaken have Gilneas and then MAYBE return it.
@@MrVlad12340 Yeah it makes no sense at all. The whole point of the Stromgarde Warfront was sold to us by Blizz that whoever wins Stromgarde controls Gilneas. The Alliance canonically won Stromgarde. Even more than that though, the Exploring EK book confirmed the Alliance retook Southshore and that the Bloodfang Worgen took Southern Silverpine. Including Shadowfang Keep & Fenris Isle. How are we supposed to believe the Forsaken hold Gilneas? It makes no sense. The Alliance has Forsaken territory completely encircled.
4:00 I thought he was gonna stop randomly and go "okay F it it's blood elves, there's more horde cause of blood elves" xD
I mainly pvp. Now that cross faction is a thing I don't think it matters as much. I queue random BGs as alliance on my horde toons. Much shorter queues more honor an hour. Especially if you win.
Well, historically horde have better racials for raid. During classic, horde have access to bloodlust, which is better for raid than paladin buffs
On oceanic servers it is the opposite to the rest of the region with there being more alliance than horde
In my personal opinion it's mostly a style-issue. You can make a cool looking orc. You can make cool looking bloodelves. Some people like the undead, and you can create decent looking undead as well.
And on the alliance side..? Humans look terrible. Night Elves look kinda terrible as well, and so do draenei. As far as I am concerned the only cool looking alliance race is the dwarfs, and they are certainly not for everyone.
People want their avatars in game to look cool. You can make cool looking horde characters with almost every horde race. On the alliance side you can not, and due to class/race restrictions this issue gets even worse if your favorite class can't be combined with the race you prefer. Horde on the other hand has many safe options for everyone.
I switched to horde recently. I don't like horde cities and everything undead related, but.. my characters all looks cool. That's what matters. My alliance characters on the other hand mostly look goofy.
bro we asked for high elves they gived us chadless race we keep ask for high elves we got gof void elf we still keep asking for them they going to give us light forged undead we gonna ask again guess light orc next
Kids think it’s fun to be the “bad guys”…at least that’s how I viewed it 15 years ago
This maybe mostly depends on realm, I play on EU Sylvanas and there is over 10 times more Alliance than Horde players
Also pvp match making for BGs, always given horde at least 2 healers, but barely even one for alliance most of if not all the time. Horde also have have short graveyard timers most of the time.
Meaning horde are going to win more, meaning more people move over to the winning side. Which means more more better player on horde side meaning they win more and more. So more and more people move to the winning side. This further exasperated by Blizzard implementing a massive honor grind and locking gear behind rating. Which means horde gear up faster because of winning more and Alliance loses even more and more because it now take even super longer to gear. Which gain lead more people move people over to horde the winning side.
For the Alliance!
on my server, no one plays horde. I'm one of the few horde there. the world feels so empty.
There is no alliance expansion. Horde is the story driven faction now. And also Undoin-g, I meant Anduin.
They need new races. I can’t believe naga aren’t playable yet