What is Chris Metzen doing as team Alliance?

[Deleted]

to try to hide up that the story is still all in horde based (i am horde)

[Agoonga]

I like the Horde a lot more than the Alliance. I like the Alliance a lot too. If I worked with Warcraft, I would be happy to represent either.

[arcaneshot]

"Druid heavy storyline"

Learn to read. I was talking about Hyjal.

Wrong, you need to get it in your head that Hyjal only made up 1/4 of the expansion's story. Druids are not Shamen.

You think I read it wrong, but I'm saying you're flat out wrong.

[Deleted]

I don't think Metzen and the rest at Blizzard care too much about the factions in that way that they devote their whole life into it. Sure, they might like Alliance more than Horde, or Horde more than Alliance in some way, but they all still like both the factions in their own way.

Some people just take this faction love far beyond of what it truly is.

[foxHeart]

I don't think Metzen and the rest at Blizzard care too much about the factions in that way that they devote their whole life into it. Sure, they might like Alliance more than Horde, or Horde more than Alliance in some way, but they all still like both the factions in their own way.

Some people just take this faction love far beyond of what it truly is.

Well, considering the fact that Blizz constantly finds ways to bash Alliance races during lore panels and that one year at Blizzcon where they played that video of the guy from the metal band calling Alliance players emo cocksuckers...yeah, I'm sure they just love the Alliance.

[Yig]

In "Choppers of Azeroth"
doesn't he get off on orc shamanism?

Metzen should love all of his imaginary creations exactly and perfectly equal in exact measurement because that's how reality works and I find conspiracies that I'm especially the brunt of completely romantic and I love to be a part of them and I love to entertain them and I look forward to being paranoid and prone to much more confirmation bias warping my perception of reality in the future as I waste valuable neurons on even more knee jerk reactions and superficial stereotyping.

One day when the truth comes out Blizzard will have to pay all the Alliance players a million dollars or more for the secret ways they've held them back.

[Deleted]

Well, considering the fact that Blizz constantly finds ways to bash Alliance races during lore panels and that one year at Blizzcon where they played that video of the guy from the metal band calling Alliance players emo cocksuckers...yeah, I'm sure they just love the Alliance.

Considering the fact that everyone who have had an older brother or sister or any sibling have experienced a fight with them, bashing each other and calling each other cocksuckers and whatnot.

Those brothers and sisters still loves each other.

[Yig]

I don't think Metzen and the rest at Blizzard care too much about the factions in that way that they devote their whole life into it. Sure, they might like Alliance more than Horde, or Horde more than Alliance in some way, but they all still like both the factions in their own way.

Some people just take this faction love far beyond of what it truly is.

Your reasonable thinking isn't welcome here.

[Kanetsugu21]

Based off the first episode, it seems they wanted people who physically look like they should represent the faction to represent them. Take the Horde guy for example, he's got long, wild hair, and he yells a lot. If that guy was representing the Alliance, it would just look strange. Blizzard is trying to portray the factions is the manner they want them to be seen. Chris Metzen just happens to be best suited for the Alliance in this one. I doubt him representing the Alliance has much to do with his personal feelings or bias against/for either faction.

Simply put, it looks like Blizzard is using a visual technique to make the factions more easily distinguished for a larger audience.

[Venziir]

In "Choppers of Azeroth"
doesn't he get off on orc shamanism?

Yeah it's almost as if he isn't the guy who wrote all the lore, including all the lore for Alliance and the Horde right?

[Yig]

Considering the fact that everyone who have had an older brother or sister or any sibling have experienced a fight with them, bashing each other and calling each other cocksuckers and whatnot.

Those brothers and sisters still loves each other.

These people either solely hang out at wholesome neighborhood youth groups or they have never spent an evening among real people who use foul language without actually literally meaning the direct translation of the idioms and colorful metaphors they employ. But it makes for a great bit of context to twist and hide behind as one ignores context and cries oppression and offense.

The sort of twee person who thinks swearing is in any way a sign of a lack of education or a lack of verbal interest is just a fucking lunatic.”


― Stephen Fry

I'm a heterosexual as it so happens who often finds the words of a homosexual named Stephen Fry quite appropriate in situations such as this.
http://youtu.be/s_osQvkeNRM



http://youtu.be/s_osQvkeNRM

Of course once genitals enter into the equation any value as a figure of speech is forfeit, as someone might take it literally whose been oppressed in the past.

Taking foul language literally is a waste of time and frankly intellectually dishonest.

[IllidariCouncil]

Because all the 10 year olds will cry if he was on the horde.

[Detheavn]

Not really typical Alliance hero, the bike is classic human alliance.

I'd personally say gnome or dwarf.

[Hottage]

He voices varian wrynn, too.

This, all I could hear was Varian Wrynn talking about motorbikes during that video.

[Deleted]

Does it matter? But just to clarify he play's on Alliance side, does the voice over for the King of Stormwind, several male human npc's and has stated on several interviews his love for Alliance lore, specifically druids. Count's as an ally in my book.

[Venziir]

Does it matter? But just to clarify he play's on Alliance side, does the voice over for the King of Stormwind, several male human npc's and has stated on several interviews his love for Alliance lore, specifically druids. Count's as an ally in my book.

He voices everything though. Or voiced rather. Thrall, Vol'jin, Varian, Ragnaros, Nefarian etc...

[Raiju]

I can definitely see people voting alliance just because metzen is there. My girlfriend suddenly wants to vote alliance after seeing the first episode.

[wych]

Let's read Metzen's profile from the Sons of the Storm website (which was written about 11 years ago, long before all this "Horde bias!" madness began):

http://www.sonsofthestorm.com/profile_metzen.html

Race: Human
Class: Paladin
Alignment: Lawful good
Comic dude: Captain America (btw, remember how he recently called the Alliance 'the Captain America faction'?)

And he has mentioned on interviews that his favorite character is Malfurion, and that he plays both factions equally (a fact that he also confirmed on twitter not too long ago).

Honestly, even though people insist that Metzen favors Horde, anyone who knows a little better can tell that he loves both the Horde and the Alliance.
Both are his creations, after all.

Yet Alliance get brushed aside time and time again for horde development

[TheRickyB]

Because if anybody at Blizzard associates with Horde again then people will cry?

^This. and the fact that the higher up tell him what to do and he does it.

[Deleted]

Wrong, you need to get it in your head that Hyjal only made up 1/4 of the expansion's story. Druids are not Shamen.

You think I read it wrong, but I'm saying you're flat out wrong.

1/4th? Sorry I thought we had 3 tiers in Cataclysm, not 4... That would make Hyjal and the Firelands about a third of the expansion's content and story.

Regardless, that doesn't change the fact that Thrall and other non-Alliance Druid characters (such as Hamuul) featured more heavily in that section than Malfurion did. Saying I'm wrong doesn't make that untrue, so fuck off with your arrogance. There was a reason people hated the quest content that came with the Firelands patch, and it wasn't because they used Malfurion too much...

If someone says their favourite character is X, I would generally expect them to get more "screentime" than they did; especially when for 6 years they were in a coma and having no story dedicated to them.