Well, it's one of the first times the average alliance fighter stands face-to-face with a troll in a non-battle setting (Most people are too busy to bother with hygiene issues mid-battle, oddly enough), so then it might be more obvious that Vol'jin has a bit of a "Frontal cone" going on, or it's Blizz trying to keep the atmosphere from getting too chummy (The whole situation being rather "Enemy of my enemy" rather than "BFF"), too bad there isn't an "Offer Vol'jin a breath mint"-option, or would that anger either side? :P
"Let's see. There are monkeys that evolved into men and monkeys that didn't. Just as well, there are men that remained men and men that evolved into something else. Do you really think humans are the ultimate form of evolution? How arrogant."
--Kakurine, Evil Zone for PS1
Indeed, all of you are savages! We night elves just make our needs off the side of a giant tree. By the time it reaches the sea it reaches a terminal velocity, killing any invaders down there. Imagine that, we can kill our enemies with the poo falling from the top and we don't need to tolerate the smell. Now that's efficiency!
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I have to admit people have a point here with the Stonemasons Guild. Not because of Onyxia or whatever, but because, look now, Varian is leading, he holds the power... yet the people in Westfall are even more poor then before, some ate dirt pies even. The people in Redridge still had huge problems that they had to work out themselves using some vigilante Rambo etc.
The Gurubashi tribes were only able to expand to the point that they did because their priests were empowered by Hakkar. After their own civil war and subsequent smackdown by the green dragonflight weakened their position as a world power, it's difficult to blame the younger races for driving them out in retaliation.
OMG 13:37 - Then Jesus said to His disciples, "Cleave unto me, and I shall grant to thee the blessing of eternal salvation."
And His disciples said unto Him, "Can we get Kings instead?"
Yeah, bathing is prissy. That's what separates douchebags from us misunderstood, housebound gamers.
I think they're trying to show the alliance as a 'we're better than you, look what you've become' because of your leader. They want to show that the alliance are needed, and they are maybe questioning why they are there. I don't think focusing on the smell is exactly the point of the message they were trying to send us. That's just me, but of all the times to complain about smell in this game, this is a first.
Maybe they think it's needed for umm, atmosphere? Yeah, the Horde don't need to be told again that the Darkspear have poor hygiene because it's a running gag as it is. Alliance kind of have to be beat over the head with it because it's not something we see in flavor text every single day we log in.
OMG 13:37 - Then Jesus said to His disciples, "Cleave unto me, and I shall grant to thee the blessing of eternal salvation."
And His disciples said unto Him, "Can we get Kings instead?"
Keeshan and the rest of Bravo Company are members of the Stormwind military, under direct command of (then) Colonel Troteman. I don't care how much of a Rambo reference it is, the questline in Redridge clearly shows Stormwind sending people to help out, and help out they did.
If the Alliance were truly helping the Horde, the Kor'kron Commanders wouldn't be faction tagged.