Originally Posted by
Trassk
For me the pull in the game is the characters, thats why it matters to me so much on what they do. Its also why I feel the magic in warcraft is slowly dying out. See back at the start of wow, we had to much on the horizon of characters to see come into the series again, deathwing, illidan, the dragon aspects, Arthas, the titans, the elemental lords, and of course the development of already existing characters.
but as times gone on, they've slowly plucked off one villain at a time, and leaving nothing much on the horizon, what, Azshara and Sergeras, soimething left to see. And the pre existing characters being developed along or being killed off, and some even nothing to show for it. Cairnes death, where he had no development in wow and only some in wc3 felt like the biggest tragedy in the series. Why invent a great character people asked more and more to see more of, only to kill him off, just to develop Garrosh's character, who, oh my god, will also be killed off?
Thralls character is one of the few remaining long standing developed characters left in the series, and you need this, its so obvious the series need this, because it gives the story structure, when so many other developed characters have been killed off, and nothing new is coming on the horizon. What, lei shen? A character we knew nothing off before mists, and now he's dead too, much like yogg saron, nothing longstanding.
You need longstanding characters in a series to give the story structure, otherwise they just make up and throw whatever they think up and expect you to love it.