Originally Posted by
ravenmoon
but how would you feel about it, if it was possible or if it happened, would you like it, what would be your thoughts. You do realize that because humans are already on the horde as undead, and also the alterac nation joined the hord e in warcraft 2, it's quite clear that the orc vs human core won't be changed by this, I find it interesting when a coupel of guys use the point I made earlier, about forsaken being human as some sort of reason this can't be when it is one of the main reason that shows the idea of playing humans on the horde is not at all far-fetched or crippling to the huaman v orc core of the game - I guess they didn't really read the topic before responding, I'm guessing they jumped on the bandwagon of a guy who like them, hasn't looked at the topic.
oh , as someone else also pointed out, wow has long since stopped being Orc vs Human...it is a orc vs human core, but it's not an Orc vs ALL Humans situation, whether you have forsaken (undead human or cured undead now living agian forsaken human), alterac nation living humans, or another group of humans join the horde, it won't change from being an Orc v human core.
and something people are not taking into account, the developers can change their mind about the conflict and it's core, for whatever reason they choose. They like having two seprate factions with distinct races, and even if you're able to play living humans on the horde as forsaken, it would be for very good reason, and I don't supsect any other race would make the cross over. In fact in the lore, only Elves, humans and Panderan exist on both factions. Panderan they just added, but Elves have high elves on alliance and blood elves on horde, humans have the alliance humans on alliance, and the horde has had various groups, Alterac humans in WC2, and forsaken in WoW - should they make the human model playable on the horde as living forsaken humans and the blood elf model playable on the allinace as high elves, I reckon that would be the maximum they would go. There is no precedent in the lore for dwarves/night elves/draenei/worgen/gnome to be on the horde, nor a precedent for orcs/tauren/troll. there is a goblin precedent though. And that's not to say they can't create and advance the story. they can, but I don't suspect they will.
For playbility, on both factions, humans are the strongest candidates because there is a very good gaming reason for that as well as it's a good story, for high elves - there really isn't except for more choice or because fans want it - and before people tear down that idea, they need to realize taht a lot of what they play in wow is theree because of choice or fans like it, so it's not beyond doubt if they wanted to. However I think that would be the extent of the shared faction races.