Originally Posted by
Nathasil
Exactly. And the Horde was not only handed the Lordaeron lore, they were also given the Quel'thalas lore as well. So basically everything Alliance was shoved into the Horde. Remember, Stormwind did not exist in WC2, which was the last game before WoW to feature factions (WC3 did not have them at all). So what makes the Alliance today is the short races of WC2 that nobody ever liked, the WC1 Humans that nobody ever gave a fuck about and the Night Elves, who never belonged into the Alliance to begin with. And even with the Night Elves, everything that happened before the WotA is now lore that also Horde races will claim for them.
If you give everything of your franchise that players have any remote interest in to one of your two factions while using the other as your NPC-Background and trash-can for ideas that you (the developers) did not like yourself and don't want to bother with in the future....you get exactly where WoW is today.
I would not say that "The Horde" faired a lot better though, and by Horde i meant he faction that actually earned that name and stood for something....what is called "The Horde" in WoW today is a strange conglomeration of pacifist Tauren, funny Fox people, Undead Humans and lots and lots of Sissy Elves afraid to get dirty. That is not "The Horde"...it's not even a faction, It's just a strage something that stands for nothing and will (obviously!) follow an undead warlord that hates life and hope into a genocidal war without any questions.
Blizzard has managed to destroy both factions. The Horde simply has not realised it yet, because they get showered with goodies a lot.
As for the question in the OP: WoW is not a game about the factions. It's a game about the world. About Azeroth. The factions are completely meaningless to her....and also to our own characters if you care to read quest-texts. The main protagonist of WoW is Azeroth herself. The factions are just there for the sake of making the game worse for everybody.