it's terrible and will get worse if blizzard doesn't remove dmg modifier racials + work on balancing the factions or at least make high end players going back to the alliance again for free (their mistake).
I don't think it's hopeless: I think players migrated because of social/gameplay reasons, not because they prefer being "the horde".
I didn't say everyone, I said most folks. And no, sorry, the Alliance story sucked big time in BFA. Ice lady shows up and becomes ruler after being gone for decades, mother puts her in jail first, blah blah.. Totally a stupid ass story.
But again, that is a preference in regards to storytelling.
It's not just mythic raiding. If you do any sort of group content then you are better off Horde because the pool of players is so much larger. It's a huge issue that Blizz created by allowing Horde racials to be OP from TBC through WoD.
The racials are balanced. That pandaren thing is an outliner that will definetly get fixed.
But when it is balanced there is no reason for people ro pay the money to get back to alliance. And as most of the raiding guilds are allready on horde more people will go over there for recruiting reasons.
The only way they could MAYBE save alliance raiding is by giving free transfers.
I agree with this, but I wanted to say this to everyone too:
As someone who's played both sides of RETAIL wow, I can tell you that the quality of people (Besides Ragnaros NA Players) Alliance players as well as Horde are dedicated to the game, but the problem I am having is the sheer amount the VOLUME of skill on Alli vs Horde at least in PVE is HUGE on Horde side
I remember back in Leg (LEGION) before moving to Horde, groups were WAY harder to come by, M+.. everything
I can log in on Horde and find groups at all times of the night, day, weekend, weekday - Basically the Horde ... they are THE MOVE, don't fall for lesser players, dont fall for faction pride or balance, just COME HORDE and STOP MESSING AROUND
Sad truth the answer to that question is Bloodlust.
Already in Classic that pulled the hardcore raiders towards Horde and the Alliance side really never recovered even though Bloodlust became avaviable to both sides.
What bad thing could possibly happen if everyone just switched to horde? Nothing, that's what. There's not gonna be a faction merge, or interaction of any kind. And racials will never be balanced, so we're right back to where we always will be. With a horde dominate game.
The first part has nailed the problem but I disagree with the second part: sooner or later high-end PvE imbalance will sink further to more casual people. It will be exactly the same way as to why players choose realms with a good population and a healthy economy but without negative consequences (lag, queue times). As always with Blizzard solution will be too late or inefficient.
The faction war had it's great RP appeal for some time but the splitting of the game's playerbase is an ongoing issue. World PvP is next to nothing outside of a few enticed events like in Naz, so there's little reason I see to keep factions from communicating and raiding together. BGs would still attempt to keep the factions in their sides and transmog would still be faction locked. Outside of that, merging would simply add in more players to the pool of people you could play with.
The wise wolf who's pride is her wisdom isn't so sharp as drunk.
I do think faction transfers were a mistake. :S
Story wise I can accept. I'm really an alliance fan but the horde story was simply much better in BfA (I've not played previous expansions as a horde since BC. Plan to . But aesthetically, really? Blood elves, pandaren, vulpera and nightborne gives 57% of horde max level population. Vanilla horde races give only 33% of the whole population.
It is very much a problem when you have a two faction game and only one faction can reliably complete content. You've managed to completely dodge the reasons people go Horde, insisting that Alliance just needs to git gud. The reasons have been laid out in this thread in multiple posts. Serious players went Horde because they had and have numerical and other advantages in completing content. That began a snowball effect, with more and more guilds transferring over years because there were far more candidates for recruitment on Horde.
You as a Horde player do benefit from having a more skilled playerbase, in that you are far more able to get good groups for any content you care to do. Trying to claim otherwise is either ignorant or dishonest.
Why no, people don't just like Sylvie for T&A: https://www.mmo-champion.com/threads...ery-Cinematic/