When WoW first launched, nearly 20 years ago now, the faction war between Alliance and Horde was a pretty inspired design choice.
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That’s really the main point here, not that the Alliance and Horde faction system is bad or unnecessary but that it just hasn’t evolved alongside WoW like it needs to.
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But that point also cuts both ways, as the setup of WoW‘s two-faction system previously required two separate levelling experiences for the Alliance and Horde.
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It may be time to ask whether the system still has a place in Blizzard’s modern vision of the game.