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A couple of months into the Mists of Pandaria-expansion for World of Warcraft, I stopped playing simply because of time. I had previously played on a non-stop subscription for 6½ years, which ended during cataclysm, so I didn’t really have the drive to play, nor did I have the time to commit to anything serious (raiding or pvp).

Another reason that turned my drive for the game “off”, was the fact that I was playing horde. I do not like the horde, exclusively for aesthetic reasons. The races and cities are, for the most part, rough, serious, spikey, brutish and down-right ugly. Especially anything involving the orcs, including Orgrimmar, is and always will be, a huge part of the Horde’s infrastructure. It looks bad :(

See? Ogrimmar is just so spikey and rough and ugly :C
(image from http://wow.gamepedia.com/Orgrimmar)

The alliance on the other hand, have a totally different look and feel to it, with cities and buildings looking way more refined and beautiful. And they also have Gnomes, so they basically win any argument by default :3

I was playing horde because my friends, who have always been more active than me, changed faction in Wrath of the Lich King. I would much rather play Horde, even though they’re ugly, and with my friends than the beautiful Alliance, but be playing alone (go figure :P).

However, in MoP both my friends and I were kinda burned out of the game. We agreed to re-subscribe and play together once more. This time we would be rolling Alliance once again, since some of them shared my feelings. Everything was all fine and dandy. Or so I thought *dun, dun dun*.

Stormwind, on the other hand, is beautiful, peaceful and just pleasant to look at C:
(image from http://wow.gamepedia.com/Stormwind)

Warlords of Draenor and epic fails

When Warlords of Draenor was announced, Blizzard also enabled players to boost a character to level 90 so that they could join right into the new WoD-action. The idea was pretty sweet, since it allowed me to roll the paladin class, which I have been really hyped about because of Hearthstone.

Anyway, as I mentioned earlier, some of my friends were very active and so they re-subscribed some months before WoD launch. They begun preparation for the expansion by trying to restart our guild, Snowstorm Entertainment (Frostwhisper-EU, if anyone is interested) and this is where the failing starts (not with the guild though).

One of my friends, the guy who re-subscribed first, used his boost-to-90 on a new character. On a horde character. When this happened, the others thought something along the lines of: “Oh, he made a character on Horde and boosted it, I guess we’re playing horde then”. So they all did the same, boosted newly created Horde characters to 90 and began to choose which class was to be their main when WoD launched.
:(