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Okay I’ve been seeing a lot of hate regarding the Bfa prepatch and here’s the thing.. no matter where blizzard decides to go with the story there seems to be a mass of people out there going on about “bad writing” and “poor decision making” and I’m tired of it. You’re allowed to disagree with the direction and you can dislike the story all you want but at this point all I ever see some of y’all do is complain and be bitter! I feel like some of you have very deliberately misinterpreted the premise and goal of the pre-patch and it’s events. Ever since I started playing wow I’ve HATED the faction conflict because it always felt forced, glorified and didn’t make that much sense but now for the FIRST time I think it does. In fact, I think the pre-patch is the opposite of bad writing, I think it’s quite amazing and genius storytelling. It’s doing exactly what blizzard intended it to do, it makes people FEEL something and it makes people passionate. You can’t have passion for something you don’t care about and you can’t put your heart into a conflict that doesn’t affect you and a conflict that only ever truly affects non player characters and in-game places with no real purpose for us players will always feel distant. Destroying two major cities on the other hand takes away something tangible from us players, something that we care about and something that has a function and an emotional value to us. That’s war, war is losing things you care about and that’s the idea that blizzard are quite obviously pushing here. You can’t have war without loss.