World of Warcraft War Campaign Concludes in 8.2.5 Movie Finale

World of Warcraft was mired in a war between the Horde and the Alliance that started with Battle for Azeroth, the latest extension of the long-standing MMORPG. Blizzard's story was extremely ambitious with Battle for Azeroth, with multiple cinematics in complete computer graphics and perfectly rendered cinematics. Two cities were destroyed at the beginning of the expansion, removing them from the world. Players now have the opportunity to make branch choices!

The release of patch 8.2.5 on Tuesday was, in many ways, the culmination of this ambition. This is the patch that ended the war between the Horde and the Alliance and we should answer questions from fans about the Teldrassil fire, the integrity of the Horde and the nature of peace in Azeroth.

But has he managed to achieve these goals?

No.

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All right, no, it's unfair. The story of patch 8.2.5 is dramatic, it's ambitious, it's magnificent. It makes a strong attempt to take into account the inheritance of the Horde inherited from Warcraft's real-time strategy games. It is very difficult to say something and to say it with gravitas.

There is just one thing that drowns all that. Each sincere and sincere line of dialogue has the narrative equivalent of a noisy, noisy trumpet that plays it at full volume: Sylvanas Windrunner.

Sylvanas started on Battle for Azeroth expansion by committing genocide. But she did not do it alone, she just gave the order and the Horde army rallied to follow him. She ordered the Horde to murder everyone in the Brennadam Alliance village, and the Horde did so.

Sylvanas enjoyed popular support from the vast majority of the Horde until her duel with Saurfang, which she easily won. The only thing that prevented her from eliminating Alliance and Horde traitors immediately was that she let the mask slip and started screaming about how much she hated the Horde.

It is this shift that brings the two factions together, Sylvanas leaving Saurfang to fly, and the final conclusion of the loyalist and rebel plot lines of the Horde.

It's a narrative mess and it's hard to understand why this story does not work … because it's a problem that lasts all the way through.

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War! What's the point?

Sylvanas opened the war with the Alliance with the following thesis:

1. Any lasting peace was impossible because the Horde and the Alliance had too much tension in too many people.
2. The only way to ensure the survival of the Horde was to strike now.

This is the "lie" she used to trap the Horde, as she has a second super secret plan that is alluded to in news, comics and gaming dialogues for over a year.

Sylvanas failed to win a total victory by invading Teldrassil; In burning her, she lost her advantage of having a massive source of hostages and further radicalized the night elves against the Horde. Before Patch 8.2, the Horde was losing the war on all fronts.

As for his secret purpose? Loyalist players are entitled to a cinematic where Sylvanas explains that "nothing lasts", that she has allied with Queen Azshara and that she needs a lot of dead souls for to be able to enslave Old Gods and realize his plan. This is new information, but it does not answer the burning question of his plan. is. But do not worry, said Sylvanas, she'll explain everything … the next time you meet!

You can only shoot for a very long time and give the camera an exaggerated wink before you start grabbing my monitor, shaking and whining and grinding your teeth. A mystery is not fun if a character knows everything and is constantly 17 steps ahead of the rest of the cast.

At this point, Sylvanas' story could literally go anywhere. Everything can happen. It's tiring! I do not want to speculate on that, I want to go to bed and put a bag of ice on my head. The worst part is that we saw a hilarious, charismatic and incredibly perverse Sylvanas during this very expansion of the Battle of Lordaeron. Where has she gone? She was great.

Wait, hey, what about these war crimes?

"War crimes" are a super nebulous concept in the world of Azeroth. Garrosh Hellscream has been brought to trial for war crimes, but there is no Geneva Convention or anything. Everyone was fed up with his shit. If there were war crimes in Azeroth, about 85% of the base of players would be transported into the Hague fantasy for all our quests, such as necromancy, burning of people alive, mental control and kidnapping of children from a population. the indigenous population can elevate them to a different culture.

Thus, the concept of war crimes is very delicate in the world. World of Warcraft. Good.

But what about all the members of the Horde who supported Sylvanas? The current leaders of the Horde have a great idea of ​​how to handle this: as long as they apologize and say they are loyal to the Horde, they feel perfectly fine and we will simply forget about it.

I understand that the writers of a MMORPG probably do not want to play fanciful Nuremberg essays, of course, but … I'm just going to talk about it and suggest that if it's a rehab method used by my third grade teacher, it probably does not work for a complex multi-level government.

There are still discussions to solve and play. If the pre-launch Warbringers The shorts are an indication, Sylvanas could be the last boss of Patch 8.3, just like Jaina and Azshara before her. Tyrande Whisperwind is still in Kalimdor, focused on the energy of the moon goddess and crazy like a devil. The BlizzCon also started in November and Sylvanas is the main character of Warcraft. We will certainly learn more about patch 8.3 and maybe even the next extension.

Battle for Azeroth is swinging relentlessly for the barriers whose history is the thread of this expansion. Some are successes, like everything with Bwonsamdi and Vol'Jin. Azshara, in both Warbringers and his raid was fantastic. N'Zoth, and his sinister eye that some players keep on them, are my favorite part of the enlargement. The choice of the player is a promising start. The night elves – and the Alliance as a whole – have contributed greatly to the history of the Horde.

But while some elements of the plot have been eliminated from the park, Blizzard has breathed other crucial threads of intrigue. Now that the war campaign is over, we can hope that the next step will lay a stronger foundation for the future plot.