Quote Originally Posted by Keltest View Post
The faction war in WoW is, I think, by far the biggest millstone around the direction of the franchise. Its been what, 30 years since WC3 and the sides have settled their differences and agreed to stop fighting... 3 times now I think? But it never sticks, because you gotta keep up the faction war so the players have an excuse to harass low level players on the other faction.
It's definitely the root cause, but really any continuous narrative that goes on for this long and has to keep providing content for the same characters is going to get tangled up. When time travel becomes involved, you know things are bad.