A LONG rambling story that no one is going to agree with.

The Horde Left.

After much drama and whining the horde said goodbye forever and left this server. They rerolled on other servers or canceled, but they never looked back. Now how could this travesty have occurred, and why didn't everyone leave? Well even though you are already bored to tears I will become long winded and tell you anyway.

Many dramatic things are happening. Alliance guilds are getting UBRS "first' kills before horde. Tauren Mill is starting to become a regular thing, but the alliance will swarm inside the church and even kill the horde sitting to drink. In these days no one has heard of Mankirks wife in the barrens chat channel. Because none of the quest NPC's at the cross roads have been alive long enough for anyone to talk to them.

On top of all this the horde are divided, leaderless, and contradicting each other on the forums. A since of futility permeates their lofty threads as they try to take the high ground but begin to realize that only 1% of the alliance read the forums anyway. This is the beginning of building a horde community. There is news of something called "the honor system" and hope stirs anew.

And that is what is really happening here. The horde over anticipate. They hang their hopes on a Blizzard made solution. This "hope stirs anew" is just a set up for a big fall. The big let down. The ultimate disappointment. Many things go wrong. One after another. Everything blizzard does makes the horde more and more disappointed. But worst of all, the Hordes own actions make things the worst of all.

Now here is the sweet part. The spine breaker, the beheading, the stab through the heart that puts the Horde down. Six feet down in a hole that to this day they still have not climbed out of. One day out of the blue there was a massive thread on the silver hand forums...

We are leaving. And that's exactly what they do. Practically half the Horde population rerolls on other servers or just outright cancels. Tumble weeds take up residence in Orgrimar.

Those who cancel say PvP is just time vs. time and thus it is meaningless. Those who leave for other servers cite lack of role playing. What ever the published resons may be, the exodus is real. Silver Hand has continuted to be one of the must unbalanced servers to this day.


Now here is the sick part. The last boycott, the one where Horde refused to queue for AV is never called off. The very Horde with the clout, reputation, and moral authority to start the boycott; forget to call it off before they leave. So the AV boycott continues unabated. They literally fart in the room and then leave. To this day one can still see people say something negative and depressing in an AV raid then “leave the Battle.” It becomes tradition, and nobody seems to know why.

Since December very little has changed. If I aired dirty laundry and told you about the things I have learned that one horde guild has done to another, or the long standing grudges that exist, you would probably think there is no hope whatsoever. But it really isn't about the shameful way some Horde guilds treat some others, or even the shameful way we treat the PuG population at large.

It's deeper than that. There is a permanent scar on the collective Horde memory. A lot of people just up and left once before. Like an abandoned child the Horde are traumatized against trusting anyone ever again. Here are some catch phrases the Horde like to use against themselves...

Maybe someday the Horde community will get over it's abandonment issues, grow up and take charge of their own destiny. But it is not this day. This continues to be the day of the tumble weed.

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