#3 - Dec. 23, 2006, 10:50 p.m.
Ok, ok...I've got one. It's a stretch, but if I'm right it'll be epic.
A couple of weeks after release, I expect to see more players completing the newbie zones for the 2 new races. Players will come on here and debate the faction bias that Blizzard always displays and it will be argued whether Blizz favors Blood Elves or Draenei more. This and that yardstick of measurement will be used to understand and quantify what everyone already knows in their heart of hearts, that Blizzard distinctly and subtly favors one faction over another. Question is, which one?
This whining will start small and vague, but build up steam over time until the posting community becomes firmly settled in the fact that one of the races is better than the other one.
When one race becomes the clear favorite, the last domino will have been set. The balance of the game will be forever tainted by racial, faction, class, PvP, PvE and all other balance aspects of this game. The new, best race will be easier to level, prettier, adapt to different class combinations better. It will have clear advantage in all Battlegrounds or Arenas. It will bring a host of versatile abilities to a raid encounter. It will be the belle of the ball.
For the other, unchosen race, there will be naught but suffering and torment without end.
The one, dominant, new race argument will be used as a vast broadsword, cutting through every debate imaginable and reducing them all to so many cubed morsels of twitching flesh. Nothing will stand against the sheer brilliance that is the glaring and obvious overpoweredness of this race and how it directly affects every aspect of balance now and in the future.
When the community decides upon the chosen, all works before it shall be wiped clean. Yea, it will be the end of times.
