So, 8.3 is out, the Race to World First is underway (and quite exciting!), and we’re settling into the game that we’re going to have for many months before Shadowlands.Whatever you feel about Battle for Azeroth, bad or (less likely) good, it’s finally coming to a close. With the future of World of Warcraft on the horizon, I think now is a good time to really have a conversation with each other and Blizzard about the biggest challenge and danger that World of Warcraft, the game that we, the fans, players, and obsessives love so much, faces today: the faction imbalance. Whether you play as the Horde, united in honor against the forces that would seek their doom, or as the Alliance, the classically idealistic coalition of justice, you are probably aware of the utter inequality of the Horde and Alliance playerbases, and it has only grown to an extreme degree in the past 13 years since TBC’s release, when the differential in power was most prominent.Before we talk about the state of the co