roped their playerbase along with that impression
Except that it was a (minority) of the player base wanting them to..and I quote "put the WAR back in WAR craft" who were reeing about wanting the Orcs go back to their "Roots" as the bad guys, it was a Knee jerk choice made by people who aren't around anymore who saw a small group of people on the forums wanting to be the "badguys" who had never actually played the RTS for context.
The WC1-2 Horde were not "Savage Warrior Brutes." they were Demon Summoning Assholes, Orgrim didn't overthrow Blackhand because Blackhand was evil, he overthrew Blackhand because Blackhand was Gul'dan's bitch who didn't know what the fuck he was doing when Gul'dan was out of commission.
Night Elves get the #savage crap too sometimes, people act like Night Elves were the Warhammer Wood Elves before They Joined the Alliance and forget the Context of "Grommash Hellscream rolling up into their forest and starting to hack down trees." and instead of "Oh shit these trees are inhabited by people..lets call Thrall up and have him handle this, it is above my pay grade." he killed their god.
but the community had already made up its own mind as to their character's choices.
And that is the big thing, you had 3 expansions of Horde players being told they were the good guys, and then they suddenly became the bad guys and that Sylvanas doesn't care about the Forsaken (Though if you look at her backstory..this wasn't a hard guess to make in retrospect)
