World of Warcraft's new Night Elf capital allows Horde tourists, and boy is it ruffling some feathers

pcgamer.com:

In World of Warcraft: Dragonflight, the Night Elves have ended its latest story patch with a new home: Bel'ameth. In case you've been out of the loop for a while and don't know why Teldrassil is gone: Sylvanas blew it up. Former PC Gamer writer Steven Messner documented The Burning of Teldrassil back when it happened in 2018, writing that it was «easily the most controversial moment in World of Warcraft's history.»

Well, now the night elves have a new tree and a new home in the Dragon Isles, and they're even willing to let bygones be bygones. Bel'ameth is currently a neutral city on the PTR, meaning both Horde and Alliance players can visit.

Now in fairness, the Horde did have a hand in fixing things. Dragonflight's done away with the faction conflict altogether. Instead, the Horde and Alliance were very reasonably focused on the possibility that the fledgeling world tree might get set on fire, but in the Emerald Dream this time—which would (because of magic) set everything else on fire, too.

So it makes sense that they'd be welcome as visitors. Unless you're still deep in the faction conflict of years past, of course. In which case, this whole thing might just make you angry enough to take it personally.

«Thanks for NOTHING, Blizzard,» writes a player in a thread decrying the change to the status quo. When it's pointed out that the Horde helped, they argue that the whole thing was done out of self-interest. «They didn’t help the Night Elves, they fought for themselves. They have no right to be there.» In a separate thread, another player says: «this will become the single largest piece of evidence that the story in WoW clearly has no teeth anymore.»

In a slightly more reasonably-worded thread that has some pretty