There’s immaturity on both sides, the trick is to keep it out of your guild.

The EZ mode discussions always amuse the hell out of me. I’ve seen each side claim the other one has it easy. I can’t count the number of “well everyone knows Blizzard prefers Horde” things I’ve heard on Alliance side, and vice versa. Grass is always greener and all that, like you said. It reminds me of a player I know. He’s a die-hard pvper, and he’s always on about this or that class which is overpowered in PvP. As soon as he levels that class up though, it’s suddenly a different class that’s overpowered.

I will say, however, that there seem to be more immature night elves than any other race, and I constantly see them insulting the Horde senselessly(“lolol the whorde r pussies they need gud racielz cuz theyd suk @ pvp w/o em”). I will admit, most shamefully, that my first character was a night elf druid, and my first days in Teldrassil were far from pleasant because of the extremely immature atmosphere. I only venture into Teldrassil past Darnassus if I have reason to believe there’s a flagged Hordie in there, otherwise that place can kiss my ass.

The theory is most kids and noobs (in the true sense of the word) will pick the familiar, aesthetically pleasing, ‘good’ race, and anytime you have population imbalance you always always always want to be on the down side. Obviously there are all kinds on both side, but personally I think when comparing horde/alliance, Albion/Midgard, Glorious Lord vs Dread Lord, etc, the less mainstream faction will tend to be more polarized between good, mature players and total asshats just looking to grief. This is always a good thing, compared to the other side which is the middle ground of players who are more whiny and immature but basically decent.