Vanilla people weren't aware about anything, at least at first. Are you confident that WOW Classic Burning Crusade Gold the majority of people in vanilla were simply going according to their racial preferences? That's ridiculous.

Players who were bleeding-edge PvE raid groups or PvPers and wanted every advantage they could do this, but that was only around 0.1 percent of the base.

For most people, it did not matter. Perhaps it would have seemed like much more if you were in this small group.

Consider this What WoW vanilla character would you choose? The beautiful night elf, or the ugly orc? The answer is pretty clear If you can recall where Bloodelves ended up beeing in to help balance it out.

Yeah, in 2005 most servers seemed to have been 60/40 Alliance. The reason was that the playerbase that was then was more innocent and casual (aka cared more about character fantasy than researching meta pvp). People chose alliance due to it being more relatable and they wanted heroes like the ones in Lord of the Rings. The desire to be a zombie or monster "bad guy" was more of an option. But I do remember that the will of the forsaken was very popular, and horde being more pvp focused. It wasn't an issue. The general consensus was that horde had better pvp racials however it didn't matter that much.

It's likely to be a lot better with TBC and more zones, however when it was the classic game levels, open-world PvP and even leveling could be a complete challenge for Alliance players on PVP servers. With horde and horde queues, there is no reason at all for meta players (majority of players, but not all) to roll Alliance.

After spending hundreds/thousands of hours with my alliance characters on a pvp server , this really feels like a huge disrespect of my time by this blizzard. This will cause the dominance of the horde on all pvp realms. The alliance will be impossible in open world. This is evident from the classicwow subreddits' responses. Wow is gone and the playerbase is a complete waste of time.
Players and developers are making classics retailable, gg.

Don't ever do it, you think you're going to continue to play as your character in Classic but you won't particularly if you've already cleared Naxxramas. You can always begin again with cheap WOW TBC Gold a new character if you'd prefer to remain playing Vanilla. It's much more enjoyable and fulfilling.