The Queue: Mercenaries

Welcome back to The Queue, WoW Insider’s daily Q&A column where the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Alex Ziebart will be your host today.Today’s edition of The Queue is nice and lengthy again, after a spree of shorty-shorts. See, good things happen when people actually ask wow goldquestions! Although since it’s being posted so late in the day, I bet Adam will have trouble again tomorrow. Do him (and yourselves) a favor: Ask Adam a bunch of completely absurd questions so he has something to write for all of you tomorrow!   Airleagan asked… “In the Ulduar Cinematic, the Horde and the Alliance both reject the idea of going into Ulduar, yet the players go into Ulduar and are on the Factions of the Horde and the Alliance, Why do we not Listen to our leaders or do they even matter because it seams the Horde just does whatever they want no matter what Thrall says?” The players are a lot like mercenaries in WoW. Hired guns. Note that even in history, mercenaries often had a kingdom that they called home, while not serving it on the battlefield unless they were being paid or rewarded (or their inaction