Bad news about Cross RP

Wyrmrest Accord
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Do we even know if this change was directed at Cross RP specifically or was it hit because another addon was being naughty and it just got caught in the crossfire?

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Couple forums I read use other add-ons that broke due to chat API weirdness that usually happens with big patches.

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Yeah there’s no way this is the reason, it makes absolutely no sense, and I can still easily throw matches with my friends if I choose to, through a number of means. The easiest of which being functions that Blizzard put in themselves.

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Exactly. :slight_smile:

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I think if we can point these lapses in logic out, without basically insulting Blizz devs, we can probably get our beloved CrossRP back :heart:

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It’s up.

I’m also gathering information from people and writing a memo about it to support blue. I’m interested in hearing about your positive experiences. In fact, you can probably share them right on the thread.

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The thread is up from the author of the addon. Make sure to keep your comments respectful and clean all. Patch 8.1 and Cross-Faction Roleplay

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Looking at the author’s thread, seeing mostly support and good experiences with it. So maybe it was just a whoops on Blizzards part. Here’s hoping.

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The giant chorus of support in that thread is heartening.

Maybe I’m just an old sourpuss but as hard as Blizzard has doubled down on not listening to or trying to understand their own customers, I can’t muster a lot of faith that they’ll walk this back. I still hope, though. This addon was fantastic and we need it back.

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Man that thread has a ton of support so fast… Wow. Hopefully we’ll be heard.

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I’m optimistic (big surprise there, huh? :stuck_out_tongue: ) . I think that we’re getting a lot of support, and a lot of common sense reasons from both a gameplay and lore perspective as to why this is fun.

It’s been a big asset to the RP community, and like the sharding issue, I suspect Blizzard may respond to it positively. I certainly am optimistic enough to hope, at least.

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I am proud of how positive the tone of that thread has been. That’s definitely a good sign.

I’ve often thought that part of the reason Blizzard is so unresponsive to player requests is that they get inundated with so much aimless vitriol that useful criticism starts to sound like more of the same. I hope that a big concentration of upbeat and constructive requests like that thread will actually sway them where complaints don’t.

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The link was spread across every thread about cross-rp and every wow rp oriented discord right away.

I wonder if there are people in the EU too.

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I never took advantage of cross realm RP but it’s a real bummer it got hosed, I hope it will be fixed :frowning:

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Just tossing my two cents into this. When Blizzard constantly shows us NPCs communicating cross faction, I mean just play warfront and you’ll have both commanders talking trash about each other no issue, but to deny that ability to players it kinda just feels off.

Like yes there’s the risk of people using it to be nasty but the same could be said about literally every way of communication in this game, like wise that issue is by no means exclusive to opposing factions. Be it trade, a random battle ground, ect, I’ll semi-often see someone being nasty or just trying to aggravate people.

Finally coming to the Cross RP addon itself, the author, as stated, built in a plethora of fail safe-ish features to help keep the addon from being abused, disabled in BGs, manually opt in, only works on RP realms , ect. The addon was built to make sure it was used by people just wanting to have some fun across faction lines.

Which leads me to figure this is a oh so famous case of Blizzard being fun police, can’t have any harmless fun in their games it seems.

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I feel like this isn’t an issue of cross faction but a casualty of an unrelated design choice.

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So Ion says breaking CrossRP wasn’t done deliberately to target the addon but instead to fill security holes that other malicious code could exploit in regards to manipulating community chats. They won’t restore CrossRP’s functionality, but Ion did say they’re going to implement an in-game solution…something many have been asking about for longer than CrossRP has even been around.

He says they will put something called an elixir of tongues, or something named accordingly, into the game that can be bought for a few gold in a place like the Dalaran underbelly that allows players to drink it to understand the opposite faction. This way only consenting parties will be subjected to the opposite faction’s communication, and the potions can be stocked up on for RP events or whatnot similar to the way many of us stock up on inky black potions. He added that they are going to hotfix this elixir in potentially as soon as this weekend.

So not the best solution, but still pretty huge to me. Blizzard is finally giving in just a bit to this whole faction communication barrier. And they actually listened to us by featuring a question about CrossRP in their Q&A!

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I get two things from that. Blizzard does take into consideration how the addon is used. Which weighs against the “it violates the ToS” argument so many forum posters use. And Blizzard does recognize the RP community as an important component of their player base.

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PS: If this potion is in the same price range as inky black potion, the teahouse will likely keep a supply on hand to hand out as freebies.

OTOH, I have two concerns. That there may be a cool down longer than the buff. That would squelch it’s usefulness. And that it means opening up cross-faction chat to any random griefer who walks by. Which is not too terribly bad to deal with, just yet another way we’ll get trolled.

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According to information from the other thread on the potion, it’s already been hotfixed into the game. Sold by Fizzi LIverzapper in Legion Dalaran’s Underbelly for 23g a pop. It lasts 1 hour and has no CD.

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