If blizzard is making cross faction guilds a thing. Do you think they’ll remove the rest of the restrictions like Questing / Zones from both factions cities / towns / quests outside of warmode?
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I think they removed the restrictions that they gave now in a break glass in case of emergency situation where the playerbase is hemorrhaging I think in order to do what your asking things would have to be very very dire
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Though it would be nice seeing my tauren stroll into SW without being ganked from overzealous guards, to at least remind people that there are still two factions and not every NPC would be okay with the enemy strutting around in their zone, I can’t see Blizz lifting the restrictions.
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Questing in BFA on the opposite faction would get complicated fast.
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I don’t think so, at least not for a long time. While they’re pretty heavy into the whole “power of friendship” bit for now, they haven’t actually killed off factions yet story-wise.
Aside from that, factions are pretty-heavily baked into a lot of things (even some things that don’t really make sense). It’s probably doable but I don’t think it’d be easy to wipe those out.
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Oh hell yea can’t wait to commit War Crimes against my fellow Vulpera that will just be ignored because “ma tree”.
In all fairness, the burning of the caravans was as dumb and unnecessary as the brutality The Horde showed in Alliance questing at Brennadam.
The faction conflict didn’t die, it was murdered by BFA.
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To me it makes sense that they make everything cross faction except warmode.
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I just threw up 
All I want is the ability to do open world content and queued content with my friends cross faction, I mean Blizz let’s premade group players do it.
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Cause there’s no real need to. The story justification for x-faction gameplay is as simple as “the players are largely neutral mercenaries that can work with whoever they want so long as they’re not an existential threat to Azeroth”.
Just treat the Horde and Alliance like Scryers and Aldor. Easy peasy.
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If they did that it wouldn’t be for a long time yet, I’d think. That way they hold the option of having a faction conflict again some time in the future.
They let us trade with eachother, be in guilds together, and raid together so…
“FOR THE HORDE! DIE ALLI… oh… hey murderkillxxx! How you been? Get good prog last night?”
Yeah the faction war should have ended at the end of pandaria “Why do we fight” was the initial intended end of the faction war before Dumb & Dumber took over narrative direction and insisted we do a faction war expansion for no reason.
Its my guess by the end of this expansion or beginning of the next we’ll have vulpera in stormwind and humans in orgrimmar. (though we already have humans in orgrimmar so its happening faster than expected thanks to dracthyr females :D)
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Woah… get out of here with your logic… This is GD! Rabble rabble rabble!
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Cross faction should be a huge no-no.
When they gave each side Paladin and Shaman, that was the first step towards this current huge mistake.
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Fun fact. You still cannot invite cross faction players in open world nor can they use your portals or 2 seater mounts even if they are in a queued group. So it seems to me that there’s still a long way to go to make things properly cross-faction.
They would probably keep faction capital cities still seperate. There are several neutral captical cities that are available. Many still use Legion’s Dalaran, with the hearthstone and all.
They probably won’t, but they should. Faction war was a boring, played out storyline when they first brought it up back in Wrath and it hasn’t gotten any better.
Problem is faction wars can’t have a winner and loser unless Blizz wants to piss off half their players. Therefore they can never have a satisfying conclusion.
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I’m probably misremembering but supposedly the only reason Horde were given paladins and Alliance shamans was that it was getting hard to balance the two.
But it was probably PvP that made Blizz decide to go further with opening cross-faction play since you could join the opposite faction if they needed more players I think when Ashran came out.