No, however, they made sure to specify that they don’t want to ruin the “foundational principle of Warcraft,” which implies they will likely never apply it to queued content, which is why I have strong feelings about this. They are essentially telling people who do queued content that our endgame is not as important as the players who do N+ Raiding, M+, or rated PvP.
This is further reinforced by the fact they said they are working on cross-faction guilds, but it will take time.
Yet they have dodged every single question about queued content they ever get asked.
I assume cross-faction mythic will require the hall of fame to fill first.
A good thing. We just disagree on which people should be eased first.
Never said it was easy. Just that it’s what they do.
There’s also the small fact that you can already x-faction in queued content via Merc mode for BGs. That’s halfway to the goal and it’s been available for years.
That must be why it works for normal raid and M0 (and likely premade normal and heroic dungeons)
The community already thinks casuals arent important. Some claim the big money makers for blizz are the “hardcore” who raid log, sell runs, prepare for tiers. They claim casuals are a dime a dozen. So if the community doesnt care its obvious blizzard doesnt.
They are doing that as a specific concession to the players who think the faction conflict matters. It’s an interesting dev decision, do you value the “factions and faction conflict matters” community over the “I’m capping myself at LFD/LFR” community.
LFR / LFG players aren’t the players who need X-faction. X-faction is for M+ players primarily as well as heroic raiders. If you play LFG, just queue up and Blizzard will find someone for you - you don’t care who it is so you’re leaving it up to Blizzard and by nature that means you don’t care about X-faction for that content.
I honestly want nothing to do with cross faction. Whats next horde in stormwind holding hands with alliance handing out orange slices and partipation awards
Except that the way Blizzard worded things with the announcement says otherwise… the way they said things comes across not only as “queued content won’t get it at launch” but more accurately as “queued content won’t get it period”.
It is our responsibility as the playerbase that will be affected by that decision to let them know what direction we would like them to go with it. If we say nothing, they will just release it for end-game premade group content only and call it done.
If they had any intention of adding it to queued content they would have said so. Instead they said:
Literally one of their “design guidelines” for the feature straight up said “no queued content, because it compromises opt in”… and the “less faction-driven pressure” bit is in all honesty a disguised way of saying “it’s unimportant”.
one of the major selling points of cross-faction is being able to play with friends. one of the major selling points of auto-queued content is that it’s great for people whose friends don’t play wow or aren’t online. they’re two different crowds most of the time.
i’ve always said if someone has that much problem with winning on their main faction, then swapping over will get them the same results. it’s one of those “you” problems.
I used to get slammed by Horde players for claiming that “Horde always wins”. I knew it wasn’t necessarily true, I just wanted to prove that we all have the same problems, haha.
