Cross faction NOT for queued content?

In other words, you make stuff up and have no idea what you’re talking about.

https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/dragonflight-already-lost-its-appeal/1234684

Not to mention every post I’ve made about how crap the expansion was, the storyline, etc.

But because I give information on how things will get added later… you lose your mind and turn to insults. Maybe take a step back and not make childish comments.

The community council’s abbreviation is more than appropriate. Because the amount of Cargo Cult thinking going on there is extremely painful. That said it’s not really a surprise. Cargo Cult “That’s the way it’s been done don’t change it” thinking pervades GD too.

It’s important when a design point becomes a problem to step back and completely ask if it makes sense anymore. But the blind adherence to “this matters” that we see from some players is bewildering to me as they can’t explain the why.

To me this is a great example of a case where they could break factions down and have it make sense in the story. While still providing for inter-faction conflict at the battle ground level. There will always be friction between the various groups.

Nice the few times you don’t agree with your masters. But most of the time I see you it’s the other way around and you’re on here 24:7 like you have nothing better to do. Besides even blizzard fanboys hate this expansion, doesn’t stop em from shilling for blizzard for the most part though.

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With the LFR queue times for Alliance especially, they need to merge it and do cross faction. Alliance is dying over here.

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Stalker much? And you’re seriously wrong. Literally nothing here even defends Blizz. Information isn’t a defense. My opinion isn’t a defense. Grow up. Either add something of value or find someone else to insult. You’ve got nothing interesting to say so far.

Just hoping that they will surprise me with xFaction guilds as a launch feature of Dragonflight :pray:

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It would be nice, but I doubt it. We probably won’t see any more cross faction until 10.1 or 10.2 if we’re lucky.

Not sure if they’ll try guilds or LFR/LFD first.

… I’m still waiting on Warlords transmogs that “will be added in a later patch” from before SL launched. :crazy_face:

Also ironic.

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They very subtlety implied its coming in a recent-ish interview. My guess is they haven’t figured out fully how to code this and are heavily pressuring people to do communities instead.

Guilds need a massive overhaul anyways so hopefully we get that soon too.

Guild permissions are crap right now. They better figure out how to separate Community and Guild permissions, because it’s getting seriously frustrating.

i’m all for cross faction the way it’s currently being implemented, because it solves a glaring gameplay issue with the imbalanced numbers (especially for que’s and high end raiding success).

I’m not for removing the faction divide for any other reason…in fact, i think it would be a mistake to do that, since they’d never, ever be able to revert it for any reason. Def worth taking a while to think about. :nerd_face:

Ofc that’s my opinion, i’ll play either version of the game - as long as druids are a fun class :100:

drinks flame resistance potion & stealths out of the thread

Lmao no they arent. Anyone can make a group and advertise it. You don’t have to be a hardcore mythic raider doing +80’s to form a group. Stop with the incessant victim mentality! No one takes you seriously when that’s the best you can do.

They aren’t removing the faction divide. Just adding in some options for cross gameplay.

I’m against deleting the faction divide entirely, as well. Factions still do have identity.

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The irony here is astounding, lol.

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Thats a big reason i was hyped for cross faction play. To help speed up lfr queue times for both sides.

Once again blizzard proves how much they hate us.

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There’s technical hurdles that need to be overcome to enable cross-faction at its fullest. Remember that the entirety of the game has been designed and written on top of the assumption of a two-player-faction system since 1999. It’ll come in due time.

They could probably enable crossfaction in queued PvE in the meantime with the merc mode system but I’m sure GD posters would take issue with that somehow.

I’m going to call on this. Blizz has had fixes for this since MoP at least since they’ve supported multiple factions since then. The mercenary system also contributes too. So I don’t really think the underlying everything requires it per se. Communities are new and completely replaced the old guild system so it’s highly likely they aren’t faction locked per se (it’s also why they suck).

But the I do think there are scripts built on top of that that do assume based on a few things. But I don’t think its as cut and dry as “since 1999”. They’ve done a lot of work around this for ages. Heck even TBC created temporary factions for arenas. So the work is there, it’s just a question of “what breaks” IMO.

I mean EQ2 does it along with cross faction guilds and everything else. Of course factions in that game only amount to what cities you can enter and what race/class combo you can be but thats it.

If eq2 can do it while being on a much older system than wow while also reaching level caps of 120 and higher than im sure blizz could if they cared enough to do so. However this is blizzard, they dont care and never will.

I don’t know that it actually would. Because the point is to make everything opt-in only if they want. Which means the amount of people who may opt-in may not be enough and it’s possible the queues will be longer if people are spread apart queueing with their own faction. Similar to how Chromie Time dungeons queues are now.

No one hates us. :stuck_out_tongue:

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Sure, I guess that was what I was getting at. With a game as large and complex as WoW is, there’s likely several big problems and a laundry list of corner cases that are currently broken with crossfaction, because that functionality has only ever needed to exist in very isolated and controlled circumstances.