never thought id see this day come. The uniqueness now gone from WoW forever… minus 3 subscriptions very soon. Was a great 16 year run, many fun times had, and even more friends made. This change will unleash the flood gates and take the game further away from its root.
Sad 
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How so? Horde and Alliance still function exactly as they have for 17 years now. Friends are just no longer unable to play content together. Why didn’t you unsub during the Wrathgate, when very clearly in WoW canon, the armies of the Horde and Alliance worked together? Why didn’t you unsub during Siege of Orgrimmar? During the entire second half of BfA?
The factions have worked together in-canon since Warcraft III. There is no reason to keep a dwindling playerbase separated by a nearly 20 year old system.
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The story and lore have been cross faction the entirety of those 16 years, wth are you talking about. While I’m glad they’re doing something, they should have gone full bore and just opened it all the way up. Queued PvP can go Red vs Blue for all I care, regardless of race.
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I’m leaving as well. Its on to bigger and better things. Employees and players wanting these changes have ruined the game. Luckily they will never accomplish half of what I had so I won’t miss either.
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All the crap that’s been going on over the last year or so at Blizzard and THAT’S your hill to die on? It’s your sub money, obviously do what you want. I just personally find this an odd choice. Hope you find a game that floats your boat!
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I agree, it did make WOW unique. I like the way things are and I am not looking forward to the trash talks and other banter arguments. However, keep in mind that if things do change, it also means you can open up to playing other games as well. I have been following Ashes of Creation and so have members of my guild. So meanwhile, keep cool, and if it doesn’t work out, move on to greener pastures.
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Remember when the Alliance and the Horde worked together to open the gates of Ahn’Qiraj? They literally had emissaries in the opposite factions capitol. Horde and Alliance have been working together forever, just as long as they’ve been fighting.
I’ve played the game for like 16 years now. I think this is a good change.
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Then LEAVE!!! ADIOS!! Alliance Is dying and Blizzard finally listened! Come here Hordies! Let me give you a hug!!!
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just curious - in what way was the game ruined? this just solved the issue with alliance getting the shaft with PUGS (amongst other things)…isn’t that good?
it also unites some of us that were split when our guilds decided to leave for horde…like someone said in another thread - this is a win-win for everyone, even if you enjoy the faction divide for lore/virtual world experience…
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Some of you folks are being hilariously dramatic considering you can just ignore the new feature if you so choose…
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I’m main rp. Horde. Not carebear.
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Surprised you didn’t leave when Merc Mode was released, you know, where factions mean the most OP. You know, PvP.
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In one day Blizz silenced two of the forum’s biggest topics of complaint. The game wins and our peace of mind here wins. Anything that gives us less spite and negativity should be celebrated. 
But it’s not that big of a deal. It only functions in endgame instanced content mainly and it’s optional opt-in. Out in the world you’re not going to see the other faction in your cities, you’re still hostile and unfriendly, you don’t get to do their quests or get their rewards. They’re 90% as they are now, we’re just able group together.
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Heck, I’ve been on alliance for years now (since MoP) and not because I wanted to be.
I was originally horde, and still prefer horde, but my main friend group is alliance. This lets me play horde and play with them without asking them to make new characters–which we have tried in the past, and they don’t really care for them.
You know how many times I had to respond to people going “Org sucks, where is anything??” 
Anyway, aside from my primary raiding toon I suspect I’ll be largely playing horde again soon without having to ditch my friends.
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You do realize factions will still be a thing right?
It is also OPTIONAL.
It’s part faction cross. Either way happy trails I guess
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Cross faction is a big, big mistake.
There are very strong design reasons why this will be a foundational blow to the game.
How bad and the severity depends on exactly how they will execute this, but overall it is bad news.
I do see a solution and a silver lining to this, however
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If you mostly RP it affects you even less…
You can already RP together if you want via the elixir of tongues or you can choose not to.
Besides, it’s only for instanced content.
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It is only for instanced content . It allows friends who have friends on the opposite faction to play together.
These guidelines led us to the following system:
- Players will be able to directly invite members of the opposite faction to a party if you have a BattleTag or Real ID friendship, or if you are members of a cross-faction WoW Community.
- Premade Groups in the Group Finder listings for Mythic dungeons, raids, or rated arena/RBGs will be open to applicants of both factions, though the group leader may choose to restrict the listing to same-faction applicants if they so choose.
- Guilds will remain single-faction, and random matchmade activities like Heroic dungeons, Skirmishes, or Random Battlegrounds will all remain same-faction (both because there is less faction-driven pressure around random groups, and to avoid compromising the opt-in nature of the feature by randomly placing a queuing orc in a group with a night elf).
It is an opt in system . Don’t like it don’t do it .
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Warmode still exists. You’ll be fine.
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My friends wouldn’t get into the game because they wanted to play Horde, but it would have been a hassle for me to move my stuff to Horde. Surprised there is any push back to this at all tbh. It fixes so many problems
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