What? Finally? Yes?
We’re happy?
Blizzard just won the internet?
Yes yes yes!
Just so you know your lore. When all of that was going down, Anduin wasn’t even born yet.
And he was a child during WotLK. The world moved on. The lore got expanded. I guess you forgot the whole part in Legion where every class hall had members of both factions working together. Living in the same bases.
Remember that new battleground that came out in Shadowlands where the horde and alliance fight over some resources or something? Oh wait i don’t. Because shadowlands is a united front once again. With leaders like Thrall and Jaina working with Bolvar against a common enemy. Even in games where they did come out with this content like Ashran in WoD… it felt tacked on and phoney. Nobody liked it.
If you want horde vs alliance go play WC1 and WC2. Even WC3 barely had any faction war in it. It didn’t take long for orcs to unite with the humans to stop archimonde from invading. Jaina even murdered her own father because he was in a bubble of the old mindset where red = dead. Because he was of the mindset of WC1 and WC2, and Jaina was in a world where WC3 moved on.
WC3 wasn’t the end either as we’ve had almost twenty years of WoW progressing the story in a direction where we should not be fighting each other.
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I can think of no thing worse and more devastating to the game than this.
WoW tokens, boosting, and all the rest of it combined pale in comparison to the fatal blow that has been dealt to the spirit of the game.
It is a sad day.
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Good luck finding something else? The only other MMO worth a damn right now is A Realm Reborn, and guess what cupcake? Square’s game doesn’t have a pointless faction divide either. New World could have been a promising PvP centric faction MMO, but Amazon is Amazon.
To put it plainly, Warcraft cannot hope to compete with A Realm Reborn with their players divided into factions. And with A Realm Reborn more popular than Warcraft by a wide margin right now, in addition to Microsoft’s pending take over, stuffs going to be changing the year leading up to the sale. And at this point, most of it is likely going to be good changes like this one.
Also, “years of great lore”. What a load of nastiness. Warcraft hasn’t had good lore in years now.
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How will this work with the faction language barrier? Has that been addressed?
nah, they won’t be. i mean, i was hoping that i could visit stormwind, or ironforge, maybe do a little fishin… but nope. still gonna be a pain. this only makes like, dungeons and raids cross-faction. the open-world? not so much.
Only party chat will be translated. So in essence, RP realms are still screwed. For a game that supposedly celebrated the whole faction interactions… it never let an entire community do exactly that without having to resort to out of game tools and other wonky solutions.
Awh RIP. It’s sad about the RP then, like our realms.
I am hyped for this and I do hope you further this and go all-in on Cross-Faction Guilds. More people to play with is always a good thing
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Yeah I’m not really a fan of watching my entire faction leave a server I’ve been on since WotLK because the community got sick and tired of not being able to communicate with the majority of the players on this server. Well at least that one random person won’t have to witness an orc walking around stormwind and have a heart attack I guess. A stormwind, which is now a ghost town on your server for the exact same reason as the horde on my server.
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Reminds me of the old Flintlock comics were the Human Priest got REALLY drunk and woke up recruited to a Horde Guild.
Nice comeback with the cupcake part… There are other things besides games, I enjoy wow the way it is - nothing wrong with that.
I also believe things change, which means as a paying customer if the changes are against what I like the option is there. I am also sure my leaving will not affect their pockets - it was simply my opinion on the matter. Just like everyone is voicing theirs, I am voicing mine.
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I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s the long term plan. It might be that for the .2.5 patch, they’re putting in what they can do on a temporary situation while the developers go through 20+ years of Spaghetti code and bring in something more permanent for the next expansion.
I wish you’d stop beating around the bush and say why you’re doing it:
“Since nobody wants to play Alliance, we’re allowing cross-faction so that Alliance players can finally engage in content.”
Is that so hard to do?
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Except it’s about 40% of the US wow server populations
Which is a good thing. Right?
Excellent idea. Would you be willing to do cross-faction mail too? At least for consumables and mats to my own alts. Ty!
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I guess you forgot where the everyone split and a major battle came about again as both factions tried to take over a new world. Sorry but I didn’t forget something that really had no place in where the story took place. Cut out the class halls and guess what you had the same story factions still hated each other. Class halls were a trinket to help shoehorn in something for a single expansion. WC3 didn’t move one. Have you played it? WC3 was when the undead took over an alliance capital city. In fact it wasn’t just a capital but they major capital for the alliance. Why would a group of people go into a dungeon with people of a faction who 1) released something killing everyone in a capital and turning them into the undead and 2) just burned down another alliance capital burning everyone in it to death?
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I get some of you are against this for RP/lore/(prinicpal?)… but at the end of the day the inability to make groups is the death knell for MMOs.
This was a needed change.
They let the faction drain go on for way way too long. The chance to do something to balance the faction (population) was years ago.
I mean even this change won’t be a silver bullet. I still wouldn’t roll alliance on my horde realms (just due to the likely inability to mail items/gold to them) and that’s to say nothing for the guild implications.
At least now, I can consider making an alliance toon on an alliance realm for the story … and maybe now, I won’t just toss it as soon as it hits cap.
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