This is always the crux of the issue behind ‘time for faction divides to end!’ posts.
Listen, the brutasaur is going away before you can combine your Alliance and Horde gold and buy it. Stop trying to ruin the game for everyone so you can get your mount!
Hey, happy to hear that! I can’t imagine the stress of worrying about being laid off, so I’m glad to hear you’re good!
We can agree there. I don’t really trust them for anything focused on writing. Small zone stories, they’re fine. But anything else? Honestly anyone could probably write better than them.
I wish I could say I know they can do better. I’m still a fan-girl, but I feel so drained and disconnected after the last like three or four expansions that I really question if they can.
I don’t know what they can do to fix the Alliance. I don’t really know if they can, they’ve been passive for too long and I agree that Mechagnomes didn’t help (much as I kind of like mine).
I hope something improves, I sincerely do. As I dislike both Alliance and Horde, I will continue to advocate for faction removal, BUT I do understand people who don’t like the idea. I wish I still had the pride others do in their faction, but Blizzard has killed the Horde for me and I don’t believe they will ever recover it. That’s just my take on it and why I have the opinion that I do.
Piss off. Death to the Horde…all of them. I am not turd Anduin and the Horde don’t get off scott free because she left and Anduin the turd decided no one esle was complicit in the genocide against your own race. Anduin deserves to die and i hope i get the opportunity to kill that soyboi asap for his treasonous acts against his own people.
How wrong you are, let me count the ways, or simply list the only one that actually matters.
You can have factions be their own distinct identities, you do not need to block cross faction play to do so. There is no longer any in-game reason for there to be no cross faction play. Period.
It’s only there because it’s always been there and it allows Blizzard more money.
This isn’t true at all.
And removing the block on cross faction play would not change this dynamic.
Part of that core fantasy was the divide between the factions that was keeping them at war.
For the last 15 years, they’ve been doing everything in the story to point out how this is a dumb idea and needs to stop.
That was the true end of the faction divide.
Everything since then has been minor disagreements and leaders going rogue and needing to be dealt with.
We’ve come together literally for every major threat to the world.
We even went together to invade another world (twice) to remove a threat.
Correct.
correct, having cross faction would not remove the two factions or remove faction identity, just removes a pointless barrier that is all but ignored in every way not related to the players lol
Letting guilds, dungeons and raids be cross faction, while leaving everything else divided, actually makes perfect sense lore-wise and takes nothing away from World of Warcraft.
I really hate the horde, and ill continue to do so in a peaceful protest as I have been, by not playing a orc poo of a faction. I really do not want anything cross faction and I am a live or die alliance player.
In my own opinion: End the faction conflict, for PvE at least. As Legion (compared to BfA) proved, Blizzard can make a good expansion - but in BfA, the effectively needed to do twice as much work for people to have a similar experience. They didn’t do so successfully, and so BfA is what it is.
If they were to largely dissolve the faction barrier, then I imagine the world would both feel more alive (as more players would be communicating) and be more friendly to people looking to play older content. You would functionally have twice as many quests to do in PvE stuff, and going through both sides of older content would be a very fun experience for those who haven’t.
Also, this would very likely drastically improve content quality! Instead of having to do (as in BfA) two essentially separate stories and zones and quests to make an expansion, they would be able to make one story, perhaps with more interesting quests and such, since they wouldn’t need to make everything twice. Also this would remove the issues with content quality and imbalance, as well as make a lot of sense considering how ‘End the cycle’ everyone seems to be at the end of BfA.
I think that removing the factions would remove nothing and potentially breathe new life into the game - how many people would re-start playing if they could now play literally all content with the same character? It would definitely be a big plus for a lot of the less vocal, more ‘casual’ players who pay more. And PvP wouldn’t suffer either, and likely all matchmaking times would be decreased.
Essentially, if WoW wants to remain successful, they need to move on with the ‘Faction conflict’ mindset. That concept was exhausted before Legion, and especially now there are so many other games that offer better experiences in various ways that WoW needs to start adapting or it will die.
How minor was Teldrassil’s burning?
No its pretty clear that combining both factions in any way is quite impossible without dragging the lore to the back of the barn and finally putting it out of its misery.