With all of the problems causing a loss of MAUs over the past few months, my actual largest concern is the sheer scale of imbalance between the two factions. It’s gotten pretty awful. Looking at the latest hall of fame stats… it’s bad, m’kay.
Where the winners go, so follow the masses. Kind of like bandwagons in sports. The Alliance is a shell of itself, a mere shadow of what the Horde is. It’s really unfortunate. And I don’t think Blizzard cares.
That all being said, is it fixable? I’d argue; no. It isn’t. There’s nothing that could be done at this point.
So I dare say, eliminate the factions entirely. With the entire player base being able to interact, join groups, form guilds, I feel like this would help bolster the game.
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Eliminating factions is one of those ideas popular on the forums lately, but wouldn’t help the game in the long run.
The real problem is that so many people are leaving wow, because wow isn’t good anymore.
That’s the problem they needs fixing. Eliminating factions would be the very last change wow ever made.
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Why is eliminating the faction divide a bad thing? With a dwindling playerbase how is more people to play with anything but a net gain?
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Because once you change it, you can’t unchange it.
And like it or not, the vast majority of players who have ever played wow are used to and prefer the faction divide. That was always part of its appeal.
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Why? Who? Where are your facts? I’ve never seen anything that would indicate that the majority of players prefer the faction divide. Once again, why would ANYONE want a smaller pool of people to play with? Why would anyone want fewer options as far as race? Who actually likes being limited as far as choice goes?
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I remember in one of the interviews Ion said that the amount of players on each faction is almost equal, but the horde side is significantly more involved in raiding and PvP compared to the alliance. This is more of a social issue and there’s honestly nothing you can really do about it.
When you do random BGs on alliance you already get bonus rewards.
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I’d just like to quickly note that you don’t need to eliminate factions to bring down the barrier to group. The Horde and Alliance can still exist. Battlegrounds and Warmode can still be present. Opposing cities can still be hostile to players.
They just need to add the ability to group and guild up. That’s it. Nothing needs to be taken away.
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As far as things are concerned, leave World PVP and its instanced counterparts in and just let PVE group up.
Been on Garona since its inception and slowly over time its gotten harder and harder to actually recruit and DO the content that we are paying for.
I would switch to Area 52 and play with friends there but I just don’t want to level another toon in this awful system and instead am tempted to just transfer this character over, but that would leave my current guild of friends with one less person.
It is an uncomfortable situation.
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Name one instance of the faction divide providing a mechanical advantage to gameplay.
I’ve been looking for one since 2004. No luck.
The divide has had potential for nearly two decades, but they’ve never made good on that potential. It’s time to stop pretending they ever will. All we have are the negatives of a divide with none of the potential positives.
As is, it just exists to sell merch.
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Cite your sources there bud, because my experience says nothing of the sort.
Sure there is, get rid of barriers to grouping so people can play the content they like with the characters they like without being forced onto the Horde to find any kind of community.
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What faction divide?
Is helping Thrall and his rag tag band of misfits while striding alongside the “powerful and smart” Alliance a faction divide? Or is it one step closer to the constant kumbaya that seems to happen ALL THE TIME!
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Coming from primarily rp servers, I always got the opposite feeling- The faction divide was kind of frustrating.
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People who think removing faction lock on playing together will hurt the game is hilarious to me. The population is dying and you want to keep the remaining portions of the playerbase still divided. Wake up and smell whats going on, very delusional.
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It’s the absolute safest assumption to make.
We already know from blizzard that 98% of players who ever played wow no longer play currently. And this game is too old to attract significant amounts of new players.
Which means, any population bump or surge due to a new patch or expansion is primarily older, returning players.
These players are aware of the faction divide and likely prefer it. Killing factions has been suggested for years, but only became somewhat popular recently.
So killing factions would have a hi chance of alienating returning players. Not something we want right now.
Opening content for cross-faction gameplay would help bandage the hemorrhaging Alliance exodus.
I don’t think it should be blizzard’s main concern though. their legal woes and lack of content should be more pressing.
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Making a decent expansion would fix that problem even better.
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Bold of you to assume it’s only the Alliance looking for the exit.
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Are you sure about that cos everyone I talk to has never seen the playerbase split as anything but a bad thing, or an inconvenience to people who wanna play races on both sides.
Also of note: If the forums are to be believed, a good expansion has never existed, and will never exist. One thing that’s obvious though is lots of people like SL or they wouldn’t be playing it.
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