That’s fine with me. I’d gladly kill my own kind for sport.
Faction pride still existed in lore despite the factions working together (Also lore-wise). This is seen against threats like Archimonde, the Scourge, the old gods, the Legion and more.
If anything the recent change promotes roleplaying in coordination with the story that it should have years ago.
Plus it’s not all that difficult to roleplay the various circumstances -
- Dungeons / Raids: You’re trying to outdo eachother when confronting the threat. This could also benefit the faction pride -
“I was wondering when the Horde would show up!”
“HAH! I couldn’t let the Alliance have all the fun today!”
. - PVP / literally anything else: Mercenaries and other factions (Eg. Twilights Hammer) - whom tend to not care immensely for those sorts of politics. This has also already been implemented ingame as we’ve seen in dungeons, raids and other stories - For the most part they tend to shrug off faction-stance of members to aid towards their cause(s).
. - Backstory: Your character could have a backstory for helping out the status quo ‘Enemy faction’ of either a specific group from the lot, the entirety or pledged aid to a singular individual of their collective. This could be a blood oath, a ‘returning a favour’ or heck even ‘Keeping a promise!’
Really if anything there should be achievements promoting it than singularly against it.
Though it would be cool to have a rated PVP achievement for your X only faction winning against a mixed faction & vise-versa – heck, have Blizz give a mount & title for it; that’ll get 'em inspired lol
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As much as I hate you horde filth so much — if it means I can put together 15s faster or get into them faster, so be it! 
Great news for you m8, no one is forcing you to do it because it is completely optional.
Anyway, is not like people are missing much avoiding a LFRhero like yourself.
That’s a good one.
Imagine all the people…
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First and foremost, the kind of content you do should be 90% of your identity. Let’s think about this from the perspective of players recruiting. Too many of my apps are former horde for me to think there’s a huge number of people who actually don’t play with “the opposite faction”. Faction just doesn’t have meaning for players looking for ability to fill their groups. And ability will speak for itself when recruiters see their parses/m+ score/arena rating, and faction will be entirely ignored.
Now let’s think about it from the perspective of players getting recruited. I don’t think many players believe they actually have a choice between the factions. Assuming they start believing they do again, its going to be very enlightening.
If you’re playing with a former alliance that feels he has no choice but to play horde, you’re playing with “the opposite faction”. It doesn’t matter that he’s on a horde character. If a member of the horde would immediately jump to alliance if circumstances on how they can raid/do content change, that person is not horde. Im sorry many people fooled themselves into believing otherwise.
Imagine spelling “imagine” wrong
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Imagine thinking respect is earned over a video game…You can also opt out.
Said the same about the level squish 
Where are these millions of new players that were scared of level 130
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If they are saying that based on playing an Undead, it’s certainly within character. lol
Faction pride hasn’t been a thing for about 10 years now. Now people just want to play the game with their friends while looking the way they want to look.
here’s another way for you to participate in faction pride
If your “disgust” is real, you need to get outside and see the sun.
If your “disgust” is fake (role-playing), go play the Alliance.
It’s is just a game.
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“GoOdbYe FaCtiOn PrIDeE” roleplaying die hard faction member who consistently every expansion works along side with the opposing faction till the end. Lol this guy is confused, someone help him.
I played alliance since vanilla. I like to pve pug heroic, mythic and m plus, and was on stormrage the largest alliance server. The raiding scene was dead, guilds folded and most pugs couldn’t fill road spots even with pugs and couldn’t push past the first mythic boss in 9.1.
So I reluctantly became a blood elf. What happened the first week? I went from 3 m to 5 mythic. I can now pug any day of the week, not just limited to Tuesday find a mythic pug or waste the week.
I prefer the alliance cities and mogs and may even go back in 9.2.5 but man I wish I had been part of the horde raiding scene years ago
Sorry alliance, you failed me.
I don’t like the idea myself and will probably try and avoid using it but I am willing to give them their shot at it. It’s not like they were ever going go do anything about the faction going out of wack anyways, not while they are made mad cash off faction change services.
I enjoy the game. My faction isnt my identity.
I do whats fun and played both sides. I just like horde races better but its just a game.
Faction’s haven’t been a thing since TBC release. Oh here comes the demons we will need both the might of the Alliance and Horde to fix this. All other expacs have been the same since.