As a man who helps co-op run a neutral aligned organization, I can truly say that this is a set back on all front for the community that we, and others are trying to build.
I’ve read multiple post, 200 of them in fact, all trying to say the same basic concept: That this addon was meant to enhance the ability for people to immerse themselves in game. Not destroy it.
For them, it dampers any reality that the idea of having people on the other side that they can share their stories with, engage in roleplay with, and otherwise be able to have a powerful structure in the roleplay community.
This idea that we need to be separate in order to keep the game immersive is a folly idea. The more people you involve in immersion, the better that event tends to be.
As for me personally, it hampers the server wide events that my guild has every year. Up until this point, our Fight Night events that we host every month with nearly 30-100 people turning out to roleplay with, has been essentially one sided due to lack of being able to put people together.
When CrossRP was released, we saw it as an opportunity to possibly expand our monthly brawls out to the other side. And we were in the process of doing so, until this happened.
We also planned to host Carp Ball events on our server that, again, would branch onto both side until this has happened. It’s not impossible to do these, but it hinders our ability to execute them in a proper fashion that can overall make our game more immersive.
Furthermore, this makes the reality of a roleplaying game truly weakened. Not only are we subjected to sticking with our own factions when some of us roleplay as neutral characters, but coordination of legitimate PvP events in the world becomes more of a chore than of fun.
And I’m done writing the essay. My apologies that this has gone on for so long, but I figure that I needed to make a note of this. I’d be more than happy to see CrossRP come back, or have a system in place for the game that we can use as a community of people. Thank you Blizzard, here’s to hoping you make the right call.