Cross RP was a great tool that took steps to ensure it couldn’t be abused and that enriched and expanded the RP potential with the game. There were many weekly get togethers and regular events that will be killed by the removal of this add-on, and the game will be lesser for it.
Honestly, as bad as BFA has been for content, RP has saved my enjoyment of WoW, but the removal of Cross RP will seriously diminish that enjoyment.
I’m just sad and disappointed. More and more Blizzard is showing that this is not a game for me any longer. I need to start listening to what the developers are saying to me with these decisions.
I have an engineer who can tear holes in space to different locations, a mage who can command the weather, a man thousands of years old with horns who ate an alien monster from another dimension, and a werewolf who can swing a weapon bigger than half the people he knows. And yet if I want to ask an orc where the bathroom is, I can’t.
The leader of the night elves just went Super Elf, a thing we didn’t even know existed because it’s never existed before or mentioned anywhere at any time. Your friends, who can consist of a walking skeleton and a nine-foot cow person who can turn into a cat who can turn into a bird who can turn into a fat owl that shoots purple space lasers, will ride a magic flying carpet and a cloud from a country of talking panda bears up into the sky. There is a palace in the clouds and if they go there they can kill the wind. But if I want to compliment a blood elf on their hair–which they would surely appreciate–I cannot.
Unbreak this. Let me have adventures with people in this adventure game for adventurers.
As a guild leader of an RP guild that -is- cross faction, it is created on both alliance and horde side moon guard, and was soon to be on wra (on both sides) because people have full rosters on MG) it was extremely dis-heartening to find out about the addon breaking.
This functionality in world of warcraft had become such a boon to my guild, and those I know who interacted with us that it was one of our mandatory addons (along with TRP3 Extended and other similar addons.)
The creator did such a bueatiful job in the creation of this peice of, in my opinion, legendary coding that would allow so many more people to communicate and RP, especially on unbalanced servers, and with friends, no matter what server they were on, as long as they had the addon they could join the rp group and rp in those channels given, it Seems like such a waste to take away such an addition to immersion and gameplay.
I really do hope that it get’s fixed, as we do not, in fact know, if it was done so intentionally or if something just malfunctioned somewhere, however a statement On blizzard’s side of things would likely be appreciated by the RP community as a whole, as server wide events have been hosted using this addon, both neutral, and even small battles and wars where you could talk to your enemy (done on WRA during the lead up to Teldrassil) It has been such an amazing experience, and I hope it gets fixed, or we are at least given the reason -why- it was broken in the first place. I know friends of mine that are considering moving -their- entire guilds to whole other games due to this breakage, and it’s heartbreaking. Please, see your player base, and do something about it. Thank you.
I wholly and completely support this addon. I have made more connections, and friends, with this addon than with any other. while the amount of RPers hasn’t grown on either side, the ability to communicate with the whole of the community really made the World that much larger. This addon really broke down the lulls in the game and kept it interesting.
I will forever support it and it’s creator. I hold out hope that our voices will be heard in a civil manner.
I’m in favor of the addon being fixed, but in the meantime, couldn’t you all use a pair of Pandaren, Demon Hunters, or Void Elf/Blood Elf as ambassadors?
I meant to post this as Daerryk so as to show that another guild, alliance side, is needing it. I haven’t been able to use it yet, but I did have a Winter’s Veil event planned to use it for.
I sincerely hope Blizzard re-instates critical functionality needed for this tool to function. While I personally don’t use it I am active in Blizzard’s RP community and this tool has so much potential (and has proven so) for facilitating cross-faction RP in the intricate and complex world that Blizzard has conjured.
I understand the reasoning for cross-faction communication inherently being disabled. It was enabled VERY early on in Vanilla but it was abused and facilitated toxic communication. However, this being EXTREMELY limited in scope versus broad communications should be allowed as it helps a large portion of Blizzard’s community connect, engage, and further it gives them incentive to continue dialogues that will potentially keep them in WoW for years to come.
This addon was wonderful. It harmed and risked nothing and hugely enriched the experience of everyone who used it. Targeting it to be disabled in this way was utterly senseless.
This is incredibly disappointing news. I was personally in the process of leveling up Alliance-side characters for the first time in my four year WoW career, something I only began to do because of the newly opened potential to roleplay those characters interacting with the Horde-side groups I already knew.
With this addon broken and that motivation gone, I don’t really have a reason to continue that effort. It’s sad, because I’ve found no enjoyment in BfA’s story content and were it not for roleplaying I would have unsubscribed months ago.
Please fix this and re-enable CrossRP, Blizz. Please show that you care about your RP community. We’re the ones who keep paying subs no matter how good or bad the content is.
This addon has brought guilds and communities together on such a large scale. The Tournament of Ages is the biggest example in recent memory to utilize such an amazing tool.
Bringing back the functionality of this addon would go a long way to keeping this game active and fun for most on Roleplay realms.
Here’s a really fun useful thing many are enjoying. But wait could some person in some circumstance use it maliciously even if it’s one millionth of one percent of the population? I suppose they could, best nerf!
I will never forget the first time I was playing on my blood elf and got to browse through a human’s TRP. As a largely Horde player who mains a priest and loves to RP, RPing normally with an Alliance stranger was just a crack dream for years. When BfA came out and I joined my first cross-faction event with Cross-RP, it was surreal and wonderful and I met all sorts of awesome players.
The effort that as gone into Cross-RP, the guilds and events that have formed because of it, and the rich diversity introduced into WoW RP absolutely deserves support. I hope that the issues currently blocking it are soon resolved, and that Blizzard will respect its RP community enough to keep add-ons like Cross-RP viable.
When I returned to WoW this fall (largely in part due to BFA) one of the first things that impressed me and made me excited for RP in the game once more was this addon. Cross RP is a wonderful tool that has led to some incredible rp over time such as tea house events, market nights, and so many more events you’d normally never see. Yes I know in Blizzards mind BFA right now is all about drawing us back to a Horde vs Alliance mentality but there are plenty of us who don’t see the need for such conflict from a character perspective. More so this addon has added so much to the game and seeing it disabled is incredibly disappointing.
I hope this is simply due to changes in the structure of 8.1 and that Blizzard will reach out to the creator of the addon and help them get it functional again. Otherwise it’s one more slap in the face of the RP community.
For this very reason I think the addon should be re-implemented. If so many of the in-game races can already communicate simply by being, why not allow RP’ers to communicate wholesale should they so choose to?
As the creator says they’ve gone through painstaking measures to ensure the addon doesn’t affect actual gameplay, including disabling it entirely from non-rp realms. With such restrictions in place I see no reason why it shouldn’t be used, should one desire it.
I used this addon on an almost constant basis. I can say that a majority of my friends are Horde roleplayers, but I’m strongly attached to my Alliance character, so the removal of accessibility to openly talk to them whilst on the opposite faction is very disheartening… Especially since roleplay is the only thing keeping me on this game after how long I’ve been playing.
I hope that there’s some way to bring this back, or even have Blizzard make rp community tabs for us… But maybe I’m being too hopeful and will have to go back to using Discord to rp with friends.
I haven’t gotten around to using Cross Faction RP myself yet, but knowing that if it doesn’t get fixed I’ll have missed that chance doesn’t do my heart any good. I hope Blizz sees how much this all mattered to everyone and fixes it.
As a roleplayer and addon developer myself, I want to state my support for this addon and for the developer, and my objection to Blizz’s apparent decision regarding this.
Tammya has done a great job of developing CrossRP in accordance with both the letter and the spirit of the rules, and I find the claim that some have made, that they “heard it was being abused for some exploits,” to be ridiculous poppycock.
Gimball was right on in saying there are far easier and better ways to “exploit” the system – and in fact all this will do is push such exploits beyond the ability of Blizz to monitor or police at all.
Blizz had, under 8.0.1, the ability to monitor CrossRP use and end cheating/harassment. Rather than do so, they choose to strip out the functionality altogether – which would be as crazy as a major blogging site banning ALL adult content because they refused to take down truly objectionable material. (Good thing that wouldn’t happen, right?)
So now we’re left with a situation in which those supposed exploiters – whose existence is not even substantiated through evidence! – will simply move on to the next exploit either off or on WoW, while the people who were enjoying CrossRP are left without access to harmless functionality that operated under strict criteria enforced by the addon coder herself.
Terrible, terrible decision, Blizzard – you should be ashamed.
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