Cross-RP saved my marriage /sarcasm (for real it was a great addon, I used it a lot to play with and have fun with my cross-faction buddies and really hope Blizzard fixes this.)
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Blizzard is still hanging on to that stupid, antiquated faction chat barrier? They are the only major MMO still doing it, and their old reasoning has fallen through.
Sure, maybe it worked back when you couldnât have Alliance and Horde on the same server. But news flash, Blizzard. If people are going to talk smack theyâre going to find a way to do it. You donât need to babysit the chat with pretend rules that donât even make sense in your own universe. Considering Horde and Alliance NPCs understand eachother perfectly.
Update yourselves. BfA is, and continues to be an example of just how out of touch you guys are with the community. There is a reason that the âFun Detectedâ meme exists, and as a Video Game Developer I think that should be cause for introspection. Iâve played for 15 years and I am so disappointed in what this company has become, and failed to become.
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Simply put I love this addon. It is simple and has expanded things for me and my friend. Cross faction role play is just amazing.
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You have a point. But I was only stating what I believed. No one really knows whatâs going on in Blizzardâs Development team at this point in time.
When you take all the character service purchases and the sheer amount of loyalty to the franchise, itâs easy to see that the RP community may be small, but they are one of the biggest money makers that exist in this game. They are the ones that consistently exist during the content draught preceding expansions, they are the ones that have never skipped a subscription payment over the years.
Cross RP is one of the greatest things to happen to our community, and represents a sort of unity thatâs exclusive ONLY to our community. Itâs a damn shame that weâve lost it, and I hope that this wasnât intentional in the slightest.
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Roleplayers from all walks of server types, playstyle, storylines, and what have you are chiming in. Itâs beautiful. I didnât know this would happen either.
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I sincerely hope youâre right, and for that reason I do wish people would keep the dev-bashing to a minimum (I understand peopleâs frustration, though). But itâs still important in that case that they understand this is a serious bug impacting a lot of people.
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I subscribed through the entirety of WoD because of RP.
If that doesnât earn me a functional addon, I donât know what does.
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Adding my support, this change seems very off the cuff, and as far as Iâm aware, wasnât in the patch notes. Doing this not only breaks a very useful and harmless addon, but also impacts others, more popular addons as well, preventing them from linking things in guild and community chat.
Moreover, this sort of thing sends a message to all other addon makers that Blizzard will sneak in a way to break your addon without saying anything about it, beyond just the usual wear and tear of a new patch.
CrossRP is only building on what Blizzard itself has eroded, the faction language barrier, and for them to make this change just hamstrings a new system that dev time was spent on, that being communities.
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Cross RP was what kept me playing the game. I made several friends and I actually got some RP. TOA got me back into the game and I was looking forward to it next year. However, with-out the add-on, there is no way to talk to another person across faction lines with-out knowing them in the first place.
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Agree - support!
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You see dev bashing, I see calling them out. Itâd be one thing if it was just temporarily broken because something got changed. What happened was that the functionality the addon relied on was fully deprecated. It was intentional on Blizzardâs part.
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I hope that Cross RP can be brought back. Thank you for all of your hard work!
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Calling it out is fine. But if we donât do it in a constructive way without resorting to snarky pot shots, weâre much less likely to be taken seriously.
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Just throwing my support here.
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Being able to talk with and RP with my friends on Horde side has been a major factor in keeping me invested in the game. Itâs allowed us to explore some really neat story opportunities that are simply not possible in the current narrative.
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Especially with the current way the story is going, not giving rpers who disagree with the war a way to interact with the opposite faction is incredibly demoralizing. I sincerely hope Blizz fixes this
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We have vital need of Cross RP and the utility it provides us, especially with huge events such as ToA and other server competitions. My guild helps out with ToA every year, and this was the best year we ever had with it because we were able to comfortably and readily communicate with people of either faction! Sometimes I even forgot that I was speaking to someone of a different faction, it was that seamless. And if the concern is harassment, the fact it depends on communities also means it can be moderated just as readily.
Cross RP Is one of the best things that has happened to the RP community in a long while. I know it may be a sore subject, but Horde-side on Moonguard can be a little daunting to get RP on too. The fact CrossRP gave them a chance to speak to people of other factions too was great for them, and even helped generate appeal for people to make their own Horde characters, to rp with new friends more. This probably gave a much-needed boost to Horde Side RP.
Blizz, Please restore the ability for addons to affect communities. This really was at the core of one of the most amazing experiences Iâve had this year, and itâd be a shame to kill a much loved tool that the whole community benefits from.
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Throwing out my support for this. ![:rainbow:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/rainbow.png?v=6" ":rainbow:")
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The overwhelming majority of this thread has been people talking in a constructive way. They explain they like they addon, what they do with the addon, and a request to bring the functionality back. If Blizzard ignores this thread and keeps the addon broken, then nobody will ever trust blizzard with feedback again. People already donât trust Blizzard right now. Blizzard will damn themselves if they ignore this and erode that trust to a final nail in the coffin.
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