Potion of Tongues: Cross faction communication will be possible

He said that drinking it would allow you to understand the opposite faction. So I’m assuming that means that if only one party drinks the potion, then only they will be able to understand. The party who doesn’t drink the potion will still see the usual untranslated text.

As for PvP, eh, I really don’t think it matters. This toxicity in PvP thing is way overblown. Your own team is toxicity enough in places like random BGs. Other Blizzard games don’t put a wall up between teams either. I’ve seen plenty of banter back and forth between opposing teams in Overwatch. Bottom line: if someone is being toxic and/or breaking some community guideline or ToS, report and move on.

Basically, what I’m saying is that it is not Blizzard’s job to prevent communication entirely between two groups in the name of shielding us from any possible toxicity. It IS their responsibility to give us the means to deal with those who would commit abuses and clear consequences when they do.

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That’s kind of cool, but the logic of his statement doesn’t really make sense.

“Cross-faction talk has the potential for toxicity, but if it’s consensual, that’s fine. That’s why we’re adding a potion that will let a Blood Elf rogue follow you around in Stormwind making fart noises every time you talk, whether you like it or not.”

Unless both players have to drink the potion to understand each other, which seems unnecessarily complicated.

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Truth be told.

I don’t envy Ion and i actually feel bad for him. Most of the nonsense is not his fault but he’s the face.

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This is an interesting fix but oddly enough I see the potential for grief being worse with the potion than the use of CrossRP.

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I think they do, but to be honest it’s a good safeguard. Otherwise a harasser could drink the potion and run around abusing someone of the opposite faction in rp pvp or something. That toxic element Ion seems to fear.

In this way, both sides have to opt in. Which makes it a safer option for players in general. They don’t HAVE to hear the other faction in bgs if they don’t personally opt in.

How? If you don’t want to understand the opposite faction, you don’t drink the potion. You have to willingly opt in…just like you did with CrossRP.

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Well, I mean, they could already do that.

And I think it will be two-way. Human A drink a potion that lets her understand Orcish, Orc B drinks a potion that lets her understand Common. The difference is, now, you can just by the potions by the gross and chug them constantly, as opposed to having to coordinate BNet channels with CrossRP.

It’s a little bit of a hassle, but it’s the least hassle needed to ensure that everyone is happy, I think.

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I dunno, it might add an extra step but isn’t it the ideal situation to avoid harassment?

Suppose it just works for comprehension but not speech–alliance characters understand orcish but can’t speak it, and vice-versa for horde. So consent is needed on both ends. Seems like an elegant solution to me.

Right, but it seems overly complicated when we already had a solution.

This is a solution that Blizzard can control.

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Yes, but with CrossRP you have to take several steps in order to communicate. With this portion all you do is chug it.

So suppose you are in your cross rp event and everyone is drowning their pots. Any troll that wants to be a pain can just grab a pot of their own and be a disruption. Rather than installing an addon and joining the community ect.

I suppose you could ignore them if they are on your side. Hopefully they can be ignored cross faction as well

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This solution also addresses the security concerns they had over addons interacting with community chat channels.

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I think the ignore function does work for players of the opposite faction, does it not? I want to say it does.

Installing a mod is more complicated than an in-game solution imo

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Yes, ignore works cross-faction.

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Sweet. Should not be a problem then.

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I don’t think the solution should be discredited on the “Somebody could use this to be disruptive.” basis.

Like literally anything can be disrupted by somebody deciding to be a jerk.

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Yeah, but it’s an easy excuse to not do something.

Easy or not i stand by it being a reasoning presented in bad faith.

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We are in agreement. The whole potions of tongues thing feels like cheap appeasement to me, tbh. Something they can do so that later when it comes up, they can be like, “well we gave you what you wanted!” and that will end the conversation.

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