You could sort of justify it before, but now with Cross-Faction grouping it makes 0 sense why Horde and Alliance can’t understand each other in the open world. Hell, even add Horde and Alliance together in General Chat. There’s no reason not to, it’s outdated and limiting for literally no reason.
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No thanks.
Horde are obnoxious enough without having to listen to them all the time.
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I would have to agree with this since faction tagging has been removed, and it would make it better to share rare pin location.
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I would be more than happy to see this happen. So often you see someone in the world you could work with if only you could explain what you’re trying to do.
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All for this.
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There is actually no difference what so ever, game is nearly 20 years old now, most peeps have a toon on both Factions.
I’ve been in Stormwind and Org, it’s the same BS both sides
Factions are great for stories but not for socializing in game.
I’m the nicest player you’ll ever meet young Dwarf, I think pigeon holing at this stage is pointless, let the community talk to each other, we’re all good friends now anyway.
Happy Holidays!
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And this mindset is why we don’t have cross faction groups in LFD/LFR. Honestly, if it’s that much of a big deal for the folks that’ll complain about “muh immersion!” then give them a toggle for excluding cross faction groups if they really want to limit themselves in such a manner.
I will at least say keep faction restrictions for public channels in place for War Mode as open comms between the factions wouldn’t make sense in that instance.
Outside of public channels, I would say that all Horde races should have Common as a language for /say (as well as RP purposes on RP servers). Granted, I know some characters in the lore speak broken Common or Orcish, but there is not a single major lore character in the Alliance or Horde that doesn’t speak Common. Hell, even newer characters such as Captain Garrick and Warlord Grimaxe make reference to fighting alongside one another in Northrend, and we see both of them teaching Henry/Shuja how to speak Orcish/Common respectively (yet we’ve never seen either of them before SL, but that’s another topic)
Hell, undead SHOULD have Common. Reasoning made sense from a gameplay perspective all the way back in 2003/2004 when the choice to take it away from them in the original beta was made, but it never made sense lorewise. Blood elves should also have always had Common. As far as Alliance races go, I would say that draenei should arguably know Orcish as the two races lived in peace until the Legion found Draenor.
Meanwhile, pandaren can talk to one another via their native language, a very stupid choice back in 2012 that finally got reversed in 2016. Void elves can speak to blood elves as both know Thalassian.
Honestly, the full blown language restrictions are silly and very outdated now, especially with the introduction of cross faction groups this past year. If Blizzard honestly feels there needs to be a lore justification for it, then at the bare minimum, give the races that should know Orcish or Common the language straight up, and have the rest of us learn Orcish/Common as part of the introduction to Dragonflight considering that we’re interacting with members of both factions from the word go.
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Yes, I know. Thread necro. However, I feel like after three months of DF, the idea needs to be revisited, and why make a new topic when there is a perfectly good one already?
Thoughts on chat restriction removal with some Alliance races being able to learn Orcish, and all Horde races getting Common?
I wouldnt be surprised if it already wasnt in the works right now, just taking a bit of time since the code for how the races communicate is probably buried deep into wow or something.