Me. Lets be honest, there is no RP left in WoW. Even BFA which was supposed to be horde vs alliance Blizzard chickened out and made it all PVE.
Its just healthier for the game to merge factions at this point, and easier for Blizzard.
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If we wanted no faction wars then we would have played my little pony
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It shouldnât be a complete removal, Iâd rather they spend their programming resources on game play rather than redoing all the questing. They could even simply unify the LFG function so people could write things like âNo alliance scumâ in their title. If we allow the other faction to die out due to imbalance there wonât be enough people to kill.
Thatâs what some of these people want to turn WoW into where we all hold hands and work together, itâs barftastic. 
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I just donât see the point of it anymore. World pvp is dead, all anybody cares about is grinding for gear. At this point the factions are just an unnecessary barrier and the alliance is dying cause all the raiders are horde. They either need to bring back world pvp and give people incentives to participate in it, or drop the barrier.
I think it is possible to give this to those that want it without forcing it on those that donât. Weâve already established now that there is tension in both the Horde and Alliance, with some people wanting to end the constant war and others wanting to continue.
So letâs say they start a questline where you either:
A. Speak with Anduin and agree to be his emissary to the Horde or
B. Speak to Genn and agree to help him undermine Anduinâs stupid scheme to be friends with the horde.
Same thing on the Horde side. You either work with Baine as an emissary to the Alliance or work with âfill-in-the-blankâ leader who doesnât want peace.
Then you get a special tabard. So long as your character is wearing that tabard, you are treated as âunfriendlyâ but not âhostileâ with the other faction. This would allow you to access quests for that faction and earn rep.
You could even require the Diplomat achievement or something to open this option for players that want this.
Those who arenât interested just keep doing what they are doing.
At this point, it is possible to allow players the option. The infrastructure is there. Heck, you wouldnât even need to reprogram a lot of the quests. Maybe just change a line of dialogue.
Original Horde quest: Go to X Alliance fort nearby and kill 10 soldiers FOR THE HORDE.
New âDiplomatâ quest: Go to X Alliance fort nearby and kill 10 soldiers because they are traitors to the Alliance and refuse to return to Stormwind under the Kingâs orders.
Original Alliance Quest: Go to X Horde spy camp nearby and collect the spy notes.
New Diplomat Quest: Go to X Horde spy camp nearby and collect the spy notes because they are plotting against Baine.
It would be PAINFULLY SIMPLE to do and have no impact on players who donât want that option.
And if you remove the tabard once you are inside an opposing faction area and attack people, the questline fails and you canât retake it (to prevent PVP abuses).
Iâd not want it removed. But there can be peace and communication, dungeon queues mixed and raiding without having to enter the other peopleâs city or play as a Draenei of the Horde.
It doesnât have to be removed entirely, but should only exist on a PvP basis with players opting into whichever faction they want to represent.
You also have to remember that subs are not what they used to be. So wasting resources on 2 separate factions currently is not the greatest idea.
I donât want it removed but I want cross faction grouping enabled via the LFG/Communities system. Nothing else in the game has to change.
nope. red = dead⊠and i play horde and alliance (on different servers).
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I donât want factions to be combined, but the ability to pve together wouldnât break anything. Weâve had so many common enemies it would make sense more than anything at this point. Plus, if having the ability to pvp together isnât game breaking, something similar for pve shouldnât be either.
I donât want it removed. I just think there should be an option for cross-faction play for those that want it. On some of my characters, it would âmake senseâ because of how I see those characters.
My DK, whose first introduction to the Alliance was having FOOD THROWN AT HER and basically being cussed out, has since become this exalted hero of over 50 different factions. She is focused on bigger threats and thinks the war between the two factions is enabling those bigger threats. So logically she would want to stop all the constant warring.
My night elf druid is NEVER going to forgive the horde forâŠwellâŠanything. They are destructive to the environment and, even though I am suppose to think what happened was all Sylvanasâ fault, plenty of non-forsaken went right along with her with those plans. So she has no interest in playing nice with the horde.
My goblin mage doesnât really CARE about the war per se, but doesnât see the point in getting involved in stopping it.
Tell that humans in our world
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I donât want it removed. It has its place in PVP and War Mode. But it should be relaxed for PvE.
and then theres that, lol
Looking to many examples in real life of brutal enemies during WW2 becoming great allies today really makes me wonder why WoW has never gone down this path. I think the main reason they are probably afraid to have the horde and alliance ally and be able to cross faction content is because future stories might need to end this and they know players would be furious if you tried to take that away after a time.
Iâm honestly going by dnd logic with races in wow since wow is just a 8 part long campaign. Also doesnât help that they borrowed a lot from the forgotten realms
I donât want it COMPLETELY removed, what I personally think they should do is make it so that we can go to our factionâs embassy and choose to temporarily become an Ambassador to the other faction, making us friendly to NPCs of both factions and preventing the use of both War Mode and /pvp until we turn it off. As an ambassador we should be able to complete all PvE quests available to either faction (quests that involve killing faction-aligned NPCs would temporarily make those specific mobs aggressive to you), group up with any player for dungeons and raids, and join cross-faction communities.
I wouldnât say Germany and the us are great allies. They are definitely peaceful but thatâs about it. Like I said my stance on the matter changed a bit, Iâm fine with pve content being softened a bit with the faction restriction. I still donât want cross faction guilds and not being able to go to each other major cityâs