Why do you hate roleplay, blizzard? What the hell is wrong with you, disabling what you knew full well was a popular addon, used to do things you already freaking allow through class and race languages and was used exclusively on rp servers? Why did you break it for no freaking reason? What are you so dang afraid of with cross-faction communication? What is so wrong about an addon to foster friendly in-character interactions across factions? There is no reason for you to disable addons attached to communities except to attack roleplayers who want to interact cross-faction. Worthless broken BS is all this change is.
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As much as I probably could have been kinder about it, I don’t see the need to play nice when it looks like blizzard attacked our community over a paranoia older than a decade, proven false time and time again since then.
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Well that makes some of my plans with a Horde friend and my guild go down the tubes. Thanks again Blizz.
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Yeah… I’m not a fan of this change either, and hope that it either gets changed back or explained as to why.
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People are … poopy. You don’t think somebody would be abusing this to insult the other faction?? Even if it’s coded to only work on RP servers, not everybody who is on RP server is there to RP. Some of them even PVP. and some of them are out to make your day miserible for a good 5 minutes. and giving them this Addon just gives them more to work with.
As much i agree their should be some kind of Cross faction RP of some kind (cause in RP, i’m married to a Troll atm), lets not forget that theirs always people who is ready to abuse it and ruin it for the rest of us.
Also i could be wrong, but isn’t talking cross faction is breaking one of the rules of ToS?
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literally wasn’t happening though.
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I’ve been tormented by roleplayers on my own server way more than people on the opposing faction, to be honest. It’s really not about the faction, it’s about the person. If they do it to people on the opposing faction, they’d do it to people on their own faction too. And there’s no blocks for that one. ![:confused:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/confused.png?v=6" ":confused:")
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I don’t believe that.
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you can only talk to people if you are in the same RP connect channel as them. It doesn’t let you just run up to people and scream obscenities at them.
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Even then still, i personally don’t think it’s all fine as your indirectly suggesting at. Their at least got to be a few bad apples. I mean, a cross faction addon built for RPing with, it just feels like, in the wrong hands, it’s ripe for abuse, and i just thought that was reason enough why Blizzard probally broke it.
You clearly never used it if you think it’s any more capable of abuse than /say from your own faction.
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From what it looks like, Blizz has made it so that no addons can read community chat messages, which CrossRP relied on.
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Perhaps do a little research first. You don’t know what you’re talking about, sir.
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…So the addon that does cross faction RPing via by… whatever chat has no problems from bad people what so ever? nobody abused it in the history of history?
I mean, if it hasn’t then… That’s great, i’m glad people are not being poopy with it. And like i said, i would like Cross faction communication.
You have to invite people via Btag. So it’s more of a friends only thing.
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This RP… it reminds me of the old D&D RP… hmmm I had fun doing that, and right there is the problem Blizz has with it, unnecessary fun.
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I’ll give you a brief rundown of how it works.
You’re encouraged to make your own communities for this: just make a Battlenet community in the guild panel (or using the Battlenet client), create a new channel and prefix the name with ## (like “##Relay”), share the link with your friends, and then have everyone connect.
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They’re only there to RP. They’re already friends. Why would they abuse it??
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I apollogize if i sound negative, but i’m just cynical of a Cross faction RP addon that everything is all fine, it just sounds too good to be true to me.
It’s just in my experience, sometimes people wait until the right moment to act like poop, after they been accepted and what not. I would’ve figured that would’ve happened a few times with that addon too.
Yes, there’s good reason to be upset. But Attacking Blizzard and not making a reasonable post as to why this Addon is effective in roleplay servers is not going to help reverse the problem.
Tammy, the mod’s author is going to be making a forum and hopefully able to reach out for aid to remedy this.
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