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Faction Changes Coming To World of Warcraft
A Blizzard representative today announced that they're working on a service for players to switch factions in World of Warcraft, going from Horde to Alliance or vice versa. "There's still much work to do and many details to iron out, but the basic idea is that players will be able to use the service to transform an existing character into a roughly equivalent character of the opposing faction on the same realm. Players who ended up creating and leveling up characters on the opposite factions from their friends have been asking for this type of functionality for some time, and we're pleased to be getting closer to being able to deliver it." They also said there would be "some rules involved with when and how the service can be used."
Ugh. I hate responding to Score: 1 ...
No. It's not 'neat'. It's just another example of 'embrace, extend, extinguish' that masquerades as 'innovation' and 'it shits money'
When the news broke that Vivendi-Activision-Blizzard, et al were doing this, my response was "City of Warcraft: Jumping the Shark"
Freedom is a sandbox game. Where you're allowed to shape your character however and find your own place in the persistent world.(Pre-CU SWG)
It's not a partnership with Staples for an 'easy-button'. (NGE) Extinguishing competition by catering to the LCD of gaming is not freedom. It's the removal of freedom. (MxO, TR, Auto Assault)
In an actual RPG setting, sure. This is a good idea. (It's why it works in CoH) It's not about RPG anymore. It's "Counterstrike: Horde" or "Battleground:Moooo-dern Warcraft-faire"
In this case you're STILL making a new character. You just don't have to level it up. Unless they want to totally throw out the "Vision"(EQ) and remove race/class restrictions (GW), it's not 'neat'...It's basically doing what every other game was forced to do to compete and effectively poisoning it's own well.
The post below me asks 'Why would you have to change your character and simply not 'change factions'?'
1) It doesn't make sense otherwise in this setting.
2) You can piss off some people, you can piss off everybody, or you can piss off everybody some: Pick one.
Haha being lectured by an Anonymous Coward is really funny.
Nice try!
Btw I forgot one was 12 the other 11...and I had 1950 rating in 5on5 2000+ in 2on2 and 3on3...
I played mage for 1+ year, then rogue, after the big nerf. Never experienced to play the OP rogue.
I was one of the first rogues to play shadowstep spec in TBC...Always played aggressive combos (mage+rogue/lock+rogue/warr+rogue), never played the flavor of the month or easier combo like rogue+priest.
So please shut up...WotLK hasn't been balanced. And currently is not yet.
And yes, they're losing people...
A lot of people is still paying because of 6 months subscription plan. Just wait for 3~6 months and you'll have a picture of the current situation... The fact people doesn't login a lot anymore and they are merging server doesn't ring a bell?
Cheers,