WoW to Get Faction Change Feature

[Warrior Irme]

I first joined the game a couple months after release and all my friends played alliance. Rolled a warrior and pali to 60 then after about 6 months of BC everyone defected to horde, but i didn't have the time to relevel to do stuff with them so i quit all together. This may bring me back.

 

[Iammatt]

why dont they just make it so we can change races on our OWN faction, that would be so much simpler, i hate my blood elf pansie *****

 

[MrSnugglesworth]

Two rival factions? More like two peaceful communities farming instances peacefully while ocassionally making forced clashes for goods.

Bingo. I never felt we were "Opposing" we were more like "One side stole the others popsicle, so theres a little tension."

 

[Clashero]

I've never heard of this "World of Warcraft", but I'm intrigued. Sounds like it really might catch on.

Seriously, though. I've been considering signing up, since I will soon have a computer capable of running WoW. More features like this (ie. ability to change sides if I discovered that I picked wrong) are always a nice addition.

I'd like to jump in and say that unless your friends are playing, WoW can get pretty tedious. If your friends play, you can have a blast. If they're not, however, you'll end up farming alone or raiding with people you don't know, and that's no fun. There are better ways to spend $150 dollars and $15 a month.

 

[The Shade]

I'd like to jump in and say that unless your friends are playing, WoW can get pretty tedious. If your friends play, you can have a blast. If they're not, however, you'll end up farming alone or raiding with people you don't know, and that's no fun. There are better ways to spend $150 dollars and $15 a month.

Oh, I know. I played it briefly and got bored and quit. But I think it was because I had no idea what was going on. Plus, I didn't know anyone. But now I have friends who play, so I would hope it'd be better.

Although $15/month is still pretty brutal...

 

[quiet_samurai]

Why would you ever want to be on the alliance?

 

[Cortheya]

I like this change. Even if I won't use it since I have so many Alliance friends, it is a good idea

 

[Stickfigurechicken]

Why would you ever want to be on the alliance?

Someone has to be. Otherwise PvP would be quite boring.

 

[Boxpopper]

Am I the only person left who likes gnomes?

 

[Nostalgia]

Neth was very vague, but I really hope that I don't start seeing damn UD players on Alliance. HOPEFULLY, it'll just be a mere race change sort of service that will allow you to switch factions in the process. Community on WoW has been dead since TBC, so a change like this doesn't bother me as much.
Undead on Alliance, though? Dwarves on Horde? No, gtfo.

Why would you ever want to be on the alliance?

Because we rather not associate or hang around with people who have this attitude.

 

[John Funk]

Neth was very vague, but I really hope that I don't start seeing damn UD players on Alliance. HOPEFULLY, it'll just be a mere race change sort of service that will allow you to switch factions in the process. Community on WoW has been dead since TBC, so a change like this doesn't bother me as much.
Undead on Alliance, though? Dwarves on Horde? No, gtfo.

Why would you ever want to be on the alliance?

Because we rather not associate or hang around with people who have this attitude.

Bingo.

Tell an Alliance player you play Horde, it's like "Eh, ok, no big deal."

Tell a Horde player you play Alliance, it's like you just killed their dog.

 

[Xrysthos]

Two rival factions? More like two peaceful communities farming instances peacefully while ocassionally making forced clashes for goods.

Bingo. I never felt we were "Opposing" we were more like "One side stole the others popsicle, so theres a little tension."

You obviously never played in the good old days of world PvP, where Hillsbarad Foothills was the battleground and the general consensus was: "If it's red, it's dead." Red meaning an Alliance player, obviously. Honestly though, I wouldn't change to Alliance even if Blizzard paid me. But I agree that the level of rivalry between the factions has diminished with the expansion packs. Which is a good thing, becaue there are no more level ?? dwarf paladins or nightelf hunters ganking my alts in Stranglethorn, and a bad thing because you lose the tension between equal level players trying to kill each other off in world PvP.

Am I the only person left who likes gnomes?

Yes.

 

[Xbowhyena]

This IS Blizzard, after all, so it will probably cost about as much as buying the game, each time you do it.

Not at all.

 

[Eric the Orange]

I don't play MMOs, and if I did I'd never play on a PvP server. But I have a few friends who play WoW and I know that they have battle grounds for this kind of thing. Hating the other faction is only one step above racisim.

 

[Ghostkai]

This might actually bring me back to the game funny enough. But only on my paladin, I used to LOVE playing the CoT instances. Humans look fantastic in plate, blood elves do not

Christ, only 2 months of not playing, and Blizzard find a way to bring me back.... DAMN YOU!

 

[Credge]

Bingo.

Tell an Alliance player you play Horde, it's like "Eh, ok, no big deal."

Tell a Horde player you play Alliance, it's like you just killed their dog.

Which shows that Alliance players aren't really dedicated to their side. They secretly want to play Horde. They show a false indifference to attempt to show superiority over those that feel that it doesn't matter.

Because it does.

If you don't understand why it matters what side you chose, you're an Alliance player, and you suck at PVP. That's just how it is.

Horde players don't feel like you just killed their dog. Horde players feel like they want to kill your dog. Because they're good at PVP.

Edit: Also, this idea is a terrible one. People always love to switch to the winning side. See common FPS behavior. CS, TF2, L4D, CoD, Quake, UT, doesn't matter. The same thing will happen here, just slowly over time. Not a good move =\.

 

[GodsOneMistake]

Im sure that now certain factions will have a great majority in certain realms

 

[Micah Weil]

This is going to wreak havoc on RP servers.

...as one who played on the RP servers...that could provide for some...interesting storylines.

 

[LewsTherin]

Bingo.

Tell an Alliance player you play Horde, it's like "Eh, ok, no big deal."

Tell a Horde player you play Alliance, it's like you just killed their dog.

Which shows that Alliance players aren't really dedicated to their side. They secretly want to play Horde. They show a false indifference to attempt to show superiority over those that feel that it doesn't matter.

Because it does.

If you don't understand why it matters what side you chose, you're an Alliance player, and you suck at PVP. That's just how it is.

Horde players don't feel like you just killed their dog. Horde players feel like they want to kill your dog. Because they're good at PVP.

Edit: Also, this idea is a terrible one. People always love to switch to the winning side. See common FPS behavior. CS, TF2, L4D, CoD, Quake, UT, doesn't matter. The same thing will happen here, just slowly over time. Not a good move =\.

.....

Imma just leave this be.

 

[Charli]

This...intrigues me... only that the only Race I could change too on the horde side are those anorexic metros... Being a Paladin and all...Which is a shame. Picketing for a Troll Paladin Mon, ho yeah.

(It'll never happen, I know)

I'm quite okay with my female human paladin thanks muchly. People are rather surprised when I kick ass and thats a nice feeling, and no expectations for being any good either, schweet.

And on the by and by hordies, I owned a little tag team trio of you mf-s in Alterac last night, You guys are seriously badass, jump ONE alliance player. Who is normally dedicated to PvE. And lose. Yeah.

Some of us just like the story in WoW... and both sides are interesting to us.