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Faction changes coming to a WoW near you.

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Dei

Dei

Quote from: Nethaera (Source)
We wanted to give everyone a very early heads-up that, in response to player requests, we’re developing a new service for World of Warcraft that will allow players to change their faction from Alliance to Horde or Horde to Alliance. 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.

As with all of the features and services we offer, we intend to incorporate the faction-change service in a way that won’t disrupt the gameplay experience on the realms, and there will be some rules involved with when and how the service can be used. The number of variables involved increases the complexity of implementing this service, but we plan to take the time needed to ensure that it lives up to expectations before officially rolling it out. We’ll go into much more detail on all of this here at http://www.WorldofWarcraft.com as development progresses. In the meantime, we wanted to let you know that because this type of functionality requires extensive internal testing well in advance of release, you may be seeing bits and pieces of the service in the test builds we use for the public test realms moving forward.


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!!! That's huge!


#3

CynicismKills

CynicismKills

Big big news, this was one of those game-breakers they never wanted to do.

That said, I'm totally turning one of my Alliances Horde.


#4

Shegokigo

Shegokigo

Couple of things I've heard so far:

You choose your new race when you change over
It's a one way ticket, no back and forths.
Faction only mounts do not carry over.
Fee will be around $25

Personally, I left Horde for a reason, I don't see need to transfer back.


#5





If they allowed people to attack members of their own faction I'd be back.


#6



Pojodan

Hmmmm...

This will certainly present some interesting issues.

Will Faction transfer? i.e. if you're exalted with Ironforge and Honored with Stormwind, will you be Exalted with Undercity and Honored with Orgrimar? And what about places like Honor Hold/Thrallmar?

What about faction specific items, such as Honor Hold/Thrallmar?

Will this mean you can become -any- race of the oposite side or only those that can be your class?

So many questions!


#7

Shegokigo

Shegokigo

Faction specific items will not transfer. Faction will not transfer. You can only choose a race that can be your class.


#8

Dei

Dei

Updated 7/1
Due to the many questions that have come up with the announcement of this new service, we wanted to take the time to answer the ones we can at this point in time.

Q. Will we be able to switch between the races on our own faction?
A. No. Players will only be able to switch to a race of the opposite faction.

Q. Will I be able to choose the race on the opposite faction that I want to change to?
A. Yes, but you will only be able to switch to a race that has your class type available to it. So if you play a human paladin, you’d only be able to change to a blood elf paladin.

Q. How much will it cost?
A. We do not have further information on this at this point in time.

Q. Will I be able to switch back to my original faction but a different race?
A. No. You will only be able to switch back to your originally chosen race.

Q. How will the switch between reputation, gear, mounts, etc be handled?
A. We’ll have more details for you at a later point in time, though we plan to keep these as close to a reflection of the other faction as much as possible.

Q. How often can you change your faction?
A. We do not have any information to share on this at this point in time, however we will have restrictions on the frequency by which players can change their faction.

Q. How will this affect the balance of Horde and Alliance on the realms?
A. We are taking great care in how we implement this new service in order to maintain balance between the factions on the realms but do not have any further details to share.


#9



Pojodan

So, basically, give us $20 and we'll change your race flag, with lots and lots of restrictions, of course.

Eh.

Means that you can app for any guild, anywhere, regardless of faction, but otherwise, meh.


#10

Seraphyn

Seraphyn

Buying a max level character, or epics can't be that far off then..


#11

Shegokigo

Shegokigo

Seraphyn said:
Buying a max level character, or epics can't be that far off then..
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No, it's pretty far off/never gonna happen.


#12



Pojodan

Shegokigo said:
Seraphyn said:
Buying a max level character, or epics can't be that far off then..
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No, it's pretty far off/never gonna happen.
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Given Blizzard's track record with things that'd 'never happen' coming true, it may, indeed, happen.


#13

Shegokigo

Shegokigo

Pojodan said:
Given Blizzard's track record with things that'd 'never happen' coming true, it may, indeed, happen.
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Blizzard's track record is charging for cosmetic changes. It's very clear they'll never allow spending real money for game world advantages. So no, I don't see it happening, if we're using their track record as a source of comparison.


#14



Pojodan

Shegokigo said:
Pojodan said:
Given Blizzard's track record with things that'd 'never happen' coming true, it may, indeed, happen.
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Blizzard's track record is charging for cosmetic changes. It's very clear they'll never allow spending real money for game world advantages. So no, I don't see it happening, if we're using their track record as a source of comparison.
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Keep in mind that Blizzard is owned by Activision, and who knows what dubiousness they might decide to force Blizz to impliment.


#15

Shegokigo

Shegokigo

Pojodan said:
Keep in mind that Blizzard is owned by Activision, and who knows what dubiousness they might decide to force Blizz to impliment.
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Owned by is the technical term, Blizzard retains all decisional (no idea what word to use here, long day at work and I'm about ready to break something) rights to their content though.

Now the monetizing of Battle.net, there's something I could believe at some point. Maybe for a premium service/servers.


#16



Rubicon

Edrondol said:
If they allowed people to attack members of their own faction I'd be back.
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This.

This would make WoW perfect in my opinion. Limiting who you can attack based on Faction is retarded. If I see someone and I wanna gank them, I should be allowed to. Thats pretty much my only gripe with WoW, anything else I could live with if we could just attack who we wanted, when we wanted.


#17



Pojodan

Mav said:
Edrondol said:
If they allowed people to attack members of their own faction I'd be back.
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This.

This would make WoW perfect in my opinion. Limiting who you can attack based on Faction is retarded. If I see someone and I wanna gank them, I should be allowed to. Thats pretty much my only gripe with WoW, anything else I could live with if we could just attack who we wanted, when we wanted.
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WoW is built around PvE, that's just the nature of the game. PvP takes a back seat.

There's lots of MMOs that cater to the gank crowd, which is pretty much why they don't do nearly as well as WoW.


#18

Shegokigo

Shegokigo

Pojodan said:
WoW is built around PvE, that's just the nature of the game. PvP takes a back seat.

There's lots of MMOs that cater to the gank crowd, which is pretty much why they don't do nearly as well as WoW.
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Too bad they balance weapons, abilities, talents, classes around PVP. :bush:


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