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My journey through World of Warcraft went something like this: As a noob, I rolled a human fighter and learned the ropes leveling up in my PVE server (strictly Carebear here) with my friends until I reached about level 35. Then I had an important realization: Only squares roll Alliance. So I started back at the beginning with a face-melting undead priest who never healed anyone but herself. But I had to go back to level one and start from scratch. I know what hardship is. Also, I had to walk to school 10 miles through the snow.
Kids today, though, have everything handed to them on a silver platter, and soon won't have to sacrifice to switch sides. Blizzard has announced it will allow Warcraft players who mistakenly chose Alliance to switch sides and play Horde. For a fee.
It might be awhile, though. According to Blizzard:
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...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.
Like most World of Warcraft innovation, if you want to be first on your block to see how it works, check out the public test realms, where pieces of the faction switching technology will be rolled out gradually.
Personally, I'm against the idea. What good is choosing sides if you can just go back and forth between them with ease? What do you think? Is Warcraft faction switching a good idea or lame? How much do you think it worth?
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zagoofeek
Having rolled alliance originally and regretting it, I would like to be able to have the option to bring my 78 nelf rogue over to horde, I prefer he be horde. But I think the only way faction switching should be allowed is if you chose to make your alliance character a horde character, it could not be on the same server. I think being able to have alliance and horde on the same server would be ridiculous. I know that Blizz is just doing this to make money. Blizz was made to make money, right? I hated the idea that they are allowing mounts at 20, just cause I am bitter cause I had to bust my balls to be able to have a mount at 40 and I had to wait for it. Blizz makes things oober easy for players now-a-days, but hell. I still enjoy the game and I would love to have my 78 rogue on my horde server, I miss my rogue!! Thinking about levling a rogue all the way up again irritates me. I hope they implement this and I hope it isn't too expensive. I hope they don't charge per character, that would suck. I would like to transfer over a few of my character. I think $20 for as many characters you would like to switch over from your current server to another faction on a different server. Since the economy sucks and all, I hope Blizz make this change fee a reasonable one.
zagoofeek
Having rolled alliance originally and regretting it, I would like to be able to have the option to bring my 78 nelf rogue over to horde, I prefer he be horde. But I think the only way faction switching should be allowed is if you chose to make your alliance character a horde character, it could not be on the same server. I think being able to have alliance and horde on the same server would be ridiculous. I know that Blizz is just doing this to make money. Blizz was made to make money, right? I hated the idea that they are allowing mounts at 20, just cause I am bitter cause I had to bust my balls to be able to have a mount at 40 and I had to wait for it. Blizz makes things oober easy for players now-a-days, but hell. I still enjoy the game and I would love to have my 78 rogue on my horde server, I miss my rogue!! Thinking about levling a rogue all the way up again irritates me. I hope they implement this and I hope it isn't too expensive. I hope they don't charge per character, that would suck. I would like to transfer over a few of my character. I think $20 for as many characters you would like to switch over from your current server to another faction on a different server. Since the economy sucks and all, I hope Blizz make this change fee a reasonable one.
zagoofeek
I think this would be great. But I think Blizz should only let you change your current character to another faction on a different realm than the one your current character is on. I think that would be okay, but being able to have horde and alliance on the same server I think is ridiculous.
zagoofeek
I think this would be great. But I think Blizz should only let you change your current character to another faction on a different realm than the one your current character is on. I think that would be okay, but being able to have horde and alliance on the same server I think is ridiculous.
Kaeglin
When SW:OR comes out, I see many people migrating to that...me included. I currently play WoW and find it to be a good and enjoyable game...though quest grinding has become slightly annoying recently. Also I see no problem with this new feature when it's released.
ziggyzero
whoever has a DK and think theyre badass with em really has no clue that really theyre just for noobs ,u ask why?, its cuz anyone can make 1 at lvl 55 and will leave theyre (real toon) behind DK's will stil lose against pally's. i think they shouldnt do this switching sides thing becuz the whole thing is based one alliance vs' horde and if blizz was to make it hat ppl can switch then that'llruin the theme of the game, maybe it would be good for normal servers so ppl that wana be with theyre friends can do so but other than that they should just leave the pvp servers alone cuz then how would it work
Abnormalninja
i think that Horde and Alliance will stay the about the same i no horde that will love to be Alli and ppl that WON'T pay for it and their is Alli who wants to be HORDE,but im Pretty sure that it will stay the same. Also i like the idea but HATE it at the same time! it sorta sux
Thatguy032
Cry more people, cry more...
Regenald510
now i can be a BElf instead of my tauren
Pwnproof
@Huenylove
BRAVO!! BRAVO!! WELL SAID STRANGER,I APPAULD YOU! SO VERY WELL SAID.
lordleonhart
Gonna be interesting...
I kinda see the balance between alliance and horde getting thrown WAY out of whack after this... some servers already have balance issues in that sense... either way I quit about 3 months ago so I don't care too much... I like the general idea but I really don't think it'll work out too well.
onikinshin
Bliz is in it for the money and is catering to all the whinners and making the game easier so all the casual players have it easy. The game just doesn't seem to be a challenge any more for serious mmo gamers. Some raiding guilds have cleared Wotlk a week after it was released...
NsRhea
I used to be a hard core WoW player, much like one of the posters said above I just logged out in the middle of a raid and quit on the spot.
What Blizzard is doing here sounds like a money grab to fuel the Starcraft II engine.
dazuwood
I'm all for it. I have a level 70 undead priest I no longer play because the group I started playing WOW with quit. I rerolled an alli lock to play with some people i met, but I would love to have my priest as well, especially since a lack of healers seems to be a new issue for wow.
Big_red42
LOL good by Alliance we hardly knew ye. Now at lest only players looking for a challenge will be on Alliance.
metelhead_9000
WoW has been slowly going down hill. This is just another pathetic atempt to keep WoW on top but it will fall soon enough.
altizar
A couple of months ago I was bored, loaded up the trail version of WoW. It was cool. 1 Month later, I closed my account with a Level 80 hunter and about 3 other level 60 chars. Just too easy and I got bored of it.
Motorhead151
1. WoW is boring, and the fact that people can play it repeatedly boggles my mind. I had 3 characters and was so sick of the grind that I could no longer play.
2. The Horde is OP as hell and that ruins things. I'm an Alliance fan as I've always been since the original Warcraft, so seeing them basically tip the scales worse and worse is pathetic.
3. World of Starcraft would be better AND The Old Republic will BLOW THIS GAME AWAY!.
Huenylove
Weird how people say the game is changing because people are crying about it. Yet all I see is people crying about how the game is changing.
JimDanD
Booo, this is bad.
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