When Blizzard announced cross-faction play for patch 9.2.5 many months ago, there were a wide variety of reactions in the community. Many players breathed a sigh of relief that the antiquated system of two completely separate factions would finally be a thing of the past. Others were more skeptical, and a small minority once again predicted the final demise of WoW.
Of course, it cannot be denied that the conflict between the Alliance and the Horde is a major pillar of WoW’s history and helped make the Warcraft franchise great. At the same time, however, it cannot be denied that such a system works worse and worse the lower the player numbers are. And if there is an imbalance (which we have had in WoW for many years), it becomes even more difficult.
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Cross-faction game shows the direction
The fears of some players have turned out to be unfounded. Cross-faction play has been on the live servers for a few months now and is working great. There is no more toxic behavior than usual and squabbles between Horde and Alliance players have yet to occur in any raid or dungeon. Quite the opposite.
Most of the groups I travel in are made up of players from both factions. Even in our Mythic raid, there are now Horde players who have taken the opportunity to unpack one of their Horde twinks. Problems or stress: Zero.
So cross-faction play is working, and there’s no reason to ever undo it. Which Blizzard says it wouldn’t have done anyway. The next steps of the developers actually push themselves now directly, because they were already thematized directly after the announcement.
Cross-faction and cross-server guilds?
Who in WoW (buy now ) Found friends or teammates, who wants not only to play together with them, but in most cases to be together with them in a guild. However, this is still impossible if you belong to different factions. Also the change to a race of the other factions remains closed, if one does not want to leave his present guild.
So there is a need for cross-faction guilds! And while we are at it, then also gladly server-spreading, because the antiquated structure of the many, individual servers is no longer up-to-date anyway. This topic came up again in an interview with game director Ion Hazzikostas.
Other games show how different factions can also work. Although not everything is perfect there either. Source: Amazon Games
Yes, no, maybe
Although Hazzikostas announced that they would like to see cross-faction guilds in the game (preferably already during Dragonflight), one got the impression that the developers are not that serious about it. On the one hand, they again referred to the technical hurdles. This is understandable, since WoW consists of an impenetrable spaghetti code that often puzzles even the developers themselves.
However, one should assume that whoever the developers really care about that even this task won’t take two years. And that’s the time frame we’re talking about here, if Hazzikostas hopes it could be implemented during Dragonflight.
The conflict between Horde and Alliance has long ceased to play a role in WoW. Source: Blizzard
Aside from that, other statements from Hazzikostas confuse even further. The hall of fame will be kept and the rules for cross realm riding in mythic mode will not be abolished. Both of these things don’t really make sense anymore. A separate Hall of Fame for Alliance and Horde? And a third one for cross-faction raids?
Well, the problem probably won’t arise if you really continue to curtail cross-realm raiding and only open it up after the Hall of Fame is complete. In exchange, the raids that have now joined together will then be torn apart again – or real money will flow for faction changes.
Right to the top of the priority list!
In my eyes, the possibility for cross-faction guilds has to be at the top of the developers’ priority list by now. The experience so far has shown pretty clearly in my eyes that this is the right way for WoW.
I can understand that the developers don’t want to make statements that are set in stone and might blow up in their faces later. But I don’t understand why they don’t at least leave out the restrictions. If the developers want to introduce cross-faction guilds, and further promote cross-faction (and cross-server) play, then perhaps they shouldn’t briefly ban it again with the launch of the upcoming expansion – even if only in one content of the game. Because that sends the completely wrong message.
Do you guys also think that cross-faction guilds are the way forward for WoW, or do you prefer a strict separation of the two factions? Maybe you even agree with my, admittedly somewhat drastic, opinion that the factions should be completely dissolved anyway? Tell us your opinion in the comments.
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