Quote from: Nethaera
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.

So this is what a death rattle sounds like.

I can just hear the screaming, shrieking outrage of the horde from here.

It's funny because on some boards people are insisting, "omg so good for horde, alliance are gonna be so pissed" and others are insisting, "omg so good for alliance, horde are gonna be so pissed."

When will people realize that the two really aren't all that different?

Levelled and raided on horde and alliance toons on PVE and PVP servers. I never noticed any substantial difference between the factions, aside from horde usually being outnumbered.

Blood Elves leveled the field for the "pretty players." Both sides are full of cockwhores, now there's equity.

I don't think we'll see 'rent a legendary' but I bet we'll see something where people come back and for a fee all their shit is upgraded so they can hop right into raiding/pvp.

At worst probably 15 bucks.

Yeah, I'm not seeing what the big deal is.

So $50 is an insane amount of money.

So if you've got to drop $50 for 1 story but get access to all the multiplayer, I think thats fine.

No need to get bent out of shape. I just usually don't associate "an INSANE amount of money" to $50.


You did say this, right?

But anyway, on the topic of Givin's post, are we allowed to post accounts for sale here or in the trade section? Wasn't sure if that was kosher or not....because if so, I have an account with 4 semi-to-well geared 80's and 2 70's rotting.

But why post it here? Most of us have WoW accounts, and a large subset of us actually hate it. I don't think our bitching and moaning in the WoW forum is going to convince anyone to buy, either.

Heh, judging from these boards I think I'm one of the few people that still plays it, and even I don't have much interest in these offers =p I already have 6 80's(1 with almost all Ulduar gear, pvp set, bunch of achieves, 2 with 25-man naxx gear + a little pvp gear, and some 10-man naxx stuff on the rest, all epic flying), 1 level 70 and a level 60, and around 20k g. I can't think of anything I could want at this point.

No complaints about selling here, I'm just not sure who would buy unless Argrax is in the market.

I guess they needed some more revenue.

I'm a little surprised someone wanted it, who is this hidden WoW player who is willing to fork over "something" for WoW stuff?!?!?! Identify yourself, heathen!