Faction Transfers Coming To World of Warcraft

i still won't subscribe again.

This sounds great!

They do that, I will quit WoW

Cool, I might subscribe again.

Would doing that force a server transfer as well?  I haven't played in a while but can't you not have characters of both factions in the same realm?

This might sound intriging if they let me change into The Eradicator from The Death and Return of Superman. Then i MIGHT consider playing the game...maybe...probably not but it would still be cool.

So obviously you'd have to change races, right? If that's the case, I don't see how this could be a big problem. It doesn't hurt anybody, and allows people who legitimately made the wrong choice an option of switching over. Of course, Blizzard gets to reap even more profit, and become a bloated gassbag of money.

I can't wait to get some Gamer Fuel

BEARDS TO YOUR FACE!

Great idea. No problems here.

That sounds crazy.  WoW just keeps getting better and better.

This is long overdue in my opinion.  This change is going to let a lot of people, including myself, play with real life friends without rerolling.

Stupid idea. I miss the days when selecting a realm, a name, and a character were all serious decisions. Way to fuck WoW up, Blizzard. I'd seriously consider hating you if you weren't making Diablo III and Starcraft II.

" Would doing that force a server transfer as well?  I haven't played in a while but can't you not have characters of both factions in the same realm? "

 Emotional responses aside I think this is a good feature addition for WoW players. If a realm is lopsided they could add incentives (or not charge money) to tranfer to the minority faction. This is a good thing.
 
I still won't ever play another MMO again, Blizz can dangle that carrot on a stick somewhere else. 'Nuff said.

This is actually pretty crazy. I assume this will involve a race change as well (obviously) so could this possibly mean race changes with your current faction.

I've been trying to quit WoW on and off for years.  I just started playing again, and now this...

When will it end?  Blizzard is a thief of my $15.

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This would have been awesome like 5 months ago when i still played :(

Hell yeah! ....oh, I was excited that somebody mentioned Lost Vikings.

This is an absolutely terrible idea.

I honestly don't know how I feel about this. I've always wished that I'd chose horde from the beginning but... Man, so many friends will be lost if I switch... Thanks for the fucking ultimatum, Blizzard.

How would this even work? A race change would obviously be required, whatever. It sounds cool, but I'm skeptical until I see it in action.

Not gonna use it but i was just thinking that they need to implement this, awsome

They are gonna make tons of money from that!

Would have been nice when I was playing, I loved the horde side but most friends were playing alliance, while the human race benefit with factions helped out a lot I would have dropped it all to get my main warlock & rogue to flip to horde side instantly.

Now if I want bigger shoulders I can just go Tauren.

Hey what do you have against Mountain...
(watches last ten years of the Mountain Dew commercial campaign)
Oh.....

i started to play wow again this week. I feel so dirty

This is quite exciting! I'll combo this with a server transfer and I can play with some friends

Nice to see a MMORPG company actually act on those exit polls when you cancel your account.. I know a big one for a lot of WoW players is they don't want to level up a dood on the other side that their friends play on, so they just quit.

More value added services please. Blizzard. There's people who have the money to pay for them and want to.

I know I will be switching over my abandoned horde mage.

" Stupid idea. I miss the days when selecting a realm, a name, and a character were all serious decisions. Way to fuck WoW up, Blizzard. I'd seriously consider hating you if you weren't making Diablo III and Starcraft II. "

hahaha man, they are sqeezing every penny out of this game as they can. Soon they will see their own gold and items for real money.

Their taking too much uniquety away from the game, bad enough that the exclusive class' had to be made available for both factions..but then again why am i even giving the slightest bit of care which could be better used on my lack of pepsi max atm?...well i do love to moan xD

I really like the sound of this, when I used to play I chose alliance for a few friends who had quit by the time I was 70 and bit by bit I started to hate the alliance and it ruined the game for me. Until I got my belf rogue

Awesome, but I'm probably not going to use it.

I've never wanted to play WoW, so as an outsider I have to wonder. Why are players apparently assuming, and even willing, to pay money for this? There seems to be a few games out there that have exactly this not only for free but actually made part of the game.

Eh, why play alliance at all?

FOR THE HORDE! Bitches!

While quite the novel addition, this still won't make me go back to WoW.  They already leeched enough money off of me as it is.  

mehh i really do not like wow, thinking about playing makes me sick ><

I heard about it tonight in game.  I was excited, cuz now I can bring that neglected pally over to the Horde.  ...if it's all it's cracked up to be.

yup, i think i hate WoW even more now, too much trivialization.

@Jeff Technically, the lost vikings ARE in wow. They're in Uldaman. See :

WoW has strayed so far from its original path I dont think this is such a big problem, this is nothing compared to the sex changes.

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 Emotional responses aside I think this is a good feature addition for WoW players. If a realm is lopsided they could add incentives (or not charge money) to tranfer to the minority faction. This is a good thing.
 
I still won't ever play another MMO again, Blizz can dangle that carrot on a stick somewhere else. 'Nuff said.

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 wonder if you just get to change your character to a horde/alliance race, or if your actual dude is completely intact but now on the other side.  Interesting.

Cool stuff