Faction Transfers Coming To World of Warcraft

Lol, i just wish they had a class change too.

From the post: "into a roughly equivalent character of the opposing faction"  
Meh. And here I thought my Tauren could finally join with his friends in the alliance. 
 
"So if you play a human paladin, you’d only be able to change to a blood elf paladin. " 
Wait, what. That makes no sense at all. If so then I like my idea of rebel characters better. If you play a human paladin, you should play as a human paladin. But you'd fight for the horde instead. It's not that hard. To have your character magically turn into a blood elf is just silly. 

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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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same faction race transfer please!

@VaultDweller13:  From what I remember, it's only on pvp realms that you can't have a character on each side.

Actually regarding Gerstmann's comment about Lost Vikings:

From the sound of things you could roll a horde, farm the in game Lost Vikings for all theiriconicequipment.
Then transfer into alliance dwarf. Or do it three times if you are really nuts and want a whole set of vikings...
So yeah.

To be totally honest i guess this feels a bit ... tacked on. It's a great idea most defo - alot of people with benefit without having to reroll ( even with the BoA items, various buffs and the recruit a buddy triple exp helping u  -.- )  so yeah thats pretty cool. Though being an older player of 3/4 months after release ... it was such a huge decision back in the day choosing what you looked like, your name, faction, server ... but now u can just throw money at it ( like any good plan :p ) and it's rectified pretty quickly. To be more negative it just helps the gold sellers n' ninja looters shift around even easier!!


Though ultimately i see what Big ol' Blizz are tryin'  to do.. it just feels like they have my 10 quid on a string, slowly yanking away at it as they giggle back to their HQ.

 I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, from day 1 I have wanted to play as a High Elf in WoW, but High Elves have never been a playable race. Well okay technically the Blood Elves are High Elves, but there's a cultural distinction between the two, which is made pretty clear in Wrath with the High Elf faction from Dalaran and the Blood Elf faction. If this little faction switch will let me take my preexisting character and switch factions with them as they are then I may return to WoW thanks to this since a Blood Elf in the Alliance is the closest thing we'll ever get to a being able to play a High Elf. However, on the other hand, the faction division is rooted in spreading out the player base so the game doesn't become to laggy. If they allow you to do this I can easily see most people on a server switching with their existing toons to the already larger populated faction and then things would be a real mess. I don't want the entire game to play like the laggy Wintergrasp battles and I would hate to see one side of the game totally dead, because then that part of the world would feel dead and empty and it would totally ruin the imersion. However, if you have to change your current character to a race of the opposite faction then I just can't see this really taking off since most people pick the race they do for a reason, which is usually that they don't want to play any other race.

I really don't see why not. Sure it fucks with the idea of loyalty and stuff, but honestly, I don't think it'll make that much of an impact on the average 13 year-old WoW player.

i have never played WoW so idk what all this is about.

I was thinking about returning... but then this set me off.

I am excited for Champions Online though :D

IF this was in the game like 2 years ago it would of been great but now WoW is too casual i will never return. Next will be class change blizz love bending over and ruining the game.

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I don't know if I'd do that with my Alliance characters.. much rather roll Horde characters on another server and get the entire experience of playing Horde. Takes too long, though, but better than just turning into the opposite faction out of the blue. I wonder how they'll treat past regions you've quested in. This might be the ultimate choice for people wanting the 3000 quests completed achievement, though...

Seems kind of pointless to me, in the end.

Stop tempting me blizzard, I shan't succumb to your advances!

I don't play WOW anymore and this would be another reason not to return.  I don't know why I care, but this goes against much of what WOW used to be as far as I'm concerned.  A player chose to be either PVE or PVP and couldn't swap - now they can; a player chose to be Horde or Alliance and couldn't swap - now you can.  It's good business sense for Blizzard to offer all this flexibility, but I think the identity a player creates for their avatar is completely undermined by allowing this.  I guess next Horde and Alliance will be able to talk to each other...for a fee.

That's pretty cool, although since PVP is now cross-server and all endgame raids are in contested territory i dont see how swapping an 80 Tauren Druid for an 80 Night Elf druid is going to really effect your playing style, other than alowing you to hook up with people you know on the same server (unlikely, considering you would probably have joined the same faction as them to begin with).

I dont think this will have any effect on the game at all, especially as it's likely to cost $12 (same as migration)

WoW, what have you done to yourself. What would Warcraft II and III think of you right now.

Cool stuff

 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.

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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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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.

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

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

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.

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

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.  

Eh, why play alliance at all?

FOR THE HORDE! Bitches!

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.

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

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

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

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.

" 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. "

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

They are gonna make tons of money from that!

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

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.

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.

This is an absolutely terrible idea.