WoW announced on Monday via a forum post that they will soon be offering Faction Changing Services. This, catching many of the players off guard, has the community stirred. What does this mean for WoW?…
Here is the post, lets read it:
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.
Some people say its the end of WoW, that this service is really going to mess things up, others say that it wont harm the balance of the game, while I on the other hand have a different doomsday prophecy.
What if WoW is slowly getting ready to “phase out” WoW so that when it launches its hot new game all the players will make the switch? They need WoW to be able to handle the out-flux of players (aka faction transfers) to keep the games balanced. This is one means of doing that. I am not saying its going to happen soon, but I think that is the reason.
So, as crazy as it sounds, thats my take. I would love to hear what you think of my assumption and would also like to hear yours. So please leave a comment and lets flame one another like civilized MMO fans…
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