Veteran player here and this change I thought would never happen in Warcraft. This is the end of what was a great journey my fellow pixel friends.
#ripazeroth
Veteran player here and this change I thought would never happen in Warcraft. This is the end of what was a great journey my fellow pixel friends.
#ripazeroth
It's not as if the factions stand or fall on having separate auction houses...
How about different races, cities, zones, lore, pvp? Names on the AH don't mean anything to me now, so they won't mean anything in WoD which means I won't care if something has been posted by someone on Alliance or Horde.
If one doesn't like factions, there are mmos without them.
If they ever decided to merge the factions, I'd be out of here, that would be the last straw, seeing gnomes in Orgrimmar and Undercity or Undead and trolls in Darnassus and Ironforge, and all the Warcraft universe lore swept under the rug.
Like it or not, but faction pride is a thing, and so is the PVP.
Last edited by Queen of Hamsters; 2014-07-01 at 01:30 PM.
Why not just merge factions,too? Blizzard what are you doing.
Veteran player here and I see no difference between having a market with more participants back when more people played and a market with more participants from having both factions use it. This is like being upset they added an AH to SW and Darnasus.
If it's so important to you that nobody on the other faction buys your stuff (or gets gold from stuff you're buying), bark in trade chat.
Last edited by Gwiez; 2014-07-01 at 01:48 PM.
Thank goodness. Finally some good news. Love this change.
Now if they would allow cross-faction gold mailing or just merge gold all into one pot on your account (like D3).
The one and only actual reason for AH merge is to stop crossfaction arbitrage via Neutral AH.
Considering the nice shiny monies server and factions transfer bring in, Horde and Alliance will be happily at each other's throats when Sargeras lands on Azeroth.
You can easily just kill whatever you want. You don't need a so-called "lore" reason to kill orc and to spare human. In fact, this way you'll have twice the people to kill. Just as it was on TI with censer item. That's basically it.
I don't care mostly. But lets look at this from a practical point of view. I start playing WoW with a kinda big community of real-life friends. Most of them wanted to join Alliance, so we decided to do so. But my favourite race was Undead. So it was either play a character you don't like, or don't play with people you like. Either way it was a lose (for me).
Factions would mean something if there were a real war going on, and by war I mean endless pvp throughout the world based on territory control. Dividing playerbase into two parts just for the sake of dividing does not look practical to me. Yes, it is a ruleset of this particular game, and we all must play as rules say; but please don't pretend factions actually mean anything beyond crying "Loktar Ogar" during beer times with friends.
Last edited by l33t; 2014-07-01 at 01:43 PM.
No more time wasted in WoW.. still reading this awesome forum, though
I guess it is going to be pretty weird if someone buys an epic gear made by me (553 belt for example) and then they kill me in pvp (or I kill them.) It's almost as if I helped them kill me? I mean over all I don't think this is a bad change, just strange...
To everyone who'll scream and cry about this going against the faction war aspect of the game: we already have a neutral AH in the game. It's just not the one commonly used. Now it'll become the standard instead. And I say, what a good thing. A unified economy makes for a stronger one. People who got rich exploiting faction disparity will just have to work harder. Or you could always quit in protest, I'm sure the waves of you doing so will totally reverse this change...
All is far in War and Capitalism. You don't care about who'se faction the money comes from, you just want the money!
Interesting change...I'm neutral about it as most of the names on the AH selling things mean nothing to me AND since I play both sides this means prices will be normalized for my cross faction alts (seriously, some enchants for my Horde are like 2,000 gold while for my Alliance the same one is 500-900g on the same server).
So we can sell eachother stuff on the Auction House but we are unable to speak the same language or be allies... I would think cross-realm Auction House would make more sense than cross-faction
Is this another way of Blizzard not having to remove dead servers?
This is a game-play and quality of life change that has no basis or bearing on the game lore. I'm sort of puzzled that people are even bringing it up as if it were.