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.
Updated* 7/1- Due to the many questions that have come
up with the announcement of this new service, we wanted to take
the time to answer the ones we can at this point in time.
Q. Will we be able to switch between the races on our
own faction?
A.. No. Players will only be able to switch to a race of
the opposite faction.
Q. Will I be able to choose the race on the opposite
faction that I want to change to?
A.. Yes, but you will only be able to switch to a race
that has your class type available to it. So if you play a
human paladin, you’d only be able to change to a blood
elf paladin.
Q.How much will it cost?
A.. We do not have further information on this at this
point in time.
Q.Will I be able to switch back to my original faction
but a different race?
A.. No. You will only be able to switch back to your
originally chosen race.
Q.. How will the switch between reputation, gear,
mounts, etc be handled?
A.. We’ll have more details for you at a later
point in time, though we plan to keep these as close to a
reflection of the other faction as much as possible.
Q.How often can you change your faction?
A..We do not have any information to share on this at
this point in time, however we will have restrictions on the
frequency by which players can change their faction.
Q. How will this affect the balance of Horde and
Alliance on the realms?
A.. We are taking great care in how we implement this
new service in order to maintain balance between the factions
on the realms but do not have any further details to
share.
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