Getting cross-faction gameplay doesn’t mean we’ll suddenly be playing “World of Peacecraft.” Horde and Alliance may be at an armistice - and based on Ion’s words, it’s unlikely that we’ll see the faction war become the center of an expansion again - but there’s still a lot of bad blood that isn’t going to simply disappear overnight.
The faction conflict is still going to exist, but perhaps with more nuance But even in lore we’ve seen factions be flexible, rather than rigid racial divides. It doesn’t makes sense for the Night Elves to suddenly forgive and forget the Horde, or for Forsaken and Worgen to welcome one another with open arms. Enemies change, and allies change as well.īut even if we accept that allegiances can change, that doesn’t mean they’re going to. It just symbolizes that the Horde and the Alliance are ever-shifting coalitions, and no individual is bound to “hate” a certain race or nation or faction forever. That doesn’t necessarily imply that one day you’ll be able to roll an Alliance Tauren or a Horde Night Elf. Void Elves defected from the Horde to join the Alliance and the the Blood Elves that they defected from may be Horde today, but they were with the Alliance in Warcraft 3. And because you were born a troll, you’re their eternal enemy.Īnd Warcraft has plenty of in-game examples of shifting allegiances: Dark Iron Dwarves have been enemies to the Alliance, but they’re now accepted within it. That’s something that’s assigned to you and that predestined fate isn’t necessarily something that we want to necessarily stand by, the idea that your lot in the world because you were born an elf, you must hate trolls and nothing can change that.
Someone chooses to walk the path of the light or to go to the dark side… you’re born Alliance, you’re born Horde. Jedi and Sith and that universe are ideologies, they’re choices. But that isn’t at all how the Horde and the Alliance operate. Ion made it clear that the Horde and Alliance situation in WoW isn’t comparable to a story like Star Wars, where each individual chooses their faction and likely have the same ideology and worldview. Horde and Alliance aren’t choices or ideologies
So let’s take a look at what the future might hold for cross-faction play in WoW. But even though Ion didn’t give any specifics, we can derive some hints as to what the team seems to be thinking about cross-faction play at the moment.
In an interview for IGN, Game Director Ion Hazzikostas suggested that Blizzard will be carefully evaluating where the game goes from here, and how the community takes to this new feature will certainly have an impact on that. But how far do they intend to take us with cross-faction gameplay? That’s a question that, perhaps, not even the WoW developers themselves have an answer for yet. The developers have already said that, if and when it makes sense, this kind of gameplay could be expanded upon in the future. Cross-faction gameplay is coming to World of Warcraft - at least in a limited fashion that will allow players to run dungeons and raids.
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