Cross-Faction Communication Incoming In Battle.Net 2.0Follow

Wait, what?

I have to be honest, I was really looking forward to B.Net 2.0, but I'm now facepalming. This just brings up the discussion of why being able to make an Alliance toon as well as a Horde toon on the same PvP server was a bad choice.

Blizzard, I'm disappointed. :\

Edited, Sep 2nd 2009 12:15am by Wordaen

WoW.com did a near similar article on cross-faction communication way back in the summer of '08. Thankfully, they state that the only cross-faction communication done would need the 2nd persons Real ID, a persistant feature to Battle.Net.

Still querky about it though. The novelty of being able to talk with guildies on an old toon from the Alliance would be nice and all, but most probably not worth the countless amounts of ways it could be abused. Mentinoing an incoming For The Horde raid, without even relogging. :\


On a side-note, that could quite be, the most ignorant comment I've seen today. Gratz.

Everybody got their ******** mode switch turned on tonight? Didn't get the memo. :|

********* and a discussion. Two different things, and to be straight, don't stick around if you don't like discussions. This is a forum, you know. They discuss?

And why make what was once an annoyance to players, even easier to do? Maybe I'm not up for change, but they really are changing too many elements of the game that defined WoW. Things like spellpower being a good example.

I thought I heard something at the Battle.Net Q&A that discussed something like this. I think it said that you'd have to have the ID of the person you were trying to message. I could be wrong though. It seems to me, however, that Blizzard, in all their infinite wisdom, would realize that the whining/flaming/call it whatever you want could be a problem, hence the requirement of the ID of the person you wish to speak with. Maybe someone with a little more energy can do some digging and confirm? Thanks.

During Burning Crusade I was a member of the top alliance on the server. We were actually quite chummy with our horde counterparts. We were the only two guilds that had decent progression, the rest of the guilds were months behind and got their *** handed to them by SWP. The holy paladin in the horde guild had a mage in our guild, our healing officer was best friends irl with their main tank.

When I was on Drak'thul and I was helping a former guild member get his Salty title we had the top horde and top alliance guild on the server in STV ganking anyone but him that was fishing.

Frankly I think this is gonna be awesome, though we were sharing vent info long enough that we just hop on and shoot the **** without text.

Only the ********* get the memo, to tell them to redouble their efforts.

Ughh ... You can only chat cross faction with people who know you, and know your ID. It's voluntary. It is not the same thing as being able to ***** at someone while you're being ganked. It is more similar to having MSN or gChat open and talking to your friend who is playing on the opposite faction.

***** less, IMO.

to be quite frank, I'm not being an *******, I'm just pointing out that your great dramatic thread is pointless in every regard.

Discussion =/= universal agreement and support. Maybe you need to re-evaluate your expectations.

It doesn't change anything! Griefers who want to warn their buddies on the opposing faction will still do so. Remember, this is not fully open communication, it's messaging your friends only!

Basically, you're just hating on the feature because you're having other issues with the game, and now you wanna play Chicken Little.

"Cross faction chatting!! OMG The nerfs are falling the nerfs are falling!!"

I'm not some fanatic for any game, but seriously guy, if you have some real concerns that are meaningful, I'm sure you'd get a better reaction than this.

As everyone else has so clearly stated, it's only for people you let have access to talk to, you won't be able to walk around dalaran and understand [common] or whatever, it's not like threatening! it's not really game breaking, as people can simply get on vent if they have friends of the opposite faction, end of discussion!

There is no need to lock the post. It has not degenerated into flaming yet and is simply people disagreeing with you about a topic you feel strongly about which they do not. Which is the intent of the forum. I see no need to stop the discussion at this time.

As I said in a PM, there is no need to down-rate a comment just because you don't argue the same opinion to them, unless they're providing false facts, of which it then clearly wouldn't become an opinion any more. Karma system is getting abused/used in appropriately, and whether it's designed to play out like such or not, it's poor. A moderator should be able to dictate what posts should be deemed unworthy and worthy, not a bunch of folks who think they're old timers on the internet for being around on the site for a wee few years.

Also, as thread creator, I can't even ask for my own thread to be locked? What horrible dictation is that. I asked for something I had done, to be closed . I didn't state whether it was for flaming, or anything else. Instead, I asked for it to be locked for it's lack of intellectual discussion. It's clear you don't want to delete the ***** posts, which ok. A mild decision, but what's the point of a thread if the thread is dictated by ******** who vote each other up and everybody down, and the few intellectual posts that I create a thread for are buried within all the whining and idiots because they disagree with an opinion. The thread is beyond ridiculous, and it doesn't take an admin to know that.

But if a thread is made for discussion, and that's the one thing it isn't getting because so many people rather'd cause reason to derail it, it's then the responsibility of the thread creator to then say "Ok, close it. It's clear ****** all productive is coming out of the topic", but that's also and foremost the job of those who moderate. Not closing it was a bad call, as it was more than clear it should of been done very, very, early on.

We didn't get this ability to rate through just signing up. We have the ability to rate because enough people with the ability to rate thought we had enough good posts floating around with our crap posts to rate us up to this level.

There is a huge rule about Karma: Don't complain about Karma.

Getting all emofensive on a message bulletin forum isn't the best way to go about things. People WILL have differing opinion than yours, and they will voice it in your topic.
Let me break things down for you into a simpler manner.

"Hello, in my opinion, cross faction communication is an important change that will effect our game play"
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Opinion "A"

"Hello, I don't believe that cross faction communication is an important change that will effect our game play"
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Opinion "B"

That is how the thread has basically broken down 'til you threw your fit. Allakhazam isn't a nice Hello Kitty forum. It's harsh, straight, and raw. We will tell you our opinion on the subject, then we will tell you our opinion on you, and even on your opinion (which can, indeed, differ from the subject itself). If you can't handle that, and if you can't handle when, in our opinion, your post needs to be rated down so people don't see it, then maybe it's time you find a different forum.