Blizzard: Faction-Change Service in the Works 06/29/2009

Sigh another useless "service" offered by now everyone who wanted to play on opposite factions have done so and rerolled thier toons to max level if not several max level toons on various servers. It was a good money maker for blizzard as it kept people in the game longer increasing thier monthly feels as what coulda been done in one month will take a few more. Anyways I think this is a sign that WOW is slowly winding down so blizzard is doing a garage sale every now and then to keep their members happy. The alliance/horde is balancing out so I 'm guessing WOW has a few more years to it before its' phased out completely.

For the moment its generating some extra $25 per toon should people want to reroll on other servers.

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* . Faction-Change Service in the Works 06/29/2009 01:58:43 PM PDT

original link: WOW forums
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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.