Comments on: It Don't Matter If You're Orc Or Dwarf

By: Queso

Queso — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:08:35 +0000

Njal :
Angelworks : Its just a game – why does any one really care?
Humans are never more serious than when they play.

Their Racial "Perception" sees what you did thar.

By: Njal

Njal — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:42:54 +0000

Angelworks : Its just a game – why does any one really care?

Humans are never more serious than when they play.

By: geldonyetich

geldonyetich — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:40:15 +0000

D-0ne : Funny story… My W.o.W. forum account was banned years ago for saying that race switching in W.o.W. was inevitable due to the games innate imbalances between races in PVE and PVP.

That would be an interesting reason to get banned in how poorly it would reflect on Blizzard. I would suspect it had little to do with this and more to do with the way you went about it.

By: Kirth

Kirth — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:45:35 +0000

We Fly Spitfires : Sounds pretty cool to me although at Blizzard’s rate of development it will be a year or so before we actually see it in game so don’t worry too much about it.

I'll put money on this coming out with patch 3.2 or shortly after it goes live. Blizzard has shown that they won't announce something unless it is close to being a realty, duel specs being officially confirmed to when it went live was something like 3 months.

By: Stabs

Stabs — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:13:15 +0000

What I like about this is the possibilities for victimising your guildies. Lost a roll for an item? Switch sides and corpse camp the winner till he quits the game. Takes guild drama to a whole new level.

By: D-0ne

D-0ne — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:49:31 +0000

Funny story… My W.o.W. forum account was banned years ago for saying that race switching in W.o.W. was inevitable due to the games innate imbalances between races in PVE and PVP.

Start the egg timer on race switching for PVE play. It will happen. As the economy declines and the subscriber base wears away… They will do anything for money. Anything. Is china’s currency still directly tied to the dollar?

By: Frank

Frank — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:20:24 +0000

How can you all be so focused on what was actually written when you SHOULD be complementing Lum on making a subtle Michael Jackson-homage reference (well-played)? The nerve!

Ok ok fine – so about the WoW topic, this isn’t anything surprising as far as I’m concerned with Blizzard. For a long time now, WoW has been the McDonalds of MMOs, offering anything and everything under the sun to please the masses, so why not offer a faction transfer? The classes are the same on both sides so I’m surprised this didn’t really happen any sooner.

What this does guarantee is thousands more drama postings on server forums, where rivers of tears and flamethrowers will be wrought as whole guilds faction transfer and upend their respective communities. The popcorn maker will be busy, indeed.

By: AcidCat

AcidCat — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:30:54 +0000

I think Spitfires has the right response to this issue.

By: Eckelberry

Eckelberry — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:55:43 +0000

@Aufero

Aufero, while that may be “cooler” to play the Undead or Tauren that has seen the light, it’s sort of a disaster in BGs when you’re trying to identify who the enemy is.

Yeah, I know that you can see see red text over their heads.

By: Aufero

Aufero — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:40:45 +0000

I could see Horde->Alliance transfers being a lot more popular if they let you retain your original race, as in the EQ2 betrayal system. The wording I’ve seen so far doesn’t specifically address this, but it seems unlikely.