The discussion focused on the fact that some of the ‘kingdoms’ or ministries in World of Warcraft have an extraordinarily low population of Alliance or Horde. And since players can only do raids, dungeons, guests, and most other content with the same faction, this can lead to players switching to servers with a higher population, or changing factions, to ensure that some servers have even more become skewed, or that they are abandoned. completely. Hazzikostas cited features such as a game over the servers and connected sites as a big part of the problem, but acknowledged that it was still a problem because the guilds had to include characters on one server.
Johnson asked the panel a question he admits it seems to come up with annually, with a negative answer each time: would Blizzard ever invade the Horde and Alliance, or would Mythic do dungeons together?
Hazzikostas helped the trend with his answer:
“I will honestly never say never … There are a lot of reasons why it is essential to maintain the faction identity, but for the sake of the designated arena, Alliance can fight Alliance from day one and Horde the Horde When Burning Crusade Classic appeared later this year, it would be a thing and a competitive activity, and it was one of the areas where the game and the need for matchmaking was and should be the highest priority. ideal world, all of these priorities would exist, but at the end of the day, an MMO like World of Warcraft is about being able to play with your friends, play where you want to be, and probably have a bigger one. stretch in the faction identity, if you feel that you can really choose the faction with which you identify, of which you are the most part, and do not have to sacrifice it, because you have to be with your group or if you higher guild wants to join.
“I have colleagues who are lifelong Alliance players, who now play Horde, who really want them to be Alliance, who do it for guild reasons, and I know there are tens of thousands, maybe more, in the same boat around the world. “We want to do something for them.”
Whatever this change may seem, it is clear that the possible unification that Hazzikostas is proposing will not come soon. While Patch 9.1 Chains of Domination includes a number of new features, including a new raid, a mega-dungeon, and a new outfield, it does not look like the Alliance and Horde will be able to play together for now.
But Blizzard does seem open to further big leaps he may not have considered in the past, and developers told IGN in a pre-BlizzCon interview that they are open to the idea of one day a Wrath of the Lich King Classic release version – if enough players are interested.
Rebekah Valentine is a news reporter for IGN. You can find her on Twitter @duckvalentine.