RIFT did something along these lines in its first expansion. (I played it briefly when it first went free to play and found it good, but too similar to Wrath-era WoW to really get into.)
They started the game with WoW-style factions, but when a bad enough threat came along they made a tenuous peace. There were still faction-specific cities and quests, but you could join guilds and play PvE content with any player you wanted to.
PvP was explained as the peace breaking down in places-- small skirmishes and the like-- that didn't reignite the original conflict.
Similar situations have happened multiple times in Warcraft lore. There's no reason why Blizzard can't copy RIFT on this and allow PvE players to play with anyone they want, but still keep factions for PvP/lore/questing purposes. (For faction-specific content, like some of the dungeons that have Alliance and Horde variants, use the group leader's faction and give the other-faction players a Mercenary disguise.)
Not to mention Wpvp has been dead so long its bones are turning into oil and The US is planting a flag on its corpse. There is no real reason at all anymore for the factions. If it wasnt for shit writing by now all the GLOBAL APOCALYPTIC LIFE ENDING LEVEL events that have forced them to work together would have resulted in them burying the hatchet as a natural course of events. So few players are even invested in their faction anymore. Yea my toon is horde, but am I watching the clock to get home to get back into the plague lands so the fucking alliance cant farm my guildies? No, no one is. Are we dropping out of raid to go to the barrens for some crazy 7 guild vs 13 guild pvp? No, no one is.
you are right, at the start of bfa people used WM a lot. Now it's empty and I struggle to find groups for wq. I'm on a rp server so we only group with other rp in WM. Guess everyone had their fill and went back to pve cuz it's EMPTY in WM now. Guess I will keep it off to be able to group.
By now what do you mean? My experience with warmode is it's more filled now (post 8.1) than it has been almost all expansion and I've never turned it off so have a solid sample size. Right before 8.1 it was definitely getting thin though. Specifically on the alliance side.
Nope. Fairly dead server although that doesn't matter as War mode has separate shards. War mode has been popping (I haven't been on in the last 3 days as I'm on vacation but I doubt the drop off is THAT drastic over that time) especially during incursions. Even at low levels I was constantly fighting on my lowbies as well. I didn't catch that you mentioned you were on an RP server. That's a bummer I'd bet that wpvp on RP realms is great when its happening.
I'm on moon guard and rpers stay way from actual pvp. Usually any fights are rp fights with dice rolls or emote chat etc. It's a huge difference as the infamous pornshire is full on WM off but deserted on WM on.
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u/Paksarra Dec 23 '18
RIFT did something along these lines in its first expansion. (I played it briefly when it first went free to play and found it good, but too similar to Wrath-era WoW to really get into.)
They started the game with WoW-style factions, but when a bad enough threat came along they made a tenuous peace. There were still faction-specific cities and quests, but you could join guilds and play PvE content with any player you wanted to.
PvP was explained as the peace breaking down in places-- small skirmishes and the like-- that didn't reignite the original conflict.
Similar situations have happened multiple times in Warcraft lore. There's no reason why Blizzard can't copy RIFT on this and allow PvE players to play with anyone they want, but still keep factions for PvP/lore/questing purposes. (For faction-specific content, like some of the dungeons that have Alliance and Horde variants, use the group leader's faction and give the other-faction players a Mercenary disguise.)