snowleopard233

This was honestly part of what I liked about Warcraft 3. However, I really don't see it happening in WoW. The whole game has been balanced and designed around two factions. They would have to renovate every zone in the game to have tis change make sense and I don't see them doing that again anytime soon.
It will be interesting to see what kind of factions, if any, will exist in Titan. Personally, I think they may just do away with them all together in their next mmo. All they really serve to do is create an atmosphere for world PVP that no one wants to partake in and divide players from one another. It's a neat idea but I don't necessarily thinks its accomplished what it was originally designed for.

Q for the Q

I know there's always a lot of debate on how the different Warcraft novels stack up against one another, but how do you feel the Warcraft novels compare to the rest of fantasy literature?

Personally, I've been reading the Warcraft novels since Arthas came out and I can't help feeling that even Golden's work is only okay fantasy at best, with a lot of heavy-handed exposition and plots that while not terrible, aren't exactly riveting or surprising. I'd much rather be spending my time reading Martin, Joe Abercrombie, David Anthony Durham, Patrick Rothfuss, or any of the other countless fantasy authors and series out there. Am I asking too much from what are essentially young adult video-game tie in books? Are there any earlier novels I'm missing out on that you think would be more geared to my tastes?

Well-written song but does this really count as machinima? There's hardly anything added by what minor visuals are offered in this video. I could have had the same experience just by listening.

Q for Q: Will we be able to invite real ID friends into our raid with the looking for raid tool like we currently can with the five man LFG tool?

Yeah me too. I didn't get to so much of a Jersey Shore vibe out of it as much as I did a Grand Theft Auto one, and I'm third generation New Jerseyian and have seen said reviled show several times. The driving around, collecting your money, moving up the ranks of a crime syndicate or shady business, and then taking out your rival; that's all straight out of GTA. There was hardly any of the clubbing, hooking up, or punching of snookis that Jersey Shore is infamous for.

Some people say that there's a worgen to blame...

Artificial, I get what you're saying but I think the growing concern here is that Blizzard is creating plot lines that they do not have the capacity to properly finish in game later on. For example, the emerald nightmare was a part of the night elf story in Vanilla, instead of seeing that story resolved in game, we had to go out and buy a book or read notes about it online. Then there's Varian's dissaperance and rescue, another huge part of the human story that was moved to the comics. And now I'm hearing that I have to go out and read the latest Thrall book just to get the details on the infinite dragonflight. Let's face it, Blizz doesn't have the best record when it comes to resolving its major story lines in game.

I'd like to think that Ozumat and the Sylvannas storyline will be explore in a future expansion or patch, but deep down I just know they're going to spin them off into a book. It's not that I hate reading or that such books are always awful, but I didnt start these stories in game to be forced to research them in other products. WoW is a great game, but as standalone works of fiction the books are okay at best. Take away the Warcraft and they'd be nothing to talk about. I'd much rather spend my video game time playing a complete game and my literary time reading all the mountains of better fantasy novels out there.

Yeah, I'm in agreement with you. This is a new feature but it's not new content and it's not going to make older content magically feel like new content. What I'd really like is a solid continuation of all the thousand storylines they've thrown up in the air lately, rather than this truncated plot they seem to be giving us with expansion.

Where's my worgen and goblin themed raids? It's like they threw in those two races at the beginning of the expansion and forgot about them. Even TBC had end game content that was pertinent to its respective races and Wrath was basically one long path of vengeance for Death Knight players. We've seen zip end game for goblins and zip lore period for Worgen this expansion. Given how Blizz forgot about the Draenei and Blood elves after TBC I don't see them finding the time to give the worgen and goblins any more love in the near future.

What do you call battle.net chat?

Yeah I'm sorry man. But I'd rather be more in touch with the larger WoW community than all the several thousand strangers on my server. Being able to play with my friends, coworkers, and other new WoW people I meet in real-life is more important to me than a community created by artificial technical limitations.