Like the title says it is about time the language barrier should be removed. There were many expansions that these factions worked together. Lorewise it makes sense.
Just let them communicate in /say and /yell it would make pvp more interesting. Blizzard can add a trainer and make it 60 only maybe. Can be a gold sink too.
Lorewise we are called the hero etc. Faction leaders chat with each other all the time but we just say gibberish.
turns wm back on
goes into maw
flames alliancce for camping chokepoint
ohh the sheer amount of profanity flying there would make a mawstorm look like a summer breeze
There are people who may abuse it saying bad words and stuff. I think that’s why blizzard never added it.
Sometimes, the Alliance uses me as a Translator to translate what the blood elf says and the blood elf would translate back to the Horde lol.
Lore-wise? Maybe
Not “player-wise”. Go ahead try to kill somebody in PvP. He will tell everything what happened with your parents and your mother specifically. 
No thanks. The amount of random Horde who just /spit when they run past you (even with WM off), I don’t really need or feel I need to know what they want to say.
Well if he decides to curse while I cleave him that’s his problem. You cant talk mid pvp.
There is a potion from New Dalaran sewers and certain races/classes have shared language - I kinda enjoy figuring out the way to find a common language with other side when needed. If you want to communicate with hostile faction both sides have to put up a little bit of effort.
Agreed, it should be removed.
It is not like you are getting flamed less by your own faction. Might as well add a common enemy to throw your vile at.
from my own standpoint, I think it’s a bad idea to remove the language barrier. I’d get banned in an instant
When we even can communicate with NPCs from the opposite faction, the language barrier seems to be as constructed as the recurring faction wars. I hope we can get rid of all this bullpoop ASAP.
Why? So we can have flame wars 24/7?
When I played Myth of Soma way back in the early 2000s there was a scroll you could purchase that allowed you to make a zone broadcast in chat. It prevented spam.
Perhaps Blizzard could utilize Inscription to make a similar scroll to communicate with the opposite faction.
Good.
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There is an item that can be bought in Legion Dalaran Sewers called Elixir of Tongues that allows you to understand the other faction’s language. If both factions use this potion they can speak with eachother without a language barrier. Not many people carry it around however.
I do wish that they dropped the language barrier outright in sanctuary areas such as Oribos or the Covenant Sanctums though.
I casually flew into Maldraxxus to handle a WQ (WM off) to which I was randomly spat on by Alliance who had no reason to either fear me or act in that way - something that happens on both sides.
Now, insert the frustrations of PvP into the mix and remove the language barrier. Voila, chat blows up with toxic flaming anytime players of either faction with a few missing brain cells meet each other (who can’t discern reality from fantasy factions) and you get a toxic chat. Hell, chat can get toxic enough even when restricted to a single faction. People will be people.
There would be positives, too, as not everyone is like that and a lot of players certainly do have friends or acquaintances on the other side, and we certainly do have to stomach lore & cutscenes of Horde races speaking perfect English to Alliance, but alas, it is there for a reason.
However, if WoW ever boils down to a point where we actually (legitimately) co-operate in-game cross-faction via actual features, then - obviously - the barrier would need to go. Think of it like Mercenary mode including LFR and M+ (where Horde and Alliance players actually do team up in some way or another).
However, that isn’t going to happen any time soon (if at all), and thus the language barrier will very likely remain for eternity.
You can opt out of language barrier: https://www.wowhead.com/item=2460/elixir-of-tongues
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