Cross RP Add-on takedown

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That’s a shame. :frowning:

Mostly because this add-on made sense in an in-game sense;
The Alliance and Horde can already apparently talk to one another in some ‘universal language’ or atleast both understand Orcish and Common to interact in cutscenes or trash talk each other. So, it made the game feel a lot more fun during RP events.

And that was another thing - the RP events just didn’t feel like mindless PvP experience, because everyone was able to get involved. They could interact, set rules, make sure BOTH sides were having a good time. It allowed for communication and banter, it was a versatile add-on that was using a system that Blizzard already provided. It wasn’t like it was changing player models into Guy Fieri or something.

So yeah, hope their outlook on the add-on changes and we can have it back up and working again - otherwise it’s back to adding everyone randomly onto battle.net friend’s list.

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“What’s Cross Runic Power? But no seriously, why would you want to? It’s war! It’s not intended for players to speak across factions. However we’ll continue to monitor player feedback, and we’ll think about it. We can’t say anything for sure right now but if there’s an issue rest assured we’re looking in to it. Now, what were you saying about your Shaman, Josh?”

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It’s not about dungeons, or a question that’s been known about/repeated. So unlikely.

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Yes, because people who are constantly told ‘No, you cant have ANY nice things, not a single thing!’ are the ones who have to stay calm and civil at all times…

Oh wait. Thats called Bull Excrement :slight_smile:

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Yeah, people being fed up of being shoved aside in favour of an utter design failure means they can’t behave properly for years on end.
With all due respect, “some of the replies you’re reading here” are a result of Blizzard’s own actions, of the piled up failures and disappointments they’ve been pushing out month after month. There’s a limit for everything, especially if you care about the game they’ve been creating and have seen it decline rapidly like an elder with Alzheimer’s. Complete with the cognitive dissonance, forgetfulness and failing design/motor faculties.
Before anyone calls me out on the analog, I have seen that before in a close relative. The analog is apt.

Finally, there was something good to nurture storytelling and sense of community for both factions, be it encouraging the war or just creating plots that involved members of different factions. No different from Blizzard’s own off-game content such as comics and novels where stories detailing the outcomes and sparks of conflict and strife are played out without faction borders.

But no. Only the war matters. Screw helping out neutral factions for years, screw the existence of neutral factions, screw goading the enemy faction into making a mistake.
Also tbh, I’d much rather take verbal insults over the obnoxious /shoo, /lol or /gloat spammage that members of the opposite faction love to do. At least you can report verbal abuse, not so much an arrogant attitude.

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V true. Guess it’s retcon a fair bit for characters then (not that such a thing has not had to happen before I guess).

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Not a single thing? At all? Must be some serious damn sunken cost fallacy going on in your head for you to still care about this game, then, huh?

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Seems more exaggeration to make a point than fallacy to me, tbh. Still, yes, there’s been some good things added for RP over the years.

WoW is still the most RP-supportive MMO out there, no matter what people say. But the faction barrier is really outdated and making a mess of so much RP especially with Blizzard’s storytelling being what it is. You can milk a faction war only so much before it gets tiring to have it forced on you.

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A shame the addon was shut down, but I’m not surprised. Blizzard have got rid of much of the fun in WoW’s PvP and PvE content, so naturally RP has to follow.

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Not like we had much to take in the first place.

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Hey did they fix this yet?

This addon was incredibly useful for me when I wanted to do Alliance NPC’s for events.

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No. Many of us posted this on the Q&A thread and hope it will be addressed today. All we can do now is wait.

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You see, this is what surprised me the most. Roleplayers really never get anything. We got that sharding turned off thing once, yes. But what do PvP, PvE and even pet battlers get each patch? Content. Ok, lore is content too but it really isn’t too much.

I thought now after pissing off literally every other community they have (I mean, I don’t like the guy but even Asmongold is like tf is Blizzard doing) they MIGHT leave the rp’ers out of it. So that atleast that demographic is not mad. Welp… I was wrong. PvP people have no content, PvE players got a bit of content but (according to them) it feels lackluster. BfA has earned so much criticism. I am actually surprised they made leveling better since that would have been just another thing to add.

So now altoholics and people that are transmog collectors are the only people left that are not mad. Oh and pet battlers. But I somehow doubt someone is playing WoW only for the pet battles. I guess they wanna piss them off too somehow?

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Join the club. D&D has provided me with my weekly RP needs since I’ve unsubbed. I do miss the feeling of a large shared world and making meaningful connections, but BfA killed that feeling first by destroying Astranaar and Darnassus as RP hubs, forcing a “with us or against us” narrative, and basically forcing me to retreat into guild bubble RP if I wanted my character to stay true to her values.

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They already did. This patch nerfed pet xp gained in BfA zones by 98%. Idk if it’s intended or not but it’s a stealth nerf so anything’s possible.

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And you seem to have a real vested interest in saying “CRP should stay dead”, no? :upside_down_face:

I still RP in WoW because I have a good guild, good friends and characters I enjoy. I still, despite the apparent best efforts of the Devs (Continuity exists to blahblahblah) enjoy the WC setting as I have since WC2 all those years ago. And, simply, because other games I did play and got in with on a meta level were worse for RP as well.

Name me a single, RP-specific centred update that the devs have done, hmm? Things like Transmogs were aimed at the playerbase as a whole, to expand on the “Look at the cool look I got” thing that had been going since Vanilla anyway. I’m talking things like Emotes (have they EVER added any new ones?) or Cross Faction, which we’ve seen they don’t care for.

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Can you quote me on that, or are you pulling stuff out of your behind? Because seeing as earlier in this thread I was saying that crossRP was good for RP, I’ve got this feeling you’re pulling stuff out of your behind.

Strange habit that a lotta y’all seem to have.

Sharding for main cities.

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Right, I do seem to be wrong, I was certain it was a Tauren poster who was nay-saying CRP in its entirety. However I’ve also dipped a toe into the US thread, where I know some people were being much more… vocal.

My bad, I apologise on that front :slight_smile:

And it’s not that strange a habit; as a hobby that people are quite invested in, both creatively and quite literally i.e. subscription fees, people tend to get quite animated when things are less than peachy. Sadly Blizz seem to give us more reason to be down than they do up. C’est la vie.

As for the second part, do you mean un-doing Sharding on RP realms? Because even that still doesn’t work properly :upside_down_face:

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big good on that apology, all fine.

On sharding, I’m pretty sure I’ve yet to see non-AD in Stormwind, Ironforge, Orgrimmar, Teldrassil (:fire:) etc. As far as that goes, it works perfectly.

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Wait really? Because i’ve been seeing them ALL the time. IN the city. Not some leveling area, but in cath square. And that sharding is also a large issue, since sometimes we can’t see AD people, but need to relog and hope we are not once again be put in the wrong shard. Sharding is BAD. And should be burned at the stake, right along side who ever invented it.