its never nice when ur fighting on the losing side…
i know… been there many times…
its nice to be on the right side of the wall for once on this matter.
join us the grass is so much greener.
No, it doesn’t imply that.
The difference it makes to us, as Alliance players, is that we can start a group that’s open to either faction and fill the missing spots from a greater pool of players. We don’t rely on finding the people we need to fill our group from only Alliance players. For me, that takes away the reason why I’ve been considering going Horde.
Yes it is? There’s loads of things to split it on still. How about the categories? By name? By expansion source, by item ID ranges, etc. Then use the business intelligence about the number of queries to decide which clusters get which queries at which point in time and then sync when the rate of queries is lower, i.e. during the night or the working day.
I don’t even think they need to actually think about this much if at all. These systems just handle it.
Ah, guild bank, forgot that one. Can just make bank alts though, but yes that is actually a guild feature.
Never-the-less, the guild bank is not the main point of the feature - in fact it wasn’t in the game at all for years. The fact that your reaction is “bruh, what” proves how little you actually understand about why this game has guilds.
You know where the grass is even greener? Outside the game entirely. That last one pal I have that I’m still playing with is gonna be the end of me, why am I still playing this tripe…
depends where u live and if u get plenty of rain … during the summer here especially in extremely hot seasons with drought … the grass is pretty brown in colour 
Blizzard are starting to remind me of the British government…whenever things are not going well, they announce something shiny that distracts people from the problems for a while.
Yeah, this change will help flexibility within the game but it doesn’t really scratch the surface with the improvements needed.
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It does otherwise you wouldn’t be able to restrict the group and stop it being seen by the other faction, you completely missed this basic point I made which quoted a line from Blizzard’s own update on this.
The problem is that the AH has a very big inequity with a small number of items. Just go to your AH and check what mining ore sells the most from Shadowlands. I am sure there will be hundreds of auctions on small realms and thousands on big realms just in one realm. Now imagine all realms combined in one region. No matter how much you split the data ore auctions can’t be split because if you want to buy that ore the query needs to check all auctions of that ore to find the cheapest. Blizzard could split the database with one machine per Shadowlands material item ID, and a few more from all the other pre-Shadowlands items that combined probably won’t reach the level of those individual items. And even with that, I believe it will be too much data.
This change is great. It took us nagging for a long time to have it happen, just like we had to for Classic, but I’m glad it’s coming.
I didn’t miss the point. I understood it perfectly well, but consider it irrelevant.
It’s irrelevant because when I make a group, I won’t restrict it. Thus, my group is open to applications from both factions.
Boosting addressed
cross faction addressed
tomorrow cross realm mythic raiding addressed and this addon could make a great turn
What you find irrelevant and what I do are two different things, you can stop talking at me now… 
Id rather they disabled racials in pvp too but guess its tine to have an NE rogue.
In order for this to happen not just volume but also liquidity needs to be utterly insane. Tens of thousands of requests every single minute for one item just to saturate one server.
But, assuming this unlikely scenario: Two servers handle searches, inserts are queued for sync in between searches, which we now have double capacity for. Some searches will not turn up every item, but if the market is this liquid, and trust me it isn’t but let’s assume that it is, this is not a problem. When a purchase is made query on internal keys on the other server. It takes far less time than a query to return yes/no to an indexed column - indeed we’re talking microseconds, maybe even less. If no data is received, pretend item was sold and offer the other price.
It’s imperfect, but no items are being sold twice and supported query volume is doubled, and it isn’t going to happen anyway; not even if they merged every continent. Nobody is able to tell that this is happening, either, the volume is just way too high to check.
I love all of this except RBG as battlegrounds are about factions fighting for territory. It makes sense in arena as gladiator’s doing their jobs and in PvE against common enemies of Azeroth, but taking away what BG’s are even more than f.ex horde vs horde because of scuffed faction balance makes them feel senseless from a Warcraft viewpoint. There should be some incentive left for same faction-play.
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You hurt my Gnome feelings…
I have visions of you sticking your fingers in your ears and saying ‘la la la’.
I was actually trying to engage you in conversation. You seem to be saying that giving players the ability to restrict which faction can see the group is a problem? Could you explain why you believe that?
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Can we all agree though that this is an historical moment for the game? 
More people, more friends, more keys (finally).
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I’d love them to implement a system to learn other languages spending time with neutral characters from the other faction.
oh thats nice
Alliance saved ?!
Finally the best patch change they have announced in recent years. Maybe all the time.
Thank you for the one who pulled his head out of *** and started reading what the players want.