It was touted that the point of MoP would be a massive escalation of WAR between the two factions. Bringing back the WAR to WARcraft.

Cross faction raiding, even with real ID, means that concept has to be put aside for this circumstance. Even Blizzard could not back peddle that largely for a mechanic.

I prefer EQ's handling of this, and would love it to be expanded on in a game. There are good and evil races. EVERYONE speaks a Common Tongue, and each race has it's own language. In the open world, you can group and raid and talk with whomever you want. You can learn other Racial languages if you spend enough time around people speaking it. Racial bias is up to the player. Just don't expect to be a High Elf and be able to walk into the Dark Elf city without guards swarming you.

Let all sides work together for the open goal - but keep the factions there and up to the players just how much they want to follow those set-in-stone guidelines in their own RP.

Me? As a Draenei player, I see myself spending too much time dueling with the Orcs and Blood Elves in my raid to get anything done.

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