{"id":491903,"date":"2025-11-15T03:12:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T03:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/article.php?article_id=2187259"},"modified":"2025-11-15T03:12:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T03:12:42","slug":"world-of-warcraft-is-relaxing-the-age-old-horde-vs-alliance-factional-divide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/world-of-warcraft-is-relaxing-the-age-old-horde-vs-alliance-factional-divide\/","title":{"rendered":"World of Warcraft is relaxing the age-old Horde vs. Alliance factional divide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/world-of-warcraft-is-relaxing-the-age-old-horde-vs-alliance-factional-divide.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Blizzard has announced the unthinkable: the Horde vs. Alliance factional divide in World of Warcraft is being relaxed. As in, soon you will be able to invite an Alliance character to your Horde instancing party and vice versa. No longer are we to be enemies! Now we shall be&#8230; ugh&#8230; argh&#8230; gah&#8230;. I can&#8217;t quite say it&#8230; Friends.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes from WoW boss Ion Hazzikostas, who announced and explained the decision on <a href=\"https:\/\/worldofwarcraft.com\/en-us\/news\/23761709\/development-preview-cross-faction-instances\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the game&#8217;s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2022-02-01-world-of-warcraft-is-relaxing-the-age-old-horde-vs-alliance-factional-divide\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2022-02-01-world-of-warcraft-is-relaxing-the-age-old-horde-vs-alliance-factional-divide\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blizzard has announced the unthinkable: the Horde vs. Alliance factional divide in World of Warcraft is being relaxed. As in, soon you will be able to invite an Alliance character to your Horde instancing party and vice versa. No longer are we to be enemies! Now we shall be&#8230; ugh&#8230; argh&#8230; gah&#8230;. I can&#8217;t quite say it&#8230; Friends. The news comes from WoW boss Ion Hazzikostas, who announced and explained the decision on the game&#8217;s website. Read more Source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":491904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurogamer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>World of Warcraft is relaxing the age-old Horde vs. Alliance factional divide | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Blizzard has announced the unthinkable: the Horde vs. Alliance factional divide in World of Warcraft is being relaxed. 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