joemann wrote:I have always found it funny, as in ironic funny, that players cannot speak to players from the opposite faction they are, yet NPCs can.
For example, the Cenarion peeps are primarily Nights Elves and Taurens and they can speak to each other, but Night Elf players can not speak to Tauren players and vice versa.
Another example is in the cinematic right before the quest to reclaim Undercity: you have humans and orcs and undead speaking to each other. Also, on the Undercity quest you have some of the Faction leaders speaking to each other.
Anyway else find this frustratingly peculiar? I wonder if Keydar will ever do a comic making fun of this peculiarltiy?
Obviously I am in favor of Blizzard allowing cross-factional in-game speaking. It would be cool if a player could do quests to learn the other races languages in order to speak cross-factionaly.
Sometimes though, you can imagine what I call "bullshit lore" or "unwritten yet potentially true" things that work it out. For example, Thrall was locked up in a human encampment for a very long time, and is also friends with Jaina. It is highly possible that they taught one another their languages, or that Thrall learn Common from the encampment. Varian was also captured by orcs, and was at one point even referred to by an orcish name, Lo'gosh. It's possible that even he picked up orcish from being captured just as Thrall did (their back stories are mind-numbingly similar).
Undead were humans once, so it's maybe possible that after so long a time they remember how to speak common, or just never forget how, but the fact that they are dead and sometimes missing jaws caused them to create their own language in order to better understand one another.
IIRC, Tauren and Night Elves never really HATED one another, so when the Cenarion Circle formed between all their druids, they didn't do faction-wise things such as half the city is Night Elves and the other half is Tauren. It's also possible that they learned one another's languages while up in Moonglade because the language barrier can be kind of poopy when all you can do is point and grunt.
I would also really like cross-faction language barriers taken down, but I think it also adds something to the game by not being able to talk to your enemies. If a tauren warrior comes to beat down my rogue and I say "no stop", he can't understand me and I die. But if he could understand me, the potential of him stopping is raised.
tl;dr yes it sucks but too bad