World of Warcraft has been around for nearly two decades. In that time, Blizzard has never let Horde players take on raids and dungeons alongside Alliance members - until now. As part of the studio's upcoming updates, World of Warcraft is getting cross-faction instanced content.
The Alliance and the Horde are the two dominant factions of Azeroth, the fantasy world setting of World of Warcraft and the original Warcraft trilogy. For as long as history can remember, these two opposing factions have taken up arms against each other. But, in a surprise announcement, Blizzard has confirmed that things are changing going forward.
As Game Director Ion Hazzikosta explained in a Development Preview post, cross-faction cooperation will happen in World of Warcraft soon. Blizzard will put the feature to the test on the public test server as part of the game's 9.2.5 update. Hazzikosta added that the latest addition to World of Warcraft won't be complicated. Instead, all players have to do to access specific instanced content is to join a cross-faction community or add each other as friends. However, Hazzikosta warned that premade party members from different factions can still act hostile against each other outside of Dungeons, Raids, and rated PvP.