We wanted to give everyone a very early heads-up that, in response to player requests, we’re developing a new service for World of Warcraft that will allow players to change their faction from Alliance to Horde or Horde to Alliance. There’s still much work to do and many details to iron out, but the basic idea is that players will be able to use the service to transform an existing character into a roughly equivalent character of the opposing faction on the same realm. Players who ended up creating and leveling up characters on the opposite factions from their friends have been asking for this type of functionality for some time, and we’re pleased to be getting closer to being able to deliver it.

As with all of the features and services we offer, we intend to incorporate the faction-change service in a way that won’t disrupt the gameplay experience on the realms, and there will be some rules involved with when and how the service can be used. The number of variables involved increases the complexity of implementing this service, but we plan to take the time needed to ensure that it lives up to expectations before officially rolling it out. We’ll go into much more detail on all of this here at http://www.WorldofWarcraft.com as development progresses. In the meantime, we wanted to let you know that because this type of functionality requires extensive internal testing well in advance of release, you may be seeing bits and pieces of the service in the test builds we use for the public test realms moving forward.

我们想先知会大家一声，应玩家的要求，我们正在开放一项新的服务，使玩家可以在联盟和部落之间实现阵营切换。这个功能还在开发中，很多细节需要解决，但基本的想法就是让玩家可以将一个现有的角色转化为同服务器的对立阵营角色。长久以来部分因在相互敌对阵营建立了角色以致无法和朋友们一起玩的玩家都提出了这个需求，现在我们很高兴能够着手解决它。

就像我们提供的其他功能和服务，我们也不希望阵营转换影响到服务器的游戏本身，在服务开放的同时也会出台一些相关规定。诸多可变因素增加了实现这项服务的复杂性，不过在正式发布前我们会花时间反复测试以保证它正常运行。我们会在WOW官网不断更新此项开发的进度。我们提前透露这个消息是因为这类服务在发布前都需要大规模的测试，未来你们可能在PTR上看见相关的测试版本。

原帖：http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=18031079410&sid=1