Here is the quoted statement:

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://w?ww.WorldofWarcraft.co?m 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.

Create your profession guide

If they approved, your site got listed on WorldOfWarcraft.com and prepare to receive a lot of traffic from them. Here is their announcement that they made on November 11.

Have you created your own high-quality profession guides? We plan on linking to the best player-created guides on a new special links page. If you’ve written an excellent guide about one of the game’s many professions, there’s a good chance we’ll link to it on worldofwarcraft.com! Here are the requirements:

• Guide must be focused entirely on at least one of the twelve professions of World of Warcraft
• Blizzard does not host guides; they must be hosted on your own web server
• Site must be capable of getting traffic from our web site (estimated 1,000-20,000 hits a day)
• Guides must contain quality information
• Must not contain offensive content or link to offensive content
• We will link to guides posted in the World of Warcraft forums only if they have been stickied by the Community Team
• Advertising links on your site must not link to sites that violate the World of Warcraft Terms of Use Agreement
• Broken links will be removed if site is down for a long period of time
• Blizzard reserves the rights to add/remove links at any time

To submit your guide, mail the link to wowguide@Blizzard.com. Don’t forget to include the profession in question in the subject line!

Well, interested? Submit your guide now! And if you don’t have it yet, you can start create the guide now, the chance is still open

WoW Midnight Release, be the first!

The location for the event are:

Best Buy 529 5th Ave.
New York, NY 10017 (212) 808-0309 November 12
Fry’s Electronics 3370 E. La Palma Ave.
Anaheim, CA 92806 (714) 688-3000 November 12
GameStop 151 Powell Street
San Francisco, CA 94102 (415) 362-7601 November 12
GameStop 10000 Research Blvd.
Austin, TX 78755 (512) 346-6437 November 12

Those location will be attended by the Developers and Executive of Blizzard Entertainment. In addition to these four US locations, similar events will be held internationally in Paris, London, Berlin, Madrid, Stockholm, Amsterdam, Mexico City, Taipei, and Seoul. Full details on the specific locations and plans for each of these events can be found at www.worldofwarcraft.com/es, www.wow-europe.com and www.worldofwarcraft.co.kr.

“We’ve been looking forward to these launch events all year,” said Mike Morhaime, CEO and cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment. “This is one of the few opportunities we get to meet with players in person, and we can’t wait to celebrate the release of Wrath of the Lich King with them.”

“GameStop expects World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King to be one of the biggest launches of the holiday season,” stated Bob McKenzie, senior vice president of merchandising, GameStop. “In fact, nationwide we are celebrating the release with GameStop ‘Lunar Fests’ at over 3,000 of our stores at midnight on November 13, so players can purchase the expansion and start exploring the new content right away.”

“In a year of record-breaking releases, Wrath of the Lich King is generating great excitement and will be another significant release,” said Jill Hamburger, Best Buy vice president games & movies. “Blizzard Entertainment titles have had tremendous success in our stores. We are excited about bringing gamers a great experience at the New York City launch event and providing them first access to Wrath of the Lich King at midnight openings at Best Buy locations across the country.”

You must note that there are limited numbers available, so it will be first come first serve, so make sure you arrive early. Can’t wait for World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Midnight Release!