I think this is awesome.
The majority of people don't twink, and that means that the majority will probably like this. I twink a lot, but I also have a 80 human priest that I don't play. Now he can be a troll instead! ^^
Yeah...right now its nice, allaince has some things we don't, and horde have some alliance don't (yeah yeah QQ horde has more) but if they do this, how many guild are going to make it manditory that you switch to get the BiS for your toon? I really don't like this, but w/e - we'll see how it works
I'm not jumpin to anything, because this change won't happen for like 5 months+ - but man this game has deteriorated since vanilla (imho)
Reality check...
you're gonna pay 25$ just to be able to get inferno robe ?
blizzard said it was a new service, you're gonna pay for it, real money !
you really think that twinking will get away with it that easily ?
believe it when i say that an alliance with inferno robe on will be extremely rare !
i dont say people won't do it, but i am saying that only the most whackiest of all twinks will be doing it, they are quite rare if you ask me !
I bet you will see a lot more than you think, people that are serious about twinking with 25k+ HK's will gladly pay 25$ to change race and get a whole bunch of new BiS gear. If people pay 25$ regularly to transfer servers and buy TGC items, I don't think it'll be too rare, not amongst the people who really care atleast.
I think it comes down to, What will make Blizzard money? If allowing twinks to transfer factions to get items and then transfer back nets them $50 extra bucks they profit. Now it falls on the player, what are you willing to do to stay competitave in the BGs?
i really don't think you'll be able to keep your faction specific items when you change, but hey...blizzard has done crazier things