From the producer letter:
Remember what I said about focusing on the present? Well, we couldn’t let a producer’s letter go by without giving you at least a small peak at the future, now could we? Well, here’s the bombshell: By 1.3.6 players will have the capability to play as both Order and Destruction on the same server.
I am honestly very surprised by this bomb of an announcement. I guess right off the bat, I am not seeing the benefit to this, just the negatives.
1) Most importantly, this is a huge blow to realm pride. It is a bit funny, because I was just about to start doing some articles on the blog about restoring realm pride to Warhammer. Obviously one of the biggest problems with the city seige being participation based is you need to rely on realm pride to be greater then the desire to just roll over and let the enemy take your lands if you are locked out on offensive city timer and can get loot for defensive city timer. I know for a fact the devs agree with that as well, and this seems to be a HUGE GIANT step backwards making things even worse.
2) Your cross realming community is already cross-realming. They are also paying for 2 accounts to do it.
3) A large amount of the people not cross-realming are not cross-realming for a reason. This is a strong subject for many people, and this is where Mythic must have different information then my assumptions, but I would definately assume they will lose a good number of subscriptions over this, and gain very few.
4) It is going to hurt some guilds that have members jump to the other side with their main account, then be locked out of their current guild.
Obviously this is a very snapshot opinion as this information was just released. I will do another entry in a month or so, after I have heard some information and tried to determine what would prompt this by Mythic.