It says you can play in any alliance. This affects also to PvP?

Yeah, I would think so.

Now don't shoot the cute Khajiit and the nice Argonians, they are on your side now...

I imagine you can pick any alliance but once you DO pick it, you're IN it. So you cannot ~change~ your alliance willy-nilly to play for whichever alliance you want whenever you want. Could be wrong, of course, but that would REALLY screw with the heads of PvP'ers if a known "enemy" was suddenly on your side and then tomorrow he was back to being an enemy...

This actually excites me. People who think forced alliances fits lore more than breaks it doesn't know the lore.

I am playing an Argonian and have stated elsewhere that I feel forced into playing Ebonheard Pact even though it makes little sense for an Argonian to trust them enough to ally with them. Many Argonians live outside of the Black Marsh and trade with the races/cultures around the world. The only interest Argonians have in this upcoming war is to ensure Molag Bal does not take over Tamriel and if told through the Hist of the upcoming danger Argonians would ally with whom ever they liked best in order to stop this threat. They have no interest in controlling Cyrodiil for empire building reasons alone.

It would be MORE lore breaking being forced into a faction. They would choosing their own path depending on personal and situational reasons. Many could never look past the history between their race and the Dark Elves.

I'm confused....is the explorer pack included in the pre-order? Or is it its own seperate edition like the imperial pack? From what I'm looking at it looks like it's all included in one but I just wanted to be 100% sure before pre-purchasing. Thanks for any help.

You are correct, when you create a character you'll be able to choose what alliance you are in, but afterwards you cannot change it. (You can explore the other alliance territory as 50+ and 50++ content, like any other character).

So if you want to play as a Khajiit who hates elves, you can create them as a member of the Daggerfall Covenant. If you later decide elves aren't so bad, you can't decide to switch to Aldmeri Dominion.

Not intrest in controlling Cyrodiil , so their gonne betrey the fraction that was founded to fight with Molag Bal to join one of fraction that is primary interested in controlling Cyrodiil.

Also Argonians would ally with whom ever Hist thinks is a better choice and there is diffrenece between that and liking someone more.

To be honest I don't really care that much about it , personally I thought that orginal idea was much better, but majority wanted to join other fractions and I can respect that.

Someone will always control Cyrodiil. My character can leave the faction at any time he wishes. Your alternative is to support the Dark Elves in taking over Cyrodiil so they can expand their power to further surround the Black Marsh? What happens when the alliance breaks? The Argonians are now surrounded by a bolstered Dark Elf empire. OH SIGN ME UP! not. Argonians traded and worked with Imperials during their reign(s) so working with Bretons wouldn't be a far stretch but working under the yoke of the dark elves forever isn't a concept Argonians could live with for long.

Until, of course, you guys introduce a $30 alliance-switching scroll in the online store.