Well said.
Just started leveling an alt to play in the 39 bracket. This does not sound promising.
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This will not solve any issues as there is not an issue that needs to be solved. All this will do is ruin current BG queues and make them even longer than they have been. It will ruin friendships made and kill twink brackets. No one asked for this and no one supports this. Please do NOT implement this.
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Not saying you are wrong, but Blizzard makes decisions based on what you do with your wallet. I don’t know what other games you own from blizzard, but I would guess you have given blizzard plenty of $$ despite them “screwing up games” for apparently 10 years.
I’d argue they don’t even need to revert - merely exclude the non-60 bg instances from these restrictions. I can’t pretend to know what this looks like technically on the back end but it may not be anything more than a logical sorting rule in the bg system.
They should consider any option that doesn’t completely murder my preferred method of playing the game 
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I’ll humour you here and tell you that while I did buy Diablo 3, it was on the brand developed by Blizzard North. The product they put out I would have returned had I had that option. Blizzard is surviving on past blessings from far more talented developers. I honestly hope I’m proven wrong with Diablo 4 but it’s not looking too promising. On top of that, while I did buy a lot of future WoW expansions, the same inclination of past faith is what lingered. I won’t be buying Shadowlands, I can guarantee you that.
Undoubtedly. They will always make money in the end, and some of these changes people think will benefit them. Though I don’t see server only q’s being some godsend. The few supporters of this say “oh only a few more min in the queue, boo hoo”, but we don’t know. No one does until it happens, we can just base it on experience. And based on experience, I queue a LOT, and even with west coast AND east coast we STILL get 15-25 min queues. That’s undeniably a deterrent if it goes longer.
As for Blizz making money. Those who don’t want this and “leave” might be a rounding error, though I doubt it - as there’s literally thousands of twinks on community 19,29,39 discords alone who try to queue together. I just don’t see the huge upswing of it. I mean, last time they killed off twinking by incurring EXP in battlegroups, I quit and I know many others did too.
I guess the question is, are these changes going to cause a greater influx of people or make more people lose interest? I don’t do 60’s anymore, raiding feels endless. So even for those ppl in the 60 bracket, changing the holiday to give 2 extra hours or whatever doesn’t seem like it’s going to be some game - changing decision that will solidify their fanbase, versus losing those who queue for the lower brackets. So yeah, blizz makes $$, but financially it still seems like a really unsound decision.
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Another change to help horde grind honor… amazing how all of these changes effect horde in a positive way.
What on earth are you smoking? This change shrinks the pool size, thus increasing the queue time EVEN FURTHER.
This change isn’t going to help horde rankers in any way.
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50 mins in queue so far for what used to be 10 minutes max /sigh
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hour in queue 19s west. no games going. blizzard pls
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One hour in queue for 19s east
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From the release of classic until last night, I was never in a battleground queue for more than 35 minutes.
I have now been in this queue for 1 hour and 15 minutes, and there are 0 games available.
Sigh. Time to unsub.
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Ironic post of the week
I understand and support Blizzard’s decision to do this at level 60. People have often talked about seeing the same people when there was no cross-serve BGs.
I do not support this decision for any bracket below 60. The lower level brackets have active games but no where near what the 60 bracket does. This will dramatically increase Q times for everyone.
You could have just set all honor based on Zulu time.
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Did you forget about all the queues you screwed by doing this? Especially in the lower brackets now the queues are even worse than they were originally.
Was this some massive ploy by blizz to lure in more transfer money as people try to leave their ruined BG groups?
1hr ques from what use to be 10 minutes max. This is so horrible for the non 60 brackets. Going to get alot of Unsubscribes for this if it is not fixed for non 60’s
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This is really the best option available to you? This is going to have a LOT of negative consequences. This really can’t be the way to go… can it?
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Blizzard, this change negativity impacts the lower level PvP community. By splitting the already small twink community you are increasing queue times which will cause some players to quit. Please revert this change for lower level brackets.
Aww, you’re out East? My Alliance toons (Mezlan etc) are out West. Well, it was nice playing with you.
Bye.
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