Blizz randomly removes x-realm arena LFG from Cata Classic after 2 years for 0 reason

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For those of you who might not be aware, for some odd reason back in the beginning of the year, during the phase release, Blizzard made a quiet change to the LFG tool in classic, where the ‘Custom’ section (used by pvpers to find RBGs, arenas, etc.) is no longer cross-realm, meaning you only see groups on your realm for that section.

Folks were really confused at first, thinking it was just a bug introduced with the phase. Weeks go by, bugs being filed and posts being made, 0 response from Blizzard until finally on EU only, they get a response:

Hi everyone,

Sorry for the long wait for a reply, but we’ve had confirmation now that this is an intentional restriction rather than a bug.

I understand that’s not the answer many were hoping for, and as always please don’t hesitate to share your feedback and suggestions in the relevant parts of the forums, or through the game client directly.

In the meantime, I hope you’ll get a chance to get to know some of the regulars of your respective realms!

Mind you this feature was working for around 2 years since like, Ulduar back in WOTLK Classic. And 0 explanation on why this is now an internal restriction? What changed?

This has been almost a nail in the coffin for PvP and is going to completely ruin MoP. Cata Classic servers have issues with population/faction imbalances, so this is needly massively to find partners.

Imagine being on a dead realm on retail and only being able to do M+ with players also on your realm.

Can we get a community member to post this on our behalf at the community council forum? This is completely ridiculous. A feature we had for the previous 2 years just gone with 0 explanation. Like what???

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I am confused on how licensing rights would be involved in an internal tool that lists groups and presents them.

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Sorry, wrong thread, lol. But you are also in the wrong forum section.

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You should try here:

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Duh…pay your transfer fee like a good person! this was sarcasm in case meter broken.

see the other fun part to this is we may or may not be getting server consolidation in MoP. Its been looked iirc, but no word yet.

so…who wnats to pay that fee, to find out in MoP its free. Answer: not many. Which I totally get. They have mercy charge roll back maybe a week out. they have refunded for a change within a day or 2 for say surprise service sales. But not several months.

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But the Cata PvP community isn’t even super big, so I doubt Cata PvP transfer profits even sum up to anything significant to make it worth completely killing xrealm pvp for us. I am sure they make a majority on their other game modes.

What I suspect is, the dev(s) that implemented this functionality originally are no longer with the company, and there’s a bug they don’t know how to fix/dont have the bandwidth to pull someone off to fix.

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Most likely. same for the lack of LFR. We broke it for 10 mans, at least they said that upfront.

They could have put in 25 persons though, since that was in the code to start. But that be out of the box thinking probably lol.

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Can we at least get like…an acknowledgement of this problem on the US forums as well? The only info is in a random (now locked) EU thread…