Cross Realm BGs will damage the ranking system in Vanilla. People will just be able to sub afk bgs constantly for 7 days straight and get the same honor as people who will be doing hardscore premade grinds during peak times.
Battlegrounds should not always be popping.
World PVP is a requirment to make rank over others, when you arn’t in a BG you are flying to the closest 55+ contested zone and killing people to get the xtra honor.
People are deterred from afking and botting in bgs due to everyone in the BG being on there server and knowing those people. If you get the title of a BG afker there is a good chance your rep on the server is going to tank. If you never see people from your server in BGs people are more prone to afk or just grief/act toxic.
He was caught because of the community and Blizzard banned his account.
They now have even better anti-cheating detection. Account sharing will be even more harshly punished than before.
AFK players do not win games, and the players in your own server will defame your reputation for doing so.
I get the impression a lot of the cheating that took place in original vanilla did so in under populated dumpster backwater servers that no one cares about.
Kinda makes me think these are the same folks who also had bad experiences with Q’s and server balance…