The Classic servers are intending to offer the original classic experience. Added in June 2005, Battlegrounds existed as server-specific up until August of 2006. Meaning 13 of the 19 months of Battleground’s existence were as server-specific battlegrounds.
The previous year of WoW’s time had community rivalry and development feed into the enthusiasm later capitalized in battlegrounds; This is the environment which high-warlord grinding was done in, where premades were scrapped together knowing the your rival Guild was playing that night. It was only in the last 6 months, during the knowledge of the upcoming expansion whilst the relevance and enthusiasm of PvP rank was at its lowest, that the game introduced cross-realm queueing.
Cross-realm Battlegroups existed in Classic WoW; Yes. But Realm-only Battlegrounds were significantly more relevant in defining the Classic WoW Battleground Experience. The last six months we’re the least impactful on the PvP experience and allowing players from the beginning to avoid facing against their own server for server-specific titles and prestige is a inauthentic representation of the original experience.
Out of all the single decisions that could alter PvP from how it was experienced in Classic WoW, Making Battlegrounds cross realm is perhaps the most significant one. This is less of an opinionated post on which I would personally prefer, it is attempt to point out that this change is an error; an antithetical choice to the intended goal to replicate Classic WoW as realm-specific battlegrounds are more reflective of the Classic experience than cross-realm battlegrounds.
There will be no universal consensus on if it is a good or a bad design idea; I would say maintaining familiarity and community takes priority over convenience, others will respectfully say long queue times are the death of BG Enthusiasm; what we should all agree on is; This isn’t classic, and that’s what matters most.
There is a lot of time for this change to occur; Battlegrounds won’t be implemented until Phase 3. The Classic development team has been really great about community feedback, please echo this suggestion so that we can have it corrected.
Thank you.