This is not a whining thread, but the less inclined might see it is such. I hope instead of being a troll you might leave this post alone for Blizz.
Dear Blizz, I am a vanilla player. Many of those on my server and in my guild are too. These are not retail players, but ppl like me who quit retail a long time back. You can check my account and see that I have not been a paying customer for some four years. Others are the same.
Classic brought me back. Or I should say old friends called me to drag me back, but I did come willingly. The grind to 60, doing the dungeon runs, building a guild, trying to get raid ready, PvP when it happens, all that was good with more old players coming back.
Then you dropped the bomb.
It doesn’t matter if you are on a Horde heavy server or an Alliance heavy server, the world PvP has made the game unplayable (read that word twice please) for the faction on the receiving end of the honor farming.
PvP is fine. But you have to be able to PvP. When every flight path is camped by 10-30 of the opposing faction and the Flight master is even dead, you just feed the meat grinder. That’s not game play. That’s just one side exploiting the game for honor points and the other side getting even smaller as players quit, or try to Xfer off.
Just last night the guild had a discussion about xfering. Turns out on my server, the faction in the minority can NOT xfer, or even do a paid xfer. Players are complaining that even 5 man groups can’t level up and quest without being camped by raid groups. Trying to get to a dungeon requires 5+ deaths along the way which translates into an extra 30+ mins of gameplay gone. Ppl are tired of it, it is not playable because there is no PvP solution.
Even when the minority faction bands into raid groups and goes out fight, it doesn’t change anything. The game is still unplayable as intended. Yes, some would say the PVP is working as intended. I disagree. 30 enemy players camping a flight path just to blow away each enemy player as they land individually is not PvP nor even sporting, it’s just farming honor points.
So, solutions? You better get some rolling before your cash cow dries up.
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Make the guards at all Flight points have some teeth. Maybe add guards. I was at gadget the other night and all the bruisers were dead. Never saw that happen before. As a rogue I was able to get away, but others were not. With the GY right next to Gadget every player killed got killed a few more times before they could body hop out of the area.
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Maybe open BG’s right now? It’s just a switch on your end. Flip it on.
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Add a 30-60 min queue for the faction you want to xfer. Just offering a free xfer for players from a server they DOMINATE isn’t going to give them any incentive. Why leave a server where you can farm honor points to your heart’s content and not spend much time running back to your body? They won’t take the xfer until you make them take it.
I’m not a retail player. Not interested in it. I’m all for PvP. But what is happening right now isn’t it. One side is just making the other side unable to play. It is costing you customers as people just do something else with their free time. I would like to see classic continue to thrive, but this world PvP roll out is something as close to a failure as it gets. It only works if both sides can play, and my 10 guys in a raid group can’t do anything against 40 on the other side except feed them honor points. People then stop playing.
Good luck, hopefully you folks get something done this coming Tuesday to fix this. Because when you won’t even allow people to pay you to xfer their toon, the next option for them is to just quit entirely. I walked away for four years. It’s same with many others, and this time none of us will come back if we gotta give up because we can’t even land at a Flight path without getting ganked repeatably.
