That’s an interesting theory worth consideration for sure.
Cross faction epic BGs would be a bit strange for Ashran, AV and IOC since they are very faction based maps. Perhaps, just use cross faction for 10 and 15 man maps and leave epics alone.
Epic BGs have been having shorter queue times than nonepics quite often in DF and that never or happened very rarely in previous expansions IIRC.
Also: I played in the original beta for vanilla, do I count as oldschool?
U don’t count as old school if u played beta but not actual game until recently. Also if u were “old school” u would know that there wasn’t bgs or hks for months from launch. Also I’m sure the company did promote the game at launch as a pvp thing which strengthens my point that they went pve for two decades as the main focus and pvp has always been an afterthought. This has been a pve game with some pvp things in it. They basically left it to the player base to make pvp better. And would tweak things here and there after enough complaints. Just like this cross faction thing. I don’t really care either way if it happens. I’ll still pvp. But I rather it be a faction vs faction thing. Or even a ffa game where only guild members can’t be killed.
in order to have cross faction play not be a total disaster, blizz needs to enable premades to queue as a raid and then have the queue system try best effort to match premade with premade within a reasonable time.
an alternative solution would be to allow cross faction groups to queue, but put that party on the faction of the party leader. this would allow cross faction play while still forcing premades to use syncing to try and get multiple groups into the same game. the issue with this is that some groups will still drop to get all 8 groups into one game. hence the jump in logic to queueing as a raid.
Why would I play beta for Vanilla and then not play it when it went live? And the “all that” was the fighting in the Barrens, Ashenvale and the TM/SS back and forth fights which the current brawl is based on.
since GG just folded SAS is without a challenger, have you considered getting into epics and starting your own community? new playstyles means new challenges, do you think you have what it takes?
Bored on the toilet here added up your bg total for this toon against just og’s total and u are around a 1000 short of how many just og has done. As for joker I would hope he has done 25k bgs with that amount hks. But I’m still wondering why he is lacking in the achieves with that many played. Sounds like user error lmao.
Why would it be a total disaster if you can’t queue as a premade raid?
To optimize balance and queue times, it’s best if the matchmaking system decides which faction the party plays for.
Queues won’t get shorter if players get to select which team they’re on, i.e. the dominant faction.
I doubt Blizzard will design their cross-faction system to accommodate premade raids. If anything, this will be another opportunity to add more countermeasures against cheaters.