I looked at ironforge.pro and noticed the population is already shifting more in Horde's favor

Pay attention folks. Anybody can be this guy on the internet.

Well somebody explain my lying eyes to me then, because the Alliance is dying as we speak, and Horde vs Horde isn’t even back yet. These numbers have shifted RECENTLY, because I use that website somewhat regularly. It’s the PvP change. The boosts just make it even easier to reroll. That’s exactly what I did.

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I’m not suggesting it’s ideal. I’m simply pointing out that it’s not like this is some hypothetical. Alliance are actually rerolling. And as more and more do, it creates an increasingly bad situation for people who don’t have the luxury of being able to reroll easily

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Ya. My group of friends and I say the same thing.

Current blizzard is definitely not happy that classic is more popular than retail.

The developers anyways, the shareholders don’t care I’m sure. Money is money

Doubt many did it that way, most are returning players who already know what they like and want.

Classic isn’t more popular than retail. It’s not even really close tbh.

And I don’t think they’re unhappy in the jealous sense. I’d imagine they are a little unhappy but it’s likely more because retail is where the vast majority of their resources go so it should be performing better than it is. They just released a massive patch that took them almost a year to release and most of the buzz is around their biggest competition who haven’t even dropped their expansion yet. Its not a great look

i see 55-45 but okay

Instant BG queues is more important than server faction balance to these selfish people.

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Filter it to U.S PvP servers and you’ll see it as I said. PvP servers are being impacted the most for obvious reasons I think.

pvp servers arent the only servers. i filtered to US. 55-45.

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The people supporting HvH BG are just being self centered and really do not care about the health of the game. They just want what they want and they want it right now.

They are all retail tourists who will not be playing in a few months anyway and by then the players who really wanted TBC will be left with just a shell of a community.

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The metrics are shifting on all servers. PvP servers are the most impacted. PvP servers are the best microcosm within which to gauge the impacts of PvP changes. No? Looking at PvP servers gives a more accurate understanding of the impact on PvP balance.

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Now exclude the PvE servers.

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no

55-45 is what it was before.

nothing was changed in pvp balance wise. there was a weekend test in which horde got fast queues. even if it was permanent its not a balance change. and even if it did affect alli transferring to pve servers, overall faction balance stays the same. there have been plenty of imbalanced servers because thats what people like now. they transfer to the 99% in their favor.

why? they count too.

You heard it here folks. No big PvP changes or announcements that could possibly impact the balance of PvP.

He doesn’t get it. I don’t care. I’m going to go smoke weed for a while and I might be back.

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Because

and because the most likely scenario is that the majority of people on PvE servers don’t queue for BGs, and the ones that do, don’t queue in high enough numbers or often enough to really skew the numbers. Excluding them gives a more realistic picture than including them.

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The bulk of the players probably came from post-catsclysm WoW…

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well thats just silly. just because you dont wanna pvp in the open world doing other things doesnt mean you dont do BG/arena.

Don’t agree with that, but there is defintely a possibility.