Is there any reason for factions in BG's?

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For crying out loud if there 1,000 horde players and 70 Alliance in que, for gods sake merge them and cut the que down by 95%, we just want to pvp…We also want decent games. An Ally team with half horde and fresh 60 mercs isn’t the answer, a 14 minute Horde que to get curbstomped and 200 honor by a Sargeras premaid isn’t the answer.

Just let people enjoy BG’s, let us use all the gizmo’s you have created and have fun. the horde vs. alliance model is a complete fail right now. throw us all into a mix, fast ques, and closer games. No one loses.

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Merc mode exists.
And it is optional. Making it so that is automatically randomly assigned to one side or the other is not a good thing.

It would make it much more difficult to queue with friends and run BGs together as a team.
I would not like to be forced to go against the people I am queuing with, as cooperative gameplay is something many folks are lacking, so running with friends, promoting cooperative gameplay, is not something that should be taken away, or else it would negatively affect the experience of BGs.

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No it wouldn’t. If you are grouped up, you play together. open your mind a smidge.

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Factions are a big part of what makes this game fun. Whether you’re on team horde or team alliance, that slight “hatred” for the opposite faction really adds to the experience.

I don’t know if they have done this already, but I think they should just have all servers Q together, and open up more BGs.

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mercenary mode punishes, sometimes, the alliance by having horde gearing alts, better make horde fight horde like in rated bgs

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Fully agree, OP.

Not in PVP. It’s skills-based content, not RP based content. I think none of the maps exist in-game.

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I only speak for pvp, I haven’t done a rai since Naxx in WOTLK. Having that extra level of determination is part of what makes Wow the best mmo of all time.

The players are passionate about the faction they represent. If you’re losing BGs a bunch, it is probably because the Horde just want to win more.

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This isn’t a fact.

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“Part”

To say it isn’t fact, you are saying that not a single player in the entire Wow community cares about the faction they represent. You are using your own opinion to create your own facts.

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Actually it would make it easier to queue up with your friends. You and I could queue together, despite being opposite factions.

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the last few expansions thats gone out the window…

that feeling truly left the game with shared cities tbh. neither faction wanted anything to do with one another, back when goblins were neutral.

the entire premise of the game had been faction conflict and they’ve steered so far away from that core element that, well… why draw the line there?

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Everything you mentioned has nothing to do Blizzard moving away from factions, but money.

Oribos is the laziest designed city of any expansion I have ever seen. Just 2 circles stacked on top of eachother. Why? Saves time and money and they can deliver another expansion 2 years after the previous.

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that maybe true, for sure.

but if they really wanted to be blizzard, they would do something more than what we see now.

I don’t believe that every single orc aligns with horde in their beliefs, so why not have orca on alliance.

or why not have a fall out, betrayal, etc between a race and faction and move them entirely to the opposing faction.

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From a lore perspective, the alliance and Horde are very racist and hate eachother. Especially after the shennanigans of Sylvannas.

Blizzard is losing many of its major founders to other games, so let us see what comes of it. But there is a reason classic wow was so popular.

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agreed, it really felt like you were completely against an entire nation that was threatening your own, now it doesnt. the feel is gone.

with that said, if theyve allowed the faction conflict to decay to its current state then why not open quality of life changes, like faction on faction pvp, since the main argument is already weakened.

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In a way it already has. Rated pvp is neutral, I think the only solution for you would be an option to Q for random BGs as both ally and horde, instead of choosing to go merc or not.

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The reason would probably be nostalgia. I guess there’s really no point to factions in pvp anymore.

But they’d have to make it so different factions can communicate

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I’ve seen the cutscenes. Everyone speaks English anyway.

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:rofl:

well done.

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There is no meaning of alliance vs horde already anymore, alliance is full of low geared fresh horde mercenaries. They better just mix the pool completely, current system only harms Alliance winrates.