In order to resolve the extremely long queues on many different battlegrounds groups, and other population issues - it can be quite easily solved by a controlled single sided cross faction change.
In the Oceanic community, Horde players are all averaging on 40-50 minute wait times on Alterac Valley games, thus would be an easy solution should it be controlled in a manner that doesn’t allow for extreme unbalancing.
It doesn’t have to be perfect, but it’s better than the original concepts on Retail where you merge multiple realms into one instance, or forcing another realm to merge with another upsetting small matters such as already pre-existing character names etc.
I can’t see too many negatives to this solution, does anyone see or have another way out of this mess?
Hmm, what was the response to months of Alliance talking about how severe imbalance was ruining the game for them? What was it the Horde was saying again?
Oh yeah, reroll or quit.
Don’t like the queues- reroll, or quit. Blizz didn’t do anything to help Alliance with the multitude of issues imbalance brought- so they’d better not do anything for the single issue Horde are facing.
Your response merely mimic’s a childish like mindset, is not constructive nor beneficial to this conversation.
You’re clearly holding onto emotional distress from the in-balancing of World PvP with the faction differences, resulting in you having the inability to see that further change is required and necessary to the overall health of the game.
Stay bitter pal, because your salt doesn’t help resolve this problem.
The alliance will NEVER ever let it go lol. It wasn’t the hordes fault they got annihilated for weeks. But they’ll be bitter about it until classics end lol.
A one way faction change would be great!!
I wouldn’t go. I’d just hope a heap of horde transfer.
Anything that can balance population should be welcome. But it should be on a realm population basis, not a battleground basis. Balancing realm population also carries the potential of balancing the battleground population.
The issue is probably going to be the shaman class. Blizzard would need to disable Horde shamans upon a faction change or something.
Funny, we said the same thing about the health of the community and game for the past few months- and the Horde gloated as thousands of players were unable to enjoy playing the game for hours at a time due to constant camping from every FP all the way to wherever they were going. And gleeful when thousands of players left the game.
You didn’t want solutions then- actually, you wanted the problem to get worse, and worse. And it did- and now you want Blizzard to come swoop in and save you because finally you’re facing an inconvenience?
There was plenty of time to try to get both factions to work together- waiting until it finally started to inconvenience the Horde and expecting sympathy is what’s childish.
The Alliance waited on rez timers and corpse ran to instances for months, wasting hours upon hours of our time. Maybe having to waste some time in queues will teach you a lesson in empathy, kid.
The whole “I was corpse camped so I don’t want to fix the overall issue to spite everyone else!” attitude clearly demonstrates that you’re quite young and unwilling to make compromise because a set of people impacted your initial WoW Classic experience.
This isn’t a US Election, there’s no need to hold grudges and cause obstruction towards any positive contribution in discussing an overall solution to this problem.
Regardless of your experiences thus far with the opposite faction, there is a problem with the balance of factions across multiple servers, and this doesn’t come down to just simply Battlegrounds queue’s - this also impacts the World PvP & questing environment as well.
People that get caught up with the whole Faction patriotism, make poor talking points on these discussions.
Since ranking is based on other players on your realm, I’d be curious as to why you’re using the term resolve, which suggests this is an issue.
What is the problem?
If anyone was actually worried about queue times, why would they not have rerolled months ago?
Or at least when people were complaining about faction imbalance during phase two. If that had lasted longer, it would have been an even better time to reroll.
I guess for many, their choices were initially made based off the unwillingness to stop and start over scratch during the initial race of first two weeks of launch. In terms of the casuals, I imagine some people were unaware of the issue but also did not want to commit time to be the one to resolve the problem.
I’d be curious to see how many people would be interested in changing factions now that most people have already established their characters, or at least give people the option to get an overall perspective of the volumes that may consider it.
Not saying that’s a definite answer to your question, but one that crosses my mind.
“Just reroll” - Like spending 10-20-30 days playing time again means nothing. It’s okay just reroll lmao.
I think people would much prefer to just change the faction on their already existing characters. Makes a lot more sense to me.
