Queue times are up.
Familiar faces are gone.
Thought we weren’t making changes? I also think justifying this decision with some nonsense about BG holidays is bogus.
…this is blizzlike
they have been dividing E and W servers since before WoW
Players with different home data centers shoulda never been playing eachother
Terrible, what gives blizzard?
To the top with you
I used to play BGs In the mornings…
Now i just post on the forums…
Wonder why
Hey Imago, I recognize you from WSG, we had a few games together right before the split. I remember being impressed by you working your butt off on both sides of the field, and you had the winning cap in what was a really fun victory for us.
Glad to see that we’re still in the same battlegroup, but it sucks about all the players we don’t see anymore. We had a really great thing going before this setback.
Hope to see you out there again someday.
Bump this mow
Wow, the irony in this post is unbelievable. All those posts from people arguing against cross-realm Battlegrounds, claiming the community would suffer as players would just be a homogeneous blob of unrecognizable faces.
Now we have a post arguing FOR the return of a single Battlegroup among East and West players, as the familiar faces from the other side of the country are gone.
Every argument against cross-realm Battlegrounds was weak, all these complaint posts are evidence of that. Splitting the community in two has wreaked havoc among the Battleground community; imagine splitting it into 37 groups like people originally wanted.
Hate what’s happened to this game
My queue times are less than 5 minutes.
The two horde servers who would 5+ premade are no longer on my battlegroup.
Overall the quality of my games has gone up.
No complaints from me
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Yep. BG Holidays suck…
Certainly. We had something that we didn’t want, but it was the way it was, from the beginning.
Now it has changed. People aren’t happy with the change.
Splitting Battlegroups doesn’t bring us any closes to having server only BGs either, so it’s not like there is any irony in those who may have advocated for server only BGs being against splitting the Battlegroups.
The irony is the OP stating that the familiar faces are gone, when this was one of the original points the community made against the implementation of cross-realm Battlegrounds.
It’s ironic that cross-realm led to a strong community within the lower level brackets, when without cross-realm BGs, there would have been no community at all.
That isn’t irony.
The #changes that have happened to the game have been adapted to. Further #changes mean there needs to be further adaptation.
This change does not appear to have any benefit to players.
FWIW, I don’t particularly care, but I’ve been playing BGs more since this change, and the influx of comments on the forums about it than I had before.
i·ro·ny
noun
a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result.
This situation is VERY ironic.
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It really isn’t.
People who wanted server only BGs wanted those rivalries, and the familiarity of community members. This could exist in BGs as well as in open world PVP.
That those same people may prefer to have BGs be the way they had adapted to them, rather than a further change from what they had had to adapt to is in no way ironic.
(NOTE: that is assuming the same people)
- Forums state that cross-realm BGs will kill the PvP community and no rivalries will develop because we’ll be faceless opponents in a cross-realm setting.
- Blizzard splits the cross-realm community in two, thus bringing us to a more Vanilla like set of Battlegroups.
- Forums state that Blizzard has killed their community and the familiar faces are gone.
The irony is that having BGs fully cross-realm is what allowed this community to thrive. Had the community convinced Blizzard to forgo the implementation of cross-realm BGs for the sake of “community”, there wouldn’t have been a community, as is evidenced by the state of the forums after splitting cross-realm BGs into 2; imagine splitting it into 37.
Fair enough, if that’s your perspective.
My perspective is that the community worked despite the situation (cross realm BGs), and the change made that more difficult.
Personally, I don’t care much, but if we didn’t have cross realm BGs from the beginning, and didn’t even implement them, then certain realms could cultivate groups and be known for twinking at particular brackets (or perhaps a single realm for twinks would surface).
I don’t know, and we may never know - whatever community had formed is now split in half, and will have to reform to survive.
While it is entirely possible that this may be the case, it isn’t proven that it is. It could very well be that despite cross realm BGs, communities formed. And those communities recently were cut in half, which is a rather devastating blow.
That isn’t to say that they will not grow back, nor that they cannot grow back.
One thing that we can say Blizzard has been consistent with when it comes to WoW is #ConstantChange. Whether that change is good or bad, I don’t know…
But whenever there is change, it seems that some people complain.
Seems that only high level alliance characters are coming on here to spew nonsense.
Dont know why they are such salty gamers.
Still need a blue response