Even though I have enjoyed the game and the classic community. I cannot in good conscience continue to give money to a company completely disconnected from the people who support them.
Blizzard has allowed massive faction imbalances and PvP exploits to completely ruin the experience of what was once a fantastic game. Correcting these issues is not nearly as complicated as Blizzard wants you to believe. Instead, they would rather just continue to take our money and ignore the glaring problems the game currently has.
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First problem is a player created one. Second one is just vanilla.
You knew what you were getting into
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Faction imbalance is a player made issue. Outside of forced faction changes with blizzard pointing a gun at your head they cant balance them. Players are free to pick their faction and race.
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Thank you for not complaining for how pvp was unfair to UD Shadow priest.
We both know u resub next month for BWL.
Peace mate
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You thought you did, but you didn’t.
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How was I to know that the horde was going to have a massive numerical advantage in classic? When I played Vanilla the alliance had the numerical advantage.
If you asked five different people on any realm they were going to give you five different answers regarding population percentages.
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You coulda switched before phase 2 …at that point you knew your server population and you weren’t too invested in your toon.
But people were too stubborn to refill after A FULL MONTH omg… the agony of starting over…
And yet half of us have multiple alts all over the place
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Just cancelled my 6 month renewing as well. My GF got me 60 days for Xmas, I’ll use that since my 6 months doesn’t end until next month some time I think.
The whole AV/BG thing has just left a really bad taste in my mouth overall. They rush released content and then allow one faction to blatantly exploit a loophole for a massive imbalance.
Grobbulus is like 50/50 ally/horde and we had huge wpvp going on and it was back and fourth constantly with Horde getting destroyed a lot. I was averaging over 120 honor per kill early on, just running around fighting solo and 2v1 3v1 etc…(odds against me).
I was so excited for Battlegrounds…no more deathballs, no more enemy zerg just winning from sheer numbers, no more 5 Horde zerging the 1 dude I’m trying to fight…and then this happens LOL. AV is nothing but an Alliance 40 man deathball spam healing itself and absolutely destroying any team they come against that isn’t incredibly lucky.
Horde has 5-10 people afk/fishing, while the premade kicks anyone doing this.
Horde can be Bracket 12-13 with afk’ing…so, of course like all people taking the path of least resistance, you have well geared, skilled players who are choosing to afk simply because the entire thing is such a joke they don’t wanna spend real energy on it.
I had planned to play out all of classic through AQ and everything and might still do some BWL and a tad of raiding, but after I finish R13 I’ll stop playing regularly and dunno about continuing my subscription.
I wanted some fair pvp with 40v40 on equal teams…whether that’s prem vs prem or pug vs pug, idc, I just wanted something reasonably fair. The current meta is a joke and doesn’t produce team fights that are anything close to what a reasonable person would consider fair.
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Faction imbalance is the easiest issue to fix.
Setting a quota of first 500, 1000, 2000 players to sign up for faction change get it.
No one would need to be forced.
TF you get your logic from anyway?
Hopefully everyone here, despite your kneejerk witty responses or your stance on some issues, realize that this IS a major issue and that it needs to improve.
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Partially, however it’s fueled by the lack of balancing mechanisms. People go to one side or the other because of actual and perceived game issues. For example, racial abilities or look or story.
Once you have a tilt in one direction it tends to slide from there. More people join one side because their friends are there, or one side is perceived as the PVP side, and so on.
The game needs to be tuned in order to have a centering force that tilts it back to the balance. Maybe the side with more people levels a bit slower or there’s slower ways to gear up, maybe the weaker side gets an NPC champion who does something for them, some sort of reason for people to roll on the weaker side.
Done early enough this balancing force can be small, little corrections will have enough effect. However, once things go on for a while the corrections need to be very large to convince enough people to switch.
So, yes, this is a player issue but that doesn’t mean that Blizzard can’t affect it.
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well is what it is pal. go back to retail
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They could give servers a % cap on the amount of people allowed to be on at any given time.
For example, the maximum a server can hold is 51% of a certain faction and 49% of the other faction. That way, the server will always be balanced.
A side effect would be faction specific queues, and the faction with a higher pop will have a longer queue time, but such is the trade off for a player who wants to roll as the dominating faction.
However the positive effect is that this solution would’ve prevented the mess we saw in Phase2 with BRM runs lasting 45min, along with far less queue times for BGS as the dominating faction, along with an overall well balanced server.
Yeap, saw this all coming a mile away. Switched long before P2 and am enjoying life alliance side. If you stuck to your guns and stayed horde i can respect that but take some accountability before blaming others for your choices.
Just saying
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I knew. Everyone knew. If you claim you didn’t know, I would suspect that you are trolling. In actual vanilla you might not have known, but horde is now widely accepted as the “pvp faction”.
Even if you ignored all that for 15 years, by day 3 or 4 of Classic’s launch population information was widely available. You knew.
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Month? People were complaining after hitting level 20 that they were too invested to reroll lmao.
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Not sure how much you value your free time, but I value mine.
There was no reliable number on population percentages. We only really discovered how bad they were once horde queues skyrocketed.
But hey, continue with the pretentious comments.
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While I’ve spent a better portion of agreeing with a few of these players, I also agree with your stance on the issue.
Try not to take responses personally, it is the nature of the beast that is WoW Classic General Discussion.
I don’t know why people of a gaming community would want to encourage people with real issues to quit. Such activity eventually leads to the death of the game itself.
That said, IMO, the simplest change to faction imbalance is to buff Alliance PvP racials. The root cause of PvP faction imbalance is that Horde racials are too good for PvP.
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