The Classic Experience, did not have Cross Realm BG’s early in Vanilla’s life. It was not till very late in the cycle of Vanilla that Cross Realm BG’s were implemented to alleviate the wait time and pressure on the queues.
Implementing Cross Realm BG’s immediately in Phase 3, will have huge impacts on the PvP Community on the Realm and any later created realms will have absolutely no chance at catching up to the original ‘on release’ server lists.
Please consider holding off on the implementation of Cross Realm BG’s until either.
- They are actually needed.
- The ‘late game’ content is enabled, either the AQ or even Naxx level content.
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IMO CP6 should be the introduction point OR they need to make new tech to prioritise on-server matchups.
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Yes, or just put tech in to cut down the queues.
If your Queues are 15 minutes, look outside your Realm. Even something like that would be better.
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I was so sad to see xrealm bgs confirmed. I always kinda knew it would be that way but I held out hope it wouldn’t be.
Tight knit PvP communities will be missed.
HELL NO, NO CROSS RELAM BATTLE GROUNDS! Pay atention to your faction balance on your server is you care about queue times. DON:T MAKE THE REST OF US SUFFER.
HELL NO TO CROSS REALM
It was going to come eventually, I just hope we can have some discussion/thought put into it at the Blizz side for WHEN. Phase 3 is way too soon.
where did they say they were adding cross realm battle grounds I did not see that yet
“Cross realm grouping? again no way, right? realm identity, reputation, seeing the same people over and over again, knowing who the best geared warrior on your server is, those are important elements of the classic experience, that has to be maintained”
This was a quote of ions from blizzcon, all the reasons he lists there about why cross realm grouping shouldn’t be included should apply to cross realm bg’s during the early stages of the game.
In the developer interview with tipsout/
Most everyone agrees that long queue times suck. Faction imbalance and low population servers are real issues, but CRBG/LFR/LFD/CRZ don’t make a dead server any less dead. Get rid of cross realm tech and actually figure out a solution for dead servers that doesn’t kill already thriving communities.
I suspect that Xserver BGs are not going to be needed. The new servers are so much better than what we played on originally. I suspect we will have server Populations between 2-4X larger but also see a corresponding reduction in the number of realms. That should have enough people in the same sandbox to keep the BGs moving along.
Example:
If old Servers could hold 3K people and we had 10 Servers, I would expect the new servers to have 6K people but only have 5 servers.