“if one faction is significantly more dominant on a PvP realm, there is a very real likelihood that faction selection may be temporarily limited on that realm”
How do they know if a faction is more dominant? Is it the number of players? What if one faction has just a bunch of low levels and the other faction a bunch of high levels?
What is stopping players from creating chars on all servers and then migrating before the faction imbalance/balance?
I don’t feel like these pvp restrictions are gonna work, people will find a way
that sounds like a lot of questions you dont actually care about the answers to…
if you’re raid logging then you’ll show up online during raid times, but you wont be contributing to uneven queue times for pvp, which is another thing they definitely track.
are you actually not sure how blizzard watches these things or just looking to grouse under the guise of ignorance
Active Realm Populations have been pretty accurately tracked by various websites for a long time. I’m sure it’s not hard for Blizzard to adopt these same methods.
That is an interesting question. My initial thoughts was just “Average Numbers of Horde VS Numbers of Alliance logged in over a 24 hour period?” And take that data over days and weeks to get a general population overview.
It’s not going to be perfect, but it sounds way better than flat out nothing.