Random BGs with Friends

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@Rëhk-area-52

if it’s allowed, it’s allowed.

If it were allowed, Blizzard would actually allow you to queue with 6+ person premades for random bgs.

Furthermore, Blizzard has already explained why they don’t want extra large premades in random bgs when addons were promoting 6+ person premades in random bgs:

@Kangmurloc-dark-iron

I’ll try to break it down as clearly as I can:

Any addon that enables a full, organized Battleground group to queue against a randomly assembled group is creating a scenario where that coordinated group has a huge advantage. That is not in the spirit of the experience we want to provide in the normal Battleground queue. Playing with friends is fun and important, but it shouldn’t come at the expense of the spirit of the game nor the fun of others.

The normal Battleground queue is for players to jump in and play against other players in a similar situation. We realize that it’s not a perfect system, and we’re still looking at ways to improve normal Battleground queues further. Regardless, it’s not meant for organized groups to “pug stomp” and get quick Honor. We have built in outlets for players that want to organize–if a competitive, social experience was really the goal, then there are clear ways to achieve that.

The ultimate effect that this kind of queuing has had is to drive players away from PvP. Perhaps it’s been a long time since you’ve been in a random group, but a lot of players will see that they’re up against a premade and simply quit. At best, they suffer through it. To an extent premade groups count on this. Heck, one of the popular addons announces opposing players that appear to have rage quit.

Addons aren’t really a viable solution for botting issues, but we do take those issues seriously and we’ll continue our work on improvements to the Battleground system, including better ways to deal with botting and other exploitative gameplay.

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@Rëhk-area-52

Not all premades are syncing ques. I’d say the vast majority are just groups of 5 or less friends who want to play together.

Yes, 5 or less is allowed.

@Rëhk-area-52

Hackers know exactly what they are doing.

So do the people running in extra large premades. They’re stacking their team and gaining an unfair competitive advantage over the other team.

They don’t notice that their games are roflstomps?

@Rëhk-area-52

There is no possible veil of “but I thought this would be okay,” type of argument they can make.

It’s totally ok to get into Discord to play sync queue and drop queue to get into the same random bg? That seems like normal behavior?

@Rëhk-area-52

the game explicitly allows that function, without any semblance of indication that you are breaking or even bending any rules whatsoever.

If it were explicitly allowed, then Blizzard would allow you to queue with 6+ person premades for random bgs.

Nobody thinks gosh it’s kinda odd that Blizzard expects us to get into Discord to play sync queue and drop queue to get into the same bg?

@Rëhk-area-52

We are not your enemy

But you are the ones roflstomping us and smaller premades that abide by the rules:

@Kangmurloc-dark-iron

Playing with friends is fun and important, but it shouldn’t come at the expense of the spirit of the game nor the fun of others.