I have mentioned this is some discussions, but for several days now, the Horde are seeing queues in the 20 -30 min. range.
I think the problem was that the Horde just have a large number of non-PvP players that wanted to get in and get out of the BGs once they aquired whatever it was they needed.
I suggest to Blizzard that maybe the Same Faction BG system not be a permenant thing, but rather a function that can be enabled for a weekend or for a week, to allow the players that only queue for gear, rep, etc. to get what they want and stop flooding the queues.
I think a solution like this would be far better and can be used moving forward whenever BG queues begin to climb for either faction.
The test event seems to have had an unintened, but good, side effect and that was to filter out the folks bogging down the queues.
This sounds like a better idea than permenant, as ally would still have their token advantage of faster queues than Horde, while keeping Horde playable queues and HvH acts as a “release valve” incase queues are obnoxiously long, bordering unplayable.
However, this seems like too much micromanaging for blizz, I would not put it past them to set and forget. We can only hope for the best!
It could almost be programatic and automatic. Such as:
If (Avg_Queue_Time > 30 min.) then
Same_Faction_BG = True
Else
Same_Faction_BG = False
Avg_Queue_Time = The average wait time for the last 2 hours.
I know, a gross oversimplification of the code, call it psuedo code instead, but you see the point. So no real micromanagement is needed, just let the game handle it.
It might cause abuse if people can find the trigger point, just like people made a bunch of alts to flood out brackets in classic, so manual dev oversight might be needed
PS: you should probably change the title to something more catchy for more discussion, this seems like a great idea!
I like BGs. It’s my main content in retail. I do a little rated sometimes but mostly I just random BG. I like the epic ones.
I would queue BGs all day in TBC if the queues weren’t so long but they are … so … long that I just do something else (a dungeon, a little world farm/pvp, or straight up log off and do something else). I’m not sitting on WoW all day to get 4 BGs and being queued prevents me from doing anything else except farm which I’m also not doing all day.
According to ironforge.pro there is a 45% A to 55% H ration the simple matter is most alliance players are not queueing for bgs at all and in return make horde bg queues go up
At the bargaining stage, having one aspect of the game having 30-60 min ques that alot of people play the game for is unacceptable , changing it so Horde vs Horde automatically kicks in once ques hit over a certain time limit is fine, only doing it sporadically over weekends is not.
When you select “The Alliance” you don’t get a perk saying “Faster que times for PvP” , people have to stop acting like this is somehow an entitlement for selecting that faction
