I think it goes without saying that many people are unexcited for cross-realm BG’s. A huge part of engaging with the server community is queueing for BGs and seeing your rival guild on the other side of WSG. Not to mention, working together with other players on your faction and building up those relationships.
Additionally: the cross-realm model punishes servers that have a nice balance, forcing the horde side players to queue much longer than they normally would need to (due to population imbalances overall).
Since it was this way in Vanilla, perhaps we could have an amount of time where the BG’s won’t be cross-realm…and once we’ve crushed our rivals enough time Blizzard can move into the cross-realm model.
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It’d fix server imbalance- people would xfer to avoid 2-3 hour BG queues, and it’s one of the only things that would get people to xfer off servers they have a numbers advantage on.
The question is- does Blizz want to balance servers? The answer’s no, and while I’d love to see them prove me wrong, I’m not going to hold my breath.
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From what i understand, the queues will first try to match you with an opposing group from the same server first, so this is a non issue.
DIdn’t work in Vanilla, wont work now. People will just not play.
They implemented Battlegroup’ed servers precisely BECAUSE people WEREN’T transferring.
I wouldn’t transfer. I’d just not play. I’ve got 200 games in my Steam Library.
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If the entire population of all PvP servers combined is 70% horde to 30% alliance, how is blizzard supposed to fix this ?
They can’t force people to roll one side or the other, the same way they can’t force people to transfer. Imbalance is a player created issue, in some cases by choice.
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Does this mean Blizzard is going to publish the faction balance on each server?
Even if players are willing to transfer, how do they know where to go for short bg queues?
imo the only thing realm specific BG’s add to the game experience is longer que times. I PvP’d all through TBC and saw the same people in the same BG’s all the time. Server rivalries were sorted out in WPvP, which despite what people say about flying, WAS NOT DEAD.
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This is something I suggested many months ago but I guess it could already be the case. Do you have a source for this information, anything at all?
Thats what it did in 1.12 in Vanilla. Thats how Battlegroups worked…
We’re not getting battlegroups, does the system work this way in BfA? Is there any source of information that even suggests that groups will try to fill from your server first?
Alliance typing detected.
Sorry, sitting on my tablet in bed drinking my coffee atm, it is out there somewhere though, as i remember it being discussed heavily when they announced BG’s going cross realm for classic.
It goes without saying because it isn’t true. Sure there are some folks that don’t want cross realm bg’s, but they are in the minority. Even folks among that segment of the community will quickly change their tune when they realized that their server population imbalance is so bad they can’t get bg’s without waiting for hours. Realm specific bg’s would be disastrous.
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Alright, I’m not trying to argue or anything, I just want to know if it’s true because it sounds like good news. This would probably also satisfy the people who are adamantly against CRBG’s, at least somewhat.
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Yes we are. I have no idea why you think we aren’tt since Blizzard outright stated it.
The fact that they said right in the release of what was coming in what phases that they were doing Cross-Realm BGs as they were in 1.12.
Try to keep up, sunshine.
Alright buddy, I’ll be sure to quote this in a couple months when you realize there aren’t any battlegroups.
Nps and no offence taken, proof being supplied and required is completely understandable, this is the internet after all lol.
I’ll see if i can find it and link here laters, or perhaps someone else will do it before then.
Its literally stickied at the top of this page, fool.
Go read it.
And there may only be a single Battlegroup per region, because each region only has about as many servers as a single Battlegroup did in Vanilla. But they will exist as they did in 1.12. They aren’t implementing the modern CRBG, which doesn’t care where you come from and was a completely re-written system.
I know its tough for you to take ten seconds to read, but hey, keep on being an ignorant stain.
No cross realm bgs would be hilarious. Half the servers couldn’t even get an AV up. Multi-hour queues on most.
“Bbbbbbut BG’s were cross-server in 1.12!!!1”
That being said, I agree with u. Let the people who purposefully went to an unbalanced server get their 30+ min BG queues
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