This is where people like you get called out for spouting blatently false things as if you knew/know
Blizzard didnt design horde better then alliance it was the other way around as you can see with proof over the patches of them constantly buffing horde racials up until TBC release and then if you look at TBC patches again horde getting buffs which during original TBC after said patches the scales were tipped into horde favor and population imbalance came about … OMG IT FELT SO GOOD TO OWN A BS SPEAKING PLAYER LIKE YOU … made this stuff today a little more tolerable
This change will not just have an affect in BGs for alliance.
Nobody cares what side they’re playing for inside a BG unless it’s premade vs premade - and within that sense they only care that they’re playing with their friends.
Alliance queues are 3 - 5 minutes. Horde queues are 45 - 90 minutes. Quite literally every single alliance PvPer that leaves due to no longer having that incentive is a demonstrable loss.
The long term results of this will be the death of the already dwindling alliance PvP community. There is no reason for the best players in this game to not stack the player pool for better team selection horde side.
This has literally already been happening with a paved road to get there fast with paid boosts.
The people who faction change for racials are a tiny, tiny minority of the population. People play Horde because Blizzard designed Horde better than Alliance. Which sucks from a game design perspective, yeah, but the TBCC team isn’t gonna be able to fix that.
Not sure why you think Horde is designed better. Alliance side is fine - have played both to end game. Agree with you that racials are negligible for most players, including talented pvp’ers.
I leveled my undead mage in classic to 60 to realize the pvp queue times were so long. i rerolled alliance in classic just for the queue times im now in tbc and i expected the same thing. i recently server transferred because my server was 10 to 1 horde to alliance. I am currently building my pvp set but now i see no reason to play alliance with this change. I dont like the path you chose with this, if this sticks i hope you offer a faction change option because any chance you give me after this to change ill take it.
I mean I rerolled to ally mid classic vanilla to play on a 7:3 horde dom server as a nelf hunter so i could find 1v1-1vX’s. I just made the mistake of going horde for tbc. I seriously hope they add faction changes. Both of my bis 70s will be ally asap. I however refuse to reroll the amount of hours i put in just to fix my horde BG ques. I actually quit until I woke up today to this good news.
I don’t just mean racials. I mean the whole experience.
Horde has a better classic quest leveling experience than alliance does, looking at things like flight path location and long quest chains and such. More long-term players seem to prefer the faction aesthetics and lore, according to surveys that have been done periodically over the course of the game. They get favored story-wise. And yeah, their racial abilities are for the most part just better than Alliance ones in TBC for sure but also in several other expansions.
Holy crap… blizzard actually did completely remove the second post protesting the change that had way more up votes then the blue post announcing the change. That’s some shady BS right there.
Yeah this is why I don’t play on PvP servers. They’re bad. There’s no reasonable way to force balanced open world fighting, and it devolves into camping garbage one way or another. It’s much better for me to play on PvE and do battlegrounds a lot.
Which I’m glad that I am going to finally be able to do now because of this change.
This “fix” is just further proof of how out of touch and pathetic the current developers working at blizzard are.
Why arn’t you addressing the real problem? FACTION IMBALANCE
You are putting a bandaid on already infected fleshwound, the fact you don’t do anything to address faction imbalance but cater and pamper to the Horde everytime they come running to you crying that they have a problem actually makes me mad.
What is your “solution” to being Alliance and getting slaughtered out in the open world by an overpopulated faction that only keeps getting more and more imbalanced, oh you don’t care?
I get the feeling, alot of blizzard developers play Horde faction, Horde problems always get addressed so quickly and in a way that is not very well thought out, I feel alot of these knee jerk reaction changes are simply some horde developer fixing their own problems.
As an alliance player who can barely even get to a dungeon due to the sheer amount of horde in the open world killing everywhere, where is our fix?
Horde demand bonus honor and what not but where is my “Bonus exp and dungeon loot penalty”?
Horde are actually pathetic, I want to quit right now, this game near unplayable for alliance and it’s pathetic weasel developers with their horde bias just cater to whoever is the most loudest, whiniest baby and it’s pathetic.
Ahh, if it isn’t the rank 1 gatekeeper that was opposed to zero changes for horde players. A shame your hard fought campaign for the past few weeks of camping the forums was for naught.