The faction imbalance is going to strangle this game

[Murgatroyd-lightbringer (Murgatroyd)]

@Aguni-illidan

This is exactly what happened in RIFT.
RIFT went with cross faction gameplay because the Ascended faction (alliance), had less participation in raids/pvp than Defiants (Horde).
What happened?
Even more people went Defiant. Simply because it meant they had more people to play with and engage in activities with, without having to deal with the jarring experience of different quests and inability to participate in PvP.

One of the changes that helped kill what was…early on (minus bugs)…a really fun game. Admittedly it was already going south when that happened but it was one of the nails in Rift’s coffin. Shame, I had a blast on my Sab/Bard build