FINAL EDIT: https://twitter.com/WarcraftDevs/status/1105891459922833408
CONFIRMED SEPARATION OF XP-OFF AND XP-ON
This confirms my worst fears: that we will intentionally be unable to get any games moving forward. As it stands now, many brackets do not have the population to withstand this kind of change and are completely stuck in “limbo” unable to play even against fellow twinks. All of the people shouting “GOOD now you can have your separate queue!!!1” are totally ignorant of the simple fact that this is in essence removing our ability to queue up. We’d love to have our own special queue, but it hasn’t worked that way.
If this is a bug, consider this my bug report.
I am unsure why Blizzard cannot think of ANY other solutions barring this drastic of a measure, including re-introducing stat templates, but this is totally inappropriate considering this will result in unsubs, even from people who play BFA max level.
To all the twinks I ever met, I love you all and I look forward to seeing you in Classic.
I made this a reply to another thread at first, but I feel strongly enough about this to make my own.
Twink queues do not need to be separate. In fact, with this change you are, in essence, removing the queue for us entirely. Considering the fact that this EXACT change was made expansions ago only to be reversed finally, I would have assumed Blizzard knew the effects it made on us before. It killed our accounts.
Twinks have always equalized each other out, and allowed for fun side content which contained its own microcosm of theorycrafting, community-building (I myself own a 700+ member community in the 50-59 bracket - a fairly SMALL bracket), and groups of friends.
Hell, some people including myself have spent over 10 years twinking, and have commited some major time and money sinks into the creation of our twinks.
If this change goes through, that would be devastating to a HUGE chunk of the WoW population.
Blizzard, we are begging you, do not return us back to the dark ages.
EDIT: This post gained more traction than I expected (this is good.) Currently, all we know is that twinks can queue up for BGs but wait endlessly to no avail for a match. This effectively prohibits them from playing their character until they enable experience which forces either leveling their characters out of the bracket or deletion of the character entirely.
There is a lot of venom being thrown at us twinks by others. To some extent, this is understandable as we have all been killed by people who outgeared us. I personally deal with this every time I play a new character in pvp at 120, or any time a new gear progression is released.
But I ask please, to keep things civil and at the very least help us discuss solutions that allow BOTH parties to enjoy the game HOW they want to enjoy it.
EDIT 2: One idea to combat the clash of new pvpers and twinks and skilled pvpers in general, is to introduce a separate queue for NEW players and PVPers. This is a complete reversal of what has already been done, but I think it follows the same philosophy WITHOUT removing an entire population of players from the game. If new characters and pvpers were placed into their own queue, until a certain number of games they could be placed into the regular queue. The game doesn’t need to be anti-fun, if proper solutions are put in place.
I don’t think this is it.
EDIT 3: I am fully aware my post has been flagged as spam. I am not surprised. To those reviewing it, I hope you understand I am coming from a place of confusion and concern. Toxicity is a part of this game, it should not be part of this thread.