This Game Is Trash Right Now On Faction Imbalanced PVP Servers
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accurate. its very sad. many servers right now feels like the Apocalypse.
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What issues, precisely would be resolved by faction balance?
Does Kurinnaxx know that?
yeah, either the tools on that site are not accurate or balance in servers dont matter. kurinnaxx is a horde playground despite supposedly being 55/45
Fact is everyone on a pvp server chose to be on that type of server. I know it’s hard being imbalanced but has it ever been balanced? No. Blizzard cannot control how many roll horde or alliance. They can’t force players to reroll the other faction. everyone is complaining but what can blizz honestly do? They put paid transfers up? That doesn’t fix the problem and is why live has sooo many dead servers that they had to cross realm together to make the game look populated. And it all led up to Opt in pvp mode and we all know how that ended up…worse imbalance.
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No, YOUR game is trash, because YOU are expecting something that does not exist right now, this week. I don’t know what YOU were expecting.
PVP servers have NEVER been balanced. Blizzard CANNOT make PVP servers balanced. It’s make-believe. Why do you believe it?
Do PVP-loving players go crazy the first week that honor is in the game? Yes, of course. Is it permanent? No, of course not.
Yes, Blizzard is terrible – compared to a make-believe perfect game in your fantasy world. In the REAL world, they are the best. They have proved that over and over, for 15 years now.
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Are you even out of Westfall yet?
Stick in there, practice your pvp skills in duels when you have to, when BGs come out give it to 'em. 
Pro tip: you can see the level of the person posting below their name.
While I agree with you, I’m sure you were warned that the faction imbalance on your server was bad. You were given plenty of time to use free transfers to get off your server, and… you didn’t listen. So, take some blame yourself.
Our guild was in the same situation, and about 75 percent of us left the server when offered the chance to leave. The other 25 percent stayed, and now like you, they are crying on the forums.
We still get people joining us on EarthFury from the server we left. They started making new characters and started all over again, which is what they deserve for not listening to me when I told them that the server we were on was doomed.
TLDR: Learn how to listen better, and take free transfers when they are offered.
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I started playing on release day and census data was not available. Server queues dont equal faction queues so I wasn’t aware of the imbalance. Blizzard also introduced this concept called layering. Heres your assignment for tonight: go to Google and look up “wow classic layering” and write 1-2 paragraphs on how that might make a player not recognize a greater imbalance on a server.
Should have rolled pve.
I played on a PVP server in 2004. It was not like this. My decision to join a PVP server was based on that prior experience. Knowing what I know now, I would have made a different choice. However, that was then and this is now.
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Why would you expect it to be the same?
I really think this is the main problem. People didn’t understand the implications of world pvp without battlegrounds out.
It didn’t take long for wpvp to quiet down in vanilla and I doubt it will in classic. Hang in there.
While that may be true, they are going into a different boat this time around.
There is no CRZ. Sharding. Layering has been removed. Server capacity has been increased.
This results in a massive amount of people on a map/area designed for Vanilla population numbers.
Blizzard made some oopsies but it does look like they are making careful moves to adjust things. Time will tell.
The game was restored to the same state it was in in 2004. It’s the same game and humans are playing it. One way to forecast the implications of a choice is to use experience. I used experience and the amount of corpse running I have done has grossly overshot my expectations.
This guy gets it. People ignored the signs. They didn’t listen to people warning them. They chose, either through stubbornness or ignorance, to stay. Now they’re crying because they don’t like their choices.
False. There was census data available since the moment name registrations went live, if you actually looked for it. And there were sites actively tracking faction balance, if you actually bothered to look for it. You just skipped merrily through the minefield, and are now upset that your legs are gone.
Expecting a time machine was your first mistake. The world and systems are like they were in 2004. The players are not. They know more, and have spent the last decade in cutthroat PvP games. If you wanted fair, you should have gone with PvE, and flagged yourself.
Same game, but the humans are different.
I get it. I was on PvE in original vanilla so i didn’t have the previous experience to mislead me about how it would be. I expected the world to turn into a giant sh@tshow the second the honor system came out so it hasn’t bothered me.
Offering PvP to PvE transfers would only make the problem worse though. BG’s comming out early is about the best blizzard can do to combat your situation.
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A little common sense would dictate that the situation would be different due to the massive server sizes alone.
To me it’s just a different mentality of players on each faction and this translates into retail as well, so much so that alliance players had to essentially be bribed just to participate in world pvp. The typical alliance player has no interest in world pvp, usually runs from the fight or is not interested in forming counterattacks. Don’t get me wrong, there are some great pvp players on alliance but for the most part I don’t understand why many alliance players even bother rolling on pvp servers. Take Kromcrush for instance, a nearly perfectly balanced server and what does alliance do? they run from an even fight transferring off, abandoning people from their faction because they got beat up a few times while leveling.