Red team vs. blue team. Rift recognized this problem a couple of years after release, too one-sided and queues were ridiculous. Having to wait 20 minutes for a match in what is supposed to be the most popular MMO in the world is absurd. This would also alleviate any faction imbalance, perceived or otherwise.
No I do not want to merc. I rolled Horde to play my race. Just merge the teams, no one cares anymore.
I agree and i’ve been saying this forever. No more faction imbalance whining. No more long queues for anyone. It’s win-win.
100% of the reason i don’t merc is their system that changes your toon, i dont want my race, my gear, my mog, or my racial touched.
lore doesn’t matter in pvp, there is no reason to maintain faction based teams.
I’m just looking at the warsong gulch map and av map and scratching my head at this.
I’m wondering why we’ve been trying to snag the same flag for 10 years and we still don’t have it.
I care, lore and immersion matter to me. I don’t want to be merc’ed and changed to a night elf or kul tiran, nor do I want to be a troll riding out of the Dun Badar gates alongside dwarves.
You are playing World of Warcraft, right?
Yes and so are you.
Also there’s so many more horde trying to get into BGs than alliance that it’ll probably be a few dwarves riding with the majority of orcs and trolls.
Yes and I think that’d be ridiculous.
That’s easy. Just change it to 2 neutral factions fighting. DEHTA vs Venture Co. There, now there’s some justification for A/H being on the same team in WSG. I’m sure similar stuff could be done with the other bg’s.
No… after you get zerged by AOO seeking alliance groups in WPvP… it feels real nice to get into a BG and steam roll them . 
Well sometimes you lose in that too and that’s when I shut my laptop off and watch GoT or go to sleep .
WSG is a proverbial battle over logging rights in ashenvale. the horde invaded, captured and moved through ashenvale on their way to darkshore to burn down teldrassil, meaning the horde won WSG lorewise.
yet we still play it.
Then the BG should be removed then? Unless you think we should still be fighting over it.
if it fixes this garbage q system then sure I pay to play the game and the faction I want not q and play 1 bg a hour. no I will not merc I actually want to play the race I picked. not to mention It ruins the mog
the Romans supposedly flooded the coliseum to replicate famous naval battles. bgs who’s lore has been settled could be viewed the same way, you are put on a team to recreate this battle from the past, you might be put on the official losing team. someone had to play the Carthaginians.
Here’s an idea… let’s create a game that is focused around two factions and then let’s destroy the meaning behind the two factions and mix them together. It’ll be great.
So it’s ok to play the same faction in rated BGs, but they better not try to replicate it in randos?
Yea I actually care more about DEHTA vs Venture Co/Nessingwary than horde vs alliance.