What is your solution to imbalanced servers? A server like mine which is 20/80 Horde favoured.
If your solution is to use the paid server transfer how is that different than paid faction changes?
Both paying to play the game. IE not sit in 1hour ques or corpse walking around.
Both leaving guild/server/friends to play somewhere else.
Edit: Another similarity Alliance players are being punished for only rolling on a server how are we supposed to know its going to be imbalanced similar to that of long horde ques when they say they didn’t know.
Define the problem, and then let’s talk solutions… “imbalanced server” isn’t a problem, imo.
Diversity of faction balance across servers is good, as it adds player agency (i.e. we can choose which sort of balance we prefer), though CRBGs and Arenas sort of detract from that.
Also, TBC Classic seems to have a relatively much smaller playerbase than WoW Classic had, and of those who are playing TBC Classic, it appears that many are supportive of the types of changes that have resulted in Retail.
So… to answer the question…
Eradicate PVP servers by renaming PVE servers “Warmode.”
I don’t think paid transfers are the solution because, frankly, not that many people are going to take advantage of it. Lower queue times would be nice, but realistically, is it worth giving up so much else? I sincerely doubt it. The logical calculus would be for horde to maintain dominance over the majority of PvP servers in order to continue enjoying all the various benefits that confers, including a healthier economy, easier farming, et cetera.
Of course, all of this begs the question – what is the solution? There’s no easy answer. Giving Alliance non-classic advantages (such as experience boosts) similar to what private servers have done isn’t in the spirit of the game.
The truth is that faction imbalance is a player-created issue compounded by the positive feedback loop of the modern FOTM min-max mentality. Fixing it would require drastic action that arguably isn’t within the realm of reason, such as drastically boosting Alliance racials.
Actually, the Alliance guild that I decided to join during phase 2, as they said they had rolled Alliance to enjoy PVP, transferred to your server as soon as transfers became available.
WPVP was more or less dead by then anyway, and faction balance no longer made much of a difference… and I became disheartened with the guild/server choice I had made, and rolled this mage in P3.
A fight. — maybe to proliferate a political agenda… I have no idea what your question means.
Are you literate in the English language? Are you attempting to troll?
It shouldn’t even need to be said, but faction balance does make a difference when you want to farm certain mobs (i.e. mana elementals in Netherstorm) without the constant threat of being chain-ganked by a faction with overwhelming numerical superiority. It also matters for finding more groups for instances or group quests that you specifically need - and on that note, it helps alleviate the stress and inefficiencies of getting ganked while leveling.
In what way does faction balance not make a difference?