I did not know before making the switch to wclassic that this was a thing. When and why was this added?
I didn’t roll alliance so I could be placed on horde teams. I find horde pvp’ers to be a lot more focused on road fighting so I wanted to avoid that. Had I known that my choice meant nothing, I wouldn’t have bothered. Wasted time and money.
Well, bye.
Its not merc mode at all. You can get qued against another alliance team.
It doesnt even matter anyway its all DK and rogue bots.
Chill out.
you’re not bothered by real money trades/bots/abuses/bugs/fail changes/poor game support, and you’re quitting over same faction bg’s?
No Way!
Show me where I said any of that? Just 1 part.
Since no one else bothered to answer you I’ll link some threads which answer the question.
Testing Same-Faction Battlegrounds in Burning Crusade Classic - WoW Classic / Wrath of the Lich King Classic Discussion - World of Warcraft Forums (blizzard.com)
Burning Crusade Classic Same-faction Battlegrounds - WoW Classic / Wrath of the Lich King Classic Discussion - World of Warcraft Forums (blizzard.com)
I was never a fan and made a thread asking for an opt-out but ultimately didn’t quit the game over this but did stop doing BGs over it because frankly there is “something about” WoW factions that I like and if that’s not a thing then well… there are over 100 other faction free games that do PVP FAR better. So I just moved on to those.
If memory serves, I think it was shortly after TBC Classic launched and tons of people who rerolled Horde specifically to queue BGs complained for days and days and days, and would just not have it.
I suspect they also started unsubbing with that as the reason, because just around the time that people who didn’t complain had almost finished their Alliance rerolls, they changed the queuing system.
Thanks for the response that’s in reply to my questions.
I understand that the idea was to address the horde que times but why in tf should alliance be put on the horde side? IIRC, the imbalance is in horde’s favor.
It’s just annoying that I choose the faction for many reasons, but specifically because I prefer their sides of the map, and the people that play alliance. Nothing against horde personally but I find they often just zerg the road and ignore objectives more often than ally.
I would’ve liked my faction choice to matter and not result in more rng for the que system.
That is an issue I don’t see the problem with. It’s a player created problem that they could solve themselves by not piling onto the overpopulated faction. Choices have consequences. Apparently for both factions now.
You’re not getting placed on horde “teams” … As an Alliance player, you are only and ever playing with other members of the Alliance.
Now, you might be playing on the Horde side of the map, with Horde mask on your characters face (literally), and playing against an Alliance team.
But it is not Merc mode. You are not being placed on teams with Horde players. Alliance only play with Alliance. Horde only play with Horde.
Not much difference in the aesthetic side of it. I didn’t choose alliance to be neo-horde on their sides of the battle.
How about we just stop putting failed retail ideas into older versions of the game?
It was added in classic in TBC because so many pvpers went horde and blizzard refused to tell them to suck it up.
It was added in retail in I think WoD?
Did (1) round of WSG and (2) rounds of AB Saturday night, and I got saddled with a gnome mask.
It’s cool – I’d rather play a game against Horde than not play at all. Being a Warlock on Alliance sure sucks when the other team is full of Undead Rogues with double-agility or double-Mongoose enchants.
It was in TBC, now the imbalance is on alliance due to everyone re-rolling again for human racial.
TBC and because the horde queues started to get long before of faction stacking and they started to complain… and Blizzard decided eh screw faction balancing mechanics.
You’re not playing with Horde players as Alliance. That’s not how the system works.
Uh… ok. Sorry playing a few BGs starting from the opposite side of the map ruins your experience. That’s kind of absurd though.
lmao? You leveled to 80 as Alliance, doing Alliance-specific content. But your faction choice doesn’t matter because you might sometimes start on the other side of the map in Arathi Basin. lmfao.
How about you get over it? This was added so Horde players could actually get a BG queue to pop in a remotely reasonable time frame. Sorry, not sorry.
Such a braindead argument. Reasonable BG queue times are not a faction feature, and I should not be punished for a choice I made at launch in 2019. And there wasn’t even a huge disparity in faction population, just in the population queueing for BGs.
Good news, you’re not on a Horde team! You’re just fighting another Alliance team from the other side of the map, and everyone on your team has a random Flimsy (Horde Race) Mask on.
All the Alliance scum came over to the Horde when TBC came out ! In wrath they went back because of Human racials! And now they come to the forums to cry ! And i will forever lick the cheek of an Alliance player’s face to taste the sweet nectar of his or hers salty 
alliance population is at its lowest point its ever been, 44.8%, where are all these people rerolling for the human racial? the faction transfers decreased the alliance %, on pvp realms, alliance are 30%
I seriously can’t believe OP actually made a thread about this complaining.
Wotlk bgs are bot infested wastelands, the same faction queue thing is pretty minor in comparison