My wife and I had a total blast with Warmode in BfA.
We still talk about Nazjatar.
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I’m 100% convinced they put the Horde and Ally bases so close together specifically to encourage war mode pvp
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I mean, it’s gone… done and dead no matter what they do.
Unless they find out a way to make more than 36% of active players play Alliance.
At the bottom of the DPS rankings 
Emerald Dream was the only example. You guys were the only ones.
PvP servers were a long-term failure. They didn’t fit into the world quest paradigm where levelers and max level players of both factions accelerated faction imbalance. While previously people could just choose not to go out in the world, now it was mandatory. PvP servers were already a lost cause at this point, so they developed warmode.
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That’s on the players at that point. Blizzard failed to manage servers properly it could have been successful on more servers if people don’t flood to 1 sided factions.
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This is the 2022 version of the game. The new war is woke vs non woke and non woke is losing.
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It doesn’t matter who it’s on… the reality of the situation is ED can never be the way it was even if they ended War Mode, because the damage is done. Even on ED, Alliance is now outnumbered 2 to 3.
Seriously? You want millions of other players to take the hit so you don’t have to? That’s not how entertainment works.
When it gets too hard to play, other players see no reason in rolling on a server that is unplayable, where they will likely be ganked repeatedly while leveling, and where they will only be able to play end game with great inconvenience. I had characters in a minority faction on a PvP server like that, where a common topic of guild conversation was, “Why am I still playing on this server?”
The game is supposed to be entertaining. When it no longer is, people find entertainment elsewhere.
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Actually SEVERAL people from the Rp-pvp outspoke for it not to effect us. We had massive communities reduced to none over this man.
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I’d wager the average is probably younger than you think (but still older than what you’d see in other genres).
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I’m not so convinced there was anything they could do about the servers.
I read an article on these forums, written by one of the developers about faction ratios and what they might do about it. How they might step in and force players to transfer. How they might combine servers. Etc.
Ultimately, they let the players decide to balance out the servers (or not balance them, for that matter).
Asmongold talks about this often.
Ultimately, players don’t want a 50/50 server. They’ll always seek to pick the winning side and thus a snowball effect gets going.
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We found the person that liked being level 100 and oneshot level 60s in outland just cuz the luls and ruined open world PVP for the majority
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PVPers be like: OmG BlIzZaRd! YoU aBaNdOnEd PvP No OnE DoEs iT aNyMoRe!@!@#
also PVPers: Gladiators deranking in ranked to sell carries and easily defeating lower skilled players still learning the system thus being driven away from PVP, Roam around in groups with their PvP sweat friends in WM ganking people driving them away from WM.
I truly do hope they make it better in the future for now I’ll have wrath wpvp soon and it’s pretty good tbh. Back to the roots of a great era.
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My favorite era. 
The usual “suggestions” are…
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Free faction change, as though everybody isn’t already playing characters of both factions on whatever servers they please. Also under the false impression that convincing players to get a free faction change solely because it’s free! will result in a massive move of idiots who will leave their friends and guilds to get that free thing which will result in them being in a minority on a PvP server.
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Making racials for the minority faction massively OP. While Alliance is minority on many servers, on others Horde is minority. So one size does not fit all. And the adjustment in the warmode differential meant that Alliance on Alliance dominated servers were getting free money while Horde had even less reason to toggle warmode on.
There is no solution aside from a playerbase reset that randomly assigned players at the start of each expansion to a faction and random realm. This is not that game.
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And there wouldn’t be threads about how it was dead.
actually, everyone still wanting pvp servers or a better for of has been asking for it. get off your high horse and quit being obtuse. the game wasn’t designed just for you.
They kinda ruined it with BFA.