Horde dominate every single aspect of end-game content. Why won’t the devs touch this topic with a ten foot pole?
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What do you want them to say? How do you want them to fix it? Free xfers to alliance until it’s balanced again?
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Either they’re ostriching or they have a solution in mind that would be a spoiler for the ending of BfA.
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Yes, this is what it would take and SHOULD be done if they actually care about the game.
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Cause they have no idea how to fix it.
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Ehh just get rid of the faction barrier when it comes to queue-able content, voila no more imbalance.
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When free will is in play there will always be an imbalance. Well, unless you drop factions or let everyone queue in content together like EQ did.
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I will give you a hint. They sell them in the game store for $30 a pop. Would you want to give up the piles of cash they make off them? I just wonder how much they are bringing in with race changes to Zandalari.
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I’m going with the latter
Ion did kind of barely mention it in passing I think in one of the recent Q&As and there was an article with blizz quotes that talked about it, but I don’t know if the content about it was from the writer or blizz. I can’t remember what it was called so I can’t find it, but overall you are right. They just keep adding and adding to the horde and watching the alliance burn.
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There really isn’t a solution. You can’t force equal populations. You could make Alliance super OP and bait people to transfer, but then you reverse the problem. So you have to make Alliance OP and then nerf them after people move, and…wow, you just pissed off a lot of people who transferred to be OP.
You can prevent Horde from being made, but then people just won’t play/make characters.
Once populations end up out of whack it snowballs and you can’t really fix that. Because all things being equal the side with more people is going to be better. You have more groups available, more guilds available, more playing partners available. The only way to counter that is to do something from above where you artificially inflate power on one faction, but then you get all those downsides.
At this point the only fix is eradicating factions. Which is a rather drastic move.
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Leave in factions for questing and open world. But make all queue-able content doable together. Still somewhat drastic but its the only way I can ever see it being fixed.
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They do and as they have said before they cannot force someone to pick a faction
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1 time, free Horde to Alliance Faction changes for characters and guilds.
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It all started with Blood Elves, if they didn’t get added to Horde we still be the popular faction.
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This is the ONLY reasonable and fair solution.
They could try to bait players organically with a super OP alliance race but that’s not good for the game so they just need to suck it up and sacrifice however much money it takes to help repopulate Alliance because at this point in the expansion it’s becoming a ghost town and even just filling up groups during prime time is becoming harder than at anytime I can ever remember in the past.
Alliance is legitimately dying and needs help.
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They did this during Wrath. Didn’t work.
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Honestly, the faction war is so played out as a story device at this point that I wouldn’t care if they removed faction barriers entirely.
Not going to happen, just saying.
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They don’t address it because it’s not an issue.
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It’s an issue when a raid group with 2 tanks, 2 healers, and 7+ dps can sit in queue for 20 minutes on a Saturday night without a single person signing up.
The FIRST time it happened I thought maybe it was just related to Valentines day and maybe people were just taking the night off or something but then I saw it happen again the next week and again after that and it’s obvious at least for high-end PVE that the Ally side has dried up.
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