I think the concept of warfronts was top tier and the execution was the problem. Imagine those gates opened and it wasn’t npcs but alliance or horde. Ahhhh.
Also adding more would’ve been great. We got darkshore sure, where’s durotar? Silverpine? Mulgore? ELWYNN? ahhh such a waste
I want to agree with you here, but Blizzard clearly disagree and is treating PvP like a small side-dish.
I am sure Blizzard’s decision is based on data gathered over a long period of time, also their shareholders would not allow them to not chase the bigger slice.
There is a thread in the main forum titled ‘Why don’t more WoW players PvP’. While it doesn’t represent the entire picture, it does contain some interesting points.
I’d really like new epic BG maps. Tol Barad would be a nice new addition. Another easy option is to add SSTM to the pool (and remove it from brawls).
But they really should tune and adjust the current epic BG maps first.
PvP is such a tiny part of WoW now. Back in 2004 it was much larger as many people played on PvP servers and the whole “For the Alliance” and “For the Horde” thing was pretty big. People had pride in their faction.
Now, PvP is a very small part of the player base. If you don’t believe this, just try to find a group through group finder for the world raid boss. Non-warmode groups are forming all the time and fill up within 1-2 minutes while warmode groups form less often and fill up very slowly. Many don’t even fill at all and just disband. Depends on the time of day of course.
Go to Stormwind or Orgrimmar and count how many players have green names versus how many have blue names. The treasure goblin events were a perfect example since you would have maybe 5-10 warmode players among the 40-60 non-warmode players.
And keep in mind the warmode population would be skewed in Stormwind and Orgrimmar due to more players enabling warmode just for leveling 10-60.
Probably only 5-10% of the player base actually does any kind of PvP frequently. And before you point to a poll on the forums, polls represent only 8% of the most hardcore players, the same players who would be more likely to do PvP.
Though if I am wrong here and somebody has actually run the numbers, please post a source as I hope I am wrong on my estimates.