Twinking has always been one of the most reviled and hated aspects of PvP in the game. It’s only fun for the twink, not for the people being graveyard camped because they wanted to try getting into PvP. Honestly I think it’s up there with botting in bgs l for how many hate it.
Not to mention the community that enjoys this activity is so minuscule, and yet despite being so small, their fun is the detriment of entertainment for the rest of the player base. From an outside perspective, they’re a very tiny subset of players who found a way to troll and otherwise make miserable the lives of many players, turned it into an art form. In a way, it’s impressive. But mostly, it’s sad that their fun is solely based on bullying as many people as they can. There’s absolutely nothing positive that comes from the twinking community.
Blizzard finally decided that the number of happy players would be much greater if twinks were unable to queue with normal players. And honestly, I agree. When someone’s fun is based solely on the detriment of others, that should be looked at. PVP servers/war mode had the warning with it that shows the risk of you dying while in the world, and it’s accepted that that’s part of world PvP. But instanced PvP is a place to try and fight in a more controller, evenly matched environment; twinks ruined this for too long, so something had to be done.
After experiencing twinks for 15 years, I have very little sympathy when their bullying fun is removed.
My comment about twinking in another thread. Honestly, it comes down to wanting to be the bully. If the community was as large as people keep saying it was, then there would be war mode games where twinks fight other twinks. But there isn’t. Because twinks want to bully other players, they enjoy the power and the simplicity of bg queuing.
Sometimes, the needs of the many outweigh the needs of a few. This is one of those situations.
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