Nayami wrote: ↑6 years ago
To me, and to a lot of others, Cross Realm Battlegrounds, while added in 1.12, are not authentic to Vanilla.
So some authentic Vanilla features are less authentic to Vanilla than other authentic features, and it's up to you and your buddies to decide which is better - not for the rest/general community out there who disagrees.
Don't see that much fuss about pre-1.12 talents being more authentic, or the more easier 1.12 brackets being less authentic than the old honor grind. Can't imagine why.
Nayami wrote: ↑6 years ago
Those late Vanilla quality of life improvements are the road to BFA.
And I'm pretty sure by that logic marijuana is the gateway drug to meth, just like apple cider is for alcoholism.
You have no other argument besides "we want it this way". All this talk about authenticity is bullshit, because the change is authentic. All this talk about the community is also bullshit, because most people do/did want this change in the game both then and now. Everyone who's played back then recalls how stupidly long the queues were and welcomed cross-realm BGs being implemented.
Nayami wrote: ↑6 years ago
A PvP solution for a PvP problem.
This isn't a PvP problem, it's a match-making problem. No competitive game would you ever match a premade with a non-premade. If your answer is just to premade back or "git gud", then you're turning PvP into "either find a premade yourself or instantly lose" and that's not why BGs exist, so that rankers can steamroll and anyone who's not a ranker can fuck off and die. And if they do join premades, they're just going to dodge that premade too because no cheesy ranker's going to want to fight against another premade.
Literary anyone except tryhard rankers are complaining about this change because it makes abusing the matchmaking system which would allow them to steamroll most of the games a bit harder. That is all this argument is about. There is absolutely nothing you can add to the benefit of anyone not playing in a premade that would justify this stuff. Laughed hard at the "sever animosity" argument, like you won't have a friend or an alt account logged in to see when/if the rankers on the enemy faction are queuing up (even if they appear Offline, you can just make an alt and park it at the Battlemaster/portal) just to avoid them.
I'm sorry, any system that makes it harder for all of you to abuse the honor grind and make queue times less of a problem for most of the server is a good system. Authenticity, server pride and so forth has nothing to do with it. You want server pride, go measure your dick in a capital city or BRM against another guild - it'll win you more notoriety than beating a bunch of uncoordinated losers in an instanced BG.