Cross Realm Battlegrounds

[Nandieb]

But I just don't understand the approach of not enforcing separate faction pvp. I know that on PVE realm people are doing cross faction, but for battlegrounds separate factions should be enforced. This is what Warcraft was built upon, Horde versus Alliance. and keep PvE for convenience shared. But it feels wrong to me to do cross faction pvp. I would urge developers to really re-think this.

Nzoth needs crossfaction battlegrounds, the factions are too imbalanced otherwise. E.g. some classes are largely missing from one faction or the other, it’s not only shamans and paladins, it’s also hunter (alliance), priests (alliance) and warlocks (horde).
Before crossfaction on turtle we not only had extremely long ques, but also mostly very boring games or 4 classes on horde vs 4 other classes on alliance, again and again.

What could be done to appease faction exclusionists on PvP realm, is to have BG matchmaking favor same server vs same server, and have yshaarj faction exclusive teams vs nzoth mercenary (mixed) teams sometimes

[Tendersoul95]

Could someone please explain to me how it makes sense for a night elf to fight beside an orc?

Alliance vs Horde is the core of the game. Cross faction shouldn't exist.

[Berdal]

Alliance vs Horde is the core of the game. Cross faction shouldn't exist.

Agreed when it comes to PvP, cross-faction shouldn't exist.

[Archer]

Please keep in mind, that our server is still intentionally in a Beta state. Systems are subject to change and these systems are not set in stone. We value community feedback heavily.

[Nandieb]

Alliance vs Horde is the core of the game. Cross faction shouldn't exist.

Agreed when it comes to PvP, cross-faction shouldn't exist.

You can’t have cross-faction PvE with faction exclusive PvP. Turtle proved that.

For PvP realm (yshaarj) it doesn’t make sense of course to have any crossfaction

[Rimanah]

fuck elves, fuck jian, and fuck the alliance, i'm not playing with them, bye.

[Berdal]

You can’t have cross-faction PvE with faction exclusive PvP. Turtle proved that.

Please do elaborate.

For Y'Shaarj it doesn’t make sense of course to have any crossfaction

Agreed.

[Kestrel]

We would love for cross faction to not exist or be necessary.

Turtle wow enabled it on the PvE realm, and thus forced any cross realm implementation to contend with it.

Our options are simply to either;
A.) Ignore the cries of the PvP realm and never implement cross realm(we did consider this repeatedly)
B.) Tell hundreds of players on an already fully cross faction server that they can no longer play battlegrounds with their friends
C.) Force minimal cross faction for those on the PvP realm, upsetting those who don't want to have a human priest next to their orc warrior (understandable)
D.) Add a separate likely DoA "non-cross faction" queue for the PvP realm to opt out of cross realm/faction.
E.) Limit cross realm to AV only so that no cross faction is necessary, still leaving most of the PvP population issues on the table
F.) Limit cross realm to a single battleground that rotates regularly, so those not wanting the feature can avoid that battleground for a day/week

Of course if there is some other option that I am missing I would be curious to hear.

Right now we picked option C, and will be implementing option D SOONtm (next few days hopefully), but as stated, I suspect the vocal minority here who want to opt out of cross realm will be shocked to see the rest of the PvP server using it still for the lower queue times.

Option E is something we have talked about before as well, but leaves the same issue that option A does really.

Option F is something we wanted to do, but would have taken considerable additional development and we had to decide if it was worth delaying the feature entirely for. It will likely be explored more heavily in the subsequent weeks if there is still an interest. Although similar to option D, we have concerns that those yelling they will quit if they have to plan cross faction as not as populous as their voices may make them seem.

[Qrn]

D.) Add a separate likely DoA "non-cross faction" queue for the PvP realm to opt out of cross realm/faction.

Has to be done! I was already thinking to give all my items and gold to someone!

[Knifewrench]

We would love for cross faction to not exist or be necessary.

Turtle wow enabled it on the PvE realm, and thus forced any cross realm implementation to contend with it.

Our options are simply to either;
A.) Ignore the cries of the PvP realm and never implement cross realm(we did consider this repeatedly)
B.) Tell hundreds of players on an already fully cross faction server that they can no longer play battlegrounds with their friends
C.) Force minimal cross faction for those on the PvP realm, upsetting those who don't want to have a human priest next to their orc warrior (understandable)
D.) Add a separate likely DoA "non-cross faction" queue for the PvP realm to opt out of cross realm/faction.
E.) Limit cross realm to AV only so that no cross faction is necessary, still leaving most of the PvP population issues on the table
F.) Limit cross realm to a single battleground that rotates regularly, so those not wanting the feature can avoid that battleground for a day/week

Of course if there is some other option that I am missing I would be curious to hear.

Right now we picked option C, and will be implementing option D SOONtm (next few days hopefully), but as stated, I suspect the vocal minority here who want to opt out of cross realm will be shocked to see the rest of the PvP server using it still for the lower queue times.

Option E is something we have talked about before as well, but leaves the same issue that option A does really.

Option F is something we wanted to do, but would have taken considerable additional development and we had to decide if it was worth delaying the feature entirely for. It will likely be explored more heavily in the subsequent weeks if there is still an interest. Although similar to option D, we have concerns that those yelling they will quit if they have to plan cross faction as not as populous as their voices may make them seem.

ignoring the crys of pvpers? we asked for no xfaction. what do we get you? you trying to kill yshaarj by pushing xfaction on us? u consistently ignore anything.