Checking regularly and faction is still locked. Will it be the entire time?
I’d love to play this game but it doesn’t seem to work out.
Anything else that can be done?
time to nerf horde racials and fix alliance racials.
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Try again later.
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What can be done -
- Wait until balance is achieved and your faction is open to create character.
- Play for another faction.
- Play on another Ruleset for faction you want.
- Do not play at all.
Next step would by complain about it on forum… but you already made it.
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Yeah I am not sure how their balancing mechanism is working. I can create a Horde character no problem. I literally just tried and it is available to me.
I created two Alliance characters earlier to try and help another player out. Deleted them now though to see if I could create a Horde character and it lets me do it fine on the PVP ruleset.
All my mains will be on the RPPVP ruleset as Alliance only so happy to test things on the PVP ruleset.
I read somewhere in this forums (might not be true) that blizzard wanted at worst a 53/47 split between factions.
Just keep trying, not just once or twice a day. Persistence is key.
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What do you want as a solution tho? That they remove faction balancing? what do you think will happen then? I know you want Blizzard to make an exception for you ofc but that is not how the world works.
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The Horde doesn’t want crying kiddies, go play Disney alliance!
- No idea what kind of vague posting is this.
- I thought it was obvious i don’t want to play for another faction.
- I would really like to play on what i would really like to play.
- Ever heard about redundancy? Redundancy is just spam.
I’ve seen those numbers quoted before, too. Clearly a lot of people want to be Horde, but I feel like letting them have 13% more players is already a bit unbalanced.
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There was no exception asked for in the post.
This is poorly thought though.
No point checking until 4th November when servers go live and non Beta players get access.
I managed on my first try 2 days ago during the morning to create a horde charr on pvp so try maybe on early hour
This is a self-reinforcing process.
The more people complain that they cannot create a Horde character on the PvP ruleset, the more they reinforce the perception that the Horde will be the dominant faction.
This deters Alliance players, which in turn reduces the likelihood that the system will allow the creation of new Horde characters, thereby increasing the number of people complaining, and so on.
I think we’re missing the bigger picture, this isn’t a new game were people might settle for maybe trying a different race. Most people are playing this from nostalgia and with friends, they want to play their specific character and with their friends.
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Took me 2 tries last night. First attempt was locked, the second, I got in.
The good reason why they are doing this is to prevent one side being stomped in open world which is not fun for that entire faction. You may not like it but blizzard have to consider the entire other faction, its a numbers game.
I have seen pvp servers in the past with ratios of like 75% on one side and they died very quickly because its not fun for the smaller side.
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I really feel for you. I am fortunate, got Horde on PvP. Blizzard have completely got the engineering for balancing wrong for launch. Its a horrible experience for people who have paid for something and are gated from actually playing what they want to play. Blizzard, if honest would put a huge banner over the early name reservation that you are most likely not going to be able to make the choices you would like. Really poor show.
Continuing the discussion from Faction unavalaible on EU PVP ruleset for the 4th day in a row:
The engineering is flat out wrong for faction balancing at launch and for those who have paid out money for early name reservation. There is nothing to balance on PvP ruleset for the first few weeks as people are leveling. Blizzard have had this conversation and it would have gone like this. Option 1. at point of purchase capture users intended ruleset, intended faction, is balanced > allow, is not balanced purchase not completed. Option 2 was then chosen, option 1 looses us a sale, who cares if the consumer does not get what they have hoped for., just make sure they don’t know this, keep it ambiguous, we get paid. But again, there is nothing to balance for the first few weeks. Also a properly engineered solution should not gate anything at point of creation rather, balance at the zone level, the tech, the solutions exist for this, yes it is more complex but again a decision was made not to as its not a Blizzard value generator.