Blizzard why insist on having cross-realm BGs?

Bewarê-frostmane · January 4, 2020, 3:27pm

At the end. And even that system wasn’t like now. Battlegroups were a thing then, they aren’t a thing now.

https://web.archive.org/web/20070206055244/http://www.wow-europe.com/en/info/basics/battlegroups.html
Is a list of the battlegroups from way back when.
There are 43 realms up now in classic, with over 3 times the maximum population capacity compared to back then.
(5 of those realms being Russian btw, since they’re now only possible to be enemies in BGs so they deserve a special mention here.)

Keep in mind that so many servers with over 3 times the population caps, you’re looking at more than 43k players when only assuming 1k characters per realm, all thrown into the same matchmaking mix (except for the case with the Russian realms, which is limited to enemies only.)
The population caps are over 10k right now, so assuming the average is at 5k, that’s 215,000 players. That you can be matched with and against.
It’s pure insanity.

Is all you need to know about that.

But of course, you don’t listen to reason, so this will just seem like foreign symbols to you, amiright?