Not short-sighted at all.
2 years from now when we have WoTLK, every PVPer is going to be jumping ship to Alliance for Every Man for Himself, at which point they’ll then be asking for same faction battlegrounds.
Also news flash: Horde playing against Horde DOESN’T break the game. Nothing is made easier or more convenient, the game simply becomes playable for one faction.
“I quit because Horde players get to play the game now >:(”
Yeah, no. Good luck finding anybody that cares about that.
After HvH they can stop retail features agreed!
I know for a fact there are people who didn’t even start TBC because of the level boost and people who quit after the HvH change and I understand them. Blizzard is milking TBC harder than Disney is milking Star Wars.
That one I agree with, I and many guildies are firmly opposed to the level boost and any other cash shop inplimentations.
Making the game physically playable for people however, isn’t milking the game.
Would you have preferred if Blizzard said “Long queues as Horde? Buy a faction change now, 50% off!”?
It is, because you are literally doing the laziest solution for a problem, that far superseeds BG ques.
No, because anything above 0$ is too much for this case. This is a problem, creeping it’s ugly head since Classic and Blizzard didn’t give crap about, until it actually started hurting their pockets.
And what’s the other solution? FORCE people to play alliance via faction queues?
That’s worse than lazy and results in an even worse problem. On top of that, it doesn’t help the matter because the factions aren’t as imbalanced as you think, there’s just more horde players that want to do PVP than Alliance.
How about Blizzard do the same as private servers and buff the Alliance? Wait, you said no retail changes.
You’re going to have to elaborate.
yes it definitely has something to do with merc mode NOT BEING IN THE GAME RIGHT NOW
how delusional can you be to think that changing something so people can actually play the game would make the sub count drop. are you serious?
Sounds about right for a cash grab game, rush at release by a developer losing subs by the day with problems that were - and could be - predicted years ago.
Or did you acually expect them to solve the issue in any other way? And do you take for granted that it would work?
We have seen the “solutions” for other problems since Classic was released, I wouldnt call many of them ‘thought through’ or ‘in time’.
Classic will be treated like that broke bad car one drives while it works, but wont invest new parts or money in to.
Easy, cheap, fixes are what we can expect at most and what we will get.
We haven’t. Blizzard are doing “hands off approach”, unless the problem becomes so evident, they have to at least slap a bandage to a gaping, festering wound.
TBCC is just a cash grab riddled with bugs and flawed systems. I wish it would die off completely so I could play a real server.
They can‘t leave it as it was, because first the have to make the game as it was before they can leave it. The game is full of bugs…
Its someting, soo yes i prefer if Blizzard say that instead to silence until August for grab back some subs.
They’ve made their money blowing the dust off a 14 year old game, they don’t care if tbc flops.
Im sure they will just do that 
Just abandon this sinking ship and join FF14.
All Blizzard is trying to do is ban critics and censor bad reviews, they have nothing else they can do.
It is a greedy dead company.
Anyone with half a brain can see what same faction BGs will lead to ===>>> total disappearance of alliance on PvP servers.
But I guess this is too much to handle for a zug zug brain.
Mind you even Blizzard was too dumb to anticipate this issue so you’re not alone !
Nah they knew but didn’t care. And they offer a trash solution as always and all the sheep are eating it up.
Yeah possible but based on their constant bad decisions I’m really starting to believe they have a low IQ problem at Blizz. Or maybe they’ve gone down the diversity rabbit hole a bit too deep and find themselves stuck with a super woke but completely incompetent team…
Not sure if wokeness has anything to do with it. I just think the dev team believes in their product or their game (shadowlands) and therefore thinks adding stuff from retail to TBC is a good decision “enhancing” the game.
I mean you develop a game for what 1-2 years or work on anything for that time, you kinda have to convince yourself its good… otherwise how can you justify it?
Yeah I could see the initial success of SL giving a confidence boost to the devs about their bloody systems.
But that success is long gone, SL numbers are in the gutter.
Their ego needs an update.