There were no crossrealm in vanilla. Not even in 1.12.
What vanilla had is battlegroups consisting of 4-8 small pop servers. Those servers were combined of likely minded players (pvp/pve/rp never crossed each other) of same language. Since population was low it wasn’t uncommon to memorize some players you encountered.
What we got in so called "classic" is retail crossrealm of whole regional population (eu/na/asia) resulting in total mess of games and non-existing community.
WTF?
Yeah there was.
“For the first time in the history of World of Warcraft, you will be able to face off against players from other realms in the Battlegrounds.”
https://wowwiki.fandom.com/wiki/Patch_1.12.0 The literal first sentence of the patch notes
Since you linked wiki might as well eductae yourself on looking what battlegroups are and when they were introduced.
Why does that matter? You claimed there was no cross realm in vanilla, which it was
What you calling crossrealm (server grouping without any limitations) wasnt a thing even in wrath. Crossrrealm is a retail abberation which has no place in vanilla.
I’m calling cross realms a way to do BGs versus people on another realm than yourself. I’m glad its a thing as well. Imagine for a second you were playing on a 80% ally server. I’m pretty sure this forum post would’ve had quite a different tone 
There is a difference between battlegroups and connecting over 20 realms. We probably have 10 times the players now than battlegroups had.
You blizzman?
Yours posts are very constructive.
It’s called Classic not “classic”. Classic is the name of this custom emualtion of vanilla.
Oh will you shut up already, stop whining about this. You actually think they will change the current system because of your post? Do you actually think that?
This system is MUCH better. My server in vanilla/TBC got in Ruin BG and it lived up to it’s name. 4 servers, 1 PVP, 2PVE and 1 RP -PVP, wich was my server. All healthy pop before the introducing of Battle groups. Not unexpectedly our BG sucked compared to most others, so the PVPers started to leave. Then their friends left to join them. Problem is most of the PVPers was also PVE ers. Even people that preferred PVE was leaving because our BG was so bad. We was the top alliance PVE guild on the server and still we couldn’t get enough skilled, and far less geared people to fill up the ranks. In the end the guild split and half of it changed server, and what was left disbanded. So basically a bad BG ruined the PVE. I eventually transferred off too. Logged in with an alt in IF during prime time 1-2 years later. There was 3 people in IF. Ruin BG, ruined both our server and probably the other 3 in it too.
yes thats why we do this, its issue OLD player vs young RETAIL player, you guys cant understand why we wanted vanilla back i guess
They atleast had Battlegroups
Were literally facing anyone and everyone in europe right now
Its fked
Serious question, why does it even matter how many servers are in the battlegroup?
What community are you talking about in BGs? BGs aren’t about sitting at a campfire telling each other adventure stories.
Idk man, maybe look up what a Battlegroup is, answer is there.
There is really nothing to complain about here, Blizzard were explicit of this being a condition of “classic” before release - no i’m not going to find the link, because CBA.
Agree.
Should have made multiple smaller Battlegroups at least like back in the days during TBC.
It’s actually sad the level of dedication made by certain users to defend the bad decisions of a poor, innocent billion dollar company.
You’re completely right. Battlegroups were nothing like this, but no one will engage with that point constructively, because they can just try play semantics with the phrase “cross-realm”.
My advice is to jump ship and let the shills play away.
I got from a reliable source Blizzard is very sorry and will undo crossrealm battlegrounds next patch.
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