lol history repeating itself.
possibly, but i would presume that the majority of players (ok ok, not all) participated in wintergrasp and tol barad because of the 2 raids there. i know for SURE that people tried to spam VoA every week for gear upgrades. i wasn’t as active in cata and horde were always outnumber so i didn’t go as often to BH, but people still wanted gear and raids were formed and filled in minutes of winning the fight.
ashran is the exception as people “mainly” went there to pvp. BUT the beauty of that was that it was like a 24/7 bg. it was like waves, where one side sacrificed their boss to win an event, then they would go kill the enemy boss and sacrifice an event. as it will be a bg with win conditions, the whole way ashran was played will be altered MASSIVELY and may not be liked at all compared to how it was in WoD.