crime wrote:Group/raid queuing was disabled in retail wow almost immediately after AV was released due to guilds forming raids. Blizzard were very clear that the change to remove group queuing was to preserve the balance of the BG, the fact that there was a work around imbedded in the game wasnt widely known and i'm sure if it had become a problem Blizzard would have fixed it.
Wrong. Group queing AV was not disabled until wotlk. Some other dude posted evidence where blizzard specifically told people that group queing in AV was
not a bannable offence. You might be right, if it had been a big problem they would've fixed it. Obviously people are far more knowledgable about the game 10 years later, but the reason we are all playing 1.12 is because we enjoy this version, WITH all the bugs and broken shit.
If nos didn't want group queing in AV they could have disabled that function (just like Feenix has) but they havn't. They blame the testers for "keeping this information from us" but in reality the devs just have very little clue of what they're doing.
Instead of banning people straight away for it, they could've said "What you're doing right now is not allowed on our server, please stop." and I can guarantee you that no one would continue. There, problem fixed.
If something was allowed on retail, and not specifically stated that it was not allowed on nos in the ToS, how would players know? No one intentionally went OUT OF THEIR way to brake the rules.
crime wrote:Here's the fundamental problem with all of the argument saying "this is how it was on retail", the game constantly evolved as the player based evolved. As the player base evolved the experience in PvP was not what was intended so Blizz made changes to bring it back inline. (Premade vs premade etc etc etc) The problem with taking a moment of time (Vanilla 1.12 for instance) and saying everything should work exactly like it did then is that it ignores the fact that the player base has evolved. They nerfed the bejesus out of Engineering after Vanilla because they realized it was simply too powerful in PvP is a great example of them fundamentally changing the game to address the fact that towards the end of Vanilla all of the serious PvP players picked it up and were rolling hard.
But mate, this is the game we CHOOSE to play. With all of it's flaws. Engineering is OP as fuck, but it's available to all of us. Premading is by far the most efficient way to grind ranks, but it's available to all of us. Classes are not balance by a mile, but we all knew this coming into this version.
1.12 IS NOT FAIR. It just isn't! Blizzard changed their game fundamentally because they realised that the casuals in the game were not able to do all the things that the hardcore players did, or get the same gear, same ranks and so on.
And the game that they changed WoW into is not the game that we enjoy, hence why we come back. But the problem with you people is that you don't seem to understand this.
Everybody seems to be OK with the idea that if you want to get good PvE gear you need to join a guild and raid. Why is it so strange that if you want r13-r14 you need to join a PvP group and grind? I'm sorry, it's just not possible to do alone, now get over it.
The honor system is quite great in 1.12 actually, I'm sure you know how it works. If I'm playing alone and constantly loosing to alliance premades, I get a certain amount of honor each week. All the other 200 players in the same situation get the same amount of honor as me each week. Now if I would want to gain ranks faster I would have to do something different, so lets say I gather a few friends and semi prem, now we start winning a bit more and I'm ahead of all these other 200 guys. This is a GREAT design! It encourages competition, there is nothing wrong with this!
The highest ranks and best gear shouldn't be avaible to everyone, then it removes the achievment of getting it. As Monkeynews has stated several times, if you don't want to play in a prem then queue on mondays through wednesdays when premades are capped, or if the premade is running AB, just queue WSG that day, now that we have AV, this is a great way for players to play solo.
The problem is that you people think you deserve to have everything without putting in any effort, it doesn't work that way.