10-31-2005, 03:38 PM
Drasca,Oct 28 2005, 10:37 PM Wrote:This is what I am looking at. The Expansion, being explicitly PvP, should drive more people toward balance (although, I am not sure why PvP servers seem more balanced. The one I am on has either a 3:2 to 3:1 A:H ratio)
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It really depends on how you look at it. It could very well be that there's a sizeable portion of the WoW population that likes playing the "good guys" (note the quotes, but that's how the Alliance is perceived by a good chunk of the players) in a fantasy setting, not really to beat other players and be competitive. The system drives them to PvE servers. If you put mandatory open PvP everywhere (past 60 that is)... where will you drive them?
Maybe the servers will be more balanced that way, but it could very well be at the cost of those people. If you tell them they're having to learn to bake because of the battlegrounds goodies (that's what you were referring to with AV, right?), won't be surprised if lots of them would tell you to take those and, well, get rid of them instead of forcing PvP to enjoy the new expansion content.
Statistics rarely tell the whole story. Ideally, the marketing department would be the one investigating what their customers want, and not us in the forum making idle speculation, but we know how real marketing works ;)