The Need for Cross-Server Battlegrounds

[Kevin]

Bull.  What happens when there's a line of "tens of thousands" - a new AV will start up.  There's over 100 servers in the US right now.  Some of those can have 3 or 4 AVs up at a time, some seen an AV once a week.  Take all the ones that see AV once a week - instead of 20 to 30 people in a queue nightly on one side that never get to play, those 20 to 30 will be joining up with people from another server to play.  There are people who wait in a queue their entire game session to see if AV will start up - but it never does.  Take that over 100 servers, and you can at least get some AV going.  Get some AV going, people will realize "hey, it's actually playable, I'll put myself into the queue" and thus, even more AV.

You're wrong on the group aspect too - it'll be easier.  The last time AV went up on our server, the Horde tried to organize it as a 40 player raid and then join the queue.  Slight problem, there was a few Horde already in the queue with higher priority.  The AV didn't start until the Horde split up their raid and joined individually, leaving the last members to join stuck in the queue while the rest got to play.  Since individuals in the queue will actually have some place to go, instead of just blocking the queue, groups are more viable.
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The only real issue that will still cause problems is that if you keep PvP and PvE battlegrounds seperate (and I'm not sure you need to) then there is a horde v alliance imbalance on the PvE servers. Blizzard has admitted that PvE servers are alliance heavy and the census site data really isn't that far off the true mark I don't think. However as you said it should still be better for all as the 5 horde here and there will be enough to get another instance running so at least 40 alliance that couldn't play in one at all will be able to. Alliance will still mostly likely have longer lines and more issues but they should not be as severe. PvP servers are pretty balanced on horde v alliance so that shouldn't be too bad off. Not sure what you do with RP servers they are currently PvE as far as the base ruleset goes. Just my one minor little point to pick at.