by Spottedcow » Sun Mar 27, 2016 7:18 pm
When WoW was new, tons of people played the BGs for fun. But the people drawn to a private vanilla server tend to be, on the whole, more serious players than the vast majority of vanilla players when it was retail. Which means you have very few people playing for fun and a lot of people playing to maximize hph. Which further drives out anyone playing for fun, because what's fun about getting 3v10 steamrolled or watching the opposing side leave the moment it looks like they won't get a 10 minute win? I felt like twinking in low level BGs in retail did the same thing. Casual players don't expect to win every game, but if they never win, they're not going to play.
I'm a casual pvper; I don't find pvp to be that great and I'll only do it one in a great while here on Nost. And with the balance of casual pvper to grinder, I just don't do it at all; I know it'll be a miserable experience. So I honestly don't care what they do to the BGs; unless things get suddenly and massively less grindy, I'm not playing. If they removed the ability to queue as a group entirely, I might be tempted to dip my toes in the water, but I don't see that happening.