BW announced their plans to kill server communities yesterday...

Why wouldn't they? They have a rather large interest in the success of this game. I'm not saying that the CEO is lurking here. But if I were a large company with a huge investment like this on the line, you better believe I'd have little grunts out gathering all the data they could muster for me.

On the contrary, pvp will be worse for it. Accountability will have no impact whatsoever. Join a random BG in World of Warcraft and tell me that that is good pvp.


According to this post you've clearly proven that you're fluent in the English language, so how is it that you have not managed to understand any of the concerns? I could write you a wall of text, but what would be the point? I would just be repeating what so many people have already said. And what has been said is beyond just "bad".

What I wrote in my previous post is simply an effect of why no cross-server services is such a good thing. In wow, I never had anyone whispering me after a battleground. I never whispered anyone after a battleground and I sure as hell didn't team up with anyone lest they were in my guild. Compare that with my previous post and tell me to be optimistic about cross-server queues. Does that help you understand my frustration (if nothing else)? It's subjective. And I'm going to keep supporting these threads in hopes that Bioware will change their mind.

If you do not take these threads seriously, then why even bother to post?

But the funny thing is they only appear to be adopting the bad differences between the games.

Not a combat log.

Not UI mods.

Not the Auction House.

I assume Arenas are coming next?

"With cross server queuing we will still have a preference to match players of the same server"

http://www.swtor.com/blog/community-qa-feb-10th-2012

The change is because of common sense. Not having cross server war zones is just bad game design.

Cross-servers will be a must when they'll introduce Rated Warzones. And at that point, only your rank will matter probably.

Depending on how such a thing is implemented this could mean anything.

Example: 8 republic get out of a warzone. The first 5 immediately get into a new warzone with 3 other people in the queue. 3 people are still queued. Before, if you were to wait ~5 minutes there would be other people who got out of other in-progress warzones and the 3 would pop into another warzone with 5 others.

Now....do those 3 get shunted into the world pool immediately? That would suck, because that server clearly has a healthy population that can satisfy numerous parallel warzones and doesn't need cross server.

Let me quote this once more:

This is taken from a Q&A a couple of months before the game was launched:

Q: Are waiting queues cross-server and, if so, also cross-language?

A: No. We believe that fostering rivalries and memorable encounters with recognizable players are important in building a good PvP community on a server. We suspect cross-server queuing compromises these key tenets. Additionally, systems like bolster and same faction vs same faction Warzones (like Hutball) help matches pop frequently and regularly.


No cross-server queuing was a deliberate game design made by Bioware that a lot of players approved of. Thus the outrage on the forums right now; we don't want to see it changed.

So we have the option to queue with our own server, but we'll most likely be placed in a larger warzone queue anyway.... RRRIIIIIGGGHHHHHTTTTT

Didn't WoW supposedly get same server preference for the RDF in Cataclysm? It never seemed to make much difference that I could see. Pardon me if I'm wary. It's just that blind faith in companies like Blizzard and BW hasn't worked out so well for me in the past.

Considering that all the random queues implemented in WoW were severely detrimental to server cohesion, I'm going to hang on to my anti-cross-server stance. You can't put the genie back in the bottle. Best not to let it out at all.