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http://www.fohguild.org/forums/mmorpg-g ... oming.html

"Massive Battleground Enhancements Incoming"
I have no idea how credible this guy/site is but passing it along anyway...

http://www.gamingsteve.com/archives/200 ... tleg_1.php

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It's been a few months since any really good World of Warcraft gossip was leaked so I figured start-up the rumor mill once again. Actually, this isn't really rumor as I know that they're working on this, so I thought all you World of Warcraft fans would be interested in learning this info a bit early.

Sure WoW might not have the best PvP system out there, but more times than not I have a blast playing Battlegrounds. The only problem is the wait -- the oh so long wait -- to get into a match. Often I have to wait hours to get into a match, especially if I want to play Alterac Valley, and then once I’m in I usually end up playing against the same old players time after time after time.

Well good news is coming to all you Battlegrounds veterans out there … and a lot sooner than you think! Blizzard is hard at work right now creating new enhanced Battlegrounds servers. These servers will no longer be regulated to a single realm, but cross-linked across Realms to create an diverse PvP experience! Right now they are planning on linking 16 realms together per Battleground server for massive PvP action. You could imagine how this can really help out the Battlegrounds situation, not only will the queues go much faster but you'll finally get a chance to fight across Realms.

And the best part? This enhancement is going to be released very shortly; most likely by patch 1.12 or 1.13 at the latest. But to be honest that’s nothing compared to what they're planning for the future.

Imagine the features of Battle.net combined into the world of Battlegrounds: Worldwide rankings, tournaments, ladders, and more, only for the entire world of Battlegrounds. Yes, Battlegrounds will undergo its most radical change during the release of Burning Crusade expansion with Battlegrounds becoming a true worldwide tournament! Of course with The Burning Crusade slated for release at the end of this year, if not next year, this is still a long way off. But at least the interim patch should greatly increase the Battlegrounds experience.

With Blizzard finally getting around to linking the Realms up to each other does that mean that we might actually start to see more cross-realm game features? Who's to know, but Blizzard sure didn't buy 1500 new servers just for fun!
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Post by sudo »

read about this idea months ago. ppl were all excited to be able to do cross server guild fights etc.
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Post by Lateralus »

what if 2 people have the same name. will universe explode tehn?

i think cross realm bgs sounds very cool. and implement a new kind of ladder for these as well :D

also the loose-rank-you-fought-hard-for-by-time should end.. if you once are high warlord you always should be imo
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Post by rmz »

very easy solution of the 2 names 'problem' is giving the ppl in bg the name + servername so Lateralus-Twilightshammer etc problem solved continue!
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Post by sneek »

No matchmaking still. Dang it, that would've been perfect.

Remove "sign up as a group" for AB, WSG and work around the queueing mechanism to provide balanced groups of only higher rankers and only lower rankers for the PUGs and dump all the premade groups into a matchmaking GUI to get starting.
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Post by Morlog »

and how will the ranking work if you fight people from other servers all hte time? and some servers are relativley new and will get to face people from lets say magtherion thats currently wiping at chtun?
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Post by rmz »

thats an interesting point morlog :)
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Post by Meek »

if and i mean if they pull this off to become an battlenet/quake/starcraft etc online pvp fighting genre. it will be the biggest and most popular one no doubt about it.
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Post by Kibs »

Meek wrote:if and i mean if they pull this off to become an battlenet/quake/starcraft etc online pvp fighting genre. it will be the biggest and most popular one no doubt about it.
it already is :p
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