#0 - Oct. 2, 2006, 7:37 p.m.
See, one of the fun things about BGs is the "Forrest Gump" nature of them -- like that box of chocolates, you never know what you're going to get.
The worst idea is this nonsense about gear-matching. Great -- same damn opposition, battleground after battleground. Greens versus greens, blues versus blues, purples versus purples. BORING.
Yes, it is fun to mow down people while in purples. And even when opposing better-geared players, it also makes for interesting play when the lower-geared team can try to use superior tactics to eek out a win.
Same is true with pick-up groups versus teams. If you're a pug and you face a team, chances are you're going to lose. But sometimes pugs do fairly well against partial teams, that can be a lot of fun. Even more interesting is when partial team/pug groups do well against full teams.
And while on a team, yes, it IS fun pwning dysfunctional pick-up groups, and it's even better when you get a match of some pugs, some teams, and everything in between. Some easy matches, some tough matches = interesting, diverse gameplay.
Now, all of that is gone. Blizzard has caved to the socialist whiners who suck at this game -- the serial dopes who believe that if a match isn't perfectly equal gearwise and teamwise, it's "unfair" and they need to whine about it.
Whine so much, in fact, that Blizzard is going to destroy one of the best things about battlegrounds, the wide-open, Wild-west type dynamic that pit the best versus the worst, the best versus the best -- and everything in-between.
All gone now. Now it's going to be the same teams, and the same gear, game after game after game after game after game . . . .
Whiners, you seriously are sucking all the fun out of this game. And Blizzard, shame on you for listening to them.