This time it’s not about a design reason. As I was already suspecting the Alterac BG is inaccessible without broadband. I just logged out the Test server with a ping above 6000ms. The BG hosts a maximum of 40 vs 40 players and while I was in the BG was something more 15 vs 15. Even with this reduced number I could just stare in the middle of the action and move around without being able to attack or affect in any way what was going on.

I made sure that it wasn’t the server itself lagging by talking with other players and they said they didn’t have any problem. I checked the badwidth usage and it was, indeed, filled up completely even without the battle going on the screen.

Broadband is rather common nowadays, but it’s not available here. Since this part of the game will be inaccessible for me I’ll just put it aside and stop discussing it. Just for these personal reasons.

I had some other things to say but I guess I lost the motivation.