Yesterday the 1.12 patch went live with those two BattleGrounds-like world PvP things.

I don’t have much to comment as I already wrote extensively about all that. I patched the game but still haven’t logged in. Nor I have an interest to, so I’m probably only going to follow how things go “by proxy”.

Here are some comments carefully picked out of context from FoH’s:

Quineloe: I think Blizzard was just trying to prove the point that world PVP is stupid. Good job on their part.

Cuppycake: Well what the heck did they think was going to happen? That’s *not* the kind of World PVP that anyone was ‘missing’ or ‘wanting.’

Etadanik: Actually, the only thing they proved is that they suck as PvP system designers.

Frott also makes some interesting points. There would be more to say about those but, again, I’ve done that already.

Blizzard will never get PvP right. Mark my words.

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EDIT: Some comments about the problem of “worthwhile rewards” added to PvP.

No, the only problem is that if they make world PvP actually fun and rewarding it will become obvious how the BGs are stupid and all the work that went into them suddenly wasted since noone would bother with them. As people have and know already better games where they can play CTF.

They cannot afford that. So they keep designing world PvP rewards that sucks so that they cannot compete with BGs.

They just cannot allow that “world PvP” becomes a valid competitor of the BattleGrounds. They just cannot allow that the players have a real choice between one or the other.

In the exact same way they cannot afford 5-man/casual content to really compete with raids.

Watch out, I have a poisoned tooth.