Follow In Battlegrounds Broken After 5.2

[MadMilitia]

I had different results when contacting a GM. He doesn't believe follow will ever return.

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That could mean that it is currently being considered but nobody knows until the higher ups make up their mind.


Frankly I wouldn't be surprised. Keep in mind not everyone used IsBoxer/InnerSpace. Some used hotkeynet, some used a tab shift methodology but ALL of them used /follow. Also the loss in subscription numbers would not be explained by banned trial accounts as a sub has to reach a milestone internally to be considered a subscription. Thinking that milestone to be 3 months but that's a guess.

My guess is the removal of /follow hit them for a considerable amount. Otherwise they wouldn't be talking about it again.

[Sam DeathWalker]

Well to take what they say at face value they were willing to take a loss of boxers if they got the big gain of getting rid of bots.

If this did not get rid of bots, and some are saying it did not, then there is no reason for them to take any loss. Thus they may reconsider.

Making a connection between the loss of 1.3 million subs and /follow is incorrect.

Everyone is blaming the loss on whatever about wow they dont like. PvP balance, Pandas, Catering to Casuals, Catering to Elites, whatever. Clearly its a combination of many many factors including the simple observation that nothing stays on top forever (EQ1, Roman Empire, American Idol, IBM, NY Yankees, etc.).'

You all understand that Honor will buy at best 476 ilevel items. Thats Garbage given you can kill 4 mobs a week that drop 496 to 522 ilevel items. You can craft 458 with way under 100g in materials.

[Palee]

You all understand that Honor will buy at best 476 ilevel items. Thats Garbage given you can kill 4 mobs a week that drop 496 to 522 ilevel items. You can craft 458 with way under 100g in materials.

Sam, playing BGs is not about honor gear for many of us. Boxers are not on par with arena or rated BGs so our only chance to have somewhat even competition is random BGs. When I multiboxed BGs my win/lose ratio was about 50-60% overall. In specific BGs like AV or IoC I could get better win/lose ratio but overall it's still around 50%. So yea, I could go play arena all day, but there's no fun in it. Arena is only there to get gear, not to have fun. Even if I did win arena all the time, what fun is in a game that you wait 5 mins queued and then it's all over in 2 mins. It's boring.

Random BGs have a certain attraction that no other form of pvp can give us boxers. The fact that they are random is probably the most important thing. It means anything can happen.

Some world pvp can get close to that, but in world you can get outnumbered so quickly that everything can end in like 10 minutes.

[ebony]

Sam, playing BGs is not about honor gear for many of us. Boxers are not on par with arena or rated BGs so our only chance to have somewhat even competition is random BGs. When I multiboxed BGs my win/lose ratio was about 50-60% overall. In specific BGs like AV or IoC I could get better win/lose ratio but overall it's still around 50%. So yea, I could go play arena all day, but there's no fun in it. Arena is only there to get gear, not to have fun. Even if I did win arena all the time, what fun is in a game that you wait 5 mins queued and then it's all over in 2 mins. It's boring.

Random BGs have a certain attraction that no other form of pvp can give us boxers. The fact that they are random is probably the most important thing. It means anything can happen.

Some world pvp can get close to that, but in world you can get outnumbered so quickly that everything can end in like 10 minutes.

This is so true I love a av game when the horde used to wipe all the ally at glav and then take sh gy pushing us up nouth. The game is looking bad but with my 5 I can still be trying my best to keep tower's and change the game its so fun I love av so much I don't care about honor. Just used to this on a class you can not play in the smaller games as well.


blizzard does read here so they do read this post. They said that to me keep giving us feedback and we keep it a open topic for them.

[Apps]

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/8088619711#1

Go post so we can get an answer.

Applaud. Some comments are spot on about the level a botter will go to auto a game and be 0% useful, vs a human playing multiple accounts.

[Fursphere]

The follow command no longer seems to be working in Battlegrounds or Arenas, but still works in PvE instances, Arena, and the outside world.

EDIT: Confirmed working as intended - http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/8088199775

Original reply prior to his edit - http://i.imgur.com/8pGZUBH.png

Imgur backup in case of thread deletion - http://i.imgur.com/mDPCGWx.jpg

EDIT #94 - Bashiok responds to why follow was eliminated in BGs & Arena - http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/to...775?page=6#104

EDIT: Follow in Arena has been restored as of 3/19.

I haven't multiboxed in over three years now, and I still think this is complete crap.

[MiRai]

I haven't multiboxed in over three years now, and I still think this is complete crap.

Holy shit... After seeing the avatar I checked in and around the thread to make sure I wasn't reading something that had been necro'd from 2009. >_>

#Fursphere2013

[Crum1515]

What is this, I don't even.

[zenga]

Hardware boxing making a comeback?

[candlebox]

zenga start running 3s with the shamen and make some vids.