Quote Originally Posted by Aradar View Post
I've never played a twink but I find it amusing that a community that is so hated for its choice on how to enjoy the game can turn around and do the same to another community based on a different choice, especially if you happen to pvp while multiboxing.

As for their complaint this has increased their queues to the point of making the actual battles nonexistent, how does one read into that they were lying when they said they would prefer to play other twinks? It's simple math that when you restrict a part of the game to an alternative type of game play there likely isn't going to be the numbers to make that choice worthwhile. Imagine if boxers could only enter battlegrounds against other boxers within your battlegroup and you would get the same scenario.

It also doesn’t necessarily mean they were wrong in the size of their community. Our community has gotten to be a decent size but when you take a niche game style and spread it over multiple servers/battlegroups/time zones/age groups with differing priorities/responsibilities, it’s going to make it hard to get 20 of them together at the same time, and that’s just the smallest battleground.

On the flip side, I don’t think it’s something that blizzard needs to address. The game was not intended for their play style, much less ours, so the twinks need to figure out a solution on their own much like we do when mechanics of the game are changed/introduced that affect our play.


I'm not trying to harp on people who play twinks, by all means, play how you want. I had a couple twinks in my time. What I find amusing is twinks have been asking for this for a long while, some ability to turn off XP or only que against other twinks. Blizzard gave them both of these. If they turn off XP, they can only que against other people with XP off. Now there are long / nonexistent ques. Why is that? Simple. They can't start games that don't have enough players so the logical explanation is that there aren't enough twinks that have their XP off queing. It's not a far assumption from there that they aren't turning off their XP because they were just trying to justify themselves being qued with non-twinks. If all the twinks that were crying about wanting to play with other twinks DID go and turn off their XP, and que, then this wouldn't be in issue unless the BG just has a very, very small twink population.

I'm willing to wager the twink population is greater than the multiboxing population. You don't see wow forums completely overrun with people talking about multiboxing as you do twinks talking about twinking. If you're in doubt, go check your BG forums.

As I said before, I think this will cause twinks to migrate to other servers if they really want to play with other twinks, much like multiboxers have begun to migrate to servers with other boxers.

TL;DR I'm not the pot calling the kettle black, I'm very much amused that the crying child finally got his issues addressed and is now crying about it.