Quote Originally Posted by zenga View Post
There is already a planned BG environment, and it's called rated battlegrounds. The idea behind random battlegrounds is that they are random. Trying to game the random aspect of random battlegrounds is silly. When you participate into random play, you accept a certain handicap on your side and expect a certain handicap on the other side, there is only a limited level of coordination possible with random play (i.e. what is possible through BG chat and what is possible with small groups; but that is clearly not a full premade raid).

It's beyond my mind that people I consider very reasonable from what they tend to post over time on this board. don't seem to understand the concept behind random battlegrounds and rated bg's.
Yep, that's the gist of what I got from the blue posts that include words like "roflstomp" and such. As a counterpoint, it surprises me that what seem to be rather obvious fixes to the BG system that people have been requesting for years keep falling on deaf ears, resulting in players being creative in trying to work around the perceived issues. One good example is bots. Bots don't use realID and join premades, for obvious reasons. It must be wholly depressing to look around and realize the other team is 70% premade and yours is 30% bots.

Still, it seems awfully intellectually lazy of Blizzard to just keep nerfing the things people do to make their game more fun instead of just making their game more fun.