[Classic] PVP like retail (ie no follow?)

[MiRai]

There is no indication that /follow will return to PvP, and the API strings that prevent follow while in PvP combat, were in place in the Classic demo.

I'll continue by saying that, assuming those API strings stay in place, then world PvP is going to be exactly how it is now, with, perhaps, slightly less of a delay to drop combat and bring follow back, due to the lack of sharding.

Now, with that said, does anyone honestly believe that Blizzard will change their stance and allow /follow while in PvP combat, specifically in battlegrounds? If you believe that it's possible, I'd love to hear the reasoning behind it other than, "That's how it was back in Vanilla!" It's clear that there are several things that will be present, in the Classic re-release, that weren't "like Vanilla," so hanging onto that as a reason seems foolish.

Personally, I find that, a majority of multiboxers, just aren't very good at organized PvP (e.g. battlegrounds), outside of, perhaps, Alterac Valley, where they can better blend in with everyone else. So, they end up being more of a detriment to the objectives rather than a benefit, and this is a problem. Throughout the Wrath and Cata expansions, there was no shortage of bad-to-mediocre PvP videos that could be found on YouTube, and only a handful of multiboxers, with nicely geared characters, class comps, and experience, were capable of truly contributing to the objective(s) of any given battleground, while producing a flashy video at the same time.

You have to consider that, outside of those flashy montage videos, how many times does a multiboxer find themselves split up—where half of their team is at the graveyard doing nothing, while the other half is slowly being killed? Or where their entire team is completely CC'd by only one or two players from the opposing team, contributing nothing to the battleground and allowing one-half (WSG) or one-third (AB) of the entire team to be locked down.

I understand that people are passionate about their PvP multiboxing, and might be angry at my above statements. However, if you want to push back on this, then go for it, but you had better have an incredibly strong argument for why it should be allowed, other than, again, "That's how it was in Vanilla," or "Because it would be fun." Personally, I find it difficult to justify a small percentage of multiboxers "having fun," at the cost of the, much larger, solo playerbase that will be trying to, also, enjoy battlegrounds without one-half to one-third of their team being eaten up by an inexperienced 5-boxer, who is just looking to "pwn noobs."