Details are the key to success. The balance of the PvP servers is extremely off. 40% alliance and WOW TBC Gold 60% Horde. On PvE it is the other side: 66 percent Alliance, 34 percent Horde.
What’s the conclusion The alliance side are more focused on PvE, and this shows in server selection + side distribution. The players on the horde side are more PvP-oriented. This leads to an exponential increase in queue time despite the two sides being identical overall.
It is pretty easy to conclude that it won’t work for one Free transfers from servers that had huge queues were not really used. Even a small change in racial preferences was not enough to persuade players. It is widely known that arena alliance racials are more advantageous if all other aspects are equal. Horde PvPers want to be Horde. This is understandable.
I said that it’s a weak argument because it’s easily avoidable. If the server population in a PvP server is above 55/45 Horde favored, making it impossible to make the character of your choice on Horde is a pretty simple way to stop the possibility of the server being wildly unevenly.
The current approach is a blunder on the very premise behind the game with two factions, that’s been the foundation of Warcraft since it’s inception. An alternative is to provide free faction changes (though they can restrict the change to one account per player) to ensure that players are able to swap their entire characters.
While it may sound easy to prevent new characters to be made on Horde, the consequences and backdrafts would be massive using arguments like “I want play with my buddies” or “I prefer horde since I love orcs.”
Additionally, you’d have to restrict the creation of horde characters on all servers in the pool. Is this really feasible or?
People had the opportunity to swap shortet queue time for buy WOW Classic Burning Crusade Gold quite some time. But they didn’t. As they did not use the servers for free. It is not surprising to me, as the majority of people will choose either their own side or friends. Hard to change that.