Forum Post of the Day: Fair play is so unfair

Laij, a gnomish warrior, believes that the point of forming a pre-made group to fight in PvP is to have the undisputed advantage over opposing groups of randomly assembled players. It is not, in his mind, to work as a team or overcome a challenge, but simply to earn farm as many honor points as possible within a short period of time.

His post, entitled "Blizzard killed PvP guilds," is a rant against the new battleground matching system, and it begins with the following logic: "Why run BG premades anymore? All you do is get matched up with other premades that are going to drag games out extremely long."

The first responder to his opening post sees clear through this transparent argument: "so you're saying its too hard now that you are matched against non-noobs?" Later on, Drysc replies, in his characteristic way, "Fair and challenging gameplay? The horror..."

Then, surprisingly, another gnome brought out the following suggestion:

"everyone q in greens and when u loadin, change your gear... should work."

Translated into normal English, this means that "everyone should first queue up for battle with inferior gear, then switch to more powerful gear after arriving in the battleground."

Nethaera popped in to point out the errors in this second gnome's thinking (if not his spelling), making it clear that Blizzard is one step ahead of tricksy gnomes: "The check also looks in inventory, the bank, and in the mailbox. Good try though!"

Thus it is that fairness, despite having "nerfed the hell out of any PvP guild," has nonetheless won the day. PvP guilds may indeed have a larger challenge ahead of them now, especially with reports of increased queue times, but every true sportsman or sportswoman who takes up the challenge of facing others in battleground competition should be pleased to, at last, contend mostly against groups of equally matched players.

We here at WoW Insider will be on the lookout for any future posts on the official WoW forums which may try to convince you that war is peace, that ignorance is strength, that freedom is slavery, or that being good is actually bad.

[Heroes of WoW comic excerpted from worldofwar.net]