I have played some, but not very much. One of the main reasons I've chosen to engage everyone here in this conversation. Hopefully people don't receive me as hostile, as it is not my intent.
This context is helpful and I appreciate it.
As for decisions regarding Blackrock, to my knowledge, it is largely Malaco that makes the decisions. If you'd like to speak to the effect of that, you would probably be best off addressing him.
That said, I can understand the logic here now that you've provided some context. However, if I may ask, how long are the queues usually?
To my knowledge, Malaco wanted to take the realm in bit of a more blizzlike fashion. This is just my opinion, but I am personally inclined to agree with him and his decision. On the topic of Wintergrasp, as I mentioned in one of my previous replies, the implementation of it on Blackrock is an idea that can be considered, especially now that the realm doesn't permit faction changing at a whim.
As for the latter bits of this paragraph, while it is true that having Relentless as a starting point is an advantage that the realm has, I do think it's unfair to hold that against Blackrock players as a reason to keep you guys out of the conversation. It's important that we have these conversations here so we can see what the Blackrock community's concerns and complaints are so that we may address them.
Prior to cross-realm being implemented, I could agree with you. But Blackrock no longer operates in its own vacuum. That's not to say that the current system is perfect and doesn't need further iteration upon it. It does mean, though, that design of the realm will be going in a particular direction, and that we have to be careful about what we decide to change on the realm.
Perhaps on this realm before the design changes. I'd be willing to accept that. My point was that in the standard sorts of realms, at any point in the game's history, such things were always happening and it is part of the game.
Maybe you do. Maybe you don't. I'm not concerned about that. What I'm concerned about is getting these discussions ironed out and moved in a construction direction. I understand that it can be difficult to do this without any response from the other side (the staff in this case), so if I can engage everyone on this topic and help move the discussion forward, then the better feedback can be presented towards the development team and Malaco.