Creating awareness about your decision regarding Outland server
Hey there!
I am quite new to the community. Me and some friends were planning on joining up with some other friends in the wonderful game of World of Warcraft today by using the server Outland. The issue is that you have restricted people from making horde characters, so now my other friends have to choose between staying with their endgame guilds or leaving everything behind and transfer to alliance. This might be one of, if not the, most abrupt and disturbed thing I have heard about in video gaming. There are so many other solutions, and yet you made the decision to include a solution where you are forcing people to do something, removing a big part of the game (you may not even choose a faction on your own anymore, if you are a new player).
My idea is that you guys should faction lock all accounts (the ones who got characters on each faction has to choose which one they want to belong to/give them the ability to transfer level 70 characters to another account) and then you make a faction queue were only around 50% of each faction (7500 horde 7500 alliance or 8000/7000) can be logged in at the same time. This would result in that people who do not like waiting will get the alternative of joining the opposite faction for free (talking about transfering your character/s from horde to alliance here) whilst the people who do not mind the wait as long as they can play with guildies and friends, may still do so without having to decline one of them.
Another one is to give all alliance characters double reputation gain until the factions are showing at least a 40/60 or 45/55 balance. This will encourage new players to roll alliance to easier get into the endgame and old players may transfer their 70 characters so that they may start competing in endgame faster.
These are just two suggestion that I came up with and I am sure that there are even greater suggestions out there that have not been said, but I just cannot approve of your decision about removing the option of creating a horde character. This will only hurt new players/new players who wants to play with horde friends, and will not really change anything except for bringing negativity to your server.
Sincerely,
Martin