This is a big issue and I've been waiting for an official message from the staff for a while too. It's shocking how many people talk about this in-game. People regularly talk about Lordaeron being basically a "BG-free server", because you eventually realise that this is how WoW would've felt if BGs didn't exist. A lot of decisions were made by staff that discourages players from ever queuing.
It's weird how often players talk about this in-game, I didn't realise it was this bad until I realised what they meant. I hope the staff fixes this core critical issue, it makes a lot of people anxious and now I understand why. People are basically denied this aspect of the game due to clear purposeful decisions to do so. This makes this server feel LESS like WoW than most private servers I've played on that didn't try to remove BGs from the game.
It's a big loss for most people who join great high-pop servers like this, because they're looking for a healthy community. But when you discover BGs are basically removed from the game because players are discouraged from queuing, then you realise this server has a big problem currently.
