Quote Originally Posted by Frein View Post
How could you meet the same person more than once? That's right, you didn't. Getting into a guild was based on a one-shot good experience, not continually bumping into each other like it'd work in the past.
People still spam LFG and Trade chats for groups. You see the same names a lot, ESPECIALLY during leveling. People still do premades for everything, and it's easy to make friends if you aren't sticking to pick-up groups made via the dungeon finder exclusively.

And why does it matter if I met that same person more than once or not? If I liked them, I would friend request them the first time. It's not a dating game, I don't need to meet up with the person more than once to determine if I want to be friends with them.

Long time ago when I played WoW, we'd have great banter in the server forum, we'd organize fights in Alterac Valley, we'd form preset BG teams to compete with opposing preset teams. There was also plenty of world PVP. All of that instantly crumbled when cross-realm BGs were introduced. Winning a BG was no longer a matter of pride, instead we got the "let them win so I can queue again faster" crowd and bots that'd jump in one spot to not get kicked out of the BG for being AFK. Sure, the wait times were cut to a fraction of what they were, but the whole experience was invalidated. Instead of a long queue to something sweet, we got short queues to a dung heap. I know which I prefer.
Throwing BGs to make it go by faster happened a long, long time after cross-realm BGs were implemented and aren't a direct result of cross-realm BGs. It's a result of people 1) finally figuring out how to exploit the system for more points, and 2) one faction always being unbalanced in a battle group. Whether or not the BGs were cross realm wouldn't have made a difference, because the scenario of one faction being more unbalanced than the other is even more extreme when you look on a server-by-server basis; and the underdog faction would have learned to throw BGs anyways, to get more points faster.