So the BG''''s Ten minute rule was Actually a Mistake.. LOL

Joined: Jul 26, 2005 Posts: 540 Location: Plano Texas

Seriously this was Posted on General forums by Caydiem,(the CM) if you dont surf the General forums

I will endeavor to clear up the controversy and confusion surrounding the "ten-minute rule."

The idea that players would have to remain in battlegrounds for ten minutes before they''d receive a Mark of Honor for losing was one the developers were seriously considering as an effort to reduce the incentive players had to lose a battle quickly. The concept was simple: it would give players incentive to try and stay in, rather than giving up and allowing a quick loss without any effort expended. However, during further discussions, it was decided that adding a mild punishment to those who /afk out of battlegrounds, in the form of a requeue timer (Deserter debuff), would be preferable to the old "ten-minute rule" idea. In addition, since the problem was primarily found in Arathi Basin matches held during the Arathi Basin "holiday," the developers chose to improve the way in which bonus honor was awarded during Arathi Basin holidays rather than institute the ten-minute rule.

The ten-minute rule had been implemented as part of 1.9, and was set to be removed from 1.9 as the Deserter debuff was put in place. Unfortunately, because 1.8.4 was developed simultaneously with 1.9, the ten-minute rule had actually made its way into 1.8.4 too (which was tested and signed off upon some time ago, around the time this change was being implemented). As such, the ten-minute rule mistakenly went live.

This was not intended by our development team, and we sincerely apologize for the inconvenience. The ten-minute rule does not exist on the patch 1.9 test versions that have been on the test realms for some time now (with the exception of Warsong Gulch, which is being fixed), reflecting the fact that the Deserter debuff was intended as a replacement rather than an addition to this mechanic. We intend to fix this bug in a server-side hotfix soon.

Thank you for your patience throughout this. We''re keeping a close eye on PvP, battlegrounds, and the Honor System, and will continue to make changes as warranted.

Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 10:15 pm

Yes... and my take on this is that they threw it in at the last minute without really thinking about it, and then when half the player base blew up at them they came up with that piece of PR bullshit to make it out as an accident. One prime piece of evidence supporting this theory is that they spent most of the day explaining how the change was made for certain reasons, stating that the devs intended it to fix certain problems, and then suddenly did a 180 later in the night. If that''s not the PR department trying to put out a fire I don''t know what is.

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Cyria wrote:

Yes... and my take on this is that they threw it in at the last minute without really thinking about it, and then when half the player base blew up at them they came up with that piece of PR bullshit to make it out as an accident. One prime piece of evidence supporting this theory is that they spent most of the day explaining how the change was made for certain reasons, stating that the devs intended it to fix certain problems, and then suddenly did a 180 later in the night. If that''s not the PR department trying to put out a fire I don''t know what is.

Not only that, but if it really was an accident then how come they described it in the contents of todays update thingie... To me that doesn''t look like an accident but more like a backfired plan.