Originally Posted by McTurok
There will always be those players who don't want to "earn" their gear. That's fine if you feel that way. Personally, I think the top pvp gear should all be "earned" and not free in any way.
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Which is a novel idea, but taking gear away from spoon fed people just before an expansion and with heavy competition on the horizon is not good for business. Casual players are being punished in Season 4, and with gear becoming obsolete shortly, why exactly would Blizzard make it even harder to get.
This change basically says to everyone Blizzard doesn't want you to play arena unless you are in a 5s team, or are a Druid/Warrior or whatever the flavour of the month classes are. Class inbalance was a huge incentive not to play, and now with ratings requirements looming over the heads of handicapped class combos in arena, how does that make it more fair.
Why exactly does Blizzard want less people to play battlegrounds and as another person said, "force arena down our throats". Its nice that the only two means of progression in WoW are arena and raiding now, and if you do neither, Blizzard offers you nothing for months until WOTLK.