fixed that for you.
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I’d wear a mask too with SICK BURNS like that one.
Happy Friday.
“Don’t defend the company whose products I relentlessly consume!!!”
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But unlikely now. Regardless I don’t think splitting between 3 layers is a good idea. More packed the better and not as easily exploited to jump between.
What sort of player cap are we talking about here? This is potentially one of the worst decisions I’ve seen, it’s going to cause this event to be even more difficult to grind for and possibly opens the door to griefing and exploitative play such as larger guilds camping the zone with bodies simply to keep others out.
Why not just temporarily introduce more layers to every server? Sure it will make the grind faster and won’t be “authentic”, but its exponentially better than this alternative.
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Amazing how some people can sound so sanctimonious while simultaneously having absolutely no idea what they’re talking about.
Number of layers is not dynamic, they’re static. For example, on Arugal there are 2 layers at any time, the layers are for the entire realm not for the zone, if it was for the zone that would be called Sharding and it’s a technique used in retail wow.
Engage your brain for a moment and ask yourself why would they even mention the fact players will get randomly ported to westfall/durotar if the layers were going to flex and expand in the way you have described?
god forbid people hold blizzard accountable for the quality of the product they pay monthly for, right?
this isnt a free game, this isnt a charity, nobody needs to be ‘grateful’ for any aspect of it. its a product/service we pay for.
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The quest “Bang a Gong!” cannot be completed by characters who transferred to the realm in the past 90 days
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I have a question for clarification on when this 90-day period begins and ends.
If I transferred on May 1st, am I then eligible to earn the mount any time after August 1st. I am a member of a guild that moved to a higher population realm from a near dead realm so that we could build a raiding group and coalition with other players. We did this late april and early may. This is important to us because we would naturally like to have one of our own able to work towards the mount. Please clarify how the 90 day restriction works…
Thank God I didn’t roll on a meme server.
I have a really hard time believing that a multibillion dollar company “can’t” fix overcrowding problems in its 15 year old game. I’m no game designer, but I’d guess that the same technology used to increase server size can be used to increase the amount of people admitted into a zone before lagging occurs.
Booting people out of Silithus or simply putting up an invisible barrier between that zone and Ungoro is going to cause some rage. When people take the FP all the way from Org to then be teleported to the Crossroads, you’ll know what to expect on the forums in a week.
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but why the discrimination? There are no low-level crystal formations in Westfall
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inb4 lvl 60s afk-bot. - I mean, who doesn’t have 4 other accounts that have a lvl 60 mage; each??? Blizzard only seems to target the offending account. Even if the credit card is used on multiple accounts.
Because I’m pretty sure it’s a ‘copy’. So that means you could ‘layer hop’ to one that hasn’t started the gate event and turn in if you missed it on “your layer”.
It’s an engine issue. Even in Retail the BG “Southshore vs Tarren Mill” is laggy af. The fix would be more servers, but that’s more hardware; more costs. Classic doesn’t make them a lot of money when you think about it…no Cash Shop or Tokens being sold for gold to afford a 5 million gold mount, that arbitrarily has to go away “for reasons”.
With servers being significantly larger than they were in Vanilla, will the War Effort totals be scaled with the size of the server?
They have already said that when the gong has been rung on servers with layers that it will be one event and will start the 10 hour timer for turn in for all layers.
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Perhaps booting will be based on CC rep. Not fond of booting in of itself, but basing it on rep would make a LOT of sense.
Nothing good comes after such a statement, other than confirmation bias and lots of “ought to be” wishes.
This porting people out, which they will have no control over, is going to be a terrible experience. Lvl 60 players don’t want to be in Ungoro or Tanaris, they want to be in Silithus.
Geeze, disabling addon communication in Silithus would be a better way to deal with the n^2 problem than this mess is going to be.
Your argument is fundamentally flawed. Governments fall when “illegitimate” contenders start doing a better job at providing services to the people. It’s perfectly reasonable to hold Blizzard to a standard that its competitors achieved.
Believing you don’t have to try because you have a monopoly over the product is what’s truly asinine.
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i hate modern blizzard so much lol
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This should be interesting…
Oh. It is just brain damage.
Yes, governments are overtaken when angry people have their hatred redirected by a popular person who claims to have the answers, and then usually becomes far worse than whatever problem was being “solved.” See: South America writ large.
Compelling argument you have there when you view pirated servers as the murderous, fascist, and pillaging “freedom” fighters of World of Warcraft.
So you want Blizzard to:
- Undermine the integrity of their instance servers
- Undermine the integrity of Eastern Kingdom servers
- Undermine the integrity of login/logout
- Undermine the quality and capacity of other zones in Kalimdor
- Undermine active security controls
All to make Silithus something everyone on the server can jump into, just like the pirated servers did? Half of the things above weren’t even in place BEFORE the event, like the security measures, hence the insane levels of hacking and scripting going on regularly.
What you want is the appearance of better quality without actually knowing what that takes. Pirated servers appeared to handle the opening event just fine… by gutting everything under the hood and having a fraction of the stress.
They clearly did try, hence the communication here, the testing, and the solutions. What is asinine is thinking Blizzard did no work at all because it doesn’t mirror what you think “ought” to be in a place based on pirated experiences in the first place.
I’m sure you’ll be just fine.
/head-pat
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