First of all, “Hired and instructed” lol… Since when are beta players paid and given any sort of instructions beyond to use the Report bug feature? No, a beta is simply to find any bugs or kinks in an otherwise mostly finished game. Systems are developed in the Alpha, not the Beta. This is layering working as intended. They will have to fundamentally change or remove layering to fix this issue, it’s not a mere bug.
Companies like Blizzard didn’t always have an online PTR setup to take advantage of fan’s passion to test their stuff for free. Finding bugs, gameplay problems and exploits like this layering one is a perfect example. Now it (hopefully) won’t be in the live game to be exploited for a day+. It’s not always about bugs.
So this bothered me. I just want to clarify for anyone reading this that its not 100% true.
The real truth is that playing on a private server would breach the EULA. Which, at most, if blizzard cared enough to track you down (they dont) they could ban your blizzard account.
There has NEVER been a recorded instance of a player being stricken with a law suit, by blizzard, for playing on a private server. With good reason. It would be a waste of money, time and resources.
Citation for “no one has been banned” : www makeuseof com/tag/is-it-illegal-to-play-world-of-warcraft-on-a-private-server/
Nexius…moving between layers is not a bug.
When you join a group you go to their layer if they are in a different layer. layering works just like sharding.
Okay.
Still makes a good primary deterrent though.
What does a PTR have to do with anything? None of what you’re saying here addresses anything I said, you’re just saying random words.
Bug or not, it’s an exploit that will completely change classic wow. This is a good find and now Blizzard and the community can figure out where to go from here.
Nexius…how is it an exploit ?
CRZ/sharding in retail worked exactly like that.
I used the LFG tool to realm hop for rare hunter pets.
There were plenty of groups formed just for realm hopping.
The purpose of being able to play on other servers is to play with people not to fill your bags with profession mats.
Getting mats and rare NPC’s, mounts, rare hunter pets was a side effect.
The abuse happened when players started joining legit groups for questing/dungeons just to realm hop.
I didn’t do that. I looked for groups that were formed just for realm hopping and joined them.
The very same could happen in classic.
I could say in chat…Forming group to layer hop…whisper to join.
Other players could do the same and I could join up just to farm.
It appears you are arguing with me about something. I don’t support realm hopping for farming mats. However, the solution provided would punish everyone for the few people who abuse things.
hey…just being devil’s advocate here.
Oh I think it will definitely be abused with players joining groups just to try to layer hop for resources or to check if a rare spawned because they dropped decent gear for that zone. And that will cause lots of frustration just like it did when CRZ first came out.
I tend to agree that there should be no layers. I was thinking it was a good idea until I found out in vanilla they originally did have dynamic respawns which would fix some of the crowding problems. I can see why blizzard doesn’t want to devote a bunch of servers to this then have them empty later though.
Lasin…there aren’t any physical servers anymore. It’s all in the cloud now. They are all “virtual” servers…just name only.
I am sure that space still costs $$.
It wouldn’t be that much more expensive to just merge low pop/empty servers, I think that’s what they should do instead. On the other hand we all know how Acti-Blizz feels about spending extra $ for player enjoyment. (Even though there would be a return on investment since they’d retain a lot of players who’d otherwise be unhappy with the layering solution)
A streamer is testing out the game in Beta :shockedpikachuface:
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