This is being blown way out of proportion. You will be able to play the game on a HDD, it will just have even worse load times than now.
The minimum requirement is there as a minimum to play the game as intended in an enjoyable way, and as a minimum for their tech support to be able to try helping you with issues.
Check out the guyâs twitter. He still gets roasted and itâs hilarious.
Deserves it after his response to the backlash, lol.
All the new zones have load times now. They arenât a connected single continent like Eastern Kingdoms or Kalimdor. Not having an SSD will suck.
Yes. Which is why it will be important to not have terrible load times to be able to enjoy the content as intended, which makes it a reasonable minimum requirement, as I said.
But if people cant afford the upgrade or simply donât care, they will still be able to run the game. It is not going to pop up an error saying you canât start the game without a SSD.
I donât get this outrage people are making out of being recommended and SSD in 2020. If you canât save up 30$ in 4 months to buy and SSD, then you proably shouldnât be paying for a sub in the first place.
SSD is not a new thing, itâs been a very common thing for at least the past 5 years. Not to mention itâs definitely worth the âinvestmentâ for everything you do, not just WoW.
I agree with you, but I think its more confusion. The SSD isnt listed as recommended as you said, but as minimum, which to many people infers that the game simply will not run without one. And many people playing wow have never opened a computer case and are terrified of doing so, to them they think this means buying a whole new computer. (Or dont realize that externals exist)
What twitter?
Itâs for people with Onlyfans accounts.
Yeah I donât get why itâs under the required section, that is a fault on Blizzardâs side and is confusing.
Still donât get why there needs to be 10 different forums threads about it when it takes 5 minutes on google to figure out what an SSD is.
Itâs very misleading and on purpose. They know naive people will panic, go run out and buy one even if they really donât need one but will anyway because they do not want to miss out on the new content.
Thereâs no profit in Blizzard doing this deliberately. They donât make or distribute SSDs so they donât stand to gain from peopleâs confusion. They just made a right hash of listing the components.
They personally donât but itâs not uncommon for people to partner with hardware companies.
And even if theyâre not a partner, scaring people into upgrades just makes things more standardized for their âfix itâ team to narrow down the scope of issues. It eliminates factors.
Yep! Especially ones that do meet the new GPU will likely already have an SSD.
Also a good time to buy the new imac because it has a GPU thatâll overkill WoW.
It will save them a lot of tech support time by weeding out a lot of old hopeless computers. Sorry, your pc doesnât meet the minimum requirements, we canât help you with your 5 minute load times.
You can get a 250 gb SSD for like 30$âŚ
You know nothing about computers based on reading your posts/replies in this thread, so stop bashing people for being âBlizzard loversâ that are telling you to buy a piece of hardware that would make your computer 100x better. If you are seriously complaining about spending 30-50$ on a 250-500 GB SSD then you are just being difficult for the sake of being difficult.
And you know nothing about how blizzard has had poor optimization based on your posts/replies, so stop bashing people for not wanting to have to spend yet more money during a pandemic? Nah youâre the one being difficult.
See? This person gets it, While Melun does not.
Theyâve done it before. My old PC was under the min spec requirements but it could run WoW and it actually was only under min spec requirements for BFA, before that it wasnât. Its definitely used as a way to avoid giving tech support.
I agree. Its to get people to go out and buy something they might not really need.
No they donât.
Moving from Oribos to any of the zones (and vice-versa except for the Maw) does not have a loading screen. You are placed on a flight path and you traverse through the âin-betweenâ and while youâre in there you canât really âseeâ anything except your character, and the mount theyâre on, and the traversal effect of the in-between, which has a Stargate wormhole-esque feel to it.