Blizz wants us to have SSD for Shadowlands?

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The wormhole you speak of is nothing more than a cleverly disguised loading screen.

Like elevators in Mass Effect.

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That was what very much sprang to mind. And at least in those we could listen to Wrex and Garrus and Tali banter.

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They are choosing to not have an SSD. You can say “Theirs no reason to not own one” all you want, but it’s still the choice of the consumer if they want to buy one or not.

As much i dislike the newer consoles, you do know a Ps5 and Xbox Series X are getting SSDs?

Not really, it’s just a long wormhole stretching from one place to not make you look around the emptiness while your flying one place to another. (Which for for all intents and purposes, no difference really, unless you count all the swirly stuff in there as something to look at.)

I don’t know much about Mass Effect, but one game does comes to mind that has a cleverly disguised loading screen is Tony Hawk American Wasteland while in the Story mode with it’s loading hallways.

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Nah, sorry champ. It’s just like any other flight path, only you don’t see anything during the flights between the zone you choose to go to, and Oribos. If there was no in-between graphical effect, you’d see empty space until objects loaded in as you approached them, which is precisely how flight travel has always worked in this game. You load things in as you move.

The only time there has been a loading screen between the zones was waaaaay back in alpha before they actually implemented the in-between flight paths to take you from point to point. Since those flight paths didn’t exist, you took portals to get there, and portals have always had loading screens.

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Not to mention consoles are 4 to 5 times more expensive than the average SSD.

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Yea, not to mention, the storage space for both is Ps5’s 825 GB and X Series X 1 TB. A 1TB SSD to just stick in your PC or external one sometimes goes for $110 at minimum.

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I’m surprised it’s in the minimum and not just the recommended requirements.
It’s all about loading times. Really up to the user, I’d think.

That said, it’s a worthwhile investment.

I often play with a RL friend that does not have an SSD (I do), and my loading times are usually 10-15s faster than his, and my SSD is pretty old too (6-7 years), so I’m sure the gap could widen more with a more modern SSD.

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The difference I saw when transitioning from WoW on an HDD to an SSD was a load time improvement of over 75% - it is a colossal difference.

If you can afford the upgrade, which, as many others have mentioned, can be far more reasonably priced than you’d think, DO IT. This isn’t some tiny incremental bonus - you will absolutely get your money’s worth.

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You spend 15$ a month to play a game during the pandemic, which leads any logical person to believe you have 30$ to spend on an SSD, or else you wouldn’t be subbed to the game right now.

Stop making this a sob story.

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I barely noticed the difference when I moved WoW to an SSD.

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$28 for a 240GB SSD on amazon. This will run wow for at least 2-3 more expansions

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i have run an SSD for years, the load times otherwise are so slow.

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While you’re probably right, watch them do something unexpected and then say “you now need …” and all those people who thought they were safe simply buying a cheap SSD say “doh…”

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Because WoW is invested in people buying SSD’s? What kind of tinfoil hat BS is that?

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You mean like all PC gaming ends up doing?

WoW will always be increasing minimum requirements, because resources are getting higher, etc.

'tis the nature of gaming on computers. Otherwise we would all be playing on a commodore64

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He’s not really wrong.

Several software companies will partner with hardware companies to help drive up sales for each other.

Even if they’re not a partner, by scaring naive people into buying something they will do just fine without, it narrows the scope of hardware used on your software, making it easier to find solutions.

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It’s 2020. Playing big MMO’s on HDD’s is just a bad idea. Spinners take a lot longer to load than SSD’s.

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Note that they don’t specify what brand SSD…just need one. Know how many SSD manufacturers there are? God you might as well be saying blizz is doing this to say they want people to buy chocolate, without specifying brand…

Fact is SSD are just fundamentally better, and that cannot be argued against. Arguing otherwise is literally just being upset over improvements…

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That’s why I said they don’t need to partner. They can just say “SSD”.

And nobody is arguing that SSD are not better. They’re just not required. I’ve used software for over 25 years on hardware that did not meet minimum specs and did fine. That’s why I always take requirements with a grain of salt.

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You realize you are making things worse for you…and anyone you play with…to what…feel special? Minimum requirements are important because otherwise, there runs into issues like frame drops, lag from all sources, rendering issues, etc. Your machine is just out of date period. Adding in tinfoil conspiracy theories about partnering with stuff is just insane dude. Just either update or don’t. Don’t try to make excuses about it.

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