The thing is, layering isn’t meant to accomodate or cater to tourists.
It’s meant to accomodate and cater to those of us who are sticking around in a fashion that keeps Blizzard from wasting money on new realm blades only to end up chucking them out after the tourists are gone.
Subs started to decline around the time that cross realm dungeon finder was introduced. I’m pretty sure that was closer to 2010 during WotLK
Well, that’s who it’s accommodating. If your mind is set on playing for months, are 1 hour queues for a few days really going to drive you away? Of course not - but if you’re just there to check the game out, then queues certainly would. Layering lets those people have their quick fun
they have not said that about classic specifically, but in the past they have said thats always been true for wow in general.
im not quoting the exact number but it was high, greater than 50%
Layering won’t even solve queues. It sure as hell didn’t during the stress tests I’ve been part of.
No, it’s entirely about realm population after the tourists leave. Unless you want dead realms and server merges, which are cancers unto themselves, we’re stuck with layering for a limited time.
Oh, and for the record? NOBODY truly wants layering. In a perfect world there’d be no tourist threat and we could enjoy the lean realm lists at launch without having to worry about anything.
I’ve played on several servers over the years. Being a low-pop server sucks - there’s nobody to trade with and nobody to raid with. Not having to compete with anyone for world content used to be a plus, but CRZ ended that. Being on a dead server is all bad with no upside.
Even if it’s a change, I’d rather have layering and always be on a reasonably well-populated server. Especially in the beginning when we don’t know what the mega-servers will end up being. Ideally we won’t need them.
That’s a false dichotomy, you can have no-sharting and still have populated servers.
I’m gonna laugh when people try to blame layering as the reason that Classic doesn’t take over the MMO scene after a few months.
Many people feel very strongly about layering, In theory it is different from sharting, but in practice I have yet to see a discernible difference. Seems like they basically renamed layeering to sharding to “pretend” to be listening, without really changing anything.
and that’s precisely why layering is more likely to leave you stranded on a dead server. better hope you picked the mega server. the mega server with a mega queue, that you’ll wait in because the alternative is the dead servers.
and y’know who’s most likely to not wait in the queue to play on the realms everybody else is playing on? the tourists who quit after a week. so you might think your realm isn’t dead because there’s still a few hundred people on it, but 99.5% of them are about to quit anyway.
Damage control to fool the fools, pulling the wool over the sheeps eyes, etc, etc.
The BFA is a flop, plain and simple.
Gotta push those server transfer numbers. Those are rookie numbers. ~ some Blizz manager.
Pretty sure more then 50% quit, not sure about 80% tho. Layering is almost completely gone due to people quitting.
Classic is practically on life support barely 3 months in.
Blizzard was right. You thought you did but you didnt.
g o t o re ta il
its dying cuz no phase 2 lawl
Tankskie’s daily Classic catastrophication tour is open for business!
Zombied a post closed in August. We’re digging deep these days, are we?
Good troll. These realms are higher pop than we ever had in Vanilla, and its not close.
Trolling? This OP was like Nostradamus lol.
Sorry you guys cant accept reality.
Just report the habitual troll and move on.