MAKE YOUR FEELINGS KNOWN.
The classic community does not want to be sharded!
NO SHARDING.
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Agree.
At the very least if Blizzard is bound and determined to use it (which I fully believe they will), please at least give us a few unsharded realms and let the players decide if they want to avoid the masses, or join them.
I would rather wait in a queue to play on an unsharded realm. It would be worth it to me. I would rather deal with the random server crashes in the beginning than be sharded. If Blizzard is following this forum at all, I ask you to please consider giving us at least a few realms without sharding. Most of us I’m sure know full well what can come from a full realm, and we prefer that to sharding.
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The demo had a lot of things from the main game in it still. Such as sharding and the dungeon finder menu. It doesn’t accurately reflect the actual product. They’ve said nothing that would indicate they’re going to use sharding and upset everyone. They said basically “iduno haven’t thought about it”. Blizzard is aware of the sharding issue. More discussion seems pointless. All we can do is wait for talk from blizzard.
That is NOT what Ion said at Blizzcon.
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You obviously missed the interview with Ion where he said they were considering it for launch and starter zones. So this discussion is far from unnecessary.
What many are worried about, myself included, is that it won’t legitimately end up being just for launch and starting zones, but instead will be used anytime too many people end up in an area. As much as I love Blizzard, I don’t have much confidence they will stick to their word on it only being at launch and starter zones given their track record on going back on their word at times.
As I have said in other threads, at this point I don’t plan on playing until it’s been removed permanently.
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Sadly, I’ve come to the same conclusion. It’s not simply the immediate impact on the game in general (which is bad enough), but the fact is if sharding is in at launch players will ask for it a week later. And a week after that. And then a month later. And in any circumstance where they feel inconvenienced. And can you blame then when Blizzard already caves in to that mentality?
I’m not going to put myself in a position where for the entirety of Classic this will be an issue to have to worry about. The devs simply need to prevent it from ever taking root, because once it does no amount of Roundup will kill that weed. Oh, and it might give you cancer too.
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Everyone in this community must make this sentiment very clear. As many posts as may be needed to make it VERY CLEAR.
NO SHARDING
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Yes, please
edit: to no sharding
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Just like what RP realms have been posting for years…right ?
If they say they need it for 6 starting zones then they will absolutely need it for the AQ gate opening. How would you like to be in a shard A when the person ringing the gong is in shard B ?
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Yeah exactly right? The thing with RP servers is that they are in retail. This game is not retail. If it’s to the point of border line spam so be it. But this is a major system that should have no place in Classic and as the community we must make as many posts as needed to make it very clear.
NO SHARDING
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MMO and Sharding are literally THE EXACT OPPOSITE of each other…
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It is insane that the Sharding system killed the MMO part of the game.
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I’m not buying their reasons to put sharding in. If I have to choose not to do a quest because there’s too many people, that’s fine. Maybe I chose to group with strangers to try and start the defias traitor escort quickly. Maybe I just go grind some boars. These are decisions I want to have to make as I level. I say ![:no_entry_sign:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/no_entry_sign.png?v=6" ":no_entry_sign:")
sharding.
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In reality this will only be the case in the starter zones. When people leave West Fall and other similar starting zones this won’t be the case. It may be fustrating but that is “warts and all,” when we are talking about the most authentic classic experience. Starting zones should have increased spawns and drop rates for first 2 weeks after that normalized. But to shard, no way!
NO SHARDING
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Are you saying that you have no plans to play Classic if sharding is used at all?
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I bet lots of people feel the same. It detracts from the experience of being a part of massive organic events. To be sharded away from a large mass of your server community feels bad man.
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How does it feel to be 1 of 1000 people in the starting zone when you can’t move, get constantly dc’ed, get to watch rubberbanding for an hour instead of actually getting something done?
Temporary sharding of the starter zones will be fine, and at this point, if anyone wants to get anything done at all for the first week is going to be REQUIRED.
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I’m a bit mixed about this actually. While I do admit the massive influx of players at launch will be an issue for people completing quests (which is even more important to leveling back then), at the same time I agree that it will ruin the feel of the game as it was back then. Even if you group up in a full 5-man party to do quests there’ll still be massive competition. Either it has to be sharding, temporarily at least, or increased respawn rates. You have to see things from their end too. They’re trying to find a solution. I don’t normally say this about Blizzard but we need to put some faith in them. Be happy they’re doing WoW Classic at all.
My understanding of the reason they’re likely to shard servers at launch is the following:
Instead of launching Classic with an absurd number of servers to deal with the incredibly large influx of players at launch, they’re going with a more limited number of servers and piling on many more players than they otherwise would, in order to ensure a healthy community arises and is allowed to flourish after the initial “tourism” wave dies down.
Would you rather they launch with five times as many servers, and three months down the road merge them? Would you like to see four other players with your name and various server identifiers attached to them? Eg: Galdor-Maelstrom, Galdor-Stormrage; Galdor-Thrall, Galdor-Sargeras.
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