Do Not Shard Players

WoW Classic WoW Classic General Discussion
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How big do you think the servers will be? The chances will be low for most servers because of how many servers will be available for players to choose from. Not everyone will choose the same server at the exact same time at launch. Maybe one or two servers that have a cool name or something. But it will not be as dramatic as you think it will be. Most players will be choosing different servers, the density you may be imagining will not occur. It will be rare, on the one or two servers it will happen on. How many servers do you think will be created for launch?

They are going to need a lot of servers for 8 million players.

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Many players will coordinate to get on popular servers via discord or streamers. However, something everyone seems to be missing regarding sharding and server capacity is that Actiblizz is using modern server architecture to support Classic.

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LOL.shard the servers with the streamers and their groupies.
That should go over well :slight_smile:

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How are people suppose to give Asmongold all that free stuff if they’re in a different shard?

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#nosharding

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I’m all for sharding, so long as it’s only for the first few weeks in lower level areas.

Once you get to thirty-ish you generally have an opinion on whether or not you’re going to keep playing. Generally.

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As has been said before, slippery slope is slippery. As developers they might like what Sharding may do. And will implement it destroying possible experiences for players past just the starting zones. There has to be a solid commitment stated that Sharding will not be implemented on Classic WoW servers.

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How are people suppose to defend the cross roads or westfall if people start attacking them and world defense is going off, with sharding.

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#No Sharding

Please don’t use sharding!

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no to sharding, as well

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Funny I had none of those issues in bc.

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There’s going to be too many servers up splitting up the starting population. Very few will experience the worry that some are having about population overload in starting zone. Increased spawn rate will be fine. No sharding will be necessary, at all.

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Same size as Vanilla… and the first day there will be thousands of us on the servers… it is going to crawl at a snails pace for days. But you just keep decrying Sharding and we can all sit around with our thumbs up our butts on launch day because the servers will be so bogged down we wont be able to move.

Good job.

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We arent talking about BC are we.

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We’re talking about Vanilla, which has 6 starting areas. TBC had 1.

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we are talking about vanilla.
which won’t have 8 million people playing.
which won’t have every single player from both factions trying to go from 1 zone, to another zone.
which will also have much better technology to back it up.

so yeah. it should be a heck of a lot better.

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ROFL. If you think we are going to be able to do ANYTHING without sharding for the first week you are completely out of your minds.

Enjoy your dc’s and frozen servers.

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I’m sure if you keep repeating the same nonsense again and again it’ll make it true.

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Seems to be working for you, so why not.

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bc had 8 million players. all starting in one zone.
and except for the high population servers, it had no issues.
the tech has gotten better since then.
8 million people won’t be playing.
and they will be spread across 6 different zones.

so i think it will be fine.

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