It's just a demo guys it's just an Alpha guys it's just a Beta guys it's just the first month guys
Sorry, but i know how Blizzard works at this point. I'm waiting until the WoW panel for them to answer if the phasing and sharding and LFR tools are staying, if they are, i'm out. At least i won't waste money on crap i i know i wont like.
only gonna shard the first day or so it looks like man - its really not a huge deal.
thats like .0000001% of your gameplay experienced is sharded (the one part of the experience where its actually a good thing)
However, realm sharding is one of the best tools we have to keep realms stable when hundreds of players are swarming the same initial few zones and killing the same few mobs (like they will be at the launch of Classic). To that end, we do believe that some form of sharding may be helpful, especially in those early days. But we recognize that a cohesive world is critical to WoW Classic and are committed to bringing that to you.
You cannot deliver an authentic Classic experience AND have sharding.
I will not be playing Classic if there is any sharding.
Well that depends on how sharding is tuned now doesn't it? IT's possible to tune sharding and still have heavily populated zones.
As you've noticed, the Classic Demo does have realm sharding. This is to let as many people as possible experience it without technical issues such as server capacity or spawn density getting in the way.
Longer term, we know how crucial it is to the Classic experience for you to see your friends when you walk into Stormwind or when youâre helping them on a quest youâve already completed. And there should only ever be one Kazzak on a realm, no matter how many people are waiting for him to spawn.
Weâre still looking at how we can best deliver an authentic Classic experience at launch, and in the weeks and months that follow - both in terms of gameplay and community. You wonât see phasing (which is tied to specific quests that don't exist in Classic) or cross-realm zones (which combine multiple realms together) in Classic. However, realm sharding is one of the best tools we have to keep realms stable when hundreds of players are swarming the same initial few zones and killing the same few mobs (like they will be at the launch of Classic). To that end, we do believe that some form of sharding may be helpful, especially in those early days. But we recognize that a cohesive world is critical to WoW Classic and are committed to bringing that to you.
LORE! I miss dem TankSpot videos and dem Gamebreaker appearances with MikeB :(
Blizz have you been paying attention to the community at all. We do not want devs tinkering with classic bringing us what they feel makes a better playing experience. I will be done with wow if sharding is in classic.
So funny When there's over 10 million players on day one and all the servers are going to crap out, y'all are going to complain. So in the early days they will shard so the servers will be stable and wont shut down, y'all complain. How about y'all don't spaz out until we see final product. Good God. Relax.....
Are you trolling? That has nothing to do with it. They just need to have 2.5-5k(maybe? I don't know the technical limitations)
you have literally no idea of what ur talking about
As you've noticed, the Classic Demo does have realm sharding. This is to let as many people as possible experience it without technical issues such as server capacity or spawn density getting in the way.
Longer term, we know how crucial it is to the Classic experience for you to see your friends when you walk into Stormwind or when youâre helping them on a quest youâve already completed. And there should only ever be one Kazzak on a realm, no matter how many people are waiting for him to spawn.
Weâre still looking at how we can best deliver an authentic Classic experience at launch, and in the weeks and months that follow - both in terms of gameplay and community. You wonât see phasing (which is tied to specific quests that don't exist in Classic) or cross-realm zones (which combine multiple realms together) in Classic. However, realm sharding is one of the best tools we have to keep realms stable when hundreds of players are swarming the same initial few zones and killing the same few mobs (like they will be at the launch of Classic). To that end, we do believe that some form of sharding may be helpful, especially in those early days. But we recognize that a cohesive world is critical to WoW Classic and are committed to bringing that to you.
So tl;dr - Sharding is sticking in.
At least we know our outrage isn't misplaced.
its sticking in for the early levels im sure by around lvl 20 or so when people spread out more it will be gone. just calm down people.
You people have to understand that this is a small indie company and budget is tight. You can't expect servers to be completely updated and handle a larger server load when blizzard is hard at work with a new mobile game. Give them time and maybe they might remove sharding and sell mounts in the blizzard store so that we have more mount diversity in classic!
If a private server can have 10-14k players on a single server at the same time with zero lag
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oh !@#$, you're serious?
Ya no kidding. Those server LAGGED to hell often. They completed obliterated the concept of leveling pve and questing and had to add dynamic spawn systems to counter the population. The ONLY reason why 12k exists in vanilla is because of PvP and the fact cross server tech does not exist on emulators. 10k+ is required in order to keep BGs rolling and support the honor system.
The solution to 2-3 live server population limits was to actually add cross server tech for BGs in 1.12. Fresh server launch problems were solved by phasing. It's the one use of the tech that actually makes sense in an mmo and if Blizzard ONLY uses it there (due to Classic restraints) I am ok with it.
You people are actually going to cry over being able to get quests done and leave a noob zone which is literally only 1 day of your entire time on a server?
Yeah, this is backlash over a temporary solution for the long term health by people who haven't thought about this at all, and are only thinking about "No Changes".
These will also be the people complaining about not being able to log in and server crashes and not being able to get anything done if Sharding is removed. A completely ignorable group of people.
Im against many things Blizzard has done, but this and increased foliage definitely isnt one of them.
Yeah, it's honestly not really a big deal if it's only a temporarily thing, or even just temporary on the starter zones.
Like I said in my other post, Blizzard loses regardless, because as you also mention, there will be LOADS of people complaining about the servers not working, etc. . The game will be mocked as a joke either way by forum trolls, either for the game not working, or for sharding. Sharding is the best option for launch, but people seem to think that they won't get any sort of hate for it if they don't do sharding. They WILL get hate regardless of their final decision on this.
Actually, with sharding blizzard losesa a lot less. Worst case scenario is the non sharded logins crash the servers, which manages to spill over to the battlenet login servers again, only this time it brings down even more games.
A single minute of unexpected downtime can lose an all-online company like this several million dollars. Blizzard will happily lose every single person here screaming about sharding to not lose that kind of money everywhere else.
So funny When there's over 10 million players on day one and all the servers are going to crap out, y'all are going to complain. So in the early days they will shard so the servers will be stable and wont shut down, y'all complain. How about y'all don't spaz out until we see final product. Good God. Relax.....
Are you trolling? That has nothing to do with it. They just need to have 2.5-5k(maybe? I don't know the technical limitations)
you have literally no idea of what ur talking about
go play BfA
Found the Private server elitist.
Why you all are jumping ship 10 months before release is beyond me.
Annnnndddd this is why we don't ever get BLUE posts here.
You know you can post concerns without losing your mind, it is kind of comical to read though.
I personally would prefer to NOT have sharding whatsoever but would understand the starting zones having it for maybe the first 2 weeks.
Thank you for the feedback, Lore!
You know, imagine he came here and said:
Listen Guys, its only for the demo, THERE WONT BE ANY SHARDING IN CLASSIC. PERIOD.
Everyone would love him. And do you know why? CAUSE THATS WHAT PEOPLE HAVE ASKED FOR FOR MONTHS HERE.
Its like: Yeah you made thousands of pages of reasons why we shouldnt have phasing? Lets make it anyway XDDDD.
GO for it. GO for Wotlk hp regg. GO for new mechanics. GO for new vanish. GO for LFD, GO for 200% spellcrit dmg. Do it, and have the same amount of success as you have with BFA.
So funny When there's over 10 million players on day one and all the servers are going to crap out, y'all are going to complain. So in the early days they will shard so the servers will be stable and wont shut down, y'all complain. How about y'all don't spaz out until we see final product. Good God. Relax.....
Are you trolling? That has nothing to do with it. They just need to have 2.5-5k(maybe? I don't know the technical limitations)
you have literally no idea of what ur talking about
go play BfA
The constant server crashes with the AQ event shows what can happen though.