Having sharding in classic will destroy this franchise

Fallanaa-area-52 · May 10, 2019, 2:34am

Doesn’t matter.

PvP doesn’t happen in the starting sanctuary zones anyway.

Aeroliets-hyjal · May 10, 2019, 3:11am

Nah I’ll be PvP. Why? Sharding is irrelevant to those distinctions, as if there IS sharding, it’ll be in the zones where PvP won’t be a thing anyways.

Desideres-barthilas · May 10, 2019, 3:13am

My issue is if they can’t do launch without sharding, what makes you think doing things like the AQ gate opening event will be any different in terms of player numbers?

Muiredon-steamwheedle-cartel · May 10, 2019, 3:14am

Give it a rest. That horse was already pounded to a pulp and sent to the glue factory, why are you trying to resurrect it?

Also, literally no one cares.

Desideres-barthilas · May 10, 2019, 3:15am

Ignorance is bliss,

I still care about this topic

Matcauthon-steamwheedle-cartel · May 10, 2019, 6:53am

Shouldnt have to worry about this period. If they are sharding high level zones ill literally lead the riot brigade myseld.

Matcauthon-steamwheedle-cartel · May 10, 2019, 6:56am

And yet “few weeks” is vague. And read lores post and tell me what you think

Nescience-tichondrius · May 10, 2019, 10:08pm

there is pvp in start zones if your on a pvp server.

Meowingtin-spirestone · May 10, 2019, 10:13pm

Then retail is the game for you, not classic.

If it’s as bad as you claim it to be. Then please explain how WoW was such an unprecedented success for the first 14 years without sharding.

It’s ok, i’ll wait patiently for that response.

Mahomie-arthas · May 10, 2019, 10:22pm

just because it can survive and be sucessful without a feature doesnt mean that the feature wouldnt be a good addition. lets use some critical thinking skills, ur a gnome after all.

Meowingtin-spirestone · May 10, 2019, 10:26pm

Oh the irony.

You said it yourself “It can survive and be successful without it”. And with history on my side, clearly this feature isnt need nor is it a good addition, based off results.

Sit down, slap yourself, send yourself back to school.

Nescience-tichondrius · May 16, 2019, 11:44pm

EEEY, we did it! thanks to people like Eloraell we kept this post and its wack title at the top and blizzard noticed and decided to use layering (multiple realms and then reduce realms basically) instead of phasing away constantly with sharding. gg

Arrowblight-jubeithos · May 17, 2019, 12:45am

Sharding and CRZ killed retail, and it will do the same for Classic.

Galdor-maelstrom · May 17, 2019, 12:58am

Making loot rain from the skies and wasting development resources on boring content like Warfronts did more damage, imo.

Eloraell-moon-guard · May 17, 2019, 1:01am

I’m not against layering. Though I think they need the tweak that if you’re grouping to another layer, you have to enter an Inn before you switch. Saving the whole PVP escape, switch for Rares, switch for nodes, junk.

Aeroliets-hyjal · May 17, 2019, 4:24am

Good thing it wont be around for more than a couple weeks then, huh? Derp

Afflextion-thaurissan · May 17, 2019, 4:31am

layering removes most of the immersion breaking sharding experiences, and it’s only in stage 1 so i think the game will be fine. if you’re not going to play due to this then you’re probably not a true fan, just looking for an excuse to not play.

Elaice-blades-edge · May 18, 2019, 7:08pm

Crashes & Queues > Sharding

I have been in 2 hour queues just to have the server crash. Yes it’s horrible and not fun. But I will take a few days of that over sharding for phase 1.

Thanen-the-scryers · May 18, 2019, 7:12pm

its going in they already have layering.it will be there when classic launches.

Arrowblight-jubeithos · May 18, 2019, 8:08pm

So Blizzard say, and how trustful has this company been over the past few years?