but leave Shadowglen be, unsharded! We all need dense forests filled to the end with Elves!
And if there is sharding in the starting zones you will deal with it as well.
The way to break it, is to make sharding a temporary per-character buff, that goes away after 1 hour, or as soon as you leave the Northshire.
I just donât have an issue with it because itâs not a deal breaker for the community at that point. The number of people who had friends from that point forward would be insanely rare.
yet, but even if there was sharding, it would be much better to avoid getting separated from the crowd more than once.
With the buff-like effect, it would be a decent way to work with, because it would prevent you from farming chests in starting zones with sharding, while would still separate you from the crowd for the first minutes of gameplay.
Well I tend to believe that Blizzard if they do use it will probably have those caps up pretty high, several hundred people, to at least somewhat mimic a server launch. I think the farming chests thing in that case wouldnât be a big deal.
There is nothing wrong with some competition, but people standing on spawn points for each wolf or kobold is just silly and not something I see Blizzard wanting to see.
Blizzard wants people to play and enjoy themselves, I donât think they would consider standing in lines for basic mobs in a starting zone as enjoyable.
Itâs more or less my opinion on it from watching them over the last several years and just kind of what they have said around Classic. Yeah they do want it to be as close as possible, but they donât want to cut Classic off at the legs to do it either.
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I think theyâll want to make the first few levels as smooth as possible, to make good first impressions and to attract potential new subscribers. I mean, there are actually people who didnât play WOW back then, and didnât play on private servers.
I for one will not be coming back if there is sharting!
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Yep thatâs pretty much what I think as well.
You argue as if youâve seen this already, but here it is anyway (I havenât read the entire thread.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-GobXQTf6w
This sounds pretty convincing to me.
Maybe Iâm missing something? Is the argument not around starting zones?
Eh there are a group of people that believe Blizzard is lying about it just being in the starting zones.
I share the concern.
The guy I quoted appeared to not know they were going to shard at all, from how I read his posts.
they didnât say anything clearly. They said âonly one Kazzakâ, and âcouple of weeksâ, and âstarting zonesâ.
âcouple of weeksâ can mean anything between 2 weeks and 3 months, âonly one Kazzakâ could even mean that Kazzak will be on only one shard, âstarting zonesâ could even mean Barrens and Redridge. Iâm waiting for them to say something more convincing.
Nice strawman. I donât want sharding, or any other features added to Classic that werenât in vanilla. Itâs really that simple.
âWarts and all,â Blizzard said. Warts and all we shall receive.
He never confirms sharding. Listen to what he actually says.
Thatâs because it hasnât been confirmed. Iâm not saying they wonât; Iâm saying we donât know for sure that they will, and anyone saying otherwise is a liar.
Hell, he even says sharding is antithetical to Classic. That, to me, certainly leaves open the possibility of it not being added.
Itâs a possibility but I think if it comes down to people being able to play and people standing in lines in starting zones they will use it. Like I said, they didnât just bring it up to tick people off.
" Warts and all " is a reference to the systems in the game, not so much the background systems it will be running on.
Man youâre dramatic. People who want classic will play regardless. Even with sharing in the opening zones. Get over it. Either they have it, or no one will play due to server crashes. Suck it up buttercup
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Sharding is a system in the game. Battlenet and the modern client are systems it will be running on.
Hopefully you understand the difference.
Actually, I think the fact people want Classic is exactly why they donât want sharding.
It isnât Classic if it has sharding. The people who say they wonât play if Classic has sharding say so because sharding isnât supposed to be in Classic, and they donât want some version of the game they love littered with features from retail that drove them away in the first place.
Thatâs a false dichotomy and you know it.
You think the game was totally unplayable before sharding came about? If so, explain to me how the game managed to go several expansions without it.
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Yet it actually affects gameplay in a very noticeable way. Do you know anything about sharding?
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No Iâve only been playing since Vanilla, I know absolutely nothing about sharding ![:roll_eyes:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/roll_eyes.png?v=6" ":roll_eyes:")
Sharding is not a game play system, it is a server system. One can affect the other but they are not the same thing.
Couldâve just stopped your sentence here.
Sharding affects gameplay. If you donât know that, you clearly donât know what youâre talking about and I wonât waste my time with your trolling anymore.
It really says a lot that the people who defend sharding donât even know what it is.
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