If the issue is barely existent then there there is no need to alter the sharding, are we witnessing damage control perhaps? Tsk tsk…
Don’t hate the player, hate the game, hate the ineptitude of Blizzard to relaunch a 15 year old version of the game. Yep Imma own the black lotus market.
PSA if you click on the speaker button on the chat window then go to general channel it will show the list of players in your general chat. General chat is based on layer.
Just FYI on Herod, global channels have Layer hopping requests as the majority of communication. Even if not as many people are exploiting this, it has become the dominant social experience.
I’m not saying that the entire post is untrue, because a quick database query can reveal who has more than X amount of materials which is obvious abuse (and deserves an instant ban).
HOWEVER, the part about the economy being affected is irrelevant, Devilsaur Mafias have historically released farmed materials on a controlled amount to get the most amount out of what they have, and not drop the price irreparably, in fact this is not just a technique used on private servers but also on actual economics, just take a look at cryptocurrency and how the big holders of cryptocurrency, or billionaires in the world are unable to quickly sell off their assets.
We still very much need an actual forum post about this from Blizzard, simply responding in one of many forums is not going to get this the attention it needs.