Layering Making Game Feel Dead?

[Eat-living-flame]

I agree with that, and I think Blizzard agrees too to some extent.

Layering did get cut back, but it still exists overall.

I think they said something about layers resetting each night?

Like, if a zone is uber-populated, more layers will appear, but those layers added won’t be removed until a daily reset at the end of the night or something along those lines.

I’ll have to find it.

Edit: Found it.

Update on the Battle for Ashenvale and Layers - 12/14/2023

Greetings, Sometimes in game development you find yourselves in situations where things don’t go according to the design or plan you have in mind. In the past when we’ve hit such situations, we’ve done our best to remain transparent and take some time to explain what our intent was, what went awry, and what our next steps are. We’d very much like to carry that forward with Season of Discovery, where it’s especially important to be open and honest. Season of Discovery is, by its nature, highly …

Specifically it had to do with Battle for Ashenvale, but I’m sure it applies elsewhere too.

The devs certainly know dead layers is an issue.

@Aggrend-1483

TLDR and the path forward

The next set of changes we have on deck are:

• With a hotfix tomorrow we will no longer be dynamically retiring layers. This means that late at night or early in the morning there will be more layers than are needed and the world may feel more empty.

That’s probably why.