Your attempt to blackmail the devs into doing something using ‘in an age of a myriad of entertainment options’ (so many fuking typos in your post) may have worked in retail, but it won’t work in Classic.
Furthermore, I’m seeing that god horrid retail mentality show up in your ‘I should be able to do any quest at any time I want.’ mentality. No you are not entitled to mob quests at any time. You may be able to do it at a time of your choosing, or you may not. As a gentleman said in a previous post, you have several options to deal with too many people in a certain zone. You have decided not to take those options and just blurt out ‘waaaaah’. Put the required effort to do quests or piss off.
Have you considered that some people just aren’t really great in social situations? Sure, social anxiety is less acute online, but you still have to deal with people.
I play WoW because I love the lore, and questing, and a bit of exploration. Sure, I team up sometimes, but usually I’m off on my own in the world, and that’s how I was back in the day, too.
It is possible to enjoy watching Trade Chat, and responding to people in General to work together to take on elites, while not wanting to be suddenly BFFs with them, or constantly fighting them for the same mobs that have an absurdly low drop chance on the item you need 15 of to turn in the quest, turning what should have been a ten minute thing into something that takes two or three hours.
Personally, layering hasn’t affected me. Mainly because I don’t PvP, and if I group with people, we are now on the same layer. Honestly, with some of the crowds I’ve seen, I wouldn’t have minded MORE layering, especially after having to compete against five full groups of people all trying to tag one quest mob inside the city hall in Hillsbrad, with a 15 min spawn time.
I find it hilarious that, if layers didn’t exist, the anti-layering crowd (probably the same droolers that comprise the ‘no changes’ crowd) would’ve been in here bawling that they couldn’t complete any quests due to overcrowding. What part of the statement “server populations are four or five times larger than Vanilla” don’t you get?
Layers are Blizzards way of saying “Hey we revived the servers from 2004-2006, but we got some new technology hope it works…here goesssssssssssssssssss” Where is my mega AI-Ddos proof server bro?
They need to turn layering back on for pve servers. one layer for horde one for alliance. Some people like questing. Just like some people dont like layers.
No, it means fewer concurrent players. If the average playtime per player drops 50% after the first month, then the concurrent players drop 50% without a single subscriber loss.
I would rather have to fight with 1000 people over quest mobs and have it take hours or even days for me to finish said quest then ever, and i mean EVER, have layering back in the game.
When an area is to packed with people i just go grind somewhere else. Never bring back layering.
Lately my sleep schedule has meant I’m up at night, so I play classic when I’m up at night. The population at midnight to 4AM is acceptable for questing without layers.
But for day time play I play nintendo games. Same goes for the instant I can’t quest due to too many players.
I understand the idea of competing for resources such as mining and how that might have been cool back in 2004-2007 (someone talked about a war over a thorium node, for example) But beyond that I don’t see any reason layers are being removed. Also I would say such cases would be rare. People back in the day probably just would have -waited- for more thorium to spawn. Which is kind of boring, imo.
Blizzard also didn’t, from what I’m reading on the forums succeed in bringing back wars in the world by not having BGs out for example. People are just waiting for BGs, there are no epic conflicts taking place of the 2004-2005 past between southshore and taureen mill for example. The past is gone and it can’t be repeated is my point. Layering won’t discourage wars over resources as someone else brought up. The players and time already do that.
Layering made classic better, and does on some servers it’s still on as I write this. People can gray my post out and call me a troll because I’m talking about something Blizzard put in classic. But it doesn’t make it true.
I’m just observing reality about classic pre layering and classic post layering, on Azuresong.