I know most of us are not keen on the idea this will be part of the game. It opens the door for exploiting the economy and other issues. Blizzard said at first sharding for the first couple day then that moved to phase 1… I don’t see blizzard budging on this one bit…
A few things I think blizzard should do is… putting a 5 or 10 min timer or better yet matching the cool down for hoping layers to rare spawns such as black lotus or rare monsters… shared resources such as mining nodes, chests, herbs etc should all be shared between shards or “layers” to minimize the effect on the economy…
Blizzard says only phase one at this point but I have my doubts… I think they should just remove it all together
just depends on what Blizzards intentions are. If its to maximize profits we might not see a removal of the layering system because with it they can turn 1 server into many more.
I want to believe blizzard but people were against sharding and they turned around and sharded the entire server while saying to us they weren’t going to mess with the social aspect of the game.
Ya, i fear for the same, even sharding helps kill the social aspect of the game and they think layering is better, i dont think either option is worth anything.
I think I would have to agree with you on this too. From the stress test quests were still taking a long time to complete, around 30min from what I read. Heres hoping the 29th stress test will be better
While the launch will be complicated without it, it’s more than possible with today’s tech… I don’t know where you are getting the five mil number… I would be very surprised if it had that many… maybe down the road but I don’t see launch having that many
When i was in the stress test it had taken some players 6 hours just completely the starting quests and get to 5. Due to the sheer amount of players in the zone.
Well think about it for minute, there was only one realm. Let’s say they kept the population to 6k or there about’s . We know for a fact they sent out a ton more invites to the stress test than the max server pop… It would be a pr nightmare If they blatantly said most of you won’t get in by design… he’ll it was a pr nightmare anyway…
But the fact I know what a stress test is for, is why I’m not even mad. In fact I was actually laughing my butt off while trying and failing to log in.
“Hashtag Authentic Vanilla Experience!” I kept giggling.
No that’s the easier and cheaper way out… It’s not necessarily the best option for a quality produc it’s not necessarily the best option for The players