Layering sucks even if its just P1 (Video Proof)

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@Brockthorn-malygos

I agree Igotsoul. And even with all those interviews out there that question has never come up.

All they talk about is 60% of realm players quitting so population will be stable. Kinda like promoting failure of your product and counting on it.

I’ve made 2 posts about that.

One for Sharding:

Another issue with Sharding

This is not the typical sharding discussion thread. Its about why they want to use it, and how that can be a problem. Blizzard stated that, as they do not expect classic to have a rising population, they cant address the game as a usual new game release. By that logic, it seems that they intend to increase the number of people one server can handle at once and shard it, so that after a few weeks/months after launch, the server will drop down to a more normal size and sharding becomes unnecess…

One for Layering:

Another Issue with Layering

Following my post from a long time ago: I will now more or less update this with the new information and tech we have now: Layering is problematic due to its condition and promised termination in phase 2. IT REQUIRES NUMBERS TO DROP SIGNIFICANTLY UNTIL PHASE 2. One Layer is ~3000 people, and they want to stack multiple on top of each other. That means best case (this includes this tech working as intended in the first place) the number of players would have to drop by 50%!! (in case …

And nobody really seems to care. Should be discussed more I suspect.

People don’t seem to think that way sadly.