Layering sucks even if its just P1 (Video Proof)

[Kurddran-stormrage]

No it isn’t. They both use overflow servers.

Sharding is the inverse of layering.

With sharding you take people out of 3 low pop realms and move them into a single virtual realm.

Layering is where an overpopulated Kalimdor is split into two pieces where each half is processed by a dedicated machine.

They are very very different, layering is meant to emulate the experience of how classic was.

[Heidene-kelthuzad]

Then what’s Blizzard suppose to do with the tens of thousands of people who QQ about them being locked out and placed into a queue?

They let it happen, knowing the moment the storm is over people will forget about the launch and will be happily flocking around in the game they’ve wanted for years on end because that’s exactly what they’ve received.
And that’s the game the playerbase will ultimately judge for it’s quality, which has proven itself to be so high it ended up as the best MMORPG ever, even with a disastrous launch that can’t in any way be replicated 15 years later on new Blizzard tech.

[Zootzoot-kaelthas (Zootzoot)]

What do you think Sharding is in games that have it?

[Laeth-hakkar]

If you can’t avoid using hyperbole than you’re not worth talking to

… I wasn’t. If you can’t connect to the server, you can’t actually play the game. WoW doesn’t have an offline mode.

[Laeth-hakkar]

I want to play the game

Then say hello to layering. Otherwise enjoy the constant queue times.

[Zootzoot-kaelthas (Zootzoot)]

No I don’t. I want to play the game, not understand how the backend works and have Blizzard’s efforts to save some money ruin the gameplay experience.

They aren’t doing this to save money. They have just as much hardware as there would be for extra segregated servers. This just makes sure you don’t get stuck on a dead realm in 6 months.

[Megustab-area-52]

https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/layering-issues/181248?u=megustab-area-52

These issues are being reported.

[Kurddran-stormrage]

Blizzard’s efforts to save some money ruin the gameplay experience.

It’s actually Blizzards efforts to avoid cry babies like you from flooding this forum that demand magical servers that never get too overpopulated with 6 hour queues.

[Laeth-hakkar]

Hi goalposts, bye goalposts.

I was stating the fact that you can’t play the game if you can’t log in, yes lots of people could, but not everyone.

The game survived then

Because it was the new hot thing. They later introduced sharding and we no longer had to deal with queue times.

[Laeth-hakkar]

You’re delusional if you think the queue times will only exist for 2 days.

Or you have no faith in Classic attracting a crowd.

[Kurddran-stormrage]

By your logic, WoW was DOA 15 years ago because no one in the world could login due to the lack of sharding.

Are you just pretending that the weeks worth of game time given away gratis by Blizzard never happened? Blizzard was threatened by people on the forums with class action lawsuits because they were unable to log in for days.

What the hell are you talking about?

[Jahgro-khadgar]

LOL at 2 days of queue times.

[Purjery-muradin (Purjery)]

Yeah this layering garbage reeks of corporate greed. They somehow managed to launch both TBC and Wrath with 5 and 11 millions players…with zero layering or sharding. They don’t need it, its some money saving crap

Did you play the stress tests at all?

[Laeth-hakkar]

This person has very obviously never played before sharding was implemented.

[Kurddran-stormrage]

Obviously a WoD baby, probably younger than vanilla.

[Laeth-hakkar]

I’m taking some slight immersion issues to NOT have to deal with years of queue times.

[Purjery-muradin (Purjery)]

I would welcome que times in place of sharding.

Kind of blow my mind that people willing accept several months of all the garbage sharding brings, but cannot accept 2 days of login issues.

Seriously? Do you like it taking 30 minutes to do a simple 10 mob kill quest? Do you really think everyone who is going to play wow classic is going to log in an out at the same time?

[Laeth-hakkar]

Quite the opposite. Im afraid of Classic attractive a massive crowd and Blizzard being faced with the dilemma 3 months after launch of servers with 10k players on them that are too populated to turn off layering.

What is your solution in that case? Permanent layering?

Yes, THAT’S A GOOD THING.

[Kurddran-stormrage]

Quite the opposite. Im afraid of Classic attractive a massive crowd and Blizzard being faced with the dilemma 3 months after launch of servers with 10k players on them that are too populated to turn off layering.

What is your solution in that case? Permanent layering?

Maybe you should stop talking for awhile. Everyone thinks you’re a moron.

[Kurddran-stormrage]

You are so effing close minded its incredible.

Yeah there login issues and complaints. There was also 12 million players who were paying $15 a month to play WoW through Wotlk before sharding was introduced. Clearly a non-sharded world did not kill the game like you are trying to paint it.

12 million “subscribers” not simultaneous players. What the hell does subscription numbers have to do with the physical load on a machine when the flood gates open?