Made some stawpolls

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It’s not entirely one-sided. 49.3% are completely against sharding while 30.7% accept it only under the condition Blizzard stated of first weeks and starting areas only.

Another 14.7% wish they found another solution which implies they will tolerate it. And only 5.3% have no problems with any form of sharding used at any time.

There is the underlying concern that if this goes through then there will be similar situations for mass gatherings in major cities and special events where hundreds of players might be together at once. Hopefully, the starting zones is all that’s needed and people can begrudgingly tolerate it instead of waiting weeks to start playing. Or another solution can be found but ones that have been proposed (waiting in queue) aren’t necessarily that popular either.

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That means 70% are completely against permanent sharding. Food for thought.

I’m not even for sharding at all but I understand having it at launch will help. My goal is to prevent the private server situation.

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Actually that would be 80%. 50 + 30 = 80. I’d argue you can include the 14.7% as well because of the way the stawpolll question was worded. Sharding is indeed very unpopular. Vanilla was about community and working together. Seeing the people in the world and not having people on PVP realms vanishing.

Same deal with flying. There was a popular poll done where the person (for some stupid reason) asked if flying should be in classic. 95% said NO. I think they even asked about LFD. It had some dumb questions.

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My bad. My math skills suck when I’m 14 hours into a 16 hour shift

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Ouch. I took the day off. Got like 7 inches of snow. Took forever to get my driveway clear.

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You in Michigan?

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Yes, actually.

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same here. got hit so hard i had to have a friend with a truck give me a lift to work.

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Quit your crying. I’m unsilenced now, thought these would be my first words for the day. :wink:

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Good luck getting naysayers to agree what number is “decent” enough.

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The sharding one bothers me. The “No sharding. I’d rather sit in queue or I won’t play at all until sharding is gone.” specifically. There is no choice for shard-supporters who wouldn’t play until queues are gone. I do not like that anti sharding folks like myself are given a choice of not playing until the non-vanilla mechanic is gone. Make supporters of sharding wait a few weeks.

The option should be shortened to “I’d rather sit in a queue” Full Stop.

The loot trading question should have the option of “OK with loot trading ONLY when master loot option is used”. The first and fourth options have significant overlap causing vote splitting.

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wait. how did you get silenced?

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When we were joking around the other night about the chair on the porch and cane lol. I was a bit surprised but after reading the TOS, I guess I was in the wrong.

Sharding = bad.

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wow. just wow. i’m sorry about that. don’t know what you said but i wasn’t offended.

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No worries, I know we were joking. Let’s just continue with the good fight :slight_smile:

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Another poster that confuses trolling with comments they disagree with? Is there some specific part that makes it irresistible that you must take the bait?

Launch date commitment > beta, change my mind.

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Quite honestly I would have preferred they not have given a launch commitment. I believe it was, along with the combined subs decision, purely to staunch the retail sub hemorrhage.

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I tend to side with this belief also.

If they didn’t give summer 2019 time frame they could have used the beta time frame instead. Send out invites to build hype and also to gauge potential launch day numbers. (Not precise I know but if their expectations are way off it will be obvious).

Even if they would have reopened the demo. It’d be a safer route.

We are sitting at 9 months max. Beta window is getting very tight.

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Why are you playing an MMO? There are a lot of really good traditional RPGs out there.

Me too! :+1:

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Agreed.
They should have lovingly fallen back on the “soon!” meme. I mean we waited and hoped for 10 years, we could have waited without a launch target but safe in the knowledge that it was going to happen.

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