The game crashed multiple times on release of classic even with however many layers it had on those first few days. Having more layers didn’t help the crashing.
I also simply stated the lag was fine. I didn’t mention anything about the crashing. Yes, the game crashed a lot in the beta, but guess what. The game crashed a lot when it went live too.
There was lag, there was 10+ second delay, you weren’t in the area if you claim there was no lag.
Layering absolutely reduces the amount of crashing, if you crammed 10x the people we had at launch into those zones the game literally wouldn’t be able to function, it’s not an opinion it’s a fact because we tried to do it, hence the zone lagged out and crashed.
Heres a completely seperate instance of this happening on live servers with less than we had on beta, this is what happens, the servers can’t handle it, end of story.
So you either remove layering abruptly and have 10x more people in every area, lagging and crashing zones, or lower the server cap and increase the queues by tenfold.
“I’m super serial guys, this is the LAST straw!”
What makes you think they won’t reduce the player limit, when there are no layers, to keep the game playable?
Layering absolutely affects queue time and here is a link to a post directly from a blue:
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/overcrowded-realm-update/255835
“Raising realm caps would simply forestall the problem, letting more players in at launch but creating an unsustainable situation down the line, with severe queues when we turn off layering permanently before Phase 2 of our content unlock plan.”
Ok, so provided everyone is ok with “Mega severs” then yes layering has no influence on the queue times. But i thought the layer caps were designed around where they wanted the player cap for each server to be post-layering. I dont have the source on hand so just ignore this if there is evidence to suggest otherwise.
I guess i dont mind the idea of Mega servers, but there are a bunch of pros and cons that come with them. Personally i dont think blizzard will go that route, but i wouldnt be disappointed either way.
I really wish they would just remove layering.
You would be right IF blizzard allowed that many people to be on a server at once with no layering aka “one layer”. They are not allowing that to happen because the game and it’s systems were not designed for that much larger number of people.
Since blizzard has said that a layer represents what a vanilla server could handle (iirc ~3000 people) the layering system allows more people to be on the server than ‘normal’, which reduces the queues
It’s literally the point of the system.