Not from Classic they’re not. I doubt it’ll have that many players despite being the superior game.
i have spent time on reddit and facebook and mmo champion. the common theme seems to be most people are against any form of sharding outside of 1-10 and outside of a short launch window.
That seems pretty reasonable to me. And given Blizzard’s own feelings on sharding in Classic, I’ve no reason to think they’ll go overboard like you’re saying they will.
Every single change they’ve made, which is very very VERY few btw, has been purely because of how drastically Blizzard’s operations have changed since 2004 and the fact they can’t go back to that. Loot trading is because they don’t have near the number of GMs they used to. The mail thing is… well, there are addons that would have done it anyway. I’m glad Blizz cut them off at the pass.
That’s actually it. No other changes. Apart from the maybe-sharding. But that’s a change that hasn’t even happened yet, nor do we know if it will. There’s no sense fretting over it right now.
EDIT: Just remembered that there were a few other changes, but they were so bloody minor they didn’t even bear mentioning. Mostly just UI stuff and improved graphics that don’t even get rid of the original models and textures.
You keep saying they said they would never do sharding… but provide no quote from someone saying that. Sharding became and issue in the Classic Community when they talked about it at the forum and explained WHY they were going to do it. I have never seen a quote of them saying they would NEVER use sharding. If you can provide a verifiable quote from someone of some import on the Dev Team then I might be worried.
EDIT: I saw the quote you are hung up on and you are just wrong. They never said never. They said it was a tenant that they KNOW the COMMUNITY wants…
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Alright, I just read a bunch of sharding threads over on reddit and I didn’t see a single person say anything like “sharding only for 1-10”. This is you passing off your own personal criteria for sharding as the general consensus.
Here’s some actual quotes:
“I have absolutely no problem with this and can’t understand why anybody would be against using it for the initial launch in the starting zones. People are stupid.”
“The zones will still be packed too. Just not to the point that the game is unplayable”
“Being able to actually play the game day 1 should definitely be a priority for blizzard, and limited sharding is probably the best solution to keep realms viable in the long term while also allowing people to actually play the game day 1.”
“if there is any evidence of sharding in any zones after tourist season has ended I’m canceling. I was all on board the anti sharding train, but after seeing the evidence towards tourist season I do feel that it is the single best way to handle the problem considering the health of the game.”
“As long as they keep sharding to only the starting zones for the first few weeks, I’m fine with it. But if they bring it back, for let’s say, the AQ event, I will not be pleased.”
don’t kid yourself, they’ve been served…but not all countries will give a fly about copyright. China and Russia don’t have good records on this.
I hate to be one of those people… but unless Classic is only played by a very VERY small number of people, I think sharding will be necessary for AQ.
I don’t think so. I think the tourist season as it’s been put will be over and not every player is going to congregate in Silithus. Classic launch is likely to be a different beast and even if the servers are having a heart-attack because of AQ, we can deal with it.
The usual term is starting zones. Some interpret that as only the valley of trials, northshire abbey, etc. but others (myself included, not that it matters) take it to mean all of durotar, elwynn, and so on. the pack will start to thin out after those first zones, as people clear content at different rates, play different amount of times, and have options to start engaging in different gameplay (dungeons, profession farming, alts, battlegrounds, world PVP, guild building, and so on). However, in the 1-10 zones, there’s nowhere else to go and not much else to do but clear them, and that’s going to happen at the same time as everyone else pretty much. Staving every part of every useable zone for quest items, mobs both quest related and not, profession materials and profession materials will just brick everyone’s progress and drive a lot of players away.
Heart attack in this context means lots of lag and constant crashing.
This is straight-up unacceptable. Not just from a gameplay standpoint but from a business one as well.
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i’ve literally already linked the interview in question a couple times. i’m not going to link it for you again.
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read my edit.
Also you are hyperventilating and misinterpreting what was said at the same time. That is quite impressive.
Mat… as someone who gives a damn, I think you should probably take a break for a while. This constant back and forth causing undue stress can’t be good for your mental health.
When I read this thread title I always misread it as Bad Lip Reading.
Someone be my hero and make a Bad Lip Reading video of the BlizzCon video where they talk about sharding.
Annnnnnd gogogogo!
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I think 1 month is way too long. If they do that, I will not buy it until a month has elapsed. If it’s just for the starting zone for a month (1-6 or 1-10) then I’ll still get it.
But like someone else said, if they do it once they will do it again. I genuinely want to hope that they won’t use it at all past the starting zones.
Claims to be “Loyal Blizzard Customer” then proceeds to advocate returning to Illegal Private Servers LoL…/mind blown
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Read my lips. Not your decision.
A poster who wants numerous non vamilla QOL convenience changes, including guild banks, add-on functionality baker into classic baseline, hunters able to trap in combat(even if very briefly) also apparently wants the convenience that sharding provides.
Color me surprised.
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These forums were a lot nicer in the last couple weeks because a certain poster was mostly absent.
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All I want to know is how they’ll be implementing sharding. Frankly I feel it’s completely inevitable that sharding will be in Classic, whether it be as minor as only being in the starting zones (such as durotar, elwynn, etc,.) or as extreme as being throughout the entire game. It would be fantastic if sharding was straight up not included in the game, but it’s easily tolerable if its only going to be in the 1-10 zones.