On high population servers with tech from 15 years ago.
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You’re presuming they even CAN make those temporary changes.
Yeah but if Blizzard is running hardware comparable to what they had in 2004 then this is 100% on them.
It might be laggy, but there is very little reason for the server to actually crash these days just because of a lot of people in one area.
And yet if they were going to make changes anyway, I’d rather them make changes that don’t require the use of sharding.
Except it has happened on live already. Someone posted a YouTube video of it a while back. I believe it was Swifty actually.
With tech from 15 years ago. Sorry but I’m not taking your word for it that AQ needs sharding.
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Are you sure? Cos I thought that was AFTER Blizzard switched over to Battlenet 2.0.
Battle .net didn’t get integrated until wrath some time. 2.0 even later. We haven’t had aq events in retail since before then
No but we have had people intentionally crashing the servers by getting a bunch of morons into one zone.
Rather deal with that then sharding.
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We haven’t had a AQ opening in a very long time, and any recent events in BfA is using BfA which is a bigger strain on the server and not built around large groups of people since sharding specifically negates the need to optimize that.
Which if Blizzard doesn’t adjust things for Classic to make performance better for large groups of people, then that’s 100% on them.
How would AV even function at a basic level if the game can’t handle 40v40 with spells flinging around?
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And you think I’m the unreasonable one.
I don’t think you’re unreasonable. I just don’t think you care about vanilla design.
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AV functions just fine last I checked. That’s hardly Gates of AQ levels of activity.
Uh… in AV you don’t have 40v40 slaughter fests on the Stormpike Bridge anymore. You have 2 groups of 40 running right past each other in a race to kill the enemy general.
That’s where you’re wrong. I do care. If I didn’t I’d be advocating things like LFG or LFR or flight or allowing items obtained in Classic to be available on retail, etc.
Just because I want to actually log in to play the game doesn’t mean I want the game changed to such an extent that it doesn’t even have a passing resemblance anymore. If I wanted that, I would go play retail. And even enjoy it, probably.
AV doesn’t have 40v40 for the most part anymore. I mean yeah it’s 40 Alliance and 40 Horde, but they run past each other in a PvE race.
It’s not the 40v40 slugfest that Vanilla AV was where we bottleneck each other into massive amounts of spells, which it’s all those spells that get the server bogged down.
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Your literally fighting for the inclusion of something that
- most the community does not want.
- blizzard knows the community does not want.
- makes rare resources not rare
- actively splits up the playerbase.
- limits player interactions and makes zones feel more empty.
And you told me yourself you don’t care about resources. So yeah. You’re fighting against core design of the game.
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Well if you have a feasible, economically-viable-in-a-corporate-environment solution apart from “do nothing” then I’m all ears. Otherwise I’d still take sharding because I disagree about the severity of the consequences.
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I do. Let vanilla be vanilla. Notice how most people know about how servers crashed and lagged and we’d still rather have that then sharding?
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