This is actually a pretty absent minded thing to say considering our last update was literally built around forum feedback.
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You mean the current state of 35% of Americans who are kept down with taxation and social systems that favor oil, pharma, and union corruption over the american people. Thats the result of weakened and complacent boomers who screwed up the 60s and 70s who just did ls d and watched the country go to hell with awful immigration policy along with a ever more corrupt banking system.
Dang Mat, I thought you finally got over your sharding fears with this post
By the way. If they weren’t advertising no permanent sharding, why did they go into full damage control mode during blizzcon about sharding in the demo and potential launch sharding in classic?
Why not just say, yeah classic is going to have sharding?
At least the latter they are up front and honest.
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Which has literally nothing to do with what I am talking about, nor the subject of anything in this topic.
What you’re speaking about is corruption in a nation. Which has nothing…and I mean nothing to do with ‘holding your ground’ vs. ‘compromise’.
It’s not a fear. Fear is a sign of weakness. It’s pure disgust.
I have little trust for blizzard left.
No. No, they are not.
If you’re not the only, you’re certainly rare.
Log-in queues were annoying back then and they’d be doubly annoying now.
Honestly, what does a 5 hour que do differently than sharding does in the starter areas. Please enlighten me.
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Ok, let me stop you right there.
Do you feel as if I have the power to allow or disallow anything here?
Notice that sharding was not in that update? Do you think they are undecided on their path with sharding at this stage?
The thing about most “solutions” to sharding is that Blizzard has concerns about not only server stability at launch, but server populations as the tourists begin to leave.
In this, simply saying “Don’t do anything” isn’t really something I imagine they’re likely to see as a real solution. This would have been the first thing they looked at and then went “That’s not good enough, we need something else”.
Blizzard communicated to us on day 1 that they had no intentions of giving us the same launch experience as 2004.
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Im not talking about the sharding im talking about you saying “what makes you think they will listen to any of the forum posters”.
Was it forum posters, or a louder voice, like streamers?
It’s not. Not unless you try to have mega servers like some people want. If you have Vanilla like player caps on servers, it’ll run fine. If they want to do sharding for the 1st week or 2 in the starting zones, so be it.
“Oh, but dead servers.” … Get over it, even with mega servers you’re going to have dead servers. If you are unlucky enough to be on a dead server either move to a populated server or hope Blizzard offers free transfers from high pop realms to yours. Blizzard won’t offer free transfers off dead realms, that’s never been their style.
Don’t be a jerk. Not everyone is a troll just because it’s their 1st post/topic and it’s not something you agree with.
I would prefer to not sit in a 5 hour queue, but I’m not against the idea of a queue in the 1st place. Funny thing is people get up in arms about how no one this day in age wants any kind of queue, yet FFXIV has login queues during prime time on popular servers. They’re not long, a few minutes at most, which is something most people would accept just because it’s a few minutes at most.
I suspect you must be rich considering how many minds you claim to be able to read through the internet. Or are you just attributing something to people you don’t agree with so you can dismiss their opinions. I bet it’s the latter.
As long as they don’t force mega servers not really an issue other then the initial launch.
More than likely on populated realms.
This is a fair point and the one most people against sharding are concerned about. It’s not just Blizzard, but the big names in the gaming industry over the past few years have developed this really bad habit of doing what they want to try to make as much money as possible rather than trying to please their fan bases.
Yes. There are people who are.
Compromise is not weakness. Those who refuse to compromise on anything are pretty much no better than spoiled children.
Fear is not a weakness. If not for fear one could not be courageous. Or one my favorite quotes, “Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid.” Fear can be a powerful motivator.
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The Classic devs have also stated that they don’t to replicate the launch experience (crashes and queues). Like the sharding for initial zones or not, I’m pretty sure that it’s going to be around for the launch.
For my part, I’m totes fine with shards for the starting zones. Once people hit level 7-10, they’re gonna start getting professions and exploring and generally moving around the world a lot more. Things will even out. But those first few hours when everyone’s on the same rails…oye vey, please shard those.
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It doesn’t utilize a system that didn’t exist until long after the game died.
could simulate sharding instead of real sharding by not allowing new players on a server that’s too full. instead, make a new server with same name but with a number, like stormrage2, stormrage3, and inform those who elect to still go to stormrage, they will be placed on one of these and that when the population evens out, they will re-merge with stormrage proper.
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