I know what is talking about. I’m pointing out that what he is “suggesting” was never done in vanilla. How can he even think to claim that it is “within the realm of authenticity” if it was never part of vanilla?
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Except I’ll be gone then. Audios. Period. They had their change and burned it. All in the name of convienence to people who don’t want classic.
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Ok sorry I thought he only mentioned it in response to the video.
So what are you your suggestions then?
Whoa… weren’t you complaining in another thread about people being to thin skinned? You’re going to not play classic because you are worried you might miss forming your life long soul bond with someone in the first 10 levels of WoW?
Driving those who have been, for over a decade, requesting a truer Classic experience into abandoning Classic seems to be exactly what some people want to see happen.
That way they can strut around saying “See, Blizzard. I told you that they really didn’t want a Classic experience and that you shouldn’t make Classic. It looks like I was right, after all.”
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I’m not going to play classic if that happens because blizzard will have burned the last bridge with me.
And it goes beyond 10 levels. My thing is if sharding is used outside of starter zones or outside of 2 weeks i am gone. So if I go into westfall and sharding is there. Bye
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I already answered that question. I suggest you scroll up and find the answer you seek.
was it new tech? Help me out please Ziryus got in the middle of all this ,lol.
Here it is again:
I sure wouldn’t compromise authenticity to attempt to do so.
If Blizzard refuses to ensure that their hardware can handle the load, then just as I would rather have log-in queues when Classic launches, I would rather have a more authentic AQ event, even if that means lag and possible server crashes.
Once Blizzard gets their fingers in the “the load is too great. Find some antithetical to vanilla means to handle it” pie, it will be nigh on impossible to extract those fingers from that pie.
They have shown us repeatedly that once they get their fingers into any pie, those fingers cannot be extracted and the rest of the hand and then the arm follow those fingers.
That may not be an answer you want to hear. Speaking only for myself, though, I would rather deal with inconveniences (including lag and crashes) than to compromise the truer Classic experience with some antithetical to vanilla “solution”.
thanks , i get what you are saying even if you think i don’t. LIke I said the answers I want to hear probably require someone who has more thorough understanding of all of the tech side of this.
I don’t know if there is a “solution” that isn’t antithetical to vanilla and doesn’t compromise the truer Classic experience.
One of my concerns is that if Blizzard gets their toe in the door with “limited sharding at launch”, they will immediately go to sharding if they even think that there might be “too many players are in the same area”, such as the old Tarren Mill/Southshore battles or the AQ event.
Imagine seeing “TM/SS battle. Help needed.” in chat and flying to Southshore or Tarren Mill, only to find yourself in a quiet, peaceful little village.
Imagine seeing “Player Y rang the gong” or “Player X is headed to Silithus to ring the gong” in chat and flying to Silithus, only to find yourself looking at 4 other players.
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That’s the question and nobody here seems to know for sure.
I see the phrase “private servers do it!” and the video in this post being mentioned alot when asked what this new technology is.
I think people are forgetting Classic is being made and will be run differently to how private servers are made and run. And also forgetting that while private servers are able to maintain thousands of players when compared to WoWs subs thats a very small number.
Alot of people want blizzard to do what these private servers do and don’t know the cost and always neglect to mention to now multiply that cost by 1000% or more because now we have to factor in if the technology they use gets more costly to maintain and provide over time and just demand Blizzard do that.
But you are right, all of the answers to our questions are alot more technical than most would like to think.
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So you’re fine with corporate greed determining how Classic will be developed and run? You think “cut costs” is the mantra by which great games are made? Activision will be making at least tens of millions per month from Classic. How exactly are they not able to afford server technology that would allow for the closest recreation of Vanilla possible?
Hey man ![:man_shrugging:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/man_shrugging.png?v=6" ":man_shrugging:")
I honestly don’t know.
I’ve seen posts that would have me believe they’re being greedy rich bastards and other posts that would have me believe that they are bleeding money and WoW will be offline yesterday.
I see videos and posts that subs are low, stocks are low, the games/company are doing bad and than you come in here and ask me how they can’t afford if they stand to make millions when the guy on your left thinks classics pop will peak in the thousands.
It is true that no one knows where the population of Classic will peak.
If even 100,000 people that left WoW return for Classic and resubscribe if Blizzard provides a true, authentic Classic experience, though, that would be $1.5 million per month in additional revenue.
It’s the same area you moron
Just understand that if you choose this as an option as a substitute for sharding, that you can no longer complain about sharding ‘ruining’ community. Simple as that. I am not saying I am neither for or against what you are saying, I am just letting you know that login ques are 5000% more damaging to early level communities than sharding from 1-10 will ever be. Period.
AQ event is irrelevant they are only using it for launch.
Speculation.
Examples? I have yet to remember an instance similar to this ever happening.
Well this isn’t a solution to sharding at all. If you want to actually find a solution to sharding come up with something besides, “Lol lets just do nothing and deal with it”. Blizzard said they are not going to replicate the launch event, that was actually the FIRST words out of their mouths. So unless you actually have a better idea it’s time to take a back seat on this one.
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No, it’s NOT. If I say I am in Durotar, does that mean I am in the Valley of Trials? If I say I am in Elwynn, does that mean that I am in Northshire Abbey?
Orgrimmar is located in Durotar, but is it’s own area, is it not? Stormwind is located in Elwynn, but is its own area, is it not?
Valley of trials is a 1-5 area located IN Durotar, which is a 1-10 zone. It is PART of Durotar, but NOT the entirety of Durotar.
Likewise, Northshire Abbey i a 1-5 area located in Elwynn,which is a 1-10 zone. It is a PART of Elwynn, NOT the entirety of Elwynn.
I will ask again, what do you consider “starting areas”?
IMO, starting areas are the 1-5 areas–Northshire Abbey, Coldridge Valley, Shadowglen, Valley of Trials, REd Cloud Mesa and Deathknell.
Note, that by no means indicates that I have any support for, or acceptance of, sharding in “the starting areas”. That is simply what I consider those starting areas.
I see this has degenerated into calling someone a moron in every post. It’s only a matter of time before someone’s troll colors come shining through.
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