You are not alone brother, me and my mates will also boycott WoW Classic if sharding and other cost cutting options are included in the final product. We must stand together!
Blizzard is being realistic and accepting that classic launch will not and should not mimic vanilla launch. And the reality is people would whine about any solution they tried to use to deal with the initial rush.
Except launch didn’t have nearly as many people trying to get in after a 14 year hiatus, and millions of so-called “tourists”.
So, no, no-sharding is not “authentic”, at least as far as the experience.
And for the record, I see it both ways, but being absolute about it doesn’t help.
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Preach… Its seems most want to try and ignore this. But this won’t mimic 2004 no matter how bad you want it to. In 2004 there were not hundreds of thousands that were going to try the game and leave it weeks later. The opposite happened, and we STILL ended up with some empty servers…
You cant have an authentic launch to 2004 because the market conditions of 2004 arent the same today.
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well not really, people left, difference was there was tons that took their place.
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I stl think sharding is cancer and if it’s used outside of 1 to 10 and outside of 2 weeks I’ll be gone. For good. Even if it’s AQ
ok? i know this already,lol
And I’ll continue to make my stance known so blizzard doesn’t listen to the shard for 2 months or perm sharding crowds.
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Imagine that. Ziryus and Starman both apparently support the totally antithetical to vanilla sharding and want it to be part of Classic.
Color me surprised.
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I said I saw both sides, dude. Where did I say I wanted it to be a part of Classic?
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disagree
they have stated the possibility of sharding starting areas due to high pop. for arguments’ sake, to me, that means Mulgore, Durotar and Tristfal Glades for horde.
ok. so what.
3 of the 4 playable horde races are all about converge in 1 area, the Barrens. and don’t forget about the undead. a nice sized chunk of them are also heading there to get their fill of Chuck Norris jokes.
if they feel it necessary to shard individual starting areas then it’s safe to assume they would feel it equally necessary to shard the 1 area where a huge portion of those starters are about to run into one another. more people than any individual starting area. more land mass. more herb spawns. more ore spawns. more bad guys running around holding onto all those sweet hooves and tusks we need to collect.
ok, so now the Barrens is sharded too. big deal. it ends there.
does it?
when the pack has leveled up all they can, they have 3 zone options: Stonetalon, Ashenvale or Hillsbrad. super, the congestion in the Barrens has been thinned and spread out over 3 areas. only those 3 areas are the first encountered contested zones. that means any thinning that occurred is instantly moot because now both factions are converging, fighting over quest mobs and herb/ore spawns.
if they felt it necessary to shard starting areas due to high pop and it was safe to assume they would feel the same way about the 1 area where all those folks met up, then it stands to reason they would also feel the same about the initial areas where the 2 factions would come face to face for the first time. the 3 contested zones will probably have less than the initial Barrens push but they also will probably have more than any individual starting area.
ok, so now the starting areas, Barrens, Ashenvale, Stontalon and Hillsbrad are sharded due to high pop. so what.
so what? characters are now level 30’ish, half way to the top, and have little to no idea who their server mates are because they either haven’t had to or haven’t been able to interact with anybody for any real length of time because so far its basically been a single player game.
what is has not been is an authentic classic experience.
#nochanges
#nosharding
#bringthechaos
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didn’t say not too, just odd you replied to something I said that was in response to something else entirely. and it will take more than a half dozen people on the forums to get Blizzard to notice, they can see where the overall feel is on a subject.
Where did you say you didn’t?
Also, this statement certainly seems to indicate that you want sharding to be part of Classic.
For the record, though, do you want sharding in Classic (even in a “limited manner”) or do you want Classic to have no sharding, whatsoever.
You cannot have it both ways. Wanting sharding to be used in a limited manner may not be wanting sharding for the entire game, but it IS wanting it to be part of Classic.
“I can see it both ways”.
I’m just stating a fact, not making a partisan decision, dude.
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It’s not a matter of wanting sharding, people want a smooth enjoyable launch. If sharding ends up being the way they go with that fine. Dynamic spawn rates, shared tags, extra servers with mergers later I’m sure there’s other ways to accomplish it.
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Ok. That by no means says that you do not want sharding for classic, only that you see both sides of the debate, but I will give you the benefit of the doubt.
Now, answer the question I asked.
For the record, though, do you want sharding in Classic (even in a “limited manner”) or do you want Classic to have no sharding, whatsoever.
You cannot have it both ways. Wanting sharding to be used in a limited manner may not be wanting sharding for the entire game, but it IS wanting it to be part of Classic.
A refusal to answer tells me (and everyone else on these forums with half a brain) that I was correct and that you want sharding for Classic, since if you did not,you would have no problem answering.
I did. Move on.
/sarcasm on
And your support for sharding and/or desire to see sharding used in Classic has nothing to do with sharding being totally antithetical to vanilla and practically universally opposed by those that desire a truer Classic experience.
Riiiiiiiiiight.
/sarcasm off
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And you didn’t read what I wrote, what I want is a smooth enjoyable launch. I don’t care how blizzard accomplishes that. If you have another suggestion to ones I listed feel free to share it.
No you did not. You tried to dodge the question.
Do you want sharding to be used in classic (even in a “limited manner”) or do you want Classic to have no sharding whatsoever?
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