You’re actively claiming that Activision has done a hostile takeover of Blizzard.
I didn’t know Mr. Jones’ new platform was the Classic WoW forums.
Considering the CEO title is MISSING from Blizzard’s hierarchy as of late last year? It’s not unreasonable to assume that.
Hostile takeovers do not an “evil corporation” make, either. I’ve no doubt the devs are still trying to make fun games for us; they’d have to be fantastic actors to have that much false energy and enthusiasm on the BlizzCon stage. Their ideas are really out of touch as of late, though.
The minimum.they gave was Valley of Trials, which would be equivalent to Shadowglen, Coldridge Valley, Northshire Abbey, Deathknell and Red Rock Mesa.
And the maximum they gave was Elwynn, which would be equivalent to Tirisfall Glades, Kilgore, Durotar, Dum Morogh and Teldrassil.
How do those equate to even the 10-20 areas, let alone any contested areas or world events/holidays.
Got any key phrases for me to go hunt that info down. Haven’t seen that quote yet. Or a link if you have it handy.
Just watch that much touted video of Ion in the Q&A.
He specifically mentions Valley of Trials and Elwynn when talking about “starting areas”.
I have seen the transcripts, don’t have the energy to sit through videos, I’ll have a skim through the transcripts when I have more time.
I agree if they allow it in zones other than starting zones and do not remove it a few weeks after launch.
The #1 reason Classic WoW was better was community. Blizzard stole that from us when they started with all the sharding, LFR, etc.
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Blizz has to make a product that doesn’t fail at launch… And the server population after launch for the next 2 weeks, month 6 months etc will change dramatically. I painfully read all 387 posts but didnt hear a good alternative solution to server congestion at launch or how to prevent dead communities. Anyone got something positive that doesn’t involve sharding?
People on these forums seem to want that
Thanks for the link to the Legion patch notes on disabling sharding in RP realms!
It proves my point (in my thread, Sharding puts Vanilla gameplay second (anti-sharding anthology)) that sharding puts Vanilla community-based gameplay second - behind server performance which they are “very happy with” - while many people are unhappy because they can’t even see their friends!
What a HUGE disconnect between Blizzard’s view and players’ experience of sharding.
You would have thought that when Blizzard started looking at using sharding, someone, somehwere at Blizzard would have asked:
“Hey, isn’t it a bad thing for gameplay in a MMO to NOT be able to see your own friends in the world?”
Blizzard
Over the last couple of years, we’ve begun using some new technology we’ve occasionally referred to as “sharding” in non-instanced zones, which separates players in high-traffic areas out into separate “shards” of a particular zone. The benefit to our server performance has been massive - it was a huge part of why Legion’s launch went so smoothly - and so, as a whole, we’ve been very happy with the system.
Player comment:
Bananamanson 2017/08/08 (Patch 7.2.5)ReportQuoteReply
I do not like sharding from a game point of view. I have friends on the same realm, same guild and can never see them in game. We can run right past each other, not seeing each other as we are in different shards. Too bad they do not seem to be able to put friends in the same shard, unless they group?Not sure why it still needs to be used after Legion’s launch?
And, this…is what I am afraid is going to happen in Classic WoW - one of the most community-oriented games ever made will be divided up into tiny shards just like modern WoW.
Modern WoW is an asocial game with virtually no need for guilds or community anymore.
Now they are headed down the same path with Classic WoW by the use of sharding - it’s very depressing.