You say this but you don’t want to take their word either. There is a direct quote of Ion stating sharding should not remove competing for resources.
Yeah because that’s the way they worded it. You are talking about retail here my dude of course they are going to shard at any given time they want. They basically put it right there for you in the disclaimer. If you want to rage when they actually do it even though it is stated right in front of you that they will then that’s just you being a ignorant.
However, when they actually tell you for once in plain solid text “ONLY FOR LAUNCH” and you don’t jump for joy, well then I do feel sorry for your comprehension skills as it will leave you feeling like you do.
“You’ve excused them” lol as if we have the authority or the know how of their server to act like we know a damn thing about what they need/don’t need for a launch window. Get over yourself dude. I know this is a hard pill for you to swallow, but blizzard does know whats best for their servers (GASP). And if they straight up tell us that this terrible thing is best, but they will only use it for launch, you should be okay with that, considering it’s limited. “BUT BUT BUT WHAT IF IT ISN’T LIMITED THEN”- Well that would be them ACTUALLY lying to us, which they haven’t done historically in a similar situation whether you want to believe it or not.
Lol ‘twists’. They aren’t twists my dude, they are straight up statements. Just because they confuse you doesn’t make it a twist. That makes your brain a twist.
They haven’t bent a thing, you just never understood what their word meant.
Little trust because they did exactly what they said they were going to do??? My dude…
No. I take them at face value.
The goal was no sharding in classic.
YOU are using the not wanting a bad launch as an excuse as to why they can turn around and deviate from that.
The goal was no sharding during normal operations. You are the one stating that all they have to do is claim a player driven event was going on nearby as an excuse to shard.
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All in all, I seriously can’t believe there are still people like you with this mentality even after the most recent update.
They straight up listened and gave us a more in depth stages which included a MASSIVE step in the right direction which is progressive itemization. Do you realize how big that is?
They did NOT have to do this if they didn’t want to. That’s quite a bit of work they just gave themselves for literally no reason other than they just want classic to be as authentic as it could be. This should be a major hint that they are in this for good reasons. Yet you still act like this beaten puppy. Honestly it astonishes me.
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So when you say the goal is no sharding in classic and then plan to use sharding for launch that isn’t a deviation from your word?
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I’m happy about that but can you honestly tell me that blizzard has bot stretched their word on sharding to tge absolute limit?
All they would have to do is stretch the launch window out to AQ and say “hey we’re still in launch window”
Talk about exaggeration. You have a excessively imaginative view on things.
“Sharding is by default turned off but will be turned on from time to time”
Sharding gets turned on
“THEY LIED.”
I think it’s safe to say you dont take stuff at face value.
Now you’re putting words in my mouth. I never said I was for or against sharding. I am simply defending the lies you are attempting to spreading.
Noo… that would not be their words. The goal is only sharding at launch. So them sharding anything else would be a lie. Do you understand that sweetie?
No, it’s not given the context. The context is how the design philosophy of the game will be. As in we won’t see sharding day to day as it is in retail. Launch is an obvious exception given that EVERYONE will be logged in at the same time at the same point and there will be a massive amount of people there who won’t be there long term.
Obviously if you hold this delusion there isn’t anything I can tell you that blizzard hasn’t to convince you otherwise, you’ll just have to live in paranoia of this. Too bad so sad!
So when we use sharding at classic launch, what server is generating all those extra mobs?
Those same mobs that can be skinned, drop cloth, drop vendor trash, and drop coin?
Or is each shard going to have less then the normal amount of mobs proportionate to the number of times that server is sharded?
If it’s going to do the latter why bother with sharding?
Sharding generates extra resources.
Considering i see sharding on rp servers on a day to day basis
No they haven’t IDK how many times I have to explain this to you. There is literally nothing more I can say that I already didn’t.
You
Are
Wrong
Is that any better? Is this what you want to hear?
JFC you are seriously out of your mind.
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Come on dude, this is getting sad now.
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Considering they said that is exactly how it was going to work.
They said sharding would be on RP servers but limited to not be in older areas.
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LOL no.
Sharding kills communities,
CRZ kills communities,
Merging two small servers CHANGED the community, but it could always adapt. I was apart of one, and it’s far better than a dead server…or sharding.
All 3 are bad, but CRZ and Sharding are basically game-destroying mechanics.
While I’m at it, LFR sucks.
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While I certainly get the impression that they want an authentic Classic to be perfectly fair, if people are going to say they didn’t technically lie with the RP Server thing:
Ion’s comment about sharding doesn’t actually explicitly say they wont use sharding past the first few weeks. They could use it during AQ with no explanation and again, they would technically not have lied.
It also doesn’t say anything about only in the starter zones either. That’s more or less just something the forums attached to it.
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Wow, i must have the worst luck in the world then because almost every time i go to hang out with them sharding is on.
I am not the one spreading lies. Blizzard said the goal was no sharding. You are the one defending them deviating from that on the basis of a solid launch.
The original goal was no sharding. Period. End of discussion. That goal has since been moved to only shard at launch.
So design goal can be set aside because launch.
My server did burning crusade launch with minimal issue.
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You yourself have said that they will use anything they can to their advantage.