Yeah, sharding doesn’t affect groups, in fact it brings them together. Phasing doesn’t give a damn, it’ll separate you if it wants to.
And ever since cata, there’s phasing in just about every old world zone.
We weren’t grouped when it happened.
I love how they use that nice as needed as a catch all. Basically allows them to do whatever the heck they want according to you so long as they say “it supports gameplay”. Nevermind the fact that there wasn’t enough people around to warrant sharding being active. Just the fact they can is enough for you.
The moment blizzard shards westfall/barrens/etc or beyond
Outside of launch window
Is the moment blizzard never sees a dime from me again.
Odds are they find some excuse to shard aq and holidaysm
Phasing is story based and you wouldn’t see each other even grouped. When we invited each other to group we could see each other.
phasing actually will pull you into the same phase sometimes. This was added so that some people could group up to help complete quests together when they weren’t part of the same phase. I’m not sure how much it’s used anymore but it did happen at one point.
Which i understand. So explain how when we grouped we could see,each other. Not phasing.
Sharding. The only excuse because it wasn’t on a connected realm.
Now it just sounds like you’re makin stuff up friend.
That’s the difference I am attempting to explain to you but you are not grasping. They straight up said “ONLY LAUNCH” for classic. They didn’t say “As needed” in classic. If you don’t like what they did to RP servers, that’s fine. You just need to understand they are doing exactly what they said they would. And if they do EXACTLY what they said they would in classic, all is well.
And that would be them lying about this sort of thing for the very first time.
Those aren’t the odds, that is the tinfoil hate seeping into your skull.
I still don’t see how this is a problem. You guys grouped up because you wanted to do content together. You would have grouped up anyway, right? What’s the issue here?
Look it’s real simple.
The moment blizzard shards anything past elwynn and other 1 to 10 or 1 to 12 zones is the moment they get nothing more from me.
They stretch their word to the limit.
They use sharding when they don’t need to.
They already back pedaled once on sharding in classic.
I refuse to give them any more leeway
When talking about it at blizzcon the examples they gave ended at level 10 to 12 tops. I hold them to that.
No westfall.
No barrens.
No holidays.
No capitals.
No aq launch.
You get 6 zones. That’s it.
good for you i guess?
Thr issue is why is sharding being used anyway?
Just like when i was doing wq at 530 am est.
A couple dozen people needs sharding?
Well when there is people who literally support sharding up to and including permanence in classic, yeah I’m going to take a hard stance
Ok but going around lying about it to try and convince others to join your side of the line?
So when you say no sharding in classic and then move to only during launch that isn’t a lie?
When you can literally crash the servers just by getting an army of players ready to storm a capital city, yeah I think “a couple dozen people” definitely needs sharding.
So…guess we should permanently shard classic then by this logic
We probably should. But we may not have to. I doubt Classic will have that many players.
No, you said you were sharded doing WQs and that blizzard said that RP realms would not experience sharding when I provided evidence that the blues said that their would be sharding in the situation you had previously mentioned.
But it only takes 40 or so to crash a server
I also mentioned about them moving the goal posts on classic