Sharding puts Vanilla gameplay second (anti-sharding anthology)

[Nechross-eonar-37277 (Nechross)]

Interesting. There is a a lot of negative feedback on sharding also in BFA over in the General Discussion, which I sort of didn’t expect:

Good server communities are destroyed by sharding

I’ve been excited for the new zones in 8.2 but my motivation gets really killed when thinking about sharding. I won’t be fighting my old rivals in long intense fights (best part of this game). Instead, I will be ganking random questers from different servers that I will never see again, who usually don’t even fight back. I don’t care if I am outnumbered 10 to 1 against the other faction, and I dont’t care if there is too many or too little people…Let me play with the players I recognize. The pl…

Leaving again SHARDING

Sorry to say I have to Quit WOW again. I was a Vanilla player who returned during MOP. I currently play on Emerald Dream RP realm. Despite having a cool RP guild to play with the recent uptick in sharding on my realm is killing it for me. Sharding overall I feel has destroyed the game. I’m tired of seeing people from other servers. Also even with sharding and cross realm it takes for ever to get dungeons and BG’s. I feel sharding has been implemented to make servers look more populated. It’s tru…

WPVP/RPPVP communities ruined

As a player who has played on RPPVP realms since '05, the systems which have been implemented in the past couple expansions have led to me seeing more people from these communities leave the game than all previous xpacs combined. Prior to sharding/crz and warmode being implemented, these servers used to have very active and strong communities. Guilds would coordinate attacks and defenses as well as several month long campaigns involving multiple guilds on both factions and they could last for s…

Genuine Inquiry Regarding Sharding

Unlike some of you checking out this forum post, I started playing in Wrath of the Lich King (WoTLK). Although I never had a “vanilla” experience of World of Warcraft, I am very excited to play, and my friends and I are working with each passing day to gather people and prepare things for our guild. As the years progressed from WoTLK to the current expansion there is no doubt that Blizzard has made a lot of changes, some of which the community adored and found absolutely riveting – while other …