Sharding < Server Crash

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I really want to see a lot of people in one area. Especially at the start. If sharding is implemented and all I see are like ~15 people in Northshire on launch, I will die.

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Rest in peace my son.

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As much as I would love to see crazy, PC crashing goodness, I have a feeling we are doomed to being sharded through level 10 ish :frowning:

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Newsflash: When the servers are down you don’t actually see ANYONE in the game. All you see is a crash screen or a stuck load screen.

I’m in favor of sharding, but only to prevent server crashes.

Modern infrastructure is better than it was in Vanilla. I expect zones to be able to accommodate hundreds of people at the same time. If sharding is done so that zones only have 10-15 people then the sharding is waaaaaay too aggressive.

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even with sharding the areas will be full as it will only make a new shard if whats already there meets whatever number cap they put on the area. seriously though i hope they are doing it for all the areas before lvl 30 or there will be 20 people fighting over every mob lol.

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Dumbest stance in all of classic wow sub forum right here boys. Right next to people asking for Lfr.

HEY INSTEAD OF THIS SHARDING THING THAT WILL BE LOCKED TO A CERTAIN ZONE FOR A LIMITED TIME…

LETS JUST MAKE SURE NO ONE CAN PLAY LOL

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I would rather have sharding, and have it where we all get to actually play.
Than no sharding, and NO ONE gets to play.

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How will you feel when you see 4000? When you can’t tell where you are because you’re awash in a sea of blue names and you can’t even see the ground?

You’re expecting Retail Sharding. Some of us are trying to convince Blizzard to use high population sharding, with 200-500 people in the zone (at least 400 before it shards into two, under 300 and reforms).

Sharding doesn’t have to be a tiny population. All the “You MUST not use it!!!” people are basically pessimists saying that there won’t be much interest, otherwise they’d realise how impossible a situation it is.

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I’m betting it’s going to be more like level 20ish…unfortunately :frowning:

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Hopefully only the Barrens. Maybe Westfall if everyone has no RP culture, and rolls Human.

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Let’s hope not. That would pluck away at the community aspect too late in the game. I can see starting areas and secondaries, like Northshire Abby and Elwynn, anything more than that just goes too far.

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If Blizzard do use sharding for the first few starter zones do you think it will stop there? Of course not, Blizzard lie and lie a lot, they would use it every time a lot of people are in one area. Blizzard cloud servers cannot handle any amount of people in one area, just look at BfA and how bad it is with ability and loot lag.

What is to stop Blizzard using sharding at events like the opening of AQ gates or the release of Naxx etc People need to really think before they ask for something.

Sharding and CRZ is why i stopped playing BfA, it’s gone overboard and killed my enjoyment for the game, it’s killed server communities and having sharding in Classic isn’t authentic.

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RIP then my friend.

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Oh I love these posts.

Give me an instance on where they lied on something like this.

Let’s just start there and see if you can make it past this point then I’ll touch on all the other nonsense you said.

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Blizzard from MoP > “CRZ will not be used in current content”

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I call dibs on Tukaw’s loot.

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Prepare to die.

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Incorrect.

When cross realm zones were announced during Mists of Pandaria they specifically stated that it will not be turned on in the ‘Pandaeria zones’. They never they it will never be used in current content. They said it won’t be used in Mist of Pandaeria content, and for the time of MoP it wasn’t ever turned on.

You need me to source that for you? I can, but if I were you I would be thinking of a different lie that they said so I can prove you wrong again.

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According to whom? Are you from the future?

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According to all the panels and how they described it? You can argue that we don’t know how long or what zones, but they 100% said it was going to be limited in this way.

Keep up son.

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