11/02/2018 09:41 AMPosted by Zenshigen<span class="truncated">...</span>
One of the biggest draws of classic is being a part of a persistent, shared virtual world. What you see is what is actually there. There’s no phasing or sharding.
Adding sharding to “improve” the experience contradicts that spirit on a fundamental level.
If you cannot play the game there is no experience friend, have you been to any recent expansion launch? Even with phashing and sharding its laggy.
A temporary phenomenon at worst. Some people will complain. There will be a sea of orcs in the valley of trials, taking hours to pick apples and whip the lazy peons and disconnecting and not being able to log in for a time. Servers will crash and burn.
But it will be glorious. It would be a travesty to use sharding to try to smooth that out. This is a unique moment in gaming history. Don’t advocate its ruination.