Since everyone seems to have forgotten, why SHARDING is on the table: by Ion Hazzikostas

[Matcauthon-steamwheedle-cartel (Matcauthon)]

At this point, I feel as though I have a better claim to the “Classic Community” badge than they do cos I’m not trying to attack people for advocating behind-the-scenes stuff that’ll help ensure the game doesn’t stumble at launch, which’ll attract all the wrong kinds of attention.

I’m with you there. There are absolutely ZERO negatives to sharding the launch. The fear-mongers want people to think there is, but there really isn’t. Especially since sharding doesn’t affect zone chat, so you can still talk to people to group up for quests/dungeons/etc.

But don’t dare say sharding the launch is a good thing, you’ll be harassed and attacked mercilessly. Especially by shaman and warrior posters. They seem to be the most egregious offenders.

sharding launch is okay with most of us. but what we don’t want is sharding creeping past a few weeks and low level zones.

Laeric literally wants sharding used anytime their would be queues.

[Laeric-wyrmrest-accord]

The only way sharding could ever NOT be needed is if we don’t have enough players playing Classic to replicate the effects suffered in the original game.

Since we have no way of knowing whether we will or not, I’d rather err on the side of caution and make this one friggin’ concession to Blizzard. They know their servers better than we do, and to me, actually having access to the game I’m paying for is more important than the feelings of a few elitists who’d probably turn and moan about the WoW: Classic logo on the login screen, or the “Patch 1.13” number, for “not being authentic.”

[Thundertotem-blackwater-raiders (Thundertotem)]

But don’t dare say sharding the launch is a good thing, you’ll be harassed and attacked mercilessly. Especially by shaman and warrior posters. They seem to be the most egregious offenders.

Hey now…

[Nightglade-wyrmrest-accord]

I’m jaded and I don’t trust them to turn it off after the launch.

[Tracerr-stormrage]

It didn’t On my server it crippled play the entire time. For everyone, not just that zone.

It didn’t survive it at all.

[Slendy-sargeras]

Sharding is a big yikes

[Dawnspirit-wyrmrest-accord]

there’s ANY hint of qeue times

You know FFXIV has queue times right? Never hear anyone complaining about that.

The fear-mongers want people to think there is, but there really isn’t.

I mean you complain when people personally attack you, then you blanket attack everyone that doesn’t agree with you.