And they offered free transfers to those servers, it didn’t work out so well.
open them before they become a problem. no sharding.
So basically the inverse of server mergers, but doesn’t that also fracture the community?
not what i’m saying. if you notice a trend of people starting to join classic plan it out and launch servers accordingly.
for example if i have 20 servers with an average of 1800 people on each server.
and i notice they start going up at a rate of around 50 a week, i know that in a month or so it might be a good idea to open a new server.
That process is too slow though and it’s something did in fact try in vanilla. It basically failed for two reasons, first people wanted to be on high pop servers and second the huge bulk of players will join in the initial rush not as a slow trickle afterwards.
Didn’t one of the FF games try to force people onto specific servers and it sucked because people couldn’t play with their friends?
so they should be ready for that initial rush. i don’t care what tehy have to do, find how many people actually plan to play classic wow and go from there.
i am not moving on my stance ziryus, no sharding in classic. period. end of discussion.
it inflates how much gold people have.
it inflates the number of resources on a server.
it reduces the likelyhood of random player interactions.
Honestly, I’ve read about every post in this thread, including yours. You didn’t bring much to the table, other than ‘it’s coming and deal with it’. At least a shill will try to sell you on why X is better. So how can you not be perceived as a troll?
I’m a #nochanger in spirit, which means I’ll support Classic authenticity at every turn. I was in open beta and launch in 2004, so I know from personal experience what we may come to expect.
Permanent sharding beyond the starting area, which is what you are advocating for, is not going to get really any traction. You may have some #nochanges players who claim they will unsub if ANY form of sharding is introduced, and I’m sure they exist as well as those that are bluffing(rightfully so), but you can bet anything beyond starting area is not a bluff.
Anybody with half a brain knows that perma-sharding, particularly beyond starting area, is really trying to cater to a different target audience. After all, I don’t see anybody threatening to unsub if they DON’T introduce perma-sharding. Are you going to be the first?
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Realistically as Ion said there will be a huge initial rush especially with shared sub, there is no way to predict how many will actually stay.
Lol when economy is the best argument you can come up with… you really have no argument. And someone on a different server is also someone that guess what, you won’t be interacting with.
i’m not saying how many will come with the initial rush. that is what sharding at launch is for.
i am saying how many will stick around. how many people want to actually long term play classic.
economy is not the only argument. it is just one of many.
the fact is that sharding is anti vanilla, anti community, and it does in fact effect the economy. just because you want to say that its still a net zero means zero, because i can force whatever extra resource i need just by flooding whatever zone is needed with bodies.
food for thought.
this is very well said.
I’ve already said I hope servers stabilize to that perfect 25.3K number we had in vanilla, the question is what happens if they don’t.
While maybe a little academic, this discussion really hinges on one thing- Blizz sees sharding as cost effective. You can argue about new technology all you want but they will implement sharding. The only question is to what extent.
#permshard
Perm shard = lost money.
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Please just stop replying to the guy.
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You can’t possibly know this.
PS- thanks for the bump Gnocci
Yes I do. Because I’ll unsub. Lost money. And I’m hardly the only one.
This is why arguing with people on this forum is just dumb. So you will unsub, ok. So will others, great.
But there could be people who offset your “unsub.” There is a very distinct possibility that everyone who throws fits about change never unsub. My hypothesis is that the number of no-changers will, in reality be so small compared to everyone playing on the classic server and not caring about this trivial stuff some of you do.
If this forum, Reddit, and other forums are anything to go by, perm sharding would mean the unsubs would be in droves
Compared to what?
Until you factor in some possibilities like:
1- Talk is cheap and a big portion of thosepeople won’t actually quit
2- While it seems like soooo many people hate perm sharding, you really discount what I truly think is the silent Majority- the people who could care less about any of this stuff and will just play the game in any form-