Temporary Sharding

[Fateweaver-misha (Fateweaver)]

@Katerina-mannoroth

If they set aside server assets for a concurrency of 100,000 players and no sharding, only for a Million players to turn up to play on launch day, they have a major problem.

Sharding can address it, everybody possibly gets in(as they make use of BfA server assets via sharding, as undoubtedly, most of that Million came from BfA), and the substantial % of “tourists” in that Million Player rush can get their handful of time in seeing the sights (and corpse runs) before realizing it isn’t for them and logging out for the last time in a long while to come.

Meanwhile, without sharding, everybody except the lucky intial group, is sitting in queue and Blizzard is freaking out about how to address the massive login queue…

More fear-mongering from the pro-sharding apologists.

EDIT: Yet MORE fear-mongerin…

@Twidget-wyrmrest-accord

How does it feel to be 1 of 1000 people in the starting zone when you can’t move, get constantly dc’ed, get to watch rubberbanding for an hour instead of actually getting something done?

Temporary sharding of the starter zones will be fine, and at this point, if anyone wants to get anything done at all for the first week is going to be REQUIRED.

@Galdor-maelstrom

Would you rather they launch with five times as many servers, and three months down the road merge them? Would you like to see four other players with your name and various server identifiers attached to them? Eg: Galdor-Maelstrom, Galdor-Stormrage; Galdor-Thrall, Galdor-Sargeras.

@Twidget-wyrmrest-accord

it is going to crawl at a snails pace for days. But you just keep decrying Sharding and we can all sit around with our thumbs up our butts on launch day because the servers will be so bogged down we wont be able to move.

@Twidget-wyrmrest-accord

If you think we are going to be able to do ANYTHING without sharding for the first week you are completely out of your minds.

Enjoy your dc’s and frozen servers.

@Fallanaa-area-52

Sharding launch areas is a necessary evil.