How so? We’ve known for a long time they are using the modern architecture and that they didn’t want to intentionally recreate problems caused by technical limitations.
how so what? how did they move the goal posts?
when they originally said they were making classic they said no sharding/crz/phasing.
we have since moved to using sharding at launch. how is that not moving the goal posts?
and what is to prevent them from just making sharding permanent?
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He was talking about cross realm sharding not sharding within the same server.
your wrong. first word right there says server.
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They said that before Blizcon. They probably realised due to the response from the demo that they had to pivot slightly due to all the interest. So the goalpost did move but it was after new information and they gave you a reason and some parameters as to why.
You dont have to like it but it does make sense.
so the goal posts moved. whats to prevent them from moving them again?
with the exception of people making it abundantly clear that they will leave unless it gets removed.
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No the first word says different. different [server] sharding options
Sharding can be used for two things, dealing with overpopulation on a single realm and bringing together multiple realms due to under population.
He was referring to the latter not the former along with all other cross realm things.
People are really trying to justify this by saying J. Allen Brack doesn’t know the difference between sharding and CRZ? LOL.
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thats called CRZ or Joined Servers. not sharding.
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CRZ’s are a form of sharding, yeah the one you correctly bolded in my post.
We’ll have to wait and see!!! I think they will do the right thing and im giving them the benefit of the doubt.
if that is the case, explain why
he mentioned CRZ specifically and then sharding?
if both are sharding why would he need to mention CRZ at all? oh. because its not the same thing.
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i’d give them the benefit of the doubt but they burned that bridge already.
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Except they don’t.
But then, it’s you we’re talking about.
You’ve been pretty anti-vanilla since the beginning.
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There’s no other reaction than to simply laugh. That troll has officially gone of the deep end. He’s not even worth acknowledgement anymore.
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I really don’t care enough to nit pick about a handful of words with no other explanation.
What’s far more relevant is that blizzard is aware that there are potentially going to be massive issues at launch because of tourists and are trying to account for it so launch doesn’t suck.
If you have a better suggestion than sharding make it.
Yeah hours long queue times were a total non issue and occasionally seeing a random person appear or disappear sucks far more.
i mean your the one who was proven wrong earlier and then tried the same argument again. only to get proven wrong again.
i think the simplest solutions would be easy.
- split subs or a relatively cheap box cost for classic.
- launch classic on same day as a major retail content patch.
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would do absolutely nothing.edit-- ok minimal effect
would have a very minor effect, both of these based on the assumption that Classic will be such a colossal failure that returning players will somehow be outnumbered by the much smaller player source of current players who actually want install and play.
Well split subs is definitely not happening at this point, and wouldn’t necessarily fix anything with the launch.
Which addresses two, you’re assuming the only tourists will be from people with current retail subs.