This epic video proves why sharding will kill the community that we all want in classic

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There’s going to be World PvP in the first two or three days of launch? You realize you don’t get flagged in starting zones, right?

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If you give blizzard cough I mean activision an inch they’ll take a mile. I guarantee if sharding gets into the game it will be in the ENTIRE world.

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I like how you change the facts of the argument to attempt to bolster your position.

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Lol I would LOVE for that to be what happens, I am just saying that if there are those over things it is going to be seen as bad as well, hence why I said they really can’t win.

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I’ll take your guarantee with a grain of salt, random stranger on the internet who is not affiliated with Blizzard in any way.

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Oh yes, I played Vanilla. Look at my achievements and you will see my level 60 Master Sergeant PvP title.

And what we did on my realm back then when an area was contgested was group up to help each other out instead of people trying to ninja a mob or wait in long lines. I know teamwork and cooperation is sadly lost to many these days.

And I did form long lasting friendships in the game back then in those starter zones due to people grouping up and doing quests together to avoid waiting in long lines.

Don’t make the mistake of pretending to know what my experience was like during Vanilla or that I don’t know how it is when there are mass amounts of people. I know full well what it’s like and I would prefer that congestion any day as opposed to community breaking sharding.

It isn’t my fault if many here obviously don’t know how to be a team player, and work together with your fellow gamers and the game should not cater to those who don’t want to bother with others being around doing the same thing as you are doing. There are plenty single player RPG’s out there. Maybe those would be better suited to those who obviously don’t like the mmo part of mmorpg.

This new gaming culture has become selfish, greedy and every man for themselves. We have modern WoW to thank for that.

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Then you must have bought that account because what you’re describing? Did. Not. Happen.

You need teamwork to do instances or elite world quests. You don’t need teamwork to kill a couple of kobolds or imps at level 3.

Oh, I know you. I’m wise to you, friend-o. You’re a poser.

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I bought the account?! Lmao. You are hilarious :rofl:

This account actually got hacked back during the BC - Wrath period when I was unsubbed. When I came back to the game way later and realized I had been hacked I was quite upset and started fresh on a new account. Over the years I missed my original account and called Blizzard. After giving them all my info they proved that I had been hacked and restored this old account. If you notice many of my achievements like “Dreadsteed of Xoroth” are dated 2016. That’s when I got the account back. That wasn’t possible to get in 2016. Since it had been many years since I had played the account, some achievements got lost and others were dated the day I got the account back. Blizzard even gave me a free week to play around on the account.

What I described did happen on my realm more times than not. Maybe you were the issue in Vanilla when you played back then and didn’t understand how to work with others? Sorry, but that’s a you problem, not a game problem.

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good video man. reminds me of old ironforge and some of the “only this class” ony videos.

wow man that was awesome.

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It happened all the time in Vanilla, but you have to be somewhat open to the experience. It’s no surprise prosharding people who view other players as obstacles never experienced such things.

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Will you ever post something that isn’t a passive-aggressive jab at people that have the intelligence to understand why Blizzard is considering sharding?

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You are exactly right. It seems to be a pretty common pattern here.

What I described did happen a lot on my realm back then. I remember waiting with a group for a mob to spawn and having conversations, in turn forming friendships. More times than not, if I went to an area and people were around waiting for a quest mob, either they would invite me to their group or I would ask to join. I would always return that favor if I was the one waiting when someone else came. I would always invite others so they didn’t have to wait. Then another person would come, and another, we would invite them all.

It just seems to me that many want to play an mmo, but with a single player experience. Maybe we should give the option to put these players in their own private shard like Guild Wars does.

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They have that option already. It’s called Battle for Azeroth. :smile:

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Battle for Azeroth seems more like your kind of game, considering you’re a solo player and the only group content you do is random BG’s.

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i for one understand why they are thinking about doing it. i just dont agree with it for exactly this reason from the OP.

adding in sharding is antithetical to the vanilla experience and if something like what the op posted happened, it would get sharded before it could even exist.

if you think they will use it just for the first week or two and only in the starting areas (if it even works that way that they can shard only some areas and not all areas) you will probably be sorely mistaken.

we people against sharding dont want it in at all so they cant say well we had to shard this or that later on.

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You going to show the videos of the aq40 or BC launch? When there was so much lag everyone crashed every 10 seconds? Or when there were 100 people all trying to tag the same quest mob or loot the same 5 objects?

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TBC launch was every single player in one area. Classic launch has six starting areas.

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Let’s make a deal. If they use sharding and down the line decide to use it again for the AQ gate event or another similar situation, I will post an apology thread to everyone who was telling me Blizzard would do this.

If they use sharding and it’s a one time, short event that doesn’t last more than a week or two, you create a thread apologizing to Blizzard and everyone who understood and accepted their reasoning for sharding.

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sure thing. i will say i was wrong if they dont do it at the aq event or other things like cities.

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Are you saying that if Blizzard even once uses sharding on any server outside of the starting areas or beyond the first week or two, you will post an apology thread admitting that we were right all along and Blizzard could not be trusted to honor their word?

I’ll believe that when I see the apology thread.

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