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

[Fallanaa-area-52 (Fallanaa)]

If Blizzard takes the easy way out of this with sharding its dead on arrival and we’ll go back to emulators.

Bye Felicia.

[Oriendaria-medivh (Oriendaria)]

Glad sharding is a thing for now, people that did this purposely crashed the servers for giggles. No thanks.

[Dumbelldore-stormrage (Dumbelldore)]

You must feel real witty with that response don’t you? In reality you look like a moron putting their faith in the hands of Activision who’s just looking to milk you for money. You people are a joke.

[Cheater-azjolnerub (Cheater)]

This type of a thing happened only a few times ever, and never on most servers.

So does that mean we should allow an epic event to be gutted by sharding?

The fact that they only rarely happened is part of what made things like this so epic in the first place.

Getting 300 people to collaborate on anything is an epic achievement.

Just because an epic event was rare, doesn’t mean we should allow sharding to ruin it.

What’s worse than a thing being rare? Something being impossible.

[Fallanaa-area-52 (Fallanaa)]

What’s really a joke is you people and your “We’ll just go back to private servers”, as if it matters at all, or as if you weren’t going to do that anyway. It’s laughable that you think that you’re that important.

Trust me, the game will go on just fine without you and your meaningless threats.

[Fesz-cenarius]

Trust me.

The game will go on just fine without all those players who want to play a solo game in a multiplayer environment and expect Blizzard to remove all those obstacles (all those other players in an MMO) in their way.

IMO, the game will likely be far better without that kind of attitude and mindset.

[Fallanaa-area-52 (Fallanaa)]

The beautiful thing is that with everything they’ve said and done so far, that isn’t the attitude (or direction) they are taking, so gritch and complain all you like, keep trying to bring up things to stalk and harass me, but mark my words…

Blizzard at this point, appears to be giving me (and people like me) EXACTLY what we want.

[Fesz-cenarius]

That remains to be seen.

Sharding is not a definite at this point.

I expect that people with that kind of attitude will not last long, though… Players with that kind of attitude will be called out quickly for their behavior and will be on many blacklists. Their friends lists will likely be beyond anorexic. They will likely have a difficult time finding any guild that will accept them. I expect that they will have trouble finding any open spots even in 5 man pugs, let alone raid spots.

They may even find themselves right-click reported into the oblivion of silence.

[Ziryus-doomhammer (Ziryus)]

The game will go on just fine without all those players who want to play a solo game in a multiplayer environment and expect Blizzard to remove all those obstacles (all those other players in an MMO) in their way.

And the game will go on just fine without all those people who want routine server crashes and days on downtime.

[Fallanaa-area-52 (Fallanaa)]

I did just fine for over 13 years in the game. Was never on any server blacklist, still have friends I speak to from my Vanilla days.

We’ll be just fine. The hard part is for all those stuck in 2004 to join the rest of us in the present. They won’t last and will return to their private servers before long.

[Fesz-cenarius]

The game will go on just fine without all those players who want to play a solo game in a multiplayer environment and expect Blizzard to remove all those obstacles (all those other players in an MMO) in their way.

And the game will go on just fine without all those people who want routine server crashes and days on downtime.

Ziryus is right on time with his continuing push for classic to be as far from vanilla as possible. No surprise here, folks.

[Ziryus-doomhammer (Ziryus)]

The game will go on just fine without all those players who want to play a solo game in a multiplayer environment and expect Blizzard to remove all those obstacles (all those other players in an MMO) in their way.

And the game will go on just fine without all those people who want routine server crashes and days on downtime.

Ziryus is right on time with his continuing push for classic to be as far from vanilla as possible. No surprise here, folks.

Yep i do not want servers crashing randomly and going down for days I do not want insane queue times and I do not want a glut of servers added that ultimately just results in dead servers.

So yes I actually care about classic and not just trying to relive the past.

[Mogar-stormrage (Mogar)]

You didn’t want Classic either. How’d that work out for you?

[Ziryus-doomhammer (Ziryus)]

You didn’t want Classic either. How’d that work out for you?

Hmm… i always specifically said I would play classic and did want it if it happened

[Fesz-cenarius]

The game will go on just fine without all those players who want to play a solo game in a multiplayer environment and expect Blizzard to remove all those obstacles (all those other players in an MMO) in their way.

And the game will go on just fine without all those people who want routine server crashes and days on downtime.

Ziryus is right on time with his continuing push for classic to be as far from vanilla as possible. No surprise here, folks.

Yep i do not want servers crashing randomly and going down for days I do not want insane queue times and I do not want a glut of servers added that ultimately just results in dead servers.

So yes I actually care about classic and not just trying to relive the past.

The forums are wise to you now.

This is not about queues or sever crashes to you.

You do not want anything even resembling Classic.

If those who have been, for over a decade, requesting Blizzard provide a truer Classic experience are in favor of something, you are against it. It makes no difference what it is. It only matters to you that those desiring a truer classic experience want it, and therefore you oppose it.

[Mogar-stormrage (Mogar)]

Yeah, I’m sure someone who openly criticizes and mocks people for wanting Legacy server definitely wanted them himself. As Fesz says, people are on to you and your agenda. Now that Classic is being made, the tactics are now trying to sabotage the project.

Thankfully the devs aren’t following the advice of such trolls. My hope is sharding is something they didn’t take the time to really think through and perhaps rethink, or come up with a better solution, or…something. Even Ion admits it’s antithetical to the Classic experience of community and social interaction. It’s not a great way to introduce people to the game by rendering those values as obsolete.

[Galdor-maelstrom (Galdor)]

Not following through with that New Years resolution very well, are you?