Classic world PvP:
Private server world PvP:
Words fail to describe at how pathetic this makes a company with several billion dollars worth of resources, more money stashed away in tax havens than several European countries produce in GDP put together, and yet somehow they manage to fail at getting a 15-year-old game to run at anywhere near remotely presentable levels of quality assurance.
Stack on top of that the huge amount of bugs on the bug-report forums that are going unaddressed (even when phase 2 is less than a week away), blizzard here is failing to meet the quality of service set by people with far less resources, way less staff, and in much less time than blizzard has had.
The fact that a few Europeans living in their mom’s basement could run provide higher-quality servers than blizzard, a billion-dollar company, can is unbelievable.
Professional-quality servers that can deliver the experience that private servers provided cost around $400 USD/month. Spend the extra money blizzard and provide the players with a blizzard-quality experience.
It may hurt a few millionaire’s salaries, but it will be a worthy investment in the long run.
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no big surprise here…activision is a toxic cancer that ruins everything it touches.
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They haven’t even released phase 2 yet and you’re crying already?
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Private servers have a few hundred or thousand accounts on them. They are run as a hobby and the community around them fully supports the operation.
Blizz has to face a public of millions including any malcontents who choose to get involved in the hackz.
It’s like comparing a small private party to a rock concert in an arena.
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What do you mean by that? World PvP is already unplayable. What makes you think releasing honor is going to fix anything? Haha.
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You said a mouthful, because private servers don’t have to provide commercial quality. They are free to skip on security, data validation, cheat protection, and all those silly things that take up overhead.
I wish people would stop pretending this is a good thing.
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‘This isn’t a blizzard quality game’
posts video of private server with none of the background systems slowing down the game as evidence
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Do you even know how many compromises the Nostalrius team made to allow those events to occur unhindered by lag? Not to mention, Nostalrius wasn’t running a secure server.
It has nothing to do with the quality of the server hardware. If you think the old Xeon that Nostalrius was using is better than Blizzard’s hardware…
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This would be interesting to unravel.
Obviously, what you mean by higher-quality servers is a gaming experience without the lag that you are experiencing on Blizzard’s servers.
However, the code bases being compared are different. Also, is there any doubt that Blizzard produced the vast majority of the code, (minus the server-side scripts, etc. that would be used on pservers for a lot of npc encounters, behavior, etc.) that would have run on these private servers.
What precisely is it you are claiming that is the issue with the quality of Blizzard’s servers, and what are you claiming would be remedied by them using different servers? This has be curious.
You get the very thing old players have always wanted and still complain…
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Well, if you get those servers from the future, they won’t be as limited in every step of data transfer, since technology will bring better throughput.
This seems like a “Tony Stark, in a cave, with a box of scraps” situation…
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my cryptocurrency mining rigs and mining pool servers would handle more then wow current servers.
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Possibly raw processing power. Probably not concurrent connections. People act like ‘my wristwatch has more power than a 1960’s mainframe’ but their wristwatch only has a tiny display and maybe a touchscreen of I/O to service.
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older style wristwatches from 1960 were a most likely just a brick/rock.
Blizzard make 100000x more money then me and i bet without a doubt im setups would kill bizzards servers in performance.
Maybe we really needed changes . Like instant mail . LFG tags on characters even instead of the spam it till you make it mess.
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All I see if a bunch of people spamming AOE in both videos.
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need LFD that fix game quality and uncross some lines mixed with candy rush.
Im surprised solitaire wasn’t add to slow people down with content.
Private Servers will always be/hold/museum piece when it come to vanilla. Blizzards version on classic dont even authentic vanilla only private servers/piritebay has the true vanilla copy that blizzard should of gave us.
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His tears will flow like a river.