if you actually watched the Dev panels.. and interviews.
Sharding is on the table for LAUNCH ONLY IN STARTER ZONES. (week or two).
The it will be gone...
This will have no affect on Wpvp or world raid bosses after the initial rush.. All these replies about how this will kill WPVP and sharding over world bosses are completely inaccurate.
I am not a fan of sharding, but its 2 weeks tops.
The amount of miss information on these forums is crazy.
Sharding will not be in Classic past launch. They are using it to keep the servers functional during the first couple weeks of launch.
11/04/2018 12:25 PMPosted by KharisAC430DSharding is on the table for LAUNCH ONLY IN STARTER ZONES. (week or two).
And crossrealm was only for BGs on low/slanted pop servers.
11/04/2018 12:25 PMPosted by KharisAC430Dif you actually watched the Dev panels.. and interviews.
Sharding is on the table for LAUNCH ONLY IN STARTER ZONES. (week or two).
The it will be gone...
This will have no affect on Wpvp or world raid bosses after the initial rush.. All these replies about how this will kill WPVP and sharding over world bosses are completely inaccurate.
I am not a fan of sharding, but its 2 weeks tops.
The amount of miss information on these forums is crazy.
Sharding will not be in Classic past launch. They are using it to keep the servers functional during the first couple weeks of launch.
>It's only Alpha, they'll fix it
>It's only Beta, they'll fix it
>It's only Prepatch, they'll fix it
>It's only Release, they'll fix it
>It's only first month, they'll fix it
>It's only x.1, they'll fix it
>It's only x.1.5,they'll fix it
>It's only x.2, they'll fix it
>Expansions over, they'll fix it
>Its only Alpha...
11/04/2018 12:25 PMPosted by KharisAC430DSharding is on the table for LAUNCH ONLY IN STARTER ZONES. (week or two).
Can blue please confirm this? Otherwise it's just wishful thinking.
11/04/2018 12:28 PMPosted by Orodon11/04/2018 12:25 PMPosted by KharisAC430Dif you actually watched the Dev panels.. and interviews.
Sharding is on the table for LAUNCH ONLY IN STARTER ZONES. (week or two).
The it will be gone...
This will have no affect on Wpvp or world raid bosses after the initial rush.. All these replies about how this will kill WPVP and sharding over world bosses are completely inaccurate.
I am not a fan of sharding, but its 2 weeks tops.
The amount of miss information on these forums is crazy.
Sharding will not be in Classic past launch. They are using it to keep the servers functional during the first couple weeks of launch.
>It's only Alpha, they'll fix it
>It's only Beta, they'll fix it
>It's only Prepatch, they'll fix it
>It's only Release, they'll fix it
>It's only first month, they'll fix it
>It's only x.1, they'll fix it
>It's only x.1.5,they'll fix it
>It's only x.2, they'll fix it
>Expansions over, they'll fix it
>Its only Alpha...
Well, they just string you along as long as they can, they've been doing it for a decade and have become fairly efficient at manipulating the consumer base, keeping the cash flowing in. They make it so easy that I don't even need to have my own opinion anymore, they have one to spoon feed me all ready to go!
11/04/2018 12:28 PMPosted by Shuffix11/04/2018 12:25 PMPosted by KharisAC430DSharding is on the table for LAUNCH ONLY IN STARTER ZONES. (week or two).
Can blue please confirm this? Otherwise it's just wishful thinking.
Or you could go look up the panel and see it came from Ian's mouth...
11/04/2018 12:28 PMPosted by Shuffix11/04/2018 12:25 PMPosted by KharisAC430DSharding is on the table for LAUNCH ONLY IN STARTER ZONES. (week or two).
Can blue please confirm this? Otherwise it's just wishful thinking.
Not wishful thinking. This is what THEY SAID in both panels. Go watch them.. sheesh.
11/04/2018 12:28 PMPosted by Orodon>It's only Alpha, they'll fix it
>It's only Beta, they'll fix it
>It's only Prepatch, they'll fix it
>It's only Release, they'll fix it
>It's only first month, they'll fix it
>It's only x.1, they'll fix it
>It's only x.1.5,they'll fix it
>It's only x.2, they'll fix it
>Expansions over, they'll fix it
>Its only Alpha...
>Insert NPC meme
11/04/2018 12:33 PMPosted by Kiereco11/04/2018 12:28 PMPosted by Orodon>It's only Alpha, they'll fix it
>It's only Beta, they'll fix it
>It's only Prepatch, they'll fix it
>It's only Release, they'll fix it
>It's only first month, they'll fix it
>It's only x.1, they'll fix it
>It's only x.1.5,they'll fix it
>It's only x.2, they'll fix it
>Expansions over, they'll fix it
>Its only Alpha...
>Insert NPC meme
:^|
11/04/2018 12:25 PMPosted by KharisAC430Dif you actually watched the Dev panels.. and interviews.
Sharding is on the table for LAUNCH ONLY IN STARTER ZONES. (week or two).
The it will be gone...
This will have no affect on Wpvp or world raid bosses after the initial rush.. All these replies about how this will kill WPVP and sharding over world bosses are completely inaccurate.
I am not a fan of sharding, but its 2 weeks tops.
The amount of miss information on these forums is crazy.
Sharding will not be in Classic past launch. They are using it to keep the servers functional during the first couple weeks of launch.
And if you actually paid attention to how sharding was supposed to be implemented, it's was only supposed to apply to previous expansion areas in Legion. But it ended up everywhere.
Blizzard are masters of saying on thing and doing another.
They didn't say anything definitive, they only said they are definitely sharding at launch, and plan to . . . . (do whatever they want after) etc..
11/04/2018 12:37 PMPosted by SlientknightThey didn't say anything definitive, they only said they are definitely sharding at launch, and plan to . . . . (do whatever they want after) etc..
Nope. Watch the last panel q and a.
He said it would only be a couple weeks tops.
Sure, it's just a demo. But if you don't express unhappiness with aspects of the demo you don't like, why would Blizzard change them? "No one complained about sharding, they must love it!"
If we all shut up about it now, when it makes it into Tarren mill south shore months after launch and shards us you will be there to pay off the subs of everyone who you are talking down to right?11/04/2018 12:40 PMPosted by KharisAC430D11/04/2018 12:37 PMPosted by SlientknightThey didn't say anything definitive, they only said they are definitely sharding at launch, and plan to . . . . (do whatever they want after) etc..
Nope. Watch the last panel q and a.
He said it would only be a couple weeks tops.
We have valid reason to doubt them on this, look at how it happened in live, and they DID NOT definitively say it would be removed in a couple of weeks tops.
11/04/2018 12:46 PMPosted by FránchiIf we all shut up about it now, when it makes it into Tarren mill south shore months after launch and shards us you will be there to pay off the subs of everyone who you are talking down to right?11/04/2018 12:40 PMPosted by KharisAC430D...
Nope. Watch the last panel q and a.
He said it would only be a couple weeks tops.
We have valid reason to doubt them on this, look at how it happened in live, and they DID NOT definitively say it would be removed in a couple of weeks tops.
https://youtu.be/Q-GobXQTf6w?t=89
Watch the video.. Sharding is ONLY for launch and start zones.
From the horses mouth.
11/04/2018 12:25 PMPosted by KharisAC430Dif you actually watched the Dev panels.. and interviews.
Sharding is on the table for LAUNCH ONLY IN STARTER ZONES. (week or two).
The it will be gone...
This will have no affect on Wpvp or world raid bosses after the initial rush.. All these replies about how this will kill WPVP and sharding over world bosses are completely inaccurate.
I am not a fan of sharding, but its 2 weeks tops.
The amount of miss information on these forums is crazy.
Sharding will not be in Classic past launch. They are using it to keep the servers functional during the first couple weeks of launch.
Ion clearly said server community is one of the most important things they are trying to preserve, and so the sharding will only happen in starter zones at launch.
But that doesn't matter, people just want something to be angry at.
These same people forget the server cap used to be 5k people (probably because they've only ever played on private servers).
So those nost screenshots with thousands of people were not possible on "authentic" blizz servers. The caps were too low. WIth "authentic" vanilla servers we would need either 100 servers at-launch, or wait in 5hr Q's.
Can't have your cake and eat it too. I remember sitting in 2-hr Q's to login to Durotan in 2005 to raid. I left the server over it I was so mad. Every freaking night, 1-2hr Q's. and DONT DISCONNECT! HO-BOY, you won't be back before raid ends.
They have clearly stated that having no xrealm or sharding is a core part of the vanilla experience, and that sharding is only for at-launch load-leveling.
11/04/2018 12:49 PMPosted by Kooka11/04/2018 12:25 PMPosted by KharisAC430Dif you actually watched the Dev panels.. and interviews.
Sharding is on the table for LAUNCH ONLY IN STARTER ZONES. (week or two).
The it will be gone...
This will have no affect on Wpvp or world raid bosses after the initial rush.. All these replies about how this will kill WPVP and sharding over world bosses are completely inaccurate.
I am not a fan of sharding, but its 2 weeks tops.
The amount of miss information on these forums is crazy.
Sharding will not be in Classic past launch. They are using it to keep the servers functional during the first couple weeks of launch.
Ion clearly said server community is one of the most important things they are trying to preserve, and so the sharding will only happen in starter zones at launch.
But that doesn't matter, people just want something to be angry at.
These same people forget the server cap used to be 5k people (probably because they've only ever played on private servers).
So those nost screenshots with thousands of people were not possible on "authentic" blizz servers. The caps were too low. WIth "authentic" vanilla servers we would need either 100 servers at-launch, or wait in 5hr Q's.
Can't have your cake and eat it too. I remember sitting in 2-hr Q's to login to Durotan in 2005 to raid. I left the server over it I was so mad. Every freaking night, 1-2hr Q's. and DONT DISCONNECT! HO-BOY, you won't be back before raid ends.
They have clearly stated that having no xrealm or sharding is a core part of the vanilla experience, and that sharding is only for at-launch load-leveling.
Yup .. so many ppl freaking over WRONG information.
I'll post it again so everyone knows Classic will not have sharding past Launch.
"Limited (as in zone), and TIME limited way"
https://youtu.be/Q-GobXQTf6w?t=89
https://youtu.be/Q-GobXQTf6w?t=89
https://youtu.be/Q-GobXQTf6w?t=89
11/04/2018 12:48 PMPosted by KharisAC430D<span class="truncated">...</span>If we all shut up about it now, when it makes it into Tarren mill south shore months after launch and shards us you will be there to pay off the subs of everyone who you are talking down to right?
We have valid reason to doubt them on this, look at how it happened in live, and they DID NOT definitively say it would be removed in a couple of weeks tops.
https://youtu.be/Q-GobXQTf6w?t=89
Watch the video.. Sharding is ONLY for launch and start zones.
From the horses mouth.
Yep, nothing definitve, we think we can do this, we think we can do that, but who really knows what they are gonna do? All I know is that if they have sharding there will be sharding. No guarantees, just more of the vagaries we have been conditioned for.
Or less, just like the Chromie debuff wasn't intended to be there on the demo servers forever, and they evaluated the use and killed it within two days.11/04/2018 12:25 PMPosted by KharisAC430Dif you actually watched the Dev panels.. and interviews.
Sharding is on the table for LAUNCH ONLY IN STARTER ZONES. (week or two).
You might not like what they are promising, but they are following through on it.
Thank you. This is the post we need to combat the drama queens.