I hope they learn from this and in the future if they release BC or something there is no layering.
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Future MMORPG developers please learn from this. Layering and sharding kill communities and these are the things that plague both Retail and Classic WoW.
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The end of layering can’t come fast enough. I wonder why they are holding off. I hope it doesn’t end up literally being the day before Phase 2 that layering is turned off.
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They did say in a dev interview that them turning off layering before P2 can literally mean that they’ll end up turning it off 5 mins before launch of P2. From their PoV it makes perfect sense that they give themselves this amount of leeway, however from a player PoV it’s really frustrating to have to wait potentially months until you finally get to have the full game experience without any layer BS.
They even said that they might not turn off layering per realm, even though the have the capability to do so to turn it off individually.
Not getting my hopes up at all. To be fair it wasnt as bad as i expected at first, but the more im past the initial leveling zones, the worse my experiences have gotten with this system and it’s shown all its ugly faces that i’ve seen before. The longer it stays, the more damage will be done. I just hope they decide to disable it very vigorously the moment it’s even remotely possible, for the sake of the game and peoples experiences (especially on RP/RP pvp realms).
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Layering can still apparently be used in Classic to farm dungeons. For example boss dies. You get layered. New boss appears.
so i went to meet with my guild outside the bank and of course he wasn’t showing up…he invited me to the group and everyone on my (so called layer) disappeared NO ONE WANTS THIS GET RID OF THIS BLIZZARD…THIS GAME USES 17% OF MY GPU USAGE ON MAX SETTINGS GET RID OF ITTTTTTTTTTTTTT…MMO STANDS FOR MASSSIVEEEEE MULTIPLAYER
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layering is really ruining things. GET RID OF IT NOW
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Stop necroing stupid crap please and thank you.
there is nothing written in stone…they said it themselves that in the future if needed they will add layering/sharding if needed…we dont want it at all it ruins the experience of the game…no body wants to see people disappearing when they try and group with someone it completely ruins the experience of an open world MMORPG and also ruins mutual friendships of just walking by someone and saying hey man! i seen u earlier at the mines! nope…not no more because blizzard decided to switch your layer…we are tired of it they make BILLIONS let me repeat that…BILLIONS of dollars off this game and they cant think of a better solution? WE WANT IT GONE
i didnt bother with classic because 1.12 and layering wasnt classic. they said layering would be removed. we smart people knew they lied. you wont get a true vanilla experience till naxx using 1.12 stats. the fact i checked in to see they didnt remove it only makes me happy to have passed as an affirmation to im always right. they cant remove layering. the game has been cloud based for some time. they will not buy the dedicated servers just for a fan fair.
Good for you!
look man, they need to squish more servers together and layer it up,
there’s not enough people to group with at the various levels
accept reality and move on
Nonsense. Baloney. BS.
Vanilla did not have 4 million players all starting the same week. For that reason, Vanilla did not have the problem that led to layering. Vanilla added players very slowly, at roughly 200,000 per MONTH for the first several years.
Saying “Vanilla did not need it, so Classic doesn’t either” is naive and shows a complete lack of understanding of the game.
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We’re not being loud enough about #nochanges, in general.
this isn’t the beginning of the game any more…there are people with level 60 chars already on classic…there is no need for it to still be there at all whatever to the good ole days when a game was what it was…if you cant play the game the way its intended to be played then 1…buy a new computer to run the game properly or 2…find a different game to play…i personally would rather wait in a queue then have the entire experience ruined
I’ve been frequenting this forum since before layering was even announced. They never stated this. In fact that is a rumor that the forum users themselves started as an argument against layering. It was one of the many “What if…” scenarios that circulated before we knew anything about it.
Blizzard has said again and again from the CMs to the top developers that it will be removed by phase 2. Period. Now if they walk back on that, it’s them breaking their word, sure. And at that point there would be reason to be upset. But as of right now and everything that we know, it IS written in stone.
It feels good looking back at how wrong all these, “Dude, relax. Layering is fine,” Blizzdrones were.
I can’t play in the evening because it’s pretty much impossible to do quests due to the amount of people.
I’ll trust Blizzard who has the actual server data over you guys on the forums with imagined issues.
That’s odd though. Bigglesworth still has layers. You wouldn’t be telling us a fib to push some sort of pro-layering narrative, now would you?
Exactly! Bigglesworth still has layers and in the evening it’s nearly impossible to quest due to the number of people. Each layers holds as many people as an entire vanilla server used to hold.
If they removed the layers on bigglesworth today, those same areas would be even more packed.