Would you care to explain what your disagreement is?
Just because I hate what Blizzard has done to current game, doesn’t mean I’ll cry about pointless things on Classic. Classic was done well, they’ve taken safety measures and I don’t see 1 problem with it. You can keep on crying, but I’m happy about Classic and I’m looking forward to it.
You don’t even know what Classic is. “Classic” as a 2019 finished product has not been delivered.
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Classic is recreation of Vanilla with 2019 engine and slight QoL alterations, layering is not permanent, crossrealm bgs are 1.12, there’s nothing that they’ve altered that’ll ruin Classic experience, but hey, whiners gonna whine.
There’s sharding/layering.
You can’t guarantee this. You’re relying on the word of video game developers in an industry that constantly misleads its consumers.
Do you remember “No Man’s Sky” at launch? Did that dude ever go to jail?
Do you remember the Dance Studio? Or how about Aerial Combat?
Judge video game devs on what they deliver, not on what they promise.
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No, but last I checked the game was pretty good now.
There’s no sharding, layering is whole another thing, but I see you refuse to go watch the interview or read anything on wowhead.
They said on multiple occasions that layering is also not Classic experience, did you even watch the new interviews? It’ll be gone in a month, the devs worked hard and they sure as hell won’t ruin it with sharding or layering for that matter.
At this point looks like you just whine about anything.
At this point it looks like you just believe about anything the devs say.
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So ironic I can’t even…
You’re judging devs on basis that they’ll keep layering forever, even though they said it’ll be gone within a month and it’s only there for stability and prevention of dead realms.
They didn’t even deliver the game yet, and you cry about it, maybe take your own advice.
I’m judging devs based on the statement they made on sharding in starting zones only, that they later changed to layering in the whole world, because reasons that don’t matter because they changed what they said they would do.
They didn’t even deliver the game yet, and you believe them blindly, maybe think a little.
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They never ever said that, they gave starting zones as example of swamped spot, where do you think all those players will go? Think they’ll stay there? No. They move on to next spot, you’ll have swarmed Goldshire next. Layering fixed this.
Reasons that are to prevent dead realms after tourists are gone, layers having 3k cap, which is what realm cap used to be, so basically your layer is your realm, and it’s easier to merge layers than realms, no renames, and other layers are basically on your realm already.
They didn’t even mess up yet, and you already blame them for messing up.
I mean if you wanna wait 3 hours to kill Sarkoth why even log in till tuesday?
They were going with sharding as a whole in the starter zones, but instead changed it to layering throughout each continent. I honestly think that’s a better system, especially if they only keep it in for a month at most.
You’ll still be waiting, there’ll be like 3k people per layer. So like 500 people let’s say in your layer on orc starting zone.
He said what he said. Your interpretation is your interpretation. His words are his words.
They’ve gone back on their word in the past. They’ve failed to deliver game features as promised. They’ve gone back on their word regarding sharding. I’m definitely skeptical until they deliver the finished product, and you should be, too.
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Hey man it’s not my fault you can’t read between lines, I see that as example, and “there” as in, “in those situations”. Which means they’d probably expand sharding to other zones too. This layering thing is way better.
And to think you’d link 8 month old video instead of brand new 4-5 interviews which tackle the current problem, is laughable. They did a lot of research and changed to layering instead.
Well keep your skepticism for yourself, I don’t wanna see you making 10 threads in next month on problems of layering that won’t even exist.
You think it’ll be bad? Don’t play, wait it out, see if what you claim to happen will happen. I on the other hand will play.
You just cited an example where Blizzard said it would do one thing (sharding) and then ultimately did another (layering).
And you trust them on their word because…?
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Because layering is superior in every way. You won’t have 50 man shards, but 3000 man layers, and you won’t have dead realms in end, because layers will merge. There is literally no downside from switching to layering from sharding.
No one has ever played on a server with layering. We don’t know.
And why do you trust Blizzard to keep its word on layering, considering they previously said things about how sharding would be implemented that ultimately turned out to be untrue?
You have a lot of faith in this corporation and this brand that does not care at all about you.
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I’m going to assume you didn’t watch interviews or read anything on layering, so I’ll give you short summary.
Layering is realm within a realm.
A realm can have let’s say 3 layers, which is 3k per layer, 9k realm cap.
Once the tourist surge is gone, you might be left with 4.3k people, and instead of having that split on 3 realms, at least 1 being dead, you’ll have 1 realm with 4.3k people.
Layering also provides “world shard”, which means people won’t phase away once they leave Goldshire, or once they enter Jasperlode mine, they’ll stay in their layer for entire duration of their gameplay, unless invited by friend to their layer.