What happened to "just the starting zones"?

[Narinsil-wyrmrest-accord]

If they limit to to just the starting zones then that’ll just move the problem over to Westfall and particularly the Barrens.

[Haavi-barthilas (Haavi)]

They claim it’ll be gone by phase 2, and possibly in first month, and world bosses aren’t since phase 2.

Ahh. My bad, I apparently skimmed the part of the sentence about “layering will not be in phase 1” and skipped straight to part where they were talking about Kazzak my bad.

That’s even better news though!

[Brokenwind-malganis (Brokenwind)]

“The first few weeks, when everybody is packed into Valley of Trials, when everybody is packed into Elwynn, we think we can use sharding there in a limited – time-limited way, to solve the initial launch day load problems…”

That Ion thinks people will still be in VoT and Elwynn for a few weeks is just… I don’t even…

[Brokenwind-malganis (Brokenwind)]

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?

I remember Spore

[Brokenwind-malganis (Brokenwind)]

You’re just blindly hating on Blizzard.

I think people are hating on you for having some really strange and intense flood of white knight posts.

[anon25736332]

What does White knight even mean anymoree, that damned phrase has been mutated to the point of making a Fallout Centaur look like a super model

[Burkkins-moon-guard]

Don’t see anyone hating on me, I argue with Grog so maybe him and you, you have some delusions about everyone being outraged, they’re not. They’re happy Classic is coming, and layering turned out to be a good solution. Calling people who realize there’s nothing so bad and Classic will turn out good white knights is just silly.

[Brokenwind-malganis (Brokenwind)]

What does White knight even mean anymore

It means exactly what it has always meant. How is this a mutation?

[anon25736332]

A man who stands up for a womens right to be an absolute equal, but then steps up like a white knight to rescue her any time that equality becomes a burden.

[Haavi-barthilas (Haavi)]

That Ion thinks people will still be in VoT and Elwynn for a few weeks is just… I don’t even…

I’m pretty sure that quote is referencing players in general, not individual players.
It’s reasonable to assume that for the first few weeks the majority of the player base will just be jumping in and seeing what’s up so the main starting zones will be packed.

Obviously a lot of people will still get in early and move on from those zones. But ultimately anyone who decides to try it out will be flooding those initial zones for at least a couple of weeks.

I don’t believe it’s meant to be taken literally. It’s unreasonable to believe everybody would be in those two zones even on launch, there are other race starting zones like Mulgore and Dun Morogh that people will be occupying.