the serverload was much more than 500 players when the Dark Portal opened. it’s not 2005. We can load 500 paperdolls.
The servers aren’t built for that anymore. Why they have to rely on awful Layering.
Nah, they would need to split the processing among multiple servers and probably stop processing certain things to not make the experience feel laggy.
It is possible but would probably take more work than needed, I’d guess.
40 mans are fine and smooth we don’t need 500 that is more a thought experiment to show that more people = more epic.
no. we are going to demonstrate that any demand above 438 players is a bad idea, and thus prove that … 20man is the perfect number.
the solution to that is to make the 40 mans harder. SoM had the right idea 
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10man C’thun… what a clownfest. sorry. horrible thought.
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And somehow SoDers will still manage to chain the eye beam and ask for it to be nerfed
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SoM failed because of that e-sport emphasis.
By the way, seems like you and others upset about these changes really enjoyed SoM. So you’ve already had a Seasonal server catered to your preferences.
Maybe Blizz is aiming towards a different type of player in SoD. There’s nothing wrong with that, unless you think every version of WoW needs to be built exclusively for you and your ideals.
That seems rather selfish. Especially when there’s Classic Era right over there that provides exactly what you desire.
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Sorry they need to make the 20mans harder 
yes, we know the one that begins with R and ends with tail.
also SoM had nothing to do with “e-sports”. they just wanted to make the raids a little harder than the boring pushover of doing it with world buffs on era.
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idk a lot of us had plenty of fun in SoM, and people are still playing their SoM toons to this day on Era…
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I mean if they were going to do that they could start with just making 40 mans that actually needed you know 40 people.
Basically no mechanics in vanilla raids don’t work with 20 people.
what are you trying to say? you want the dance dance revolution stuff from retail put into MC?
I’m saying most vanilla raids can be done with half the raid AFK auto attacking, not sure why anyone considers that epic.
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Ya’ll really don’t actually want to raid. Only thing epic about 40 mans is the fact you can go afk and know no one will notice and the boss still dies
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That’s so ridiculous. So let me get this straight…
Mages healing: fine.
Rogue, Warlock, Shaman tanks: fine.
Runes with a lot of abilities from TBC and Wrath: fine.
20 man raids (a thing that was in Vanilla): This makes it Retail!!!
It’s utter nonsense. You’re complaining to complain.
Here’s what I see: a bunch of people who just wanted a fresh Vanilla start over and are upset they didn’t get it. Who put their own personal, completely unrealistic expectations on a project only to scream BETRAYAL when they didn’t get it.
It’s embarrassing to watch.
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yes, I agree they need to buff raid bosses hp/damage and ban world buffs from 40 man raids
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no, none of this is fine
none of this is okay
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If the other half the team is overgeared sure, but try to do naxx with 5-10 bad players and I guaratee you won’t clear it.
Likely the same with AQ40.
Even bwl / mc you will prob not have a good time if people are same-phase geared and you are carrying 5-10 bad players.
All the above also made it retail. The runes made it retail.
Because there is some retail doesn’t excuse adding more retail.
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I know right. these people do one classic raid getting carried by veteran players in the best gear and they act like there is zero struggle
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