People will abuse it and overall the game will feel lesser for it in yet unforseen ways, your servers will die along with interest in the game. Server Clusters, Dynamic respawns, 100 servers with queues, ultimately anything is better then sharding… I mean layering
A good way to guage the % of people that want layering versus the % that doesn’t is to make both and let people choose which they will play on.
Really? Classic isn’t a AAA game. $20 I can see. Why with all the hostility towards “Tourists”? They pay the bills.
Well, that was the reasoning blizz gave for forcing layering on us, to accommodate the tourists. So some people might feel resentment towards them as blizzard sorta blamed it on them, lol. But no, people with retail subs that have payed the bills and people that have payed for the servers running this game in the past. Vanilla payed for all the servers probably.
Which is why layering, while it may suck in the short term, is better for the long-term health of the game. It gives them more flexibility to deal with the uncertainty of not knowing what the attrition rates will be, without doing more visibly jarring things like merging servers or the like. No one is saying that it isn’t a difficult situation. But people trying to say that Devilsaur Leather is going to be all over the place because of layering before Dire Maul is even out are… well, let’s just say that I’m not convinced the sky is actually falling.
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Finally i’m able to reply. That was long enough to deflate this post of mine.