I want nothing more than for Classic WoW to be a success, I miss playing the old WoW dearly, but so long as layering is a part of the game for any amount of time, it’s not going to be the game we loved. Considering there are only 12 servers, I honestly don’t believe Blizzard when they say layering is temporary. I think, they’re going to just keep it in and keep server costs as low as possible until the game dies and they shut it down. Even if layering only temporarily stays in the game, I think it has extreme potential to kill the game before it begins. The initial wave of players and hype is arguably the most important time to ensure the game will live on for some time and if layering is built into the game for more than like a week, I think we’re in danger. Layering literally destroys the entire roots and fundamentals of what makes classic/vanilla WoW great and interesting. You can’t have a community and world based mmo succeed if the community and world are taken away. Layering destroys world PvP, as you can just phase out if being camped or near a group of the opposing faction, it breaks economy, as there are going to be way more mining nodes, herbs, any collectible/item drop, and of course it breaks the whole sense of world, as your friend or a group of randoms might be standing right next to you, but you just don’t see them. I can wait for Stormwind or Ironforge to be under attack by a Horde raid while I’m in the wrong layer and can’t get a sense of what’s happening unless I’m invited to said layer. Blizzard clearly hasn’t thought anything through when it comes to the layering system and it has me feeling like they don’t care and just want low as possible server costs. Phasing in Modern WoW has been problematic ever since it came out years ago and they’ve done nothing about it, so what makes anyone think that they can pump out a new phasing system and shove it in Classic WoW and it’ll be fine? Nothing about this system makes any sense whatsoever for Classic and blatantly breaks the game entirely and I really don’t want to see the game die off because of a choice this dumb. Literally all Blizzard has to do is release the game without any dumbass modernized systems like this and they couldn’t, of course they couldn’t, it’s Blizzard in the current year. I can’t wait to see the game die and for Blizzard to claim that “clearly a game like this just can’t survive in the modern day” or some other trash.
Long story short, layering is going to kill the game and it’s all for what I assume is lower investment is servers (which is also none sense considering a few random people with no funding could host servers for Nostalrius that had a cap around 16k at once with no form of phasing whatsoever). I’m sure people will claim this is fear mongering, but you truly cannot have a system like this in vanilla WoW, it fundamentally destroys the whole point of the game.
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