Zone sharding

[Krackillz-sargeras]

No problem! It’s a hot button issue around here as you can tell. I personally hate sharding so very much but I understand that it’s ours and Blizzard’s best option so far.

I’m learning that, and quickly lol. Thank you, I should have done more research first I suppose!

its all good, live and learn.

[Fallanaa-area-52 (Fallanaa)]

Surely, you understand where he’s coming from.

Of course I do. I don’t want sharding everywhere all the time. I want it to make launch playable, and then for it to disappear with a whimper.

I’m okay with it (based on what I’ve been told on these replies), as long as it’s gone after a week or two.

Pretty much my take on it. Use it for launch, then make it go away.

[Zydas-sargeras]

Blizzard, take notes: We don’t want sharding of any kind in Classic.

Speak for yourself. I’d rather have sharding than queues and crashes.

[Mergons-terenas]

What we want is a solid server community. What would ruin this? sharding over all of the world and losing half of the server population.

So sharding just in the starter zones which is no more than 5% of all the content 1 - 60 is what we want.

[Kunou-ragnaros]

Then go back to retail until the servers stabilize.

[Zydas-sargeras]

Or how about you don’t sub till they stabilize.

[Kunou-ragnaros]

Because that’s how it was back then…

[Zydas-sargeras]

Well I’m gonna play classic either way. If you can’t handle sharding don’t play it’s really that simple.

[Kunou-ragnaros]

Don’t worry, I won’t if that’s the case.

[Mergons-terenas]

Oh wait so 1- 10 is about 5 hours of game time.
Avg 1- 60 is 14 days = 336 hours.

500 / 336 = 1.48 % of the total game time.

Sorry my 5% was way off ure only missing a measly 1.5% of leveling content.

[Zydas-sargeras]

Ok good for you

[Wínter-twisting-nether]

I think they know it’s not an idea the majority of players are into.
Last word on it was starting zones only and confined to an unspecified launch window.

Guess we’ll just have to play it by ear.

[Zydas-sargeras]

I think they know it’s not an idea the majority of players are into.
Last word on it was starting zones only and confined to an unspecified launch window.

Guess we’ll just have to play it by ear.

Nobody wants sharding, it’s just the least bad solution to dealing with the huge influx of players at launch. One populations stabilize it’ll be gone for good.

[Elflordomega-smolderthorn]

They’ve said they’re going to use sharding as a solution for the launch rush. They haven’t given any specifics about exactly what that means (zones, time period, etc.). They likely won’t because they’ll probably want to retain some flexibility to deal with the launch without having 1,000 daily threads on the forums about how they promised this or that. However, they have said multiple times that they understand that permanent Sharding is not what the community wants and is not something that belongs in Classic.

[Wínter-twisting-nether]

I certainly don’t but I try to avoid being so definitive, saves a headache later. I’m sure there’s some player out there who thinks the idea is aces, hence ‘most’

I really hope once the rush dies it will be gone for good