A single Megaserver for 10.0?

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We got cross-server play, cross-faction play.
We also get a lot of imbalance between servers, with very populated ones and deserted others.

Isn’t it time to merge all these servers together into a single megaserver and turn all the current servers into channels ?
Allowing everyone from any server/channel to play any content with anyone else from any other server/channel ?
Maybe even allowing anyone to freely and seamlessly move from channel to channel ?

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Can you like tell me difference?And if you somehow didn’t notice there are many languages in EU a nie každý hovorí po anglicky.

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Yes sounds just like we have now with sharding etc.

Edit…

There are four in the U.K not counting regional derivations!

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Basically recruit anyone from anywhere for your guild or mythic raid.
Share items with anyone.

Also that would help the load-balancing and the potential issue players from highly populated servers sometimes experience :

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Do you know this is Shadowlands aka Retail? Only thing you ask is cross realm guilds rest exist, and classic server queue has nothing to do with Shadowlands.

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So, instead of having maybe 4 or 5 full servers with queues, we’ll just block the entire playerbase behind a queue?

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Thyri is smoking or what I fail to see point

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/shrug

You’re really sure the load of 4-5 full servers can’t be balanced across the dozens of servers we have ? That’s a lot of defeatism here.

My point is we have sharding. But it’s very close to a single megaserver with channels, in fact. The only differences are the load balancing and some arbitrary restrictions, which both are bad. So why not take away these bad restrictions and solve load balancing at the same time ?

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What nonsense are you on about even, post me your hour long queue for Shadowlands. Netuším vôbec o čom rozprávaš a čo je tvoj gól.

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I won’t. But you’ll surely post your dragonflight hour-long queue, I’m sure.

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So you made post literally about nothing.

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Make server choice about location and lowest latency. Make guilds, groups and the AH server-agnostic.

There are enough servers for everyone playing. The problem is that people flock to the fullest servers precisely because of how stuff like guilds and the AH work.

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Yes!

We have lag when a world boss is being taken down! And you want the whole playerbase on one server?

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What are you on about you too?

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Can you imagine the cancel/scan on AH :-/

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One server, many channels. That would actually solve that problem aswell.
If you experienced lag (because some raid which you are not part of are taking down a world boss), you’d just hop into another channel, where the raid boss is not under attack.

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You wouldn’t get on to the AH unless its at stupid o’clock in the morning

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it would be horrible.

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You have to be SMART somehow you ignored repeatedly it already works like that you are SO SMART

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Megaserver does not have to mean one single server. You can use a cluster of servers to balance the load.

Eve Online has everyone playing in the same world, but it doesn’t run on just a single server.

Do yourself a favor and ignore Holystyle’s posts.

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