The only ones in favor of layering are probably the ones, that never experienced a “no layer” Server from the start.
Example: You can´t even compare the current classic wow realms to a private server in terms of community.
I play on Firemaw and before that i played on Lightbringer. It was night and day in terms of the social aspect.
There is no such thing as a community on classic wow. Layering made sure of that.
Reenabling layering will only give the scum exploiters yet another way to make gold.
It´s the same with every company really. Cost cutting. Maximise profit no matter what.
Just make the shareholders //executives happy, thats all they care about. I work for a insurance company and they do the same.
Customers complain but they dont give a rats a s s as long as the higher ups get their bonus.
I really love this game, but i do not have any hope that it will get better any time soon.
Botters, gold sellers, inferior servers you name it.
Layering needed to die in a very hot fire. Please don’t bring it back for any reason.
The problem is overcrowded servers. Layering is NOT the solution. It will only hide problem, create a host of other problems and allow the overcrowding to get worse.
They’re sabotaging their own game so they don’t have to admit to themselves that the game made 15 years ago by people that have since left the company has more charm and soul than the game they are now putting their creative effort into, turns out it’s a bitter pill for devs to swallow when players mass prefer the old game to the new and improved one.
The game that their predecessors made is clearly way more popular than they want to admit or that their professional pride will ever allow them to admit, like George Lucas not understanding why people liked star wars the WoW devs are completely blind as to what people liked so much about Vanilla, it’s gotten to such an embarrassing level that shadowlands and BFA have gone to quite some lengths to restore class functionality stripped out by the D3 team in legion.
They’re just spending expansion packs worth of new content undoing the things they did before I mean is anyone keeping track of this? or am I the only one noticing how appallingly clueless the WoW team and designers have been until they finally snapped to pressure and released classic in the state it is in now where almost every single problem with classic can be traced directly to blizzard and how they are handling the game, you know with bots now much more rampant than was ever the case in vanilla, the batching problems where it’s clear the server doesn’t have prios sorted for interrupts feign death and vanish which results them behaving even more slugghisly than before, the assumption over 60 to 70% of players checking out classic would quit (they didn’t), the layering, the lack of server on launch and even for per-registry of names, I could go on but I think most of you know the list yourself
That’s true. But reenabling free transfers from all overcrowded realms to a variety of non-overcrowded realms would be the obvious first step. Instead, they suggest to re-enable layering despite it being so harmful.
And many people actually agree, because it’s the best they can get. Because Blizz don’t suggest any alternative - sit in queues or swallow the solution that’s only the “best” because it costs about zero $$
There’s no point opening a fresh realm now, especially whilst the game is currently on-going.
Like the current “dead” realms, I highly doubt that many people would reroll now.
Free transfers are only from Firemaw and only to 3 realms, 2 of which are what they call “dead”…
If there were transfers also from Mograine, Gehennas, whatever others have the queues, and also to more realms, and if they closed paid transfers to the overpopulated realms, then the problem would disappear without any layering.
They could just have been realistic with the server capacities and locked any realm when it was truly full. On launch they didn’t have enough servers prepared for the massive demand, which worsened the population issue. People were stuffed into few realms with layering on. Later on they made new servers and opened free transfers, which was a fix offered too late.
Back on to topic, the reason they aren’t going to bother boosting the capacity of servers is because it’s not cost effective. They found the sweet spot and they’re not going to increase the capacity any other way than artificially.
Lol they should just force the Tourists to go to low pop servers. Those damn Corona Tourists who recently started playing again are what makes the poluation spike which makes it worse for people who actually play this game Daily or even weekly pre corona.
Do you really want to rank people who is more valuable classic player and who is less? We all pay for this sub and even people who will never play classic have the same rights to do so as you. Nothing special about people who play from day 1 except they are better geared.
