Backport on Legion servers without turning off the cloud functionality, yeah, that was a mistake. As we’ve seen ever since the launch itself.
What’s funny is that this is something they should’ve stress tested without layers up, before the Classic launch itself.
Guess they were too focused on the layered performance and left the unlayered stuff for later? Which is part of what led to a simple guild vs. guild wpvp scenario, not even counting any other guilds, which makes it unplayable.
Keep in mind, there are tons of things tied in to their cloud service in various ways. So if they’d disable the cloud computing, they’d have to find ways to make their other systems work properly without it. Classic probably wouldn’t have been ready in time for the launch date if they had gone through this route.
What we’re left with now is just making it worse in the long run though.
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Cloud Computing was the worst thing that happened for WoW Classic.
Cloud Computing work really well when your algorithm are
parallelizable and can be distributed across a lot of machine. For example, 3D rendering when each node generate a small portion an image in parallel, this is obviously faster than rendering the whole image on 1 computer that have to do all the work in sequence.
But when you are working with a 15 years old game who have been developped for single core usage, it’s bad.
They should migrate WoW Classic into classic server architecture where each server contain a real WoW server, with high-end hardware (NVME SSD, 64 GB RAM, 4 Ghz+ CPU), or rewrite the “message” system. But for them it’s easier to add layering and yolo, no more work involved.
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Imagine a multi-billion dollar company can’t run a 15-year old game as well as some Russian guy in his mom’s basement. Does Blizzard realize that after this and Reforged they’ve destroyed their reputation?
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no, just get better servers, stop letting blizzard screw you guys over with bad servers, jfc these kinds of posts is why the term blizzdrone is a thing
they did stress test with both layers on and off during the stress tests, THEY DID NOTHING WITH THE DATA
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We need layers for sure for AQ opening!
It took me 2 HOURS to enter ZG last week!
I was stuck in those massive lags and server shutdowns!
This is not a good experience!
They won’t disable sharding. Its not 2005 anymore. Grow up. Sharding is a very good addition to the game.
…You’re posting on a retail characters too?
it will happen
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