Sanctum of Domination Lag Update

[Gratz]

Awesome. Now fix the rest of the lag. I can't remember the last time I didn't do a m+ or raid over 160ms with 17 home.

[Wangming]

See, this is why a WoW 2 is necessary. The engine needs to change to a new one with more possibilities.

[Cosmic Janitor]

While it's great that they address this for the <10% people that pull sylvanas on a weekly basis, I'd appreciate some efforts being thrown at whole outdoor zones going to shit whenever a rare or worldboss is engaged.

[Nnyco]

"We've been working-"
lol

Unlike you most likely.
lol

Its sad to see people like you being so negative when they give open feedback whats they doing.

[woofpup]

Fix the lag in Korthia too.

[tomten]

this is literally admitting their servers aren't able to compute the numbers their game generates.

Blizz has been outsourcing server capacity for a long time now, last i heard it was hosted by amazon.
And blizz is being super cheap and doesn't want to pay to cover peak usage.
This is why world bosses only lag on reset and 1-2 days after but not on a monday.

Wouldn't surprise me at all that this "process on hardware"-mentioned, is them basically buying more capacity from amazon to cover peak usage and biting the bullet on the lower days, aka, not reset days.

[Nobleshield]

Maybe, just maybe, they need to stop having so many effects and stuff going on in boss fights. It's clear their engine can't really handle it. Go back to the design of encounters in like Cata or MOP when they were challenging but not hey here's half a dozen things flying around.

[Sentynel]

Because they've been oh so forthcoming before...

Even if they DID put in the work, the only reason to share "under the hood" details that they never cared to share before is precisely for that reason: To try to get players involved.

They shared plenty of interesting facts/posts about engineering topics before...

[tomten]

They shared plenty of interesting facts/posts about engineering topics before...

Blizz as a company has never really done that. Passionate devs etc have done that, mostly out of their passion for the game.
Ghostcrawler is a great example, he's even mentioned he did it because he wanted to communicate with the players himself.

[Malania]

Neat, now can you fix whatever the fuck is broke with the Nighthold on entering. I can make a cup of tea in the tie that place loads.

[Sentynel]

Blizz as a company has never really done that. Passionate devs etc have done that, mostly out of their passion for the game.
Ghostcrawler is a great example, he's even mentioned he did it because he wanted to communicate with the players himself.

And who do you think this latest blog post comes from? (Hint: starts with a B-, ends with a -lizzard)

Jesus fucking Christ, you guys just want to hate no matter what.

[Sin of Pride]

I am kind of liking how scared blizzard is actually talking...can we keep them scared?

[AngerFork]

See, this is why a WoW 2 is necessary. The engine needs to change to a new one with more possibilities.

The problem with this is & always has been that making a WoW 2 essentially throws out all the progress/content made for the last 17 years, not to mention splitting the player base between two games. IMO, it would be better to update the engine & backing pieces a bit at a time directing it towards the new content.

[muto]

Unlike you most likely.
lol

Its sad to see people like you being so negative when they give open feedback whats they doing.

Maybe they shouldn’t release a product if it’s not ready then? It’s like baking someone a cake, but forgetting to put frosting on it. “Oh sorry, I forgot the frosting, you’ll get it after you’ve ate the cake”.

[Nnyco]

Maybe they shouldn’t release a product if it’s not ready then? It’s like baking someone a cake, but forgetting to put frosting on it. “Oh sorry, I forgot the frosting, you’ll get it after you’ve ate the cake”.

???

Server problems have nothin todo if the game is ready or not. You asking for a cake at the car mechanic in your anecdote.

[Nerovar]

Sylvanas is so powerful that she turns the game itself against the players when you try to fight her. This is what peak girlboss looks like and it's beautiful.

[Kuntantee]

We do not care the details. Fix it, do not beg for understanding.

[Beuargh]

this is a long ass post just to adress that kind of issue. usually it's just a one line news for that kind of shit.... almost like they're just trying to put some stuff on newsfeeds so the lawsuit update post get burried and go to page 2 as fast as possible

#tinfoilsuit

"- we are working on a fix for the lag at the beginning of the Sylvanus encounter. thankz for the reportz!!"

"- fix a problem causing lag at the beginning of the sylvanus encounter"

[Voidwielder]

I wish we still had Ghostcrawler's watercooler blog posts to inform us of their design philosophies in WoW. This is at least a welcome attempt to keep players mildly informed about the goings-ons in WoW development.

He got so much shit for I absolutely understand why no one would want to communicate that way again.

Anyway, this is good and I hope more of this happens regardless the issue or development idea.

[Ealyssa]

Why, exactly, are they choosing NOW to do an "honest, milquetoast" update?

Because they know they have issues and try to improve ? Holy shit you negative nancy's... They really never can do good with you.