stugots

The layering issue is killing hype for WoW Forever. Zones are empty. This is the Auction House in Ironforge and it's empty. Asmongold said it was like playing on someone's private ChatGPT sever. On my flyover starter intro players don't phase in until after you land, and then there are not many. This defeats the whole point of an old school MMO where you are supposed to feel like the world is alive and busy with players. In OG WoW we deliberately wanted to show the players as you flew in so you could get excited about entering the world. We *wanted* crowds in cities because they were designed to feel populated. We wanted you to see what the other players were doing, what gear they had, and to aspire to to have great characters riding cool mounts with fancy armor. Private servers were the first to raise the population caps and they were super popular for doing so. The more people in the world, the more it feels like a true MMO and not a single player RPG. Plus for hype, you WANT those huge crowds at launch. Yes, they can be inconvenient but you can up the spawn rate and people disperse to other areas quickly. The crowds make the game feel loved and popular and draws even more players in. I'm told they are tuning the layers now. BRING BACK THE CROWDS.