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Originally Posted by JayP
From what I can gather, the load times are when you switch between zones or provinces. From my experience in WoW I can't really see how this would be a huge deal. How often do you actually change zones?
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I read somewhere that you sometimes change zones just going into buildings. That being said, I don't much give a crap about load times as long as they aren't gigantic. Like I said, I can still remember times having to switch floppy disks just to move screens in old school adventure games. Some people may have a different opinion.
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Originally Posted by JayP
My biggest concern is that the zones themselves are instanced to a degree. There still can be a crapload of people in them, but just not everyone on the server. From what I've read there are some benefits to it. Namely cities can be far less laggy and that you can switch instances when there's gankers around. I don't know if this is true or not, but it does make sense if you think about it.
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The only problem with instanced zones, in my opinion, is that you can't just randomly stumble upon people on a consistent basis. Less people to interact with on a day to day basis. This doesn't bother me so much since I am a friendless misanthrope.
The upside is that your machine doesn't have to try and render both the game world that you see as well as the sprites, actions and talky talky-ness of 4 billion other people in the same zone. This is a double bonus if you've ever had to endure barrens chat in WoW.
I'm still on the fence about giving it a try, but I know that I will probably break down as early as 8 hours from now.