Absolutely a deal breaker for me if they decide to include their "totally not sharding" technology in zones beyond level 20. Ruins a big chunk of wpvp for me. Quest mob camped by different faction? Getting corpse camped by another player? Too many opposite faction members at neutral hub? No problem, find a different layer! What a joke. A lot more situations like those that would be resolved by joining a friend which shouldn't be possible."Don't worry it's just for a month" - more like "Don't worry, it's just for entirety of your leveling process". I'd much rather take sharding instead of this if it's only in starting zones, but I really hope they don't go ahead and destroy pvp servers with that system.
i hope its like in swtor... where you can see how full or empty each layer is etc!
Will layering solve resource scarcity at launch or will the starter zones still be overloaded with characters?
Well this article didn't age well. Layering will definitely be removed just a couple weeks after launch..! But we'll go ahead and let it destroy any sense of server community and prop up mega realms for years first. Can't imagine what they were thinking, letting this happen, especially after publicly announcing that they knew the risks and understood why layering is horrible for the game long-term.