Quote Originally Posted by Larirawiel View Post
Seriously, Blizzard solved this problem already in 2004. You had loading screens when you made a continent switch or when you entered an instanced area. But those situations were very rare. In FF14, which is younger than WoW vanilla you have loading screens everywhere. And now we have 2021. I cannot understand that it is still in this game.


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As someone who was around for vanilla WoW; while it didn't have loading screens between zones on the same continent, there were definite load times between zones. I had a fairly bad PC at the time (I could not run through Orgrimmar worth a damn), so if a zone was busy while I crossed over, I could see things popping into existence. It's also why most WoW zones don't place mobs or other important interactions near area transitions, and why, if you look from the air (both in vanilla/Classic while on a flight path, or after the Cataclysm revamp on your own flying mount), there's a lot of empty terrain in the borders between zones. Blizzard didn't solve the problem, they just used a different work-around for it.