Cryptic Studios Blog Post - PvP Considerations: Persistence and Instancing

I demand solo PvP instances.

In the latest post from the Cryptic Studios Blog, they continue their ongoing series of PvP discussions with a look at Persistence and Instancing.

Traditionally, there have been two dominant design motivations for instancing:

First, the game server architecture in some cases makes it problematic to support an unlimited number of people in the same zone, and instancing is a way of managing this by limiting the number of people in a particular location.

Secondly, in the early days of MMORPGs one of the ongoing problems was players camping valuable spawns or drops, effectively locking other players out of content.

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