1. #2001
    Quote Originally Posted by TheBigPapi View Post
    I think flex will eventually start phasing LFR out thought which is prolly a good thing.
    It won't, at all.

    If anything winds up on the chopping block, it'll be NM.
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  2. #2002
    Quote Originally Posted by Glorious Leader View Post
    The argument in favor of "exclusivity" is an argument in favor of denying people content. After all if anyone could do it then it wouldn't be very exclusive. That's why LFR is so terrible and why epics have so little meaning now. Well clearly not everyone can do heroic raiding for whatever reason, either through ability or lack of commitment to such things. I never said nobody could do raid content. You continually misrepresent my arguments either wilfully or just out of plain ignorance. In any event your position is foolish and unsustainable. Exclusivity is poor design. PERIOD.

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    Or people can grow up and stop deriving their enjoyment from denying other players.
    I'm more partial to a Wrath raiding system in which many in fact got to raid. I think that model is far more sustainable than the current one. Is that considered exclusive content that denies people from seeing it?
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  3. #2003
    Quote Originally Posted by TheBigPapi View Post
    Its more like, when you stopped baking X cake, a third of your customers stopped shopping at your bakery.

    You didn't stop baking it. It's right there. Just like how normals/heroics are right there. Another cake that uses some of X cake's ingredients doesn't change X cake.

  4. #2004
    Quote Originally Posted by Mormolyce View Post
    It won't, at all.

    If anything winds up on the chopping block, it'll be NM.
    Really? I can;t imagine normal mid gettin the axe. I think LFR brings alot of baggage and flex could be something that phases it out eventually. Flex could be a step towards reviving the pug scene.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mormolyce View Post
    It won't, at all.

    If anything winds up on the chopping block, it'll be NM.
    Yep. Flex will just become the new normal. Why they want to wait this out I don't know but okay Blizzard whatever.

    Normal really ought to be normal.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Osmeric View Post
    Normal should be reduced in difficulty. Heroic should be reduced in difficulty.
    And the tiny fraction for whom heroic raids are currently well tuned? Too bad,so sad! With the arterial bleed of subs the fastest it's ever been, the vanity development that gives you guys your own content is no longer supportable.

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    I'm more partial to a Wrath raiding system in which many in fact got to raid. I think that model is far more sustainable than the current one. Is that considered exclusive content that denies people from seeing it?
    You already know the answer.

    If flexiraid would replace LFR people would still call it exclusive. They call everything exclusive that requires social interaction.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheBigPapi View Post
    I'm more partial to a Wrath raiding system in which many in fact got to raid. I think that model is far more sustainable than the current one. Is that considered exclusive content that denies people from seeing it?
    It's far less inclusive than currently but far more inclusive than bc and vanilla.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Osmeric View Post
    Normal should be reduced in difficulty. Heroic should be reduced in difficulty.
    And the tiny fraction for whom heroic raids are currently well tuned? Too bad,so sad! With the arterial bleed of subs the fastest it's ever been, the vanity development that gives you guys your own content is no longer supportable.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheBigPapi View Post
    I'm more partial to a Wrath raiding system in which many in fact got to raid. I think that model is far more sustainable than the current one. Is that considered exclusive content that denies people from seeing it?
    Yeah I prefer "many get to raid" rather than "few get to raid" and "most get to raid".

    many >>>>>> few > most

    Icecrown was a good example of many in my opinion, though it too had it's own flaws.

    To throw some self-assumed numbers out there, current raiding population represented as a percentage of the playerbase is probably something like this:

    45% non raiders
    40% LFR raiders
    8% mid normal raiders
    4% completionist normal raiders
    2% mid heroic raiders
    1% completionist heroic raiders

    I'd much prefer it to be something like this:

    54% non raiders
    25% mid normal raiders
    14% completionist normal raiders
    5% mid heroic raiders
    2% completionist heroic raiders

    Less players participating in raiding overall, but far more players participating in normals and a bit more participating in heroics, the game felt sooo much better when the model was closer to this in my opinion, even when I was considered a mid normal raider.

    The 54% non raiders would ideally have alternate game progression paths such as solo, PVP, pet battles and such for their purposes. Not everyone has to be a raider.

  10. #2010
    Quote Originally Posted by Radio View Post
    Yeah I prefer "many get to raid" rather than "few get to raid" and "most get to raid".

    Less players participating in raiding overall, but far more players participating in normals and a bit more participating in heroics, the game felt sooo much better when the model was closer to this in my opinion, even when I was considered a mid normal raider.

    The 54% non raiders would ideally have alternate game progression paths such as solo, PVP, pet battles and such for their purposes. Not everyone has to be a raider.
    I agree, part of it is also some people really dont want to be raiders. Plus, some people are into just PVP

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    Quote Originally Posted by Glorious Leader View Post
    It's far less inclusive than currently but far more inclusive than bc and vanilla.
    Ya i think Wrath was a happy medium. As Radio points out, about 50% raided. Considering many just PVP and some aren't all that interested in raiding, I think this is a good system to shoot for. Normal was a bit easier than usual but HMs were quite difficult. Hasn't been since ToC and ICC where pugging was very common and there were tons of guilds. I think thats the type of community a successful MMO needs rather than pushing towards solo play.
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    What did you people do before LFR? Obviously you enjoyed the game or you wouldn't still be playing, so what kept you playing if you couldn't raid?

  12. #2012
    Quote Originally Posted by Radio View Post
    45% non raiders
    40% LFR raiders
    8% mid normal raiders
    4% completionist normal raiders
    2% mid heroic raiders
    1% completionist heroic raiders
    I know you said those numbers weren't sourced but it's still interesting you assume the numbers to be like that.

    But what time frame are we talking about? It seems whenever pull these numbers they don't really specify the time frame.
    Why?
    Because it's arbitrary.

    What's wrong with players pugging and progressing through a tier that's behind?
    We're still caught in this obsession that we have to be doing the latest tier and render the rest obsolete.

  13. #2013
    Quote Originally Posted by Seefer View Post
    What did you people do before LFR? Obviously you enjoyed the game or you wouldn't still be playing, so what kept you playing if you couldn't raid?
    Played until I ran out of things to do, then stopped paying until the next patch. What I did from BC till LFR. The introduction of LFR led to me staying, for the first time ever, subscribed for an entire year (Actually, a bit longer than that). Prior, I'd play in a couple of months bursts.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheBigPapi View Post
    I agree, part of it is also some people really dont want to be raiders. Plus, some people are into just PVP

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    Ya i think Wrath was a happy medium. As Radio points out, about 50% raided. Considering many just PVP and some aren't all that interested in raiding, I think this is a good system to shoot for. Normal was a bit easier than usual but HMs were quite difficult. Hasn't been since ToC and ICC where pugging was very common and there were tons of guilds. I think thats the type of community a successful MMO needs rather than pushing towards solo play.
    The economic realities of the game DEMAND that lfr exists. Raiding is the most expensive content they make and the cost of producing it (mostly due to time) demands that raiding become much more pervasive and wide spread if it's going to continue as the fulcrum for end game play. Let's turn this around. Instead of 12 boss tot or 13 14 boss Soo would you accept a 4 boss instance and then 3 or 4 dungeons instead? While I agree about the solo play, LFR is not going anywhere. It is to good at making raiding an economic reality but more than that I would hope if the developers learned one thing this expansion it's that you can't take something away from people once you give it to them. You can try and make it shittier for them but they just leave when you do. LFR is not a perfect system by any means but removing it for whatever reason leaves a MASSIVE hole in the game and disenfranchises a whole section of the community for as far as I can tell no reason other than catering to vanity.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Osmeric View Post
    Normal should be reduced in difficulty. Heroic should be reduced in difficulty.
    And the tiny fraction for whom heroic raids are currently well tuned? Too bad,so sad! With the arterial bleed of subs the fastest it's ever been, the vanity development that gives you guys your own content is no longer supportable.

  15. #2015
    Quote Originally Posted by Glorious Leader View Post
    The economic realities of the game DEMAND that lfr exists. Raiding is the most expensive content they make and the cost of producing it (mostly due to time) demands that raiding become much more pervasive and wide spread if it's going to continue as the fulcrum for end game play. Let's turn this around. Instead of 12 boss tot or 13 14 boss Soo would you accept a 4 boss instance and then 3 or 4 dungeons instead? While I agree about the solo play, LFR is not going anywhere. It is to good at making raiding an economic reality but more than that I would hope if the developers learned one thing this expansion it's that you can't take something away from people once you give it to them. You can try and make it shittier for them but they just leave when you do. LFR is not a perfect system by any means but removing it for whatever reason leaves a MASSIVE hole in the game and disenfranchises a whole section of the community for as far as I can tell no reason other than catering to vanity.
    Pretty much this, couldn't get rid of it without something to replace it. Even with something to replace it there would be massive backlash. People want to make progress on their character, Blizzard wants to control how much progress they can make. They traditionally did that with raids, but scheduling being what it is excluded a lot of people. LFR lets Blizzard meet those goals, on a shoestring budget. I think having non LFR casual content with similar progression to LFR would be better for the game long term, but I doubt Blizzard would be willing to put some money down to try it and see.

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    I think it has something to do with the fact that a lot of the people who complete the exclusive content are often but not always, for want of a better term, assholes.

    No exclusive content = no assholes? It's a silly way of thinking but it might explain a lot.

  17. #2017
    Quote Originally Posted by Injin View Post
    I think it has something to do with the fact that a lot of the people who complete the exclusive content are often but not always, for want of a better term, assholes.

    No exclusive content = no assholes? It's a silly way of thinking but it might explain a lot.
    Not sure how true that is though. I think the truly cutting edge people doing exclusive content probably don't care much, I think it is the wannabes that are probably the assholes. But fair point just the same.

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    Not sure how true that is though. I think the truly cutting edge people doing exclusive content probably don't care much, I think it is the wannabes that are probably the assholes. But fair point just the same.
    I shiou;ld probably amend that slightly to say "assholes on the forums and in trade chat" - basically the very vocal minority who are the public face of exclusive content are almost all knobends.

    A significant counter example would be someone like Preachy, who is both for exclusive content and a happy man who is passionate about the game. But generally, forum posters on here, the official forums and elsewhere who are pro exclusivity usually come across about as sympathetic as Josef Mengele at a bar mitzvah.

  19. #2019
    Quote Originally Posted by DeadmanWalking View Post

    I'll give you the facts. No LFR means that the largest majority of players who have no time for raiding guilds will have NOTHING TO DO.
    And what about all that other content that was created for casuals? Sure its nothing to do if you dont care about it but doesnt mean it doesnt exists.

    If Blizzard was actually going to remove LFR then they would replace it with something else or a mix of other things. Only those who will only do LFR will have nothing to do. At least according to GC most players have no interests in raiding so it doesnt matter if they dont have time for raiding guilds. Also you do not need to be apart of a guild in order to raid. There is such a thing called PuG raiding that casuals participate in.

    In the end Blizzard isnt going to remove LFR but they have been making moves to make other things more attractive than LFR along with trying to get active realm populations up with virtual realms to help make PuGing of all content far more viable instead of relying on solo random queue systems.
    Quote Originally Posted by jbombard View Post
    Not sure how true that is though. I think the truly cutting edge people doing exclusive content probably don't care much, I think it is the wannabes that are probably the assholes. But fair point just the same.
    I havent noticed any normal mode raiders complain about Ra-den, but I have seen a lot of LFR players complain about Ra-den. Could be sample size.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jbombard View Post
    People want to make progress on their character, Blizzard wants to control how much progress they can make. They traditionally did that with raids, but scheduling being what it is excluded a lot of people. LFR lets Blizzard meet those goals, on a shoestring budget.
    This is VERY important to understanding the subscriber loss in mists. IN cataclysm SOME players were able to progress enormously fast. They consumed content at a rapid pace (still do today regardless of the efforts on the part of the developers) and as such claimed they were "bored". The solution to this was to turn the rate time to reward ratio wayyyyyy the fuck down. This was done primarily but gutting the valor system and not adding any new dungeons with new gear as catch up. For the hardcore time consuming players this was something of a bonanza in that they got what they wanted. They "had alot mroe to do" which really wasn't true. It's just that the things they would have normally done in the past became a whole lot grindier. The cost to all of this was ENOURMOUS for everybody else though. Method and the top progression guilds were fairly pissed they had to daily their faces off for 5 alts. For players entering into the expansion later it became much harder to catch up to do ToT (which was already overtuned from the launch of the bloody thing not to mention over burdened with mechanics) making progression that much more painful and slow and for the casual player they got the fucking shaft. Even when dungeons were "hard" in cataclysm you could progress pretty well. Sometimes you would get carried and to be honest not ever casual players is necesarilly a bad player. Those that are also potentially have friends who are good enough to carry them. Yes the initial cataclysm dungeons were hard BUT if you could overcome that you would be rewarded. Their is no overcoming rng in lfr. You are just fucked. That's it. Well for the casual player LFR is perhaps the least rewarding thing in the universe and is probably only challenged for that by dailies.

    Having said all of that the situation described above is FAR FAR FAR better now than it was in 5.0. We shall see what the future holds I guess.
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    Quote Originally Posted by nekobaka View Post
    And what about all that other content that was created for casuals?
    None of it was a serious attempt to engage casuals by rewarding them with character progression. When pet battles give out epics then we can talk.
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    Normal should be reduced in difficulty. Heroic should be reduced in difficulty.
    And the tiny fraction for whom heroic raids are currently well tuned? Too bad,so sad! With the arterial bleed of subs the fastest it's ever been, the vanity development that gives you guys your own content is no longer supportable.

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