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  1. #41
    Quote Originally Posted by Venant View Post
    If real life is that much better why would you waste any time in a game like WoW anyway.
    So by your rule, everyone who plays video games has a crappy life or else they would be out enjoying life?

  2. #42
    Quote Originally Posted by Togarox View Post
    So by your rule, everyone who plays video games has a crappy life or else they would be out enjoying life?

    That's common sense

  3. #43
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    Quote Originally Posted by Murican View Post
    Raiding is about overcoming challenges. LFR offers no challenge, therefore it can't be classified as "raiding"

    PS: He said: "finally I can play the game less". Pretty sure blizzard wants you to play more, not less. rofl.
    To you raiding is about 'overcoming challenges" but you aren't everyone and the sooner you worry about yourself and not what everyone is doing the happier you'll be, and I imagine the less pointless comments will be left.

    Plus the amount of time you play doesn't make any difference to blizzard, they want your monthly subs be it because you raid 5 hours a night on heroic or 5 hours a week in LFR, you're worth the same to them at the end of the month.

  4. #44
    Mashing buttons and killing monsters is fun, learning stupid tactics and listening to some jackass in Ventrillo all day isn't. Therefor: LFR is good.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Venant View Post
    If real life is that much better why would you waste any time in a game like WoW anyway. Its almost like watching a TV show that completely doesn't entertain you yet you want to see what happens in the end so you force yourself to watch it.
    Heard about doing various different things?

    When you have a lot of things to do that you enjoy, you have to split up the time you have available.

  6. #46
    Quote Originally Posted by Maniac2 View Post
    Started in TBC, I have raided all up to Black Temple. Never made to Sunwell, did it in Wotlk.
    Killed Ilidan and took break until Wotlk. Cleared Wotlk on normal modes and I was happy.
    Heroic modes? Never bothered, seen the content already.

    Cata and LFR came to the table - golden era of casual play begun. Convenience above all and everything. Best thing that happened to my gameplay in wow. I could raid whenever I wanted and leave whenever I wanted.
    Now Im asking myself how could I ever play in guild with schedule raid times, I was actually wasting my time back then, raiding 16 hours a week in tbc. Just to experience and kill last boss.

    Now I invest much less time and get the same goal. And still subbed. Its all about TIME, finally I can play the game less and get same goals.

    Thanks to Blizzard for LFD/LFR.
    ......

    I killed Illidan but didn't make it to Sunwell either. We raided 7 hours a week at most, usually less than that. We killed Lich King with around 6-7 hours a week and Deathwing before max buff was in effect with about 4 hours a week raid time. Where do people get 16 hours a week raid time requirements? And TRUST me...I did NOT lead a cutting edge min/max top tier raider team. Not with a mage who didn't upgrade to Tier 10 until he had 4/4 and a DK who eventually "punished" us for wiping by taking a drink/shot for each one.

    Ironically, I'm in the different boat. Due to others quitting for RL reasons, I haven't been able to raid this expansion. LFR is.....boring as all hell.

    I don't get how anyone finds it interesting or engaging with how simplified it is. I've been in top 5 DPS while reading the forums during boss fights. Don't get me wrong, the concept is fine, but it just seems so heavily tuned down that it's boring as hell.

    I'll use LFR to see Garrosh come down, but I'm debating for the first time just letting the sub lapse after seeing it once. There's not much of interest in running easy mode week after week.

    For those who enjoy it, kudos to ya and glad you're enjoying the new feature. Maybe I can get into flex raiding and go that route instead.
    Last edited by Faroth; 2013-07-08 at 04:27 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Outofmana View Post
    You might as well check youtube vids of the fights, that's about the same experience as LFR and you get to see all content.
    But its not.

  8. #48
    Quote Originally Posted by JimmyHellfire View Post
    Mashing buttons and killing monsters is fun, learning stupid tactics and listening to some jackass in Ventrillo all day isn't. Therefor: LFR is good.
    challenging myself and my guild, while also having fun with some cool people i interact with daily is fun. people who deliberately ignore easy mechanics in LFR and cause repeated wipes, especially on a fight my guild can one shot on heroic isn't.

    i can make one-sided claims based solely on my experiences too!
    Last edited by BloodGutter; 2013-07-08 at 04:28 PM.

  9. #49
    Quote Originally Posted by Asmekiel View Post
    Since when is watching a video the same as doing it yourself?
    Since introduction of LFR.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Murican View Post
    Except LFR is not real raiding, you think you are raiding, but deep inside you know you aren't
    That doesn't matter to somebody whose only goal is to see stuff and find out how the story wraps up.

    LFR working as intended. Shut up about it.

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    If you are satisfied with mediocrity (or lower standards than average) then that's cool and I can respect that.

    For me, I wouldn't ever play this game if it wasn't for heroic raiding.

  12. #52
    Quote Originally Posted by Faroth View Post
    ......

    I killed Illidan but didn't make it to Sunwell either. We raided 7 hours a week at most, usually less than that. We killed Lich King with around 6-7 hours a week and Deathwing before max buff was in effect with about 4 hours a week raid time. Where do people get 16 hours a week raid time requirements?
    Different guild progress at different speeds. Just because you killed Illidan raiding 6-7 hours/week, that does not mean everyone was in that boat. Heck, a majority of raiding guilds in TBC never even got to see Illidan. Most were stuck in T4.

  13. #53
    Quote Originally Posted by RicardoZ View Post
    That doesn't matter to somebody whose only goal is to see stuff and find out how the story wraps up.
    But also insist they need epics and legendary access from LFR.

    I was shouting from the roof tops in TBC I would like an easy mode for content/story view that rewarded NO LOOT. That's how much I was wanting a Lore Mode of raids just to see the story; I wanted to do the entire thing with NO REWARD. And that was STILL with raiding and getting to see Illidan properly myself.

    It was supposedly to see content, but it's not anymore. It's a separate progression path that essentially weakens the motivation of doing the other versions for many. And yeah, that's possibly epeen, but let's not kid ourselves that LFR is "to see stuff and how the story plays out."

  14. #54
    Quote Originally Posted by Kowloon View Post
    If you are satisfied with mediocrity (or lower standards than average) then that's cool and I can respect that.

    For me, I wouldn't ever play this game if it wasn't for heroic raiding.
    When did you becomes the "average standard" by which all the players of WoW are based on?

  15. #55
    Quote Originally Posted by BloodGutter View Post
    challenging myself and my guild, while also having fun with some cool people i interact with daily is fun. people who deliberately ignore easy mechanics in LFR and cause repeated wipes, especially on a fight my guild can one shot on heroic isn't.

    i can make one-sided claims based solely on my experiences too!
    Wow. You're cool.

  16. #56
    Quote Originally Posted by yjmark View Post
    Different guild progress at different speeds. Just because you killed Illidan raiding 6-7 hours/week, that does not mean everyone was in that boat. Heck, a majority of raiding guilds in TBC never even got to see Illidan. Most were stuck in T4.
    Yeah, but the fact that a pretty relaxed group taking 8 hours a week should sort of refute that raiding "required" 16 hours a week of dedication.

  17. #57
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    Quote Originally Posted by Faroth View Post
    But also insist they need epics and legendary access from LFR.
    Except I've never seen a single instance of anyone ever insisting on this. Hell, I've never even seen anyone ask for it.

    Quit blaming players for choices Blizzard made.

  18. #58
    Quote Originally Posted by JimmyHellfire View Post
    Wow. You're cool.
    just making a point. there are pros to cons to everything. just because you had a bad experience raiding with a guild with "some jackass" yelling doesn't mean that's raiding with a guild in a nutshell.

    likewise, what i said is incredibly one sided, as people like you and many others have the convenience of experiencing the content and getting loot without committing to a set time and date every week or so. or people who want to gear alts, etc. it has its benefits, i was just being a jackass to get my point across :P

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    Quote Originally Posted by Murican View Post
    +1

    We can't classify a tank and spank clusterfuck, kindergarten version of Normal/Heroic as "raiding"
    So tank and spank clusterfucks aren't raiding eh - guess a majority of my raiding in classic wasn't 'raiding'.

    Quote Originally Posted by Asmekiel View Post
    Since when is watching a video the same as doing it yourself?
    Well, we should actually be happy he feels this way. Maybe he'll stick to porn and not reproduce.

  20. #60
    What's with all the "technically" jargon? Everyone knows what raiding "technically" means. No one can deny what raiding really is though in WoW. It's coming together with friends or people that you enjoy playing with and doing something that cannot be done solo. LFR in the "technical" sense can be described as raiding, but not in it's feel. LFR hardly has the feel of a raid.

    LFR requires a few people that know what they're doing and the rest that can do whatever they want. As a tank, I know the fights and do them as required, but it really doesn't require the other tank to do too much. As a healer (in heroic gear) I can go in and solo heal the whole instance, and it doesn't require the other healers to do too much. Because of this, the feeling of LFR is not any where close to real raiding.


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