You get more casual gear faster than BiS gear that best players get. You get showered in casual gear. Seems pretty rewarding to me
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You're the one with the ego lol. You think every player should get BiS gear. Huge ego in thinking that
If the gear provides no sense of completion, it doesn't matter. People need an end point to target. You are demanding that the end point be wildly out of reach for the vast majority of players to appease a handful of toxic weirdos that can't have fun unless other people are being denied things.
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Yes, people who play wow should have fun, so that they don't MASS EXODUS a few months after every expansion and the game gets less and less resources dedicated to it by Blizzard.
You are signing the game's death warrant out of sheer arrogance.
"stop puting you idiotic liberal words into my mouth"
-ynnady
I'm demanding you decide your own end point based on your skill. I'll never reach 2400 or mythic slg or sire. So 233 weapons are unobtainable for me. I un include them from my goal gear list. Wanting things just cause other ppl have them is straight up jealousy
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Yes. I don't think my play time justifies a sub and I didn't like GW2, looking for more ideas.
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Can confirm. I love difficult content in video games; its the difficult content with other people I no longer enjoy. (Mage tower was neat)
Grinding is also effort. There really isn't incentive to do harder content, period. If the game actually reflected rewards for effort rather than difficulty gating, people would have different reasons to do the harder content than for those exclusive rewards. And if they don't do the content, then they don't do the content, which can be said of any endeavour you consider optional like Professions or Battle Pets or PVP.
Guild Wars 2 never really had a problem with having optional hard content in the game despite all the gearing stats remaining fairly static at the end-game.
Consider there are games like Diablo series where you can farm up BIS with all manners of different ways to go about it. Since the drops are a matter of RNG, it doesn't really matter what type of content you choose to do. It's all about time and effort, and the RNG is equal and fair no matter if you choose to do something safe like Bloody Hills runs or farm up some Ubers. The chance to drop may be higher with difficulty, but you have equal chances of obtaining BIS with time and effort.
WoW artificially gates this so that you are forced into one type of progression if you want any chance of obtaining BIS. That's really the only difference. It's not that people won't do it if there is no incentive; you can have any number of side progression systems in place that don't involve BIS gear drops. The BIS is gated to intentionally have people chasing that carrot on a stick every tier.
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You can keep stating that people should have fun that way, but THEY DON'T, so your continued insistence is just delusional at this point.
It's not about wanting what other people have. It is about being able to target an end point for any given patch so that you can get a sense of completion and avoid burnout. Do you care more about your ego, or about the health of the game? Do you care more about lecturing people about how they should play, or about the health of the game?
"stop puting you idiotic liberal words into my mouth"
-ynnady
I think the point he was making is that what he found fun; was popping on, running random bgs, and logging off and he misses that being a valid playstayle. Not building communities. He doesn't want to have to build communities, he wants to do what he did before that was enjoyable.
In your opinion. Please tell me again for the 15th year that wow is dying
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I join group. I say hello. They say hello back. After a particularly rough pull i say "whoa spicy lol". Get 1 or 2 "haha"s. Complete dungeon. Everyonr thanks each other. Carry on. Doesnt smell like sewer near me
Half of wow players have quit since SL launched. That is the entire boost from SL, gone. Blizzard highlighted TBC Classic over retail at Blizzcon. 9.1 is going to take as long as it took us to get to the second patch in some expansions. This is a delay like has never happened before. You are in denial if you can't see the red flags here.
Is the game going to shut off or stop producing content? No, but at this rate you can say goodbye to your large expansions with frequent content updates. They aren't going to give the game those kind of resources if it can't retain players. But you'll still have your precious ego, so thank god for that.
"stop puting you idiotic liberal words into my mouth"
-ynnady