That's a terrible idea for a subscription based game. Instead of the best players taking the longest to ultimately reach incredibly challenging goals, they would finish first and then quit until the next expansion.
Trying to think of if other video games had this model. Beat the old school rs inferno? Congratz, you're now 200m maxed in all skills and we'll go ahead and give you all the quest points too and 100 billion gold while you're at it. Game done. Grind over.
I had forgotten...but does anyone remember the time when Blizzard was fighting a PR reputation that WoW was the game people lost their kids, parents, spouses, and lives to?
I know we harp on Blizzard for "money grubbing time gating" now, but there was a time when they started adding caps just to keep some people from killing themselves.
actually, i wound up doing islands quite a bit as they were simply a different way to level alts. it gave me more variation in leveling. choreghast would be better if it had a path for leveling alts.
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diablo i had this model. everyone quit and begged blizz to stop everyone from hacking.
TO FIX WOW:1. smaller server sizes & server-only LFG awarding satchels, so elite players help others. 2. "helper builds" with loom powers - talent trees so elite players cast buffs on low level players XP gain, HP/mana, regen, damage, etc. 3. "helper ilvl" scoring how much you help others. 4. observer games like in SC to watch/chat (like twitch but with MORE DETAILS & inside the wow UI) 5. guild leagues to compete with rival guilds for progression (with observer mode).6. jackpot world mobs.
Yes, add this mode where you can ”beat the game” so you can gtfo and play something that actually is competetive and hard. Also add that everything there ever was, is and will be is granted to you via mail, all the mounts and transmogs. Totally supporting this.
This is a weird argument. Do you stop everything just because you've unlocked it? Is that the goal?
Ie, cataclysm expac. I finished ie BiS'd several characters and still played, because prior to dragon soul that expansion was damn near perfect. And just fun to play, regardless of how much I had left to accomplish.
What kind of weird ass logic are you using?
I enjoy harder parts of the game and find simplistic parts tedious... what does me wanting to just do mythic style content have to do with me enjoying the game? I'm suggesting a mode that simply lets me do what I enjoy... I don't understand what point your trying to make.
I was thinking about a really bad movie called the wizard figured it would be a tongue in cheek name.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098663/
None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.
High end players are already wizards IRL so they don't need a special mode for that.
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Its not though. See my page 2 post. And im not against the idea in the slightest. Id love you muppets (affectionately) being given your own progression system. Id love nothing more than aotc being the literal end game in terms of gear and everything else being flexxing. Id love nothing more than blizzard to say "at aotc youve officially beaten the game in terms of power, but now we're going to throw every affix we can design (balance be damned) at you idiots using a leaderboard (just TRY and break the meta!), and we are gonna reward you for your standing at the end of the season". I really want this. Horizontal progression from aotc. No more world first! No more mythic raiding, just a seasonal leaderboard with an infinite difficulty (and untested) curve for the hc to push (raiding is number one!). You get a playpen universe only you and players like you can play in. You get tonnes of cosmetic rewards and bragging achievements (leaderboard is on every notice/activity board in game).
You (and all the guilds jostling for position), need to work this puzzle out. You guys will be endlessly entertained. All you want to do is raid, right? Im gonna give you all the raiding you could ever dream of. Then put you in competition with every other raiding guild in existence with a leaderboard, then continually up the challenges with every affix, enrage timer and countdown (the same thing i suppose) i have at my disposal. Is it balanced? I dont really care. Solve for x.
Hell, why not wizardry you? (though it should obviously be out of reach of the mainstream playerbase - at say 25 so if it truly matters to you, you'll do it, but not so that it makes the current plus 15 crowd think 'i can do this and its such an amazing reward, so i suppose i need to do this!' - i can/need to do this are two very different perspectives that one should balance around). But the point is, you and all the other top 1000 can fight it out in a playpen sub game universe for bragging rights. Your world first heroic denathrius kill is meaningless in the scope of things because thats just step one. Youve basically made it to the ladder. Now you gotta fight for your spot.
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point is: You get your shit (something to actually push thats actually challenging and rewarding), we get to cap out at aotc making players who just like playing the game, finish their shit and MAYBE feel incentivized to push forward applying to guilds like yours.
Oh, i forgot. Id also shower you with titles, mounts (never again collectable) and gear effects no one else remotely has or could even get. If you missed it, you aint getting it again. (just so we're clear, you're getting showered with rewards for being world top 10, some rewards for being world 100, and a reward or two for being top 1000 - im taking care of you). They aint ever gonna be repeated. We are blizzard. We have the literal best talent in the world to design you some unique shit like a scarab mount (with more polygons) or a title (its like, a sentence! words are infinite!).
Point is crimson, your scope is way too narrow. I want to scythe you off from the rest of the game completely. I want to give you a challenge so difficult you'll never beat me. You just want the same bullshit, but free for accomplishing something like 10-20% of the playerbase could do right now within a week of its release (and the next 20% would finish by the time 9.1 rolls out).
That aint elite. Thats basic as shit.
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Yes! Thats perfect idea for more boosts. No tnx.