"There is a pervasive myth that making content hard will induce players to rise to the occasion. We find the opposite. " -- Ghostcrawler
"The bit about hardcore players not always caring about the long term interests of the game is spot on." -- Ghostcrawler
"Do you want a game with no casuals so about 500 players?"
Well, some of most complained about changes (valor gear, LFR, guild perks) have all been geared towards enabling a more raiding friendly game. The "boom" was intended by actions from Blizzard works quite well as a bottom line answer.
Originally Posted by BoubouilleOriginally Posted by xxAkirhaxx
Raiding has always been a small percentage. The time involvement, rigidness and pettiness makes sure to keep people away.
Raiding reminds me of this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8JQI9IkY_E
Complete with the brawl over loot or other guild drama.
That isn't the norm. Most like to relax and enjoy a game, not bring rulers to measure epeens.
From the #1 Cata review on Amazon.com: "Blizzard's greatest misstep was blaming players instead of admitting their mistakes.
They've convinced half of the population that the other half are unskilled whiners, causing a permanent rift in the community."
That's not greed that's being sensible. Why make a game and cut people out of it? Why bother spending most of your development time making content that most people can't commit to seeing?
If you've got something good show it off. Heroics are there if this concept upsets you.
You do understand how businesses work do you not?
Sounds like you have a few sticks up your ass? Like with anything in this game it boils down to who you play with, I don't see any other aspect of this game being any different from what you're talking about. It just depends how much of a dick the rest of the guys you're playing with are. In fact I find doing dailies and random 5's and even LFR more infuriating as the people you meet there treat everyone as nobody and people they can exploit and not give a damn about, atleast in our raid group people tend to not treat eachother as shit...
Personally, outside of raiding there's little to nothing -for me- to do in this game. That said I had no idea there even was a raid boom, if anything it's just LFR, and LFR is not raiding, it's just a way to get gear with little effort. I doubt you'd see people rush to LFR every week if there were no possible drop, and just a "See the content" parade.
Also, for the few people brining up the monthly payment argument..really? Now that's entitlement for ya...
It was caused by the playerbase maturing over the years, and the game being dumped down to a point where people weren't scared off.
For most people inn wow it seems redicously silly just to post an apply I bet - Something I find essential if I wanted to raid.
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I think the time around you changed and with it people changed also.
There is no deep underlying reason for it at all; it is a natural thing what is going on and it will keep happening.
Everything has to adapt to the present time, this goes for games also.
You know, there was a time that people would step into a car and travel to anywhere, just talking to eachother.
Now, people build dvd-players and screens in their cars, just to kill the time when traveling.
Having the car windows go up and down, was a luxuary thing in the past... now people demand it even in the cheapest of cars.
I remember I used to have a MAP-book in my car, for when i hot a city I didn't know the roads in. I used to stop and try to find my destination on the maps.
Now, people will laugh at me if I did the same.... navigational systems are a must, in the car, on the mobile phone...
it is just time passing by and bringing us more and more.
Last edited by Synstir; 2012-12-06 at 01:17 PM.
I do actually. Blizzard's business model doesn't work and the 40-50% off sales 2 months in a new expansion show it.
I am doing heroics actually. Close to downing Elegon hc and ToES first boss hc. What bother's me are the nerfs that will kick in soon to herd people in the already easy content. The fact that we have to do LFR, Normal and Heroic which is the same content over and over. The gating and dailies that make me sick to my stomach... the list goes on. Heroic raiding is the same crap over again not something special for raiders.
Why shoe horn people in crappy content instead of letting people do what they want? I dont want a farm but i need it for motes on my main and herbs on my alt. I dont want to do dailies but they reward 496 ilvl gear that is essential for gearing for heroics.
Blizzard's greed is just going to cause them to choke to death in the long run.