excuse me what? what "artifact quest chain" are you talking about? It is only to obtain one artifact skin? basically a transmog reward with only cosmetic value. You had to go through non lfr/random dungeon channels to do multiple mythic dungeons to do the previous step of the quest in the first place? Why should the next one be available in lfr? if you don't work for something, you don't get the reward, more than enough people in my guild who can't keep up with the raid times have killed heroic bosses on pugs already? Asking you to get off your ass to pug/join a guild to raid 1 night on normal to get a freaking cosmetic reward is too much to ask? God forbid they try to make a reward valuable and not dilute its value for once... this is why we cannot have nice things.
But when the game says " now go raiding" and you say "no" then the game just goes "okay! We are fine with that. Just saying, there is some good rewards in doing the content, which we think is the best, but you can still do many other things in the game. And if you are not having fun anymore, then we are luckily a monthly subscriber game Just don't pay us the next month and we will keep your characters ready if you ever want to join again "
Blizzard like their raiding. They think it is the best thing about MMOs and so do many other succesfull MMOs aswell. But it is something hard to do, so they have to put in some reward for players to take the extra step.
May the lore be great and the stories interesting. A game without a story, is a game without a soul. Value the lore and it will reward you with fun!
Don't let yourself be satisfied with what you expect and what you seem as obvious. Ask for something good, surprising and better. Your own standards ends up being other peoples standard.
A lot of people seem to be missing why this is such a big problem so here's a quick explanation:
- In order to unlock a colour variant of a skin you have to first unlock the "base" version of that skin.
- For some reason the hardest PVE skin to obtain is the "base" skin for the 3rd skin tree.
- This means that in order to obtain the skin for killing some world bosses or the two skins for doing some dungeons, the player must first obtain the skin for raiding which isn't available through LFR.
- This puts that entire row of skins out of reach for the majority of players (<20% of players raid normal).
Obviously this issue doesn't affect me however unlike some raiders I don't see the point in taking satisfaction in this injustice, it's wrong, just because it doesn't hurt me doesn't stop it being wrong, the player base should stand together when Blizzard do stupid shit like this not laugh at the ones being victimised.
Because anything unique has a high value It is nice to get something good for doing something extra in the game. This cosmetic skin feels like a good reward
Again, people are not upset, that other players want their skin. It is that people want the skin, without really doing any hardship for it. LFR is very hated in large parts of the raiding community, so anything being availible in there lowers the value of doing raiding on a normal lvl.
May the lore be great and the stories interesting. A game without a story, is a game without a soul. Value the lore and it will reward you with fun!
Don't let yourself be satisfied with what you expect and what you seem as obvious. Ask for something good, surprising and better. Your own standards ends up being other peoples standard.
"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?"
Very good change. People now have to actually play the game to get the items instead of just afking in LFR and let others do the job.
Last edited by Kuul; 2016-09-28 at 10:06 AM.
It's an MMO. The biggest one out there, and probably with the most diverse audience. There are multiple ways of enjoying your stay in the game, not everyone plays the same, and for 99.9% of you there will always be something in the game that you either can't, or don't want to reach or attain. Accept it. You are not paying to have everything in the game handed to you. Log out, get a single player game and use console cheat codes if that's what you want.
How exactly am I greedy ? Greedy is the exact thing that I assume every whiner in this thread is, for wanting to get everything via LFR. It's ridiculous! If it's too hard for you to PUG through normal mode raids, then so be it, you don't deserve the rewards of normal mode raiding. It's as simple as that. I'm glad they actually changed the item models to look like some junk and not like items from the actual content.
If you work hard to clear certain encounters on certain difficulties, you just hate seeing some LFR guy with the exact same model transmogged. period.
If you can't deal with the fact that not everything in life (not even in a video game) comes to you at 0 cost, that is probably your own problem.