Originally Posted by
Normie
They know that reality (girlfriend, spouse, child, work, ...) will inevitably put an end to organizing evenings around 3 x 3hr uninterruptible blocks of video game time, especially if it involves sitting alone talking to the computer screen occasionally making oddly excited noises.
It's obviously a weird, unsustainable style of gameplay, and everyone knows it. Blizzard knows it for sure. There are a few of Blizzard's customers who don't know it, though.
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Flex isn't going to be puggable by LFR players unless the difficulty that's planned for it is considerably reduced.
Normal mode is completely inaccessible to players who normally only play LFR. Not "hard" but "completely inaccessible." Tune that down a notch and call it "flex" and it will still be too hard. The only people who have progressed in normal modes during this expansion have been, basically, heroic mode raiders who have had organizational or time problems that prevent them from doing heroic.
Basically, if flex requires voice chat for pugging, it's too hard, and will be an even more marginal activity than heroic raiding.
But keep on wearing those rose-colored glasses.