Their offerings are the exact same, they are just diversifying. Did they remove the open world? Did they remove the treasure chests everywhere will bad loot that is the signature of Pof? BM is in every way a PoF map sans hearts, so it is kinda like a pof/hot hybrid map.
Anet is trying to please everyone, that is why we have instanced content, jumping puzzles and world bosses. The meta should reflect doing everything there is to do in the content, like it has always been. How many time has the meta be locked behind doing jumping puzzles (which is one is also). There have been threads on this board complaining about jumping puzzles, but those people still have the do them to complete the meta.
Right now Anet needs to hold strong on this issue, and stop cow towing to this minority of players whining they can't just have everything handed to them.
OK ... whatever you want to call it, it's not worth a pedantic argument. No one is arguing that they want everything handed to them, so whatever sensationalism you want to peddle to push your agenda, it's not really welcome here. The point is how Anet offers content to players and how it affects 'winning', which in this case is getting achievements/map completion/etc ...
Trust me, if 'cowtowing' to the people that patronize Anet is what Anet needs to do to make this game live on, you WILL see it. Sooner or later, Anet must focus on the things that make this game it's own and the reasons that made it successful in the first place. That's certainly not what we see happening with strike missions linked to meta ... but hey, that's Anet's risk, not players.
If you're on a highway and roadrunner goes "beep beep"
Just step aside or you might end up in a heap
And you are a vocal minority. And there is evidence to show this. Using gw2 efficiency data, of the 49653 people who started the episode, 8677 people have killed strike whisper of jormag, the boss the same difficultly as a raid boss. Compare this to people who completed all the light puzzles, 7433, jumping puzzles are a bigger barrier to the meta than strikes. If you ignore boneskinner achievements (he been bugged since the update) or the high skill "flawless" strike achievements, the lowest completed achievements are the mundane repeat events 20 times. Honestly repeating the same unrewarding event 20 is probably the biggest gate from completing the meta, not doing the strikes.
The moment you choose to work on an achievement, you're not casually playing, especially when you participate in any, albeit friendly, competition. If you're working on achievements, masteries, map complettion, etc. -- you are working, not casually playing. If I completed an achievement (i.e. Agent of Entropy), yay, but by no means I worked for it and it means nothing.
_Why does choosing to work on an achievement make me not play casually or completing a map? Lots of achievements happen without even knowing you are doing them - killing 10 Ice Imps or consuming a food item, or using a transmutation charge to change an armour/weapon look, killing things with a weapon gets you another. Very few have to actively pursued and I haven't done any of the raid achievements. _
Crafting legendaries is not for casual either. You may call yourself casual, but your activities disagrees with you.
Who is it that says legendaries are not for casual players? Legendaries, gen 1 at least[ if you buy or get a precursor drop], are just crafting and following the wiki on how to make. I have played since launch and amassed a lot of materials and I was a bit apprehensive at first as it sounded complicated but if you take a step by step approach it's not complex or hard. The first one is a bit of work as you might have to follow the wiki but that does make it simple. .
You have a very strange definition of what a casual player is, but that's your choice. I'm not going to argue with that, instead I'll simply disagree.
Usage of the word casual seems to mean different things to different people. What makes you a casual player, ie how are you using this to define your play style?
I do not like to apply labels to how other people or groups of people play this game because there are so many reasons why they play the way they do. But I do define myself as casual as opposed to hardcore. I don't often play with a meta build, I just choose what seems ok, I use berserker gear on my characters, and most only have exotic gear, and I have sometimes played without accessories or rings. I do play to have fun and enjoy the game. I like helping people but I often don't like playing in groups Im not very social, bu tI am fairly casual.
I personally like that its there because this is an mmo and i relate mmos with multiplayer cooperative content, which sadly i didnt get from drakkar (feelsbadman).
I think its perfectly fine for an mmo to incentivise group content, esp content that incentivises some communication and party forming versus the play alone together aproach of the ow.
But im biased towards that kind of content and very much enjoyed content like it in the past (fractals, dungeons, raids and even hot meta way back when it was still fresh ish).
Ill go as far as to say the ep mastery requiring the strike made it feel like early hot to me.
@Ayrilana.1396 said:
For all of those that don't like having to do strike mission achievements for the meta: have you actually done strikes and put as much effort into them as you would have done for any story or open world achievement? I have a suspicion that a lot of those that don't like it probably have never actually done strikes or at least put much effort into it.
Doesn’t matter. The strike mission requirements should be removed from the completion equation.
Based on what? That you don't like them? I didn't particularly enjoy grinding events so those should be removed too.
As I've said numerous times, it's not the strike missions that's the problem, it's the change. Do you remember how the personal story had to be changed from a dungeon to a solo instance because people complained? The same thing happened to me in Rift. THe main story line ended in a raid. I didn't want to raid and it was one of the main things that drove me from that game. I suppose I should be thankful on that count.
But if you want to raise the bar, in my opinion, this isn't the way to do it. It's long been a problem with the nature of open world PvE being so casual in this game. You change the game you lose the playerbase. It's just logic.
I wish the story bosses of gw2 were at least strike 5-10 man encounters. Would make these fights so much more meaningful to me. It doesnt even need be hard, just make it a group content with group mechanics and ill be very pleased.
I find that we kill elder dragons, gods, immortal litches etc practicly solo very immersion breaking.
I initially hopped in here ready to agree with the original post. I was upset that strike missions were required for the map. Then after slogging through the thread and seeing the 54225846 replies to every single person expressing an opposing viewpoint, basically saying nothing new, but threatening to leave, and reading the various reasonable, logical replies, I have changed my mind.
I mean, after all, I already like raiding. I raid three nights a week. I was disliking the requirements because strike mission rewards are lackluster and my raid groups don't want to do them. Glad to hear from responses that they can be pugged.
Oh, incidentally. About age. I am 54 and am the third oldest on those teams. Age has nothing to do with whether or not someone can raid.
@Shadowmoon.7986 said:
You are assuming they knew how they were changing the difficulty. They added crits to objects and increased the condi cap. They didn't know how that would effect the world bosses. In less than a week they doubled all the bosses health.
It was the opposite. First they did the condi rework. Then they doubled world boss health, to compensate to that. And then, when they realized they overdid it with that last change, they allowed bosses to be crittable to compensate. And when they noticed that the end result was still a nerf compared to pre-condi rework state? They did nothing, and left the situation as it was.
@Randulf.7614 said:
As I said above - the feedback that Anet have is that players appear to want to do it, they just find obstacles to doing it and have asked for those obstacles to be removed. The desire seems to exist based on that reply from Andrew Gray. That is why they are pushing these strikes so hard. Any statement from us otherwise flows against the feedback they have gathered.
Problem is, when casual players say that what's preventing them from doing raids is raid difficulty, that doesn't mean they say they want to play better. They are saying that they wants raids to become easier. Pushing players into strikes does exactly nothing to change that. It just will cause them to protest against both raids and strikes. And, as long as strikes are required to do it, against the LS meta.
@Ayrilana.1396 said:
For all of those that don't like having to do strike mission achievements for the meta: have you actually done strikes and put as much effort into them as you would have done for any story or open world achievement? I have a suspicion that a lot of those that don't like it probably have never actually done strikes or at least put much effort into it.
Yes. I have also done practically all of raid wings W1 to W6 achieves (apart from dhuum and Qadim CMs). Still not fan of strikes being required for LS meta.
@Randulf.7614 said:
Act 4 of HoT requires Migraine as part of the achievement meta - a hard multi player instanced version of the story. If anything requiring more commitment than a strike mission. WHy is that OK and not a precedent for scaring off the population.
Oh, it wasn't okay, and it did generate a lot of negative reactions then.
I still very much resent Anet for that - that achi alone delayed my meta completions of many LS metas by at least a year. Not having HoT meta completed i didn't care as much about finishing LS3 metas, and started to work on them more only after i finally managed to finish Migraine. As a result i still don't have all of those done yet - before i got finished with them, lot of other stuff happened that decreased my enjoyment in this game.
This meta i didn't even bother to start working on, and strikes are one of the major factors.
The whole point of a social game is to play with the people you want to play with, not be forced to play with the people you don't.
@Shadowmoon.7986 said:
You are assuming they knew how they were changing the difficulty. They added crits to objects and increased the condi cap. They didn't know how that would effect the world bosses. In less than a week they doubled all the bosses health.
It was the opposite. First they did the condi rework. Then they doubled world boss health, to compensate to that. And then, when they realized they overdid it with that last change, they allowed bosses to be crittable to compensate. And when they noticed that the end result was still a nerf compared to pre-condi rework state? They did nothing, and left the situation as it was.
@Randulf.7614 said:
As I said above - the feedback that Anet have is that players appear to want to do it, they just find obstacles to doing it and have asked for those obstacles to be removed. The desire seems to exist based on that reply from Andrew Gray. That is why they are pushing these strikes so hard. Any statement from us otherwise flows against the feedback they have gathered.
Problem is, when casual players say that what's preventing them from doing raids is raid difficulty, that doesn't mean they say they want to play better. They are saying that they wants raids to become easier. Pushing players into strikes does exactly nothing to change that. It just will cause them to protest against both raids and strikes. And, as long as strikes are required to do it, against the LS meta.
@Ayrilana.1396 said:
For all of those that don't like having to do strike mission achievements for the meta: have you actually done strikes and put as much effort into them as you would have done for any story or open world achievement? I have a suspicion that a lot of those that don't like it probably have never actually done strikes or at least put much effort into it.
Yes. I have also done practically all of raid wings W1 to W6 achieves (apart from dhuum and Qadim CMs). Still not fan of strikes being required for LS meta.
@Randulf.7614 said:
Act 4 of HoT requires Migraine as part of the achievement meta - a hard multi player instanced version of the story. If anything requiring more commitment than a strike mission. WHy is that OK and not a precedent for scaring off the population.
Oh, it wasn't okay, and it did generate a lot of negative reactions then.
I still very much resent Anet for that - that achi alone delayed my meta completions of many LS metas by at least a year. Not having HoT meta completed i didn't care as much about finishing LS3 metas, and started to work on them more only after i finally managed to finish Migraine. As a result i still don't have all of those done yet - before i got finished with them, lot of other stuff happened that decreased my enjoyment in this game.
This meta i didn't even bother to start working on, and strikes are one of the major factors.
I personally agree that migraine likely shouldnt have been required because of the dificulty, but it deff deserved an achievement and good rewards (if not an achievements tab on its own)
That being said, base mordremoth fight should be a 5 to 10 man encounter and be required for act 4 and ill die on this hill, that fight felt like the most immersive fight in the game because of the lore aplication and context. We faught a god like being as a group of heroes and prevailed instead of graverushing it as a simple mortal doing it solo.
@Cyninja.2954 said:
Please don't take my post out of context or at least try to keep it in context. The part you quoted was relating to a thread in the dungeon forum and relating to raids specifically. I explicitly remarked about that and did alter the meaning of this quote to this current thread.
Then you should not have quoted that large text block yourself from another thread/context unchanged.
@Cyninja.2954 said:
So no, I disagree that more invested players will not spend money on items
I did not write about "invested" players, whatever "invested" could mean. I wrote about raiders. Now you disagree with something, I did not even wrote.
@Cyninja.2954 said:
Also your perception and understanding of whales is quite incorrect. Players being whales has seldom to do with how much gold/currency they acquire in a game.
And again, you disagree with something, I did not even wrote. In fact I wrote:
@Zok.4956 said:
And usually, the "whales" (the players that spent a lot of real money for the game) ...
https://www.gw2gh.com/ - A GW2-Guild-Hall.
Register and check your guild leaderboard to see who is the best in your guild and who finished achievements first.
@Cyninja.2954 said:
Please don't take my post out of context or at least try to keep it in context. The part you quoted was relating to a thread in the dungeon forum and relating to raids specifically. I explicitly remarked about that and did alter the meaning of this quote to this current thread.
Then you should not have quoted that large text block yourself from another thread/context unchanged.
You mean the big block of text which I clearly prefaced that it is from a different thread, then right after set into context how the argument there can be applied here and the train of thought adapted to this context? Seems to me, you could have simply actually read what you were quoting and commenting. Everybody else in this thread was able to, you were the only one who had problems it seems.
@Cyninja.2954 said:
So no, I disagree that more invested players will not spend money on items
I did not write about "invested" players, whatever "invested" could mean. I wrote about raiders. Now you disagree with something, I did not even wrote.
Yes, it was clear that you were quoting and referencing something absolutely unrelated to this thread.
@Cyninja.2954 said:
Also your perception and understanding of whales is quite incorrect. Players being whales has seldom to do with how much gold/currency they acquire in a game.
And again, you disagree with something, I did not even wrote. In fact I wrote:
@Zok.4956 said:
And usually, the "whales" (the players that spent a lot of real money for the game) ...
You referenced whales, which you prefaced with comments about raiders and then directly commented how you did not believe raiders are a huge revenue stream for Arenanet. You were either very unclear and accidentally mixed up two different points. Or worse you tried to insinuate something and are now backpedaling. Neither is good form of arguing.
Either way, I disagreed that being a raider would in anyway relate to being a whale or not. I set into context what I believe makes up a whale and I gave examples of why your argument need not apply to raiders in this game (aka they being super wealthy gold wise and all etc).
My main point remains:
I believe players who are most invested in the game are the most likely to spend money, and as mentioned before, I do not differentiate between casual or hardcore players only if it might change the likelihood of a player becoming more invested.
Please quote and address my comments in proper context, get back on topic, or just ignore what I am writing if you do not intend to put in the effort for proper debate.
@Shadowmoon.7986 said:
Their offerings are the exact same, they are just diversifying. Did they remove the open world? Did they remove the treasure chests everywhere will bad loot that is the signature of Pof? BM is in every way a PoF map sans hearts, so it is kinda like a pof/hot hybrid map.
Anet is trying to please everyone, that is why we have instanced content, jumping puzzles and world bosses. The meta should reflect doing everything there is to do in the content, like it has always been. How many time has the meta be locked behind doing jumping puzzles (which is one is also). There have been threads on this board complaining about jumping puzzles, but those people still have the do them to complete the meta.
Right now Anet needs to hold strong on this issue, and stop cow towing to this minority of players whining they can't just have everything handed to them.
There's a Christmas meta. It has a bunch of stuff in it, but if you can't stand jumping puzzles you don't have to do it to get htat meta. They include options. I skip mad king says every year and do the jumping puzzle instead. Again options. I don't believe people should be forced to do a hard jumping puzzle to get a meta, nor do I think people should be forced into strike missions.
@Shadowmoon.7986 said:
And you are a vocal minority. And there is evidence to show this. Using gw2 efficiency data, of the 49653 people who started the episode, 8677 people have killed strike whisper of jormag, the boss the same difficultly as a raid boss. Compare this to people who completed all the light puzzles, 7433, jumping puzzles are a bigger barrier to the meta than strikes. If you ignore boneskinner achievements (he been bugged since the update) or the high skill "flawless" strike achievements, the lowest completed achievements are the mundane repeat events 20 times. Honestly repeating the same unrewarding event 20 is probably the biggest gate from completing the meta, not doing the strikes.
It's really funny because that statisitc would showthat I completed the new strike misson. I was carried through it and lay there dead for the last 13% of the boss, after a wipe. So I'm part of that statistic. I haven't gotten to the light puzzles yet, which I enjoy. So that statistic on GW 2 efficiency woulde be meaningless. IN fact, people can get carried through the strike mission but really can't be carried through light puzzles. It's a solo activity. I think a better metric is how many casual people that might have been doing light puzzles, saw the need for the strike mission and stopped playing the game or at least the zone.
Okay so I guess part of the problem here is in my head. It's not that I'm incapable of doing strike missions. It's that they were added to encourage me to raid and I don't want to raid, so I don't need to be "encouraged" to do something that is simply not in my list of things I want to enjoy. They didn't say, oh we're adding strike missions because we think most people will find them fun. They said we need path to raids, not enouugh people are raiding and we want to continue to offer raids. So strike missions...the path to raids. They want people to get better at the game so they're giving them a land bridge. Do this content, you'll get better than then you can raid. I have two problems with this.
First, my issue isn't that I'm bad or not good enough. It's a bad assumption. I'm good enough to raid, but I don't enjoy that type of content. It's not about skill. It's about why and how I play. I play for a living breathing world, not an instance where at 75% this happens and at 50% that happens, okay everyone run into the green circle, okay everyone dodge, okay everyone jump. This is not why I play. I didn't come here to raid or do raid like content. I came here to get away from games that strongly encouraged you to raid by making it the defacto end game.
I was against adding raids to this game because I said it would change the game. And people said no, no. Raids are a seperate thing. They're just offering new content for people who want to play this harder stuff. I said well then there will be all sorts of exclusive rewards you guys get and I'm not going to be having any of that, because I bought a game where raids didn't exist and adopted it as my game for a reason. Okay I dealt with that. I dealt with the whole I won't ever have the legendary armor skins, even though I like collecting skins, because I'm not going to do something I don't enjoy to get them.
Cut to today and again, my game is changing because of raids. Not because this is something that they think I'll necessarily find fun. But to say raids doesnt' have enough players, here's some encouragement oh and btw, too bad about the meta achievement you enjoy going for. Raids have again affected me game.
So yesterday I was about to take a guy who contacted me from reddit on a hero point run and he said hey, my friend said he'd carry me through a strike mission wanna come? We were already grouped so I so sure. I did the older strike mission and the newer one.
I stood on a tag. I dodged when I needed to. I didn't die at all until the new strike mission. There I died a bit earlier the first time and when the boss was at 13%. In order to enjoy this stuff you have to do it again and again. You have to learn the fight. You have to understand what's expected. But even after doing that with other similar content, I still don't enjoy the content. So Anet is asking me to get carried for an achievement and then go back to my regular game. But the only reason I need to do this is to get more people ready for raids, which on their own have failed to get the required player base.
So will they get enough people from this, or kitten off more people? Will Anet keep doing this every time a new zone comes out. I used to look forward to new zones, but with strike missions there'll be this element of, oh man, let me get through this. It's like eating my vegetable when I was a kid.
If raids couldn't make it on their own, while is what I enjoy suddenly being altered to help them along? It feels to me like Anet is throwing good money after bad. I'm convinced this game would be doing better if raids had never been introduced. But they're here now, I get it. Doesn't mean I have to like having it affect areas of the game that I want to play, particularly because I don't think many will get into raiding because of this. This is my experience in the new strike mission. I did what I had to do till the boss was at 13% when I died. Can't use a revive orb. Can't be rezzed, so I lay there until it was done and got my credit. Fun for me? Nah. Would I do it again...well that's the thing....I'm a guild leader. Aren't I obligated to learn this content to help my guild through it so they can all get those achievements. This fundamentally changes the game for me.
@Shadowmoon.7986 said:
And you are a vocal minority. And there is evidence to show this. Using gw2 efficiency data, of the 49653 people who started the episode, 8677 people have killed strike whisper of jormag, the boss the same difficultly as a raid boss. Compare this to people who completed all the light puzzles, 7433, jumping puzzles are a bigger barrier to the meta than strikes. If you ignore boneskinner achievements (he been bugged since the update) or the high skill "flawless" strike achievements, the lowest completed achievements are the mundane repeat events 20 times. Honestly repeating the same unrewarding event 20 is probably the biggest gate from completing the meta, not doing the strikes.
It's really funny because that statisitc would showthat I completed the new strike misson. I was carried through it and lay there dead for the last 13% of the boss, after a wipe. So I'm part of that statistic. I haven't gotten to the light puzzles yet, which I enjoy. So that statistic on GW 2 efficiency woulde be meaningless. IN fact, people can get carried through the strike mission but really can't be carried through light puzzles. It's a solo activity. I think a better metric is how many casual people that might have been doing light puzzles, saw the need for the strike mission and stopped playing the game or at least the zone.
A metric impossible to obtain and on top of that includes the vague, wishy washy term of "casual" which indicates absolutely nothing because no one will ever agree what casual actually means. It's one of those nonsense buzz words that more often than not gets thrown in to define whatever people want it to define.
However, I will jump to your defence on this one. GW2 efficiency is an (ironically) inefficient guideline to prove much. Dedicated players are more likely to jump in to play the strike first (it's new, it's unique, it's got challenging mechanics etc etc) and are also more likely to be on GW efficiency. Strikes are also more time sensitive due to population variations so players will get that done as soon as they can or as soon as teams appear - it gets priority. The JPs can be done at any time at leisure, so they move down the priority list. I'm more inclined to play at peak and if I want something to do, I'm more inclined to do a strike in that time than a repeatable JP. Because it would be wasteful not to.
What sleep is here? What dreams there are in the unctuous coiling of the snakes mortal shuffling. weapon in my hand. My hand the arcing deathblow at the end of all things. The horror. The horror. I embrace it. . .
@YtseJam.9784 said:
I just realized that we need to do Strike Missions in order to complete new map mastery? W.T.F? In 7 years playing this I've never seen something like this. There's a lot of people that don't do raid/strike mission content and shouldn't be forced to do them to complete a map's mastery. This is ridiculous ANET. You really need to make it optional like the previous ones cause not everyone does strike missions. That is content for a small portion of the community. I see what you are doing there and trying to force people to do them, but this is not the way. Make it more attractive so more players can join, but don't make it mandatory for personal progression. Just another failed thought process. So disappointed.
Hold on there... They added a new mastery point (bounties) and 2 mastery insights in Grothmar with same patch so you may want to check out there again
@Shadowmoon.7986 said:
And you are a vocal minority. And there is evidence to show this. Using gw2 efficiency data, of the 49653 people who started the episode, 8677 people have killed strike whisper of jormag, the boss the same difficultly as a raid boss. Compare this to people who completed all the light puzzles, 7433, jumping puzzles are a bigger barrier to the meta than strikes. If you ignore boneskinner achievements (he been bugged since the update) or the high skill "flawless" strike achievements, the lowest completed achievements are the mundane repeat events 20 times. Honestly repeating the same unrewarding event 20 is probably the biggest gate from completing the meta, not doing the strikes.
I don't even know what you are talking about. I don't care who did what, how many or what 'vocal' classification you think people belong in so you pretend their concerns aren't worth considering. I get you have an agenda to push content you like, but no one here is suggesting to remove content. I think you need to go back and check yourself and understand clearly what is being asked for. There isn't any reason to feel threatened by what the OP is asking for. Disassociating strike mission achievements from meta achievements isn't some unreasonable ask and no one is asking anyone to just hand them things. Give your head a shake.
If you're on a highway and roadrunner goes "beep beep"
Just step aside or you might end up in a heap
So by your own admission, you did the strike and completed it. It is not locking you out of the meta. Doesn't it make your own argument moot and make this into a troll thread?
50k accounts is not a small sample size, they are probably representive of the entire playerbase seeing have only 30k of them have finished living story part. That is right 40% of the accounts have not finished the 2 hours of story content, clearly efficiency has casuals in its sample. And again, just saying you dislike my method, but unless you can come put up another objective measurement, you are honest just blowing hot air sprinkled in with antidotes and personal bias.
@Shadowmoon.7986 said:
So by your own admission, you did the strike and completed it. It is not locking you out of the meta. Doesn't it make your own argument mute and make this into a troll thread?
If that was actually the concern being expressed you would be right.
If you're on a highway and roadrunner goes "beep beep"
Just step aside or you might end up in a heap
@Shadowmoon.7986 said:
So by your own admission, you did the strike and completed it. It is not locking you out of the meta. Doesn't it make your own argument moot and make this into a troll thread?
50k accounts is not a small sample size, they are probably representive of the entire playerbase seeing have only 30k of them have finished living story part. That is right 40% of the accounts have not finished the 2 hours of story content, clearly efficiency has casuals in its sample. And again, just saying you dislike my method, but unless you can come put up another objective measurement, you are honest just blowing hot air sprinkled in with antidotes and personal bias.
@Shadowmoon.7986 said:
So by your own admission, you did the strike and completed it. It is not locking you out of the meta. Doesn't it make your own argument moot and make this into a troll thread?
50k accounts is not a small sample size, they are probably representive of the entire playerbase seeing have only 30k of them have finished living story part. That is right 40% of the accounts have not finished the 2 hours of story content, clearly efficiency has casuals in its sample. And again, just saying you dislike my method, but unless you can come put up another objective measurement, you are honest just blowing hot air sprinkled in with antidotes and personal bias.
The fact that I had to ruined my enjoyment of the meta, and therefore the entire zone. I'm not sure why that's so hard to understand.
At no point did I say I can't do this. What I said was the game is now asking me to do something I've never had to do before, that I don't enjoy, specifically to prepare me for doing raids, which I could do if I wanted and don't enjoy. Anet is assume people don't raid because they're not good enough. People don't raid because raiding isn't fun for them. Strike missions aren't fun for me.
If this trend keeps up and Anet is going to require me to do something I don't like in every single zone that comes out in the Saga, I'm going to stop doing it. And if I stop doing the new zones, it's only a matter of time before I play the game less and less. It's very simple logic.
So:
I don't believe strike missions will significantly increase the number of people raiding
I don't believe the core game should change based on trying to get people to do an activity the community has already judged and say no to.
I believe people will be disenfranchised by this change and will play less or leave the game, or spend less in the cash shop.
@Jayden Reese.9542 said:
Glad you tried a strike or 2 and nothing all to terrible happened. Now go finish the map and at some point I bet they drop some reqs off meta like they did for drakkar and holidays and that roller beetle race time limit etc.
You need like 7 achievements from Strike missions. I don't have those yet. I have to go back into Strike Missions to get the meta.
@Cyninja.2954 said:
Also your perception and understanding of whales is quite incorrect. Players being whales has seldom to do with how much gold/currency they acquire in a game.
And again, you disagree with something, I did not even wrote. In fact I wrote:
@Zok.4956 said:
And usually, the "whales" (the players that spent a lot of real money for the game) ...
You referenced whales, which you prefaced with comments about raiders and then directly commented how you did not believe raiders are a huge revenue stream for Arenanet. You were either very unclear and accidentally mixed up two different points.
Or you could just read and try to understand what I wrote instead of again arguing just for the sake of disagreeing about something what I did not wrote. Or just follow your own advice and just ignore what I am writing if you do not intend to put in the effort for proper debate.
Raiders earn gold and can convert gold to gems if they want to buy something with gems and very often they do not need to buy gems with real money. Whales on the other hand buy a lot of gems with real money because they do not make enough gold to convert it into all the gems they want.
Whales generate the main revenue stream in the gem-shop/microtransactions. The whales that I know are not raiders. The raiders (this includes myself) that I know are not whales. Raiders and whales are typically different player types. Of course it is possible, that there are raiders, that are also whales, but this would be a very small percentage of raiders and given the already small population of raiders in this game, it would be even less players, so this would not result in a significant revenue stream.
The population of raiders is so small at the moment, that Anet can not justify to invest money to create more raids. If the raid population would create a significant revenue stream, Anet would simply create more raids for this players and this revenue stream instead of creating strike-missions.
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@Jayden Reese.9542 said:
Glad you tried a strike or 2 and nothing all to terrible happened. Now go finish the map and at some point I bet they drop some reqs off meta like they did for drakkar and holidays and that roller beetle race time limit etc.
You need like 7 achievements from Strike missions. I don't have those yet. I have to go back into Strike Missions to get the meta.
Ya 7. I assume u got kodan not get downed only. I have 0 from jormag so if you got 1 from that you ahead. I'd do Kodan until I had all but up to you. Next week Fraenir kinda easy so you'll get 2 there at least and right when you get 37/37 anet will patch it down to 30/30 so you can look forward to that
Right or I can ignore it and send Anet a message that this is not really acceptable to me, and hope they don't keep doing it. Because I really don't want to. I didn't go for legendary armor, because I didnt' want to raid. I get that I can get it. It's not fun enough for me to bother, and that's an issue, no matter how you slice it. If they're trying to tain people for raids, I don't think it'll work. If they're trying to annoy people like me, it's worked.
@Cyninja.2954 said:
Also your perception and understanding of whales is quite incorrect. Players being whales has seldom to do with how much gold/currency they acquire in a game.
And again, you disagree with something, I did not even wrote. In fact I wrote:
@Zok.4956 said:
And usually, the "whales" (the players that spent a lot of real money for the game) ...
You referenced whales, which you prefaced with comments about raiders and then directly commented how you did not believe raiders are a huge revenue stream for Arenanet. You were either very unclear and accidentally mixed up two different points.
Or you could just read and try to understand what I wrote instead of again arguing just for the sake of disagreeing about something what I did not wrote. Or just follow your own advice and just ignore what I am writing if you do not intend to put in the effort for proper debate.
Raiders earn gold and can convert gold to gems if they want to buy something with gems and very often they do not need to buy gems with real money. Whales on the other hand buy a lot of gems with real money because they do not make enough gold to convert it into all the gems they want.
Whales generate the main revenue stream in the gem-shop/microtransactions. The whales that I know are not raiders. The raiders (this includes myself) that I know are not whales. Raiders and whales are typically different player types. Of course it is possible, that there are raiders, that are also whales, but this would be a very small percentage of raiders and given the already small population of raiders in this game, it would be even less players, so this would not result in a significant revenue stream.
The population of raiders is so small at the moment, that Anet can not justify to invest money to create more raids. If the raid population would create a significant revenue stream, Anet would simply create more raids for this players and this revenue stream instead of creating strike-missions.
I'm not a raider, but I definitely believe I'm a whale.
@Cyninja.2954 said:
Also your perception and understanding of whales is quite incorrect. Players being whales has seldom to do with how much gold/currency they acquire in a game.
And again, you disagree with something, I did not even wrote. In fact I wrote:
@Zok.4956 said:
And usually, the "whales" (the players that spent a lot of real money for the game) ...
You referenced whales, which you prefaced with comments about raiders and then directly commented how you did not believe raiders are a huge revenue stream for Arenanet. You were either very unclear and accidentally mixed up two different points.
Or you could just read and try to understand what I wrote instead of again arguing just for the sake of disagreeing about something what I did not wrote. Or just follow your own advice and just ignore what I am writing if you do not intend to put in the effort for proper debate.
Fine, let's see what you wrote:
@Zok.4956 said:
Raiders earn gold and can convert gold to gems if they want to buy something with gems and very often they do not need to buy gems with real money. Whales on the other hand buy a lot of gems with real money because they do not make enough gold to convert it into all the gems they want.
Raiders earn 60 liquid gold and around 20-40 gold in exotics per week. Add in the remaining loot, and you might get another 20 gold of value out of that. How do I know? I've been full clearing weekly within 3-4 hours on reset for months, and have run the gw2efficiency farming tracker multiple times during those clears.
That's around 100 gold per week a raider makes. Unless they are raid selling, which a very very very tiny fraction of the raid players do. That is without even accounting for players who do NOT full clear in 3-4 hours, of which the majority of players do not. Yes, that is without accounting for spare ascended gear, which many veteran players have multiple sets of, no matter if they raid or not if they've been playing for multiple years (and ascended is not easily, or at all monetize able).
Any player who runs daily fractals, is making more gold per week than players that only raid. Any player that does 1-2 hours of RIBA per day, or similar farms, is making more gold per week than a raider, matching the gold per hour of fast full clear groups.
The players who are super rich, as you point them out, are TP traders. Being a TP trader is unaffiliated to any content in this game.
I fail to see your argument make the criteria for raiders being wealthy enough to not buy gems. You are nicely playing off of a stereotype though: the oh so rich raiders subjugating the masses of poor casual players.
@Zok.4956 said:
Whales generate the main revenue stream in the gem-shop/microtransactions. The whales that I know are not raiders. The raiders (this includes myself) that I know are not whales. Raiders and whales are typically different player types. Of course it is possible, that there are raiders, that are also whales, but this would be a very small percentage of raiders and given the already small population of raiders in this game, it would be even less players, so this would not result in a significant revenue stream.
The population of raiders is so small at the moment, that Anet can not justify to invest money to create more raids. If the raid population would create a significant revenue stream, Anet would simply create more raids for this players and this revenue stream instead of creating strike-missions.
Without repeating myself, I've already explained why and how I define how players can get invested, and a central aspect of that being highly committed to the game, let's bring this down to 1 question again:
You are saying a vast majority of whales would not be raiders, ultimately arguing that devoting resources or content design to this niche group of players is incorrect, which seems to go against the developers approach (which offers enough potential discussion because in the end, the devs have all the metrics), fine. Let's reduce the resources devoted and all content design away from the hardcore player base. That is already mostly the case and has been for the entirety of 2019 btw.
So:
What if you are wrong? Are you willing to bet the games existence on your assumption?
EDIT: and congratulations, you managed to derail this topic to once again raiders versus non raiders. Something I intentionally tried to not raise and tried to avoid when making my comments earlier. Hence why I gave a clear explanation with my original post as to which aspects are relevant to this discussion and raised the question: what if all parts of the player base are needed for a healthy financial performance, and how would that change people's perception on topic creators issue?
@Vayne.8563 said:
Anet is assume people don't raid because they're not good enough. People don't raid because raiding isn't fun for them.
I'm not defending adding strikes to the meta, but there are plenty of people who don't raid because they're not good enough. The constant dying due to lack of game knowledge eventually leads to frustration that leads to not liking raids. And there are people who just don't like raids at all as you say. Both of these types can exist at the same time. You can't just say everyone who doesn't raid does it strictly because they don't like raiding. It's difficult and the gap between open world bosses that require nothing more than afking while auto attacking and raiding isn't something someone should just expect to pug into one random night and 1 shot every boss for free stuff.
It wouldn't hurt the game if something coerced some players to do more than press 1 with a condi weapon while wearing a mix of magi/soldier gear with green runes in it.
But to clarify, I don't think forcing people into strikes for the meta is the way to go.
I don't really have any preference; Strikes or no Strikes, but it just seems a bit like cutting one's nose off to spite one's face to refuse to do the content one enjoys because there is content included that one does not enjoy.
Personally, I just play the parts of the game I do enjoy, and leave the parts others enjoy to...well, those that enjoy those parts.
It's just a game, after all.
(I think something will be done, though, as some seem unhappy with this Meta. Perhaps, lol, I should have created threads expressing my unhappiness for all the Meta's I didn't complete because they included Achievements I didn't care for. /shrug)
@Shadowmoon.7986 said:
And you are a vocal minority. And there is evidence to show this. Using gw2 efficiency data, of the 49653 people who started the episode, 8677 people have killed strike whisper of jormag, the boss the same difficultly as a raid boss. Compare this to people who completed all the light puzzles, 7433, jumping puzzles are a bigger barrier to the meta than strikes. If you ignore boneskinner achievements (he been bugged since the update) or the high skill "flawless" strike achievements, the lowest completed achievements are the mundane repeat events 20 times. Honestly repeating the same unrewarding event 20 is probably the biggest gate from completing the meta, not doing the strikes.
Only 8K players did strike? Thats a very small number.
@Vayne.8563 said:
Anet is assume people don't raid because they're not good enough. People don't raid because raiding isn't fun for them.
I'm not defending adding strikes to the meta, but there are plenty of people who don't raid because they're not good enough. The constant dying due to lack of game knowledge eventually leads to frustration that leads to not liking raids. And there are people who just don't like raids at all as you say. Both of these types can exist at the same time. You can't just say everyone who doesn't raid does it strictly because they don't like raiding. It's difficult and the gap between open world bosses that require nothing more than afking while auto attacking and raiding isn't something someone should just expect to pug into one random night and 1 shot every boss for free stuff.
It wouldn't hurt the game if something coerced some players to do more than press 1 with a condi weapon while wearing a mix of magi/soldier gear with green runes in it.
But to clarify, I don't think forcing people into strikes for the meta is the way to go.
I'd wager you're wrong about this. People don't raid because they're casual. That doesn't mean they're not raiding because they're not good enough. It means they don't care enough to get better to do content that doesn't interest them. See, in order to really be good, you'd need to go to a website an look up a build, get the correct armor sorted, and then practice in front of a golem and download a DPS meter. None of these are casual activities.
The thing is, anyone that wants to could do those things, but they don't want to do those things, because games aren't work to everyone. Those things aren't fun to everyone.
You're trying to make the correlation that they're not good enough so they don't raid. The real correlation here is that they don't want to raid, so they don't have to jump through those hoops. It's not about being able to do it. It's not wanting to do it. And people dont' seem to get that.
Do you really think I can't download a DPS meter and get a build from snowcrows and stand at a practice dummy until I have my rotation down? Of course I can. How many people have said raiding isn't hard. But the act of doing that would interfere with my actual enjoyment of the game. It would be less immersive. The more I look at numbers, the less I'm thinking about the world and the lore and the motivation of my characters. It's the difference between people focusing on mechanics and people focusing on immersion. I'm not interested in having a rotation at all full stop. I want to, and enjoy, reacting to the world around me.
I'm playing a different game that raids would take me out of. Anyone can learn that rotation, and get those builds and practice until they know where to stand. It's easy if you like doing it. But some of us don't like doing it. Those that enjoy it will likely never understand.
@Inculpatus cedo.9234 said:
I don't really have any preference; Strikes or no Strikes, but it just seems a bit like cutting one's nose off to spite one's face to refuse to do the content one enjoys because there is content included that one does not enjoy.
Personally, I just play the parts of the game I do enjoy, and leave the parts others enjoy to...well, those that enjoy those parts.
It's just a game, after all.
(I think something will be done, though, as some seem unhappy with this Meta. Perhaps, lol, I should have created threads expressing my unhappiness for all the Meta's I didn't complete because they included Achievements I didn't care for. /shrug)
You dont play for the meta specifcally so iot doesn't affect you that much. But let's say they changed the game so it was so hard you had to have a specific build and learn a specifc rotation and use a damage meter or you couldn't do anything at all. Then you'd find yourself complaining.
Not just for me, but for many people, the more casual end game is this meta that comes out every two months. After having done everythign else in the game multipe times, or everything we enjoy it's what's left. And if the group of people who play this way is large enough, this change will affect everyone's game...even raiders.
Hmm...how do you know I don't play for the Meta? Is it ok to not finish the Meta when it's involving Strikes, and be unhappy about that, but not ok to not finish the Meta because of other content?
I was just making a joke about creating threads. The point still is: refusing to do content one enjoys because content one doesn't enjoy is also offered seems odd to me. But, each to their own.
@Vayne.8563 said:
Anet is assume people don't raid because they're not good enough. People don't raid because raiding isn't fun for them.
I'm not defending adding strikes to the meta, but there are plenty of people who don't raid because they're not good enough. The constant dying due to lack of game knowledge eventually leads to frustration that leads to not liking raids. And there are people who just don't like raids at all as you say. Both of these types can exist at the same time. You can't just say everyone who doesn't raid does it strictly because they don't like raiding. It's difficult and the gap between open world bosses that require nothing more than afking while auto attacking and raiding isn't something someone should just expect to pug into one random night and 1 shot every boss for free stuff.
It wouldn't hurt the game if something coerced some players to do more than press 1 with a condi weapon while wearing a mix of magi/soldier gear with green runes in it.
But to clarify, I don't think forcing people into strikes for the meta is the way to go.
I'd wager you're wrong about this. People don't raid because they're casual. That doesn't mean they're not raiding because they're not good enough. It means they don't care enough to get better to do content that doesn't interest them. See, in order to really be good, you'd need to go to a website an look up a build, get the correct armor sorted, and then practice in front of a golem and download a DPS meter. None of these are casual activities.
The thing is, anyone that wants to could do those things, but they don't want to do those things, because games aren't work to everyone. Those things aren't fun to everyone.
You're trying to make the correlation that they're not good enough so they don't raid. The real correlation here is that they don't want to raid, so they don't have to jump through those hoops. It's not about being able to do it. It's not wanting to do it. And people dont' seem to get that.
Do you really think I can't download a DPS meter and get a build from snowcrows and stand at a practice dummy until I have my rotation down? Of course I can. How many people have said raiding isn't hard. But the act of doing that would interfere with my actual enjoyment of the game. It would be less immersive. The more I look at numbers, the less I'm thinking about the world and the lore and the motivation of my characters. It's the difference between people focusing on mechanics and people focusing on immersion. I'm not interested in having a rotation at all full stop. I want to, and enjoy, reacting to the world around me.
I'm playing a different game that raids would take me out of. Anyone can learn that rotation, and get those builds and practice until they know where to stand. It's easy if you like doing it. But some of us don't like doing it. Those that enjoy it will likely never understand.
Sorry, but this is not about you.
There has been ample arguments and discussion, as well as developer comments on huge performance disparity, that you can't simply put off the issue as:
raids are not to hard for me, hence they are not to hard for any other player.
It's fine to argue you don't believe raids have no place in this game. You can't with full honesty though argue that raids are not to difficult for part of the player base if even the developers state their intention is to introduce intermediate content especially to tackle this issue.
@Inculpatus cedo.9234 said:
Hmm...how do you know I don't play for the Meta? Is it ok to not finish the Meta when it's involving Strikes, and be unhappy about that, but not ok to not finish the Meta because of other content?
I was just making a joke about creating threads. The point still is: refusing to do content one enjoys because content one doesn't enjoy is also offered seems odd to me. But, each to their own.
If you played for the meta, you'd be getting the meta instead of saying there are a lot of metas you haven't done. The point isn't whether or not you like content, so much as whether this is a signifcant change from what's already existed.
We've always had killing, and jumping puzzles and story achievements through the game, since launch almost. We've always had multi-man instanced content in this game that was kept seperated from zone type metas. The one exception, the MIgraine achievement was never actually repeated, with reason, I suspect. My issue is how this changed on us, not that I can't do the meta. It's a bad change in my opinion and I have a right to say so.
I've done plenty of things in this game I don't really enjoy for a reward. I got the PvP legendary back piece and there was plenty of that I didn't enjoy. But at the end of the day this is a significant change, and it requires more justification in my mind than we went more people to raid.
Still doesn't address the point. (Not sure why one can't express one's unhappiness and still play the parts of the game one enjoys.)
Regardless, whatever you think works best.
@Vayne.8563 said:
Anet is assume people don't raid because they're not good enough. People don't raid because raiding isn't fun for them.
I'm not defending adding strikes to the meta, but there are plenty of people who don't raid because they're not good enough. The constant dying due to lack of game knowledge eventually leads to frustration that leads to not liking raids. And there are people who just don't like raids at all as you say. Both of these types can exist at the same time. You can't just say everyone who doesn't raid does it strictly because they don't like raiding. It's difficult and the gap between open world bosses that require nothing more than afking while auto attacking and raiding isn't something someone should just expect to pug into one random night and 1 shot every boss for free stuff.
It wouldn't hurt the game if something coerced some players to do more than press 1 with a condi weapon while wearing a mix of magi/soldier gear with green runes in it.
But to clarify, I don't think forcing people into strikes for the meta is the way to go.
I'd wager you're wrong about this. People don't raid because they're casual. That doesn't mean they're not raiding because they're not good enough. It means they don't care enough to get better to do content that doesn't interest them. See, in order to really be good, you'd need to go to a website an look up a build, get the correct armor sorted, and then practice in front of a golem and download a DPS meter. None of these are casual activities.
The thing is, anyone that wants to could do those things, but they don't want to do those things, because games aren't work to everyone. Those things aren't fun to everyone.
You're trying to make the correlation that they're not good enough so they don't raid. The real correlation here is that they don't want to raid, so they don't have to jump through those hoops. It's not about being able to do it. It's not wanting to do it. And people dont' seem to get that.
Do you really think I can't download a DPS meter and get a build from snowcrows and stand at a practice dummy until I have my rotation down? Of course I can. How many people have said raiding isn't hard. But the act of doing that would interfere with my actual enjoyment of the game. It would be less immersive. The more I look at numbers, the less I'm thinking about the world and the lore and the motivation of my characters. It's the difference between people focusing on mechanics and people focusing on immersion. I'm not interested in having a rotation at all full stop. I want to, and enjoy, reacting to the world around me.
I'm playing a different game that raids would take me out of. Anyone can learn that rotation, and get those builds and practice until they know where to stand. It's easy if you like doing it. But some of us don't like doing it. Those that enjoy it will likely never understand.
Sorry, but this is not about you.
There has been ample arguments and discussion, as well as developer comments on huge performance disparity, that you can't simply put off the issue as:
raids are not to hard for me, hence they are not to hard for any other player.
It's fine to argue you don't believe raids have no place in this game. You can't with full honesty though argue that raids are not to difficult for part of the player base if even the developers state their intention is to introduce intermediate content especially to tackle this issue.
You've completely missed my point. THe question isn't whether raids are too difficult or not. That's never really been the question. The question is are people not doing raids because they're too difficult. Getting better is something anyone can do if they want to do it. They don't want to do it, not because they want to be carried through everything, but because they don't want their game to feel like a job and it would...for a lot of people, myself included.
I'm saying anyone who wants to get better and raid, gets better and raids. The fact that others aren't getting better is not the reason they're not raiding. They're not getting better because they don't have interest in that harder content. If they were suddenly better that doesn't mean they'd have interest in that harder content, or they'd get better if that makes sense.
A guy that wants to play sword and shield because that's the image he has of his warrior isn't going to want to swap to duel mace because it's more efficient. He's not a below average player due to lack of ability. He's making an immersion decision based on his desire to feel a certain way about his character. If getting into raids was actually important, more important thant the image of his character, he's make those changes and raid. Most people could be good enough to raid, if they cared enough about raids to put in that effort. But, as I've said, most people I've run into are playing characters in an RPG and raiding is a very differnet kind of game. RPG in the traditional sense of the world like D&D, not a computer simulation, that took the name RPG much later.
@Vayne.8563 said:
Anet is assume people don't raid because they're not good enough. People don't raid because raiding isn't fun for them.
I'm not defending adding strikes to the meta, but there are plenty of people who don't raid because they're not good enough. The constant dying due to lack of game knowledge eventually leads to frustration that leads to not liking raids. And there are people who just don't like raids at all as you say. Both of these types can exist at the same time. You can't just say everyone who doesn't raid does it strictly because they don't like raiding. It's difficult and the gap between open world bosses that require nothing more than afking while auto attacking and raiding isn't something someone should just expect to pug into one random night and 1 shot every boss for free stuff.
It wouldn't hurt the game if something coerced some players to do more than press 1 with a condi weapon while wearing a mix of magi/soldier gear with green runes in it.
But to clarify, I don't think forcing people into strikes for the meta is the way to go.
I'd wager you're wrong about this. People don't raid because they're casual. That doesn't mean they're not raiding because they're not good enough. It means they don't care enough to get better to do content that doesn't interest them. See, in order to really be good, you'd need to go to a website an look up a build, get the correct armor sorted, and then practice in front of a golem and download a DPS meter. None of these are casual activities.
The thing is, anyone that wants to could do those things, but they don't want to do those things, because games aren't work to everyone. Those things aren't fun to everyone.
You're trying to make the correlation that they're not good enough so they don't raid. The real correlation here is that they don't want to raid, so they don't have to jump through those hoops. It's not about being able to do it. It's not wanting to do it. And people dont' seem to get that.
Do you really think I can't download a DPS meter and get a build from snowcrows and stand at a practice dummy until I have my rotation down? Of course I can. How many people have said raiding isn't hard. But the act of doing that would interfere with my actual enjoyment of the game. It would be less immersive. The more I look at numbers, the less I'm thinking about the world and the lore and the motivation of my characters. It's the difference between people focusing on mechanics and people focusing on immersion. I'm not interested in having a rotation at all full stop. I want to, and enjoy, reacting to the world around me.
I'm playing a different game that raids would take me out of. Anyone can learn that rotation, and get those builds and practice until they know where to stand. It's easy if you like doing it. But some of us don't like doing it. Those that enjoy it will likely never understand.
Sorry, but this is not about you.
There has been ample arguments and discussion, as well as developer comments on huge performance disparity, that you can't simply put off the issue as:
raids are not to hard for me, hence they are not to hard for any other player.
It's fine to argue you don't believe raids have no place in this game. You can't with full honesty though argue that raids are not to difficult for part of the player base if even the developers state their intention is to introduce intermediate content especially to tackle this issue.
You've completely missed my point. THe question isn't whether raids are too difficult or not. That's never really been the question. The question is are people not doing raids because they're too difficult. Getting better is something anyone can do if they want to do it. They don't want to do it, not because they want to be carried through everything, but because they don't want their game to feel like a job and it would...for a lot of people, myself included.
I'm saying anyone who wants to get better and raid, gets better and raids. The fact that others aren't getting better is not the reason they're not raiding. They're not getting better because they don't have interest in that harder content. If they were suddenly better that doesn't mean they'd have interest in that harder content, or they'd get better if that makes sense.
The 100s of page long threads about easy mode raids as well as the developer approach to this issue would suggest you are incorrect in your assumption, which is mostly based on your personal subjective experience. That's all I am saying.
I don't have a problem with that requirement. And I don't believe this discourages most players.
Strike Missions are a bridge between open-world and Raids. It's ANet's design choice and they simply want you to play the content they make. Don't like the content? Who's fault is that?
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@Vayne.8563 said:
Anet is assume people don't raid because they're not good enough. People don't raid because raiding isn't fun for them.
I'm not defending adding strikes to the meta, but there are plenty of people who don't raid because they're not good enough. The constant dying due to lack of game knowledge eventually leads to frustration that leads to not liking raids. And there are people who just don't like raids at all as you say. Both of these types can exist at the same time. You can't just say everyone who doesn't raid does it strictly because they don't like raiding. It's difficult and the gap between open world bosses that require nothing more than afking while auto attacking and raiding isn't something someone should just expect to pug into one random night and 1 shot every boss for free stuff.
It wouldn't hurt the game if something coerced some players to do more than press 1 with a condi weapon while wearing a mix of magi/soldier gear with green runes in it.
But to clarify, I don't think forcing people into strikes for the meta is the way to go.
I'd wager you're wrong about this. People don't raid because they're casual. That doesn't mean they're not raiding because they're not good enough. It means they don't care enough to get better to do content that doesn't interest them. See, in order to really be good, you'd need to go to a website an look up a build, get the correct armor sorted, and then practice in front of a golem and download a DPS meter. None of these are casual activities.
The thing is, anyone that wants to could do those things, but they don't want to do those things, because games aren't work to everyone. Those things aren't fun to everyone.
You're trying to make the correlation that they're not good enough so they don't raid. The real correlation here is that they don't want to raid, so they don't have to jump through those hoops. It's not about being able to do it. It's not wanting to do it. And people dont' seem to get that.
Do you really think I can't download a DPS meter and get a build from snowcrows and stand at a practice dummy until I have my rotation down? Of course I can. How many people have said raiding isn't hard. But the act of doing that would interfere with my actual enjoyment of the game. It would be less immersive. The more I look at numbers, the less I'm thinking about the world and the lore and the motivation of my characters. It's the difference between people focusing on mechanics and people focusing on immersion. I'm not interested in having a rotation at all full stop. I want to, and enjoy, reacting to the world around me.
I'm playing a different game that raids would take me out of. Anyone can learn that rotation, and get those builds and practice until they know where to stand. It's easy if you like doing it. But some of us don't like doing it. Those that enjoy it will likely never understand.
Sorry, but this is not about you.
There has been ample arguments and discussion, as well as developer comments on huge performance disparity, that you can't simply put off the issue as:
raids are not to hard for me, hence they are not to hard for any other player.
It's fine to argue you don't believe raids have no place in this game. You can't with full honesty though argue that raids are not to difficult for part of the player base if even the developers state their intention is to introduce intermediate content especially to tackle this issue.
You've completely missed my point. THe question isn't whether raids are too difficult or not. That's never really been the question. The question is are people not doing raids because they're too difficult. Getting better is something anyone can do if they want to do it. They don't want to do it, not because they want to be carried through everything, but because they don't want their game to feel like a job and it would...for a lot of people, myself included.
I'm saying anyone who wants to get better and raid, gets better and raids. The fact that others aren't getting better is not the reason they're not raiding. They're not getting better because they don't have interest in that harder content. If they were suddenly better that doesn't mean they'd have interest in that harder content, or they'd get better if that makes sense.
The 100s of page long threads about easy mode raids as well as the developer approach to this issue would suggest you are incorrect in your assumption, which is mostly based on your personal subjective experience. That's all I am saying.
I know a whole lot of people who have no interest in raids, having raided in other games. None. Zero. Burned out on raids. Came here to get away from raids. Relaxing, not min/maxing, as one guy put it. You can say I'm wrong because there's a thread on the forums that asks for easy mode raids, but probably half the people in that thread were against it.
@Vayne.8563 said:
Anet is assume people don't raid because they're not good enough. People don't raid because raiding isn't fun for them.
I'm not defending adding strikes to the meta, but there are plenty of people who don't raid because they're not good enough. The constant dying due to lack of game knowledge eventually leads to frustration that leads to not liking raids. And there are people who just don't like raids at all as you say. Both of these types can exist at the same time. You can't just say everyone who doesn't raid does it strictly because they don't like raiding. It's difficult and the gap between open world bosses that require nothing more than afking while auto attacking and raiding isn't something someone should just expect to pug into one random night and 1 shot every boss for free stuff.
It wouldn't hurt the game if something coerced some players to do more than press 1 with a condi weapon while wearing a mix of magi/soldier gear with green runes in it.
But to clarify, I don't think forcing people into strikes for the meta is the way to go.
I'd wager you're wrong about this. People don't raid because they're casual. That doesn't mean they're not raiding because they're not good enough. It means they don't care enough to get better to do content that doesn't interest them. See, in order to really be good, you'd need to go to a website an look up a build, get the correct armor sorted, and then practice in front of a golem and download a DPS meter. None of these are casual activities.
The thing is, anyone that wants to could do those things, but they don't want to do those things, because games aren't work to everyone. Those things aren't fun to everyone.
You're trying to make the correlation that they're not good enough so they don't raid. The real correlation here is that they don't want to raid, so they don't have to jump through those hoops. It's not about being able to do it. It's not wanting to do it. And people dont' seem to get that.
Do you really think I can't download a DPS meter and get a build from snowcrows and stand at a practice dummy until I have my rotation down? Of course I can. How many people have said raiding isn't hard. But the act of doing that would interfere with my actual enjoyment of the game. It would be less immersive. The more I look at numbers, the less I'm thinking about the world and the lore and the motivation of my characters. It's the difference between people focusing on mechanics and people focusing on immersion. I'm not interested in having a rotation at all full stop. I want to, and enjoy, reacting to the world around me.
I'm playing a different game that raids would take me out of. Anyone can learn that rotation, and get those builds and practice until they know where to stand. It's easy if you like doing it. But some of us don't like doing it. Those that enjoy it will likely never understand.
Sorry, but this is not about you.
There has been ample arguments and discussion, as well as developer comments on huge performance disparity, that you can't simply put off the issue as:
raids are not to hard for me, hence they are not to hard for any other player.
It's fine to argue you don't believe raids have no place in this game. You can't with full honesty though argue that raids are not to difficult for part of the player base if even the developers state their intention is to introduce intermediate content especially to tackle this issue.
You've completely missed my point. THe question isn't whether raids are too difficult or not. That's never really been the question. The question is are people not doing raids because they're too difficult. Getting better is something anyone can do if they want to do it. They don't want to do it, not because they want to be carried through everything, but because they don't want their game to feel like a job and it would...for a lot of people, myself included.
I'm saying anyone who wants to get better and raid, gets better and raids. The fact that others aren't getting better is not the reason they're not raiding. They're not getting better because they don't have interest in that harder content. If they were suddenly better that doesn't mean they'd have interest in that harder content, or they'd get better if that makes sense.
The 100s of page long threads about easy mode raids as well as the developer approach to this issue would suggest you are incorrect in your assumption, which is mostly based on your personal subjective experience. That's all I am saying.
I know a whole lot of people who have no interest in raids, having raided in other games. None. Zero. Burned out on raids. Came here to get away from raids. Relaxing, not min/maxing, as one guy put it. You can say I'm wrong because there's a thread on the forums that asks for easy mode raids, but probably half the people in that thread were against it.
I'm not saying your wrong, I'm saying you can't simply dismiss a notion like raids are to difficult simply due to personal experience (especially with weighted evidence against this opinion). You might very well be right.
I'm saying to simply dismiss something because it does not fit a personal argument or opinion is folly.
@Vayne.8563 said:
Anet is assume people don't raid because they're not good enough. People don't raid because raiding isn't fun for them.
I'm not defending adding strikes to the meta, but there are plenty of people who don't raid because they're not good enough. The constant dying due to lack of game knowledge eventually leads to frustration that leads to not liking raids. And there are people who just don't like raids at all as you say. Both of these types can exist at the same time. You can't just say everyone who doesn't raid does it strictly because they don't like raiding. It's difficult and the gap between open world bosses that require nothing more than afking while auto attacking and raiding isn't something someone should just expect to pug into one random night and 1 shot every boss for free stuff.
It wouldn't hurt the game if something coerced some players to do more than press 1 with a condi weapon while wearing a mix of magi/soldier gear with green runes in it.
But to clarify, I don't think forcing people into strikes for the meta is the way to go.
I'd wager you're wrong about this. People don't raid because they're casual. That doesn't mean they're not raiding because they're not good enough. It means they don't care enough to get better to do content that doesn't interest them. See, in order to really be good, you'd need to go to a website an look up a build, get the correct armor sorted, and then practice in front of a golem and download a DPS meter. None of these are casual activities.
The thing is, anyone that wants to could do those things, but they don't want to do those things, because games aren't work to everyone. Those things aren't fun to everyone.
You're trying to make the correlation that they're not good enough so they don't raid. The real correlation here is that they don't want to raid, so they don't have to jump through those hoops. It's not about being able to do it. It's not wanting to do it. And people dont' seem to get that.
Do you really think I can't download a DPS meter and get a build from snowcrows and stand at a practice dummy until I have my rotation down? Of course I can. How many people have said raiding isn't hard. But the act of doing that would interfere with my actual enjoyment of the game. It would be less immersive. The more I look at numbers, the less I'm thinking about the world and the lore and the motivation of my characters. It's the difference between people focusing on mechanics and people focusing on immersion. I'm not interested in having a rotation at all full stop. I want to, and enjoy, reacting to the world around me.
I'm playing a different game that raids would take me out of. Anyone can learn that rotation, and get those builds and practice until they know where to stand. It's easy if you like doing it. But some of us don't like doing it. Those that enjoy it will likely never understand.
Sorry, but this is not about you.
There has been ample arguments and discussion, as well as developer comments on huge performance disparity, that you can't simply put off the issue as:
raids are not to hard for me, hence they are not to hard for any other player.
It's fine to argue you don't believe raids have no place in this game. You can't with full honesty though argue that raids are not to difficult for part of the player base if even the developers state their intention is to introduce intermediate content especially to tackle this issue.
You've completely missed my point. THe question isn't whether raids are too difficult or not. That's never really been the question. The question is are people not doing raids because they're too difficult. Getting better is something anyone can do if they want to do it. They don't want to do it, not because they want to be carried through everything, but because they don't want their game to feel like a job and it would...for a lot of people, myself included.
I'm saying anyone who wants to get better and raid, gets better and raids. The fact that others aren't getting better is not the reason they're not raiding. They're not getting better because they don't have interest in that harder content. If they were suddenly better that doesn't mean they'd have interest in that harder content, or they'd get better if that makes sense.
The 100s of page long threads about easy mode raids as well as the developer approach to this issue would suggest you are incorrect in your assumption, which is mostly based on your personal subjective experience. That's all I am saying.
I know a whole lot of people who have no interest in raids, having raided in other games. None. Zero. Burned out on raids. Came here to get away from raids. Relaxing, not min/maxing, as one guy put it. You can say I'm wrong because there's a thread on the forums that asks for easy mode raids, but probably half the people in that thread were against it.
I'm not saying your wrong, I'm saying you can't simply dismiss a notion like raids are to difficult simply due to personal experience (especially with weighted evidence against this opinion). You might very well be right.
I'm saying to simply dismiss something because it does not fit a personal argument or opinion is folly.
There was a very highly upvoted thread on reddit about just this topic. People didn't want to do raids because they didn't want to spend their time trying to organzie groups of ten people. The post had hundreds of upvotes. It was only a couple of weeks ago. If you read through that thread, you'd see how much support there is for the idea that difficulty is not the main reason people avoid raids, unless you're talking about the difficulty of organization.
Btw, 480 upvotes if you're not familiar with how Reddit works, doesn't mean 480 people upvoted it. It's the net difference between upvotes and downvotes, so it's more than the 480 total you see there that has upvoted.
@Vayne.8563 said:
Anet is assume people don't raid because they're not good enough. People don't raid because raiding isn't fun for them.
I'm not defending adding strikes to the meta, but there are plenty of people who don't raid because they're not good enough. The constant dying due to lack of game knowledge eventually leads to frustration that leads to not liking raids. And there are people who just don't like raids at all as you say. Both of these types can exist at the same time. You can't just say everyone who doesn't raid does it strictly because they don't like raiding. It's difficult and the gap between open world bosses that require nothing more than afking while auto attacking and raiding isn't something someone should just expect to pug into one random night and 1 shot every boss for free stuff.
It wouldn't hurt the game if something coerced some players to do more than press 1 with a condi weapon while wearing a mix of magi/soldier gear with green runes in it.
But to clarify, I don't think forcing people into strikes for the meta is the way to go.
I'd wager you're wrong about this. People don't raid because they're casual. That doesn't mean they're not raiding because they're not good enough. It means they don't care enough to get better to do content that doesn't interest them. See, in order to really be good, you'd need to go to a website an look up a build, get the correct armor sorted, and then practice in front of a golem and download a DPS meter. None of these are casual activities.
The thing is, anyone that wants to could do those things, but they don't want to do those things, because games aren't work to everyone. Those things aren't fun to everyone.
You're trying to make the correlation that they're not good enough so they don't raid. The real correlation here is that they don't want to raid, so they don't have to jump through those hoops. It's not about being able to do it. It's not wanting to do it. And people dont' seem to get that.
Do you really think I can't download a DPS meter and get a build from snowcrows and stand at a practice dummy until I have my rotation down? Of course I can. How many people have said raiding isn't hard. But the act of doing that would interfere with my actual enjoyment of the game. It would be less immersive. The more I look at numbers, the less I'm thinking about the world and the lore and the motivation of my characters. It's the difference between people focusing on mechanics and people focusing on immersion. I'm not interested in having a rotation at all full stop. I want to, and enjoy, reacting to the world around me.
I'm playing a different game that raids would take me out of. Anyone can learn that rotation, and get those builds and practice until they know where to stand. It's easy if you like doing it. But some of us don't like doing it. Those that enjoy it will likely never understand.
Sorry, but this is not about you.
There has been ample arguments and discussion, as well as developer comments on huge performance disparity, that you can't simply put off the issue as:
raids are not to hard for me, hence they are not to hard for any other player.
It's fine to argue you don't believe raids have no place in this game. You can't with full honesty though argue that raids are not to difficult for part of the player base if even the developers state their intention is to introduce intermediate content especially to tackle this issue.
You've completely missed my point. THe question isn't whether raids are too difficult or not. That's never really been the question. The question is are people not doing raids because they're too difficult. Getting better is something anyone can do if they want to do it. They don't want to do it, not because they want to be carried through everything, but because they don't want their game to feel like a job and it would...for a lot of people, myself included.
I'm saying anyone who wants to get better and raid, gets better and raids. The fact that others aren't getting better is not the reason they're not raiding. They're not getting better because they don't have interest in that harder content. If they were suddenly better that doesn't mean they'd have interest in that harder content, or they'd get better if that makes sense.
The 100s of page long threads about easy mode raids as well as the developer approach to this issue would suggest you are incorrect in your assumption, which is mostly based on your personal subjective experience. That's all I am saying.
I know a whole lot of people who have no interest in raids, having raided in other games. None. Zero. Burned out on raids. Came here to get away from raids. Relaxing, not min/maxing, as one guy put it. You can say I'm wrong because there's a thread on the forums that asks for easy mode raids, but probably half the people in that thread were against it.
I'm not saying your wrong, I'm saying you can't simply dismiss a notion like raids are to difficult simply due to personal experience (especially with weighted evidence against this opinion). You might very well be right.
I'm saying to simply dismiss something because it does not fit a personal argument or opinion is folly.
There was a very highly upvoted thread on reddit about just this topic. People didn't want to do raids because they didn't want to spend their time trying to organzie groups of ten people. The post had hundreds of upvotes. It was only a couple of weeks ago. If you read through that thread, you'd see how much support there is for the idea that difficulty is not the main reason people avoid raids, unless you're talking about the difficulty of organization.
Which does not in anyway address the huge performance disparity between players which is evident at every step of PvE content (which would explain nicely how a certain part of the player base could potentially not perform adequately in a raid environment). Or past desire of players for easy mode raids. Or the developers attempt to bridge this performance disparity.
You've been approaching this thread from your personal view the entire 4 threads so far bringing literally every argument down to: I believe because I feel this way and any opinion which is in congruence with mine is correct, every other is incorrect.
So fine, you are right. On everything. The developers and every one else with a diverging opinion is wrong. Let's hope the developers read this topic and discover the error in their metrics and ways. There is no reason to concern oneself with potential opinions or issues which do not agree with your view on the game or the player base.
EDIT:
You did not actually read through that thread did you? Hint: it does not support your thesis. Nor does the article, which has been brought up in the past (and it's a strong opinion piece with 0 sources). There is literally commentators in the first few comments already disagreeing or asking for story mode raids for story purposes only due to the difficulty of raids.
@Vayne.8563 said:
Anet is assume people don't raid because they're not good enough. People don't raid because raiding isn't fun for them.
I'm not defending adding strikes to the meta, but there are plenty of people who don't raid because they're not good enough. The constant dying due to lack of game knowledge eventually leads to frustration that leads to not liking raids. And there are people who just don't like raids at all as you say. Both of these types can exist at the same time. You can't just say everyone who doesn't raid does it strictly because they don't like raiding. It's difficult and the gap between open world bosses that require nothing more than afking while auto attacking and raiding isn't something someone should just expect to pug into one random night and 1 shot every boss for free stuff.
It wouldn't hurt the game if something coerced some players to do more than press 1 with a condi weapon while wearing a mix of magi/soldier gear with green runes in it.
But to clarify, I don't think forcing people into strikes for the meta is the way to go.
I'd wager you're wrong about this. People don't raid because they're casual. That doesn't mean they're not raiding because they're not good enough. It means they don't care enough to get better to do content that doesn't interest them. See, in order to really be good, you'd need to go to a website an look up a build, get the correct armor sorted, and then practice in front of a golem and download a DPS meter. None of these are casual activities.
The thing is, anyone that wants to could do those things, but they don't want to do those things, because games aren't work to everyone. Those things aren't fun to everyone.
You're trying to make the correlation that they're not good enough so they don't raid. The real correlation here is that they don't want to raid, so they don't have to jump through those hoops. It's not about being able to do it. It's not wanting to do it. And people dont' seem to get that.
Do you really think I can't download a DPS meter and get a build from snowcrows and stand at a practice dummy until I have my rotation down? Of course I can. How many people have said raiding isn't hard. But the act of doing that would interfere with my actual enjoyment of the game. It would be less immersive. The more I look at numbers, the less I'm thinking about the world and the lore and the motivation of my characters. It's the difference between people focusing on mechanics and people focusing on immersion. I'm not interested in having a rotation at all full stop. I want to, and enjoy, reacting to the world around me.
I'm playing a different game that raids would take me out of. Anyone can learn that rotation, and get those builds and practice until they know where to stand. It's easy if you like doing it. But some of us don't like doing it. Those that enjoy it will likely never understand.
Sorry, but this is not about you.
There has been ample arguments and discussion, as well as developer comments on huge performance disparity, that you can't simply put off the issue as:
raids are not to hard for me, hence they are not to hard for any other player.
It's fine to argue you don't believe raids have no place in this game. You can't with full honesty though argue that raids are not to difficult for part of the player base if even the developers state their intention is to introduce intermediate content especially to tackle this issue.
You've completely missed my point. THe question isn't whether raids are too difficult or not. That's never really been the question. The question is are people not doing raids because they're too difficult. Getting better is something anyone can do if they want to do it. They don't want to do it, not because they want to be carried through everything, but because they don't want their game to feel like a job and it would...for a lot of people, myself included.
I'm saying anyone who wants to get better and raid, gets better and raids. The fact that others aren't getting better is not the reason they're not raiding. They're not getting better because they don't have interest in that harder content. If they were suddenly better that doesn't mean they'd have interest in that harder content, or they'd get better if that makes sense.
The 100s of page long threads about easy mode raids as well as the developer approach to this issue would suggest you are incorrect in your assumption, which is mostly based on your personal subjective experience. That's all I am saying.
I know a whole lot of people who have no interest in raids, having raided in other games. None. Zero. Burned out on raids. Came here to get away from raids. Relaxing, not min/maxing, as one guy put it. You can say I'm wrong because there's a thread on the forums that asks for easy mode raids, but probably half the people in that thread were against it.
I'm not saying your wrong, I'm saying you can't simply dismiss a notion like raids are to difficult simply due to personal experience (especially with weighted evidence against this opinion). You might very well be right.
I'm saying to simply dismiss something because it does not fit a personal argument or opinion is folly.
There was a very highly upvoted thread on reddit about just this topic. People didn't want to do raids because they didn't want to spend their time trying to organzie groups of ten people. The post had hundreds of upvotes. It was only a couple of weeks ago. If you read through that thread, you'd see how much support there is for the idea that difficulty is not the main reason people avoid raids, unless you're talking about the difficulty of organization.
Which does not in anyway address the huge performance disparity between players which is evident at every step of PvE content. Or past desire of players for easy mode raids. Or the developers attempt to bridge this performance disparity.
You've been approaching this thread from your personal view the entire 4 threads so far bringing literally every argument down to: I believe because I feel this way and any opinion which is in congruence with mine is correct, every other is incorrect.
So fine, you are right. On everything. The developers and every one else with a diverging opinion is wrong. Let's hope the developers read this topic and discover the error in their metrics and ways.
The disparty has to do with focus. That's what you're not getting. I know how to get really good damage, if I were interested in just that. I get okay damage because I don't want to push myself that hard. I play to relax. That's all.
I linked that thread from reddit btw, in my last reply to you.
You seem to think just because someone is doing less damage, it means they can't do more damage. How many people are chatting with their buddies, watching a movie while playing, surfing the web while playing. I have two monitors and it's not unusual for me to play while I'm doing other stuff on the other side. I'm just not that focused or worried about doing damage, unless I'm doing something that requires that focus. Vinetooth Prime. A bounty maybe. But most of the time, If I'm doing a world boss Iv'e done 87 times before or even running through one of the old dungeons, I just don't need that focus, and I do less damage. I save my energy for when I really need it.
@Vayne.8563 said:
Anet is assume people don't raid because they're not good enough. People don't raid because raiding isn't fun for them.
I'm not defending adding strikes to the meta, but there are plenty of people who don't raid because they're not good enough. The constant dying due to lack of game knowledge eventually leads to frustration that leads to not liking raids. And there are people who just don't like raids at all as you say. Both of these types can exist at the same time. You can't just say everyone who doesn't raid does it strictly because they don't like raiding. It's difficult and the gap between open world bosses that require nothing more than afking while auto attacking and raiding isn't something someone should just expect to pug into one random night and 1 shot every boss for free stuff.
It wouldn't hurt the game if something coerced some players to do more than press 1 with a condi weapon while wearing a mix of magi/soldier gear with green runes in it.
But to clarify, I don't think forcing people into strikes for the meta is the way to go.
I'd wager you're wrong about this. People don't raid because they're casual. That doesn't mean they're not raiding because they're not good enough. It means they don't care enough to get better to do content that doesn't interest them. See, in order to really be good, you'd need to go to a website an look up a build, get the correct armor sorted, and then practice in front of a golem and download a DPS meter. None of these are casual activities.
The thing is, anyone that wants to could do those things, but they don't want to do those things, because games aren't work to everyone. Those things aren't fun to everyone.
You're trying to make the correlation that they're not good enough so they don't raid. The real correlation here is that they don't want to raid, so they don't have to jump through those hoops. It's not about being able to do it. It's not wanting to do it. And people dont' seem to get that.
Do you really think I can't download a DPS meter and get a build from snowcrows and stand at a practice dummy until I have my rotation down? Of course I can. How many people have said raiding isn't hard. But the act of doing that would interfere with my actual enjoyment of the game. It would be less immersive. The more I look at numbers, the less I'm thinking about the world and the lore and the motivation of my characters. It's the difference between people focusing on mechanics and people focusing on immersion. I'm not interested in having a rotation at all full stop. I want to, and enjoy, reacting to the world around me.
I'm playing a different game that raids would take me out of. Anyone can learn that rotation, and get those builds and practice until they know where to stand. It's easy if you like doing it. But some of us don't like doing it. Those that enjoy it will likely never understand.
Sorry, but this is not about you.
There has been ample arguments and discussion, as well as developer comments on huge performance disparity, that you can't simply put off the issue as:
raids are not to hard for me, hence they are not to hard for any other player.
It's fine to argue you don't believe raids have no place in this game. You can't with full honesty though argue that raids are not to difficult for part of the player base if even the developers state their intention is to introduce intermediate content especially to tackle this issue.
You've completely missed my point. THe question isn't whether raids are too difficult or not. That's never really been the question. The question is are people not doing raids because they're too difficult. Getting better is something anyone can do if they want to do it. They don't want to do it, not because they want to be carried through everything, but because they don't want their game to feel like a job and it would...for a lot of people, myself included.
I'm saying anyone who wants to get better and raid, gets better and raids. The fact that others aren't getting better is not the reason they're not raiding. They're not getting better because they don't have interest in that harder content. If they were suddenly better that doesn't mean they'd have interest in that harder content, or they'd get better if that makes sense.
The 100s of page long threads about easy mode raids as well as the developer approach to this issue would suggest you are incorrect in your assumption, which is mostly based on your personal subjective experience. That's all I am saying.
I know a whole lot of people who have no interest in raids, having raided in other games. None. Zero. Burned out on raids. Came here to get away from raids. Relaxing, not min/maxing, as one guy put it. You can say I'm wrong because there's a thread on the forums that asks for easy mode raids, but probably half the people in that thread were against it.
I'm not saying your wrong, I'm saying you can't simply dismiss a notion like raids are to difficult simply due to personal experience (especially with weighted evidence against this opinion). You might very well be right.
I'm saying to simply dismiss something because it does not fit a personal argument or opinion is folly.
There was a very highly upvoted thread on reddit about just this topic. People didn't want to do raids because they didn't want to spend their time trying to organzie groups of ten people. The post had hundreds of upvotes. It was only a couple of weeks ago. If you read through that thread, you'd see how much support there is for the idea that difficulty is not the main reason people avoid raids, unless you're talking about the difficulty of organization.
Which does not in anyway address the huge performance disparity between players which is evident at every step of PvE content. Or past desire of players for easy mode raids. Or the developers attempt to bridge this performance disparity.
You've been approaching this thread from your personal view the entire 4 threads so far bringing literally every argument down to: I believe because I feel this way and any opinion which is in congruence with mine is correct, every other is incorrect.
So fine, you are right. On everything. The developers and every one else with a diverging opinion is wrong. Let's hope the developers read this topic and discover the error in their metrics and ways.
The disparty has to do with focus. That's what you're not getting. I know how to get really good damage, if I were interested in just that. I get okay damage because I don't want to push myself that hard. I play to relax. That's all.
THIS IS NOT ABOUT YOU!
Why must every little argument for you boil down to:"I do this and thus it must be the only correct way to look at this?"
@Vayne.8563 said:
I linked that thread from reddit btw, in my last reply to you.
You did and it is clear you did not actually care to read through the comments. I did in the past. Both on that thread as well as the article it refers to.
@Vayne.8563 said:
You seem to think just because someone is doing less damage, it means they can't do more damage. How many people are chatting with their buddies, watching a movie while playing, surfing the web while playing. I have two monitors and it's not unusual for me to play while I'm doing other stuff on the other side. I'm just not that focused or worried about doing damage, unless I'm doing something that requires that focus. Vinetooth Prime. A bounty maybe. But most of the time, If I'm doing a world boss Iv'e done 87 times before or even running through one of the old dungeons, I just don't need that focus, and I do less damage. I save my energy for when I really need it.
Again, THIS IS NOT ABOUT YOU.
I seem to think that my personal observation is not the be all end all. I am keeping an open mind to what can and can't be by looking at which facts we actually have. I try to put developer comments into perspective which have directly said that there is a huge disparity which they want to address. I do not put in additional words like: people just don;t want to, or are afk, or etc.etc.etc.
I'm also not the one going: "oh strikes are easy because I can do them no problem with my raid static". That's your approach. I'm looking at what reasons might or might not be present for certain actions from the developers. Why they might want to reduce the performance disparity in the player base. Why that could matter.
@Vayne.8563 said:
Anet is assume people don't raid because they're not good enough. People don't raid because raiding isn't fun for them.
I'm not defending adding strikes to the meta, but there are plenty of people who don't raid because they're not good enough. The constant dying due to lack of game knowledge eventually leads to frustration that leads to not liking raids. And there are people who just don't like raids at all as you say. Both of these types can exist at the same time. You can't just say everyone who doesn't raid does it strictly because they don't like raiding. It's difficult and the gap between open world bosses that require nothing more than afking while auto attacking and raiding isn't something someone should just expect to pug into one random night and 1 shot every boss for free stuff.
It wouldn't hurt the game if something coerced some players to do more than press 1 with a condi weapon while wearing a mix of magi/soldier gear with green runes in it.
But to clarify, I don't think forcing people into strikes for the meta is the way to go.
I'd wager you're wrong about this. People don't raid because they're casual. That doesn't mean they're not raiding because they're not good enough. It means they don't care enough to get better to do content that doesn't interest them. See, in order to really be good, you'd need to go to a website an look up a build, get the correct armor sorted, and then practice in front of a golem and download a DPS meter. None of these are casual activities.
The thing is, anyone that wants to could do those things, but they don't want to do those things, because games aren't work to everyone. Those things aren't fun to everyone.
You're trying to make the correlation that they're not good enough so they don't raid. The real correlation here is that they don't want to raid, so they don't have to jump through those hoops. It's not about being able to do it. It's not wanting to do it. And people dont' seem to get that.
Do you really think I can't download a DPS meter and get a build from snowcrows and stand at a practice dummy until I have my rotation down? Of course I can. How many people have said raiding isn't hard. But the act of doing that would interfere with my actual enjoyment of the game. It would be less immersive. The more I look at numbers, the less I'm thinking about the world and the lore and the motivation of my characters. It's the difference between people focusing on mechanics and people focusing on immersion. I'm not interested in having a rotation at all full stop. I want to, and enjoy, reacting to the world around me.
I'm playing a different game that raids would take me out of. Anyone can learn that rotation, and get those builds and practice until they know where to stand. It's easy if you like doing it. But some of us don't like doing it. Those that enjoy it will likely never understand.
Sorry, but this is not about you.
There has been ample arguments and discussion, as well as developer comments on huge performance disparity, that you can't simply put off the issue as:
raids are not to hard for me, hence they are not to hard for any other player.
It's fine to argue you don't believe raids have no place in this game. You can't with full honesty though argue that raids are not to difficult for part of the player base if even the developers state their intention is to introduce intermediate content especially to tackle this issue.
You've completely missed my point. THe question isn't whether raids are too difficult or not. That's never really been the question. The question is are people not doing raids because they're too difficult. Getting better is something anyone can do if they want to do it. They don't want to do it, not because they want to be carried through everything, but because they don't want their game to feel like a job and it would...for a lot of people, myself included.
I'm saying anyone who wants to get better and raid, gets better and raids. The fact that others aren't getting better is not the reason they're not raiding. They're not getting better because they don't have interest in that harder content. If they were suddenly better that doesn't mean they'd have interest in that harder content, or they'd get better if that makes sense.
The 100s of page long threads about easy mode raids as well as the developer approach to this issue would suggest you are incorrect in your assumption, which is mostly based on your personal subjective experience. That's all I am saying.
I know a whole lot of people who have no interest in raids, having raided in other games. None. Zero. Burned out on raids. Came here to get away from raids. Relaxing, not min/maxing, as one guy put it. You can say I'm wrong because there's a thread on the forums that asks for easy mode raids, but probably half the people in that thread were against it.
I'm not saying your wrong, I'm saying you can't simply dismiss a notion like raids are to difficult simply due to personal experience (especially with weighted evidence against this opinion). You might very well be right.
I'm saying to simply dismiss something because it does not fit a personal argument or opinion is folly.
There was a very highly upvoted thread on reddit about just this topic. People didn't want to do raids because they didn't want to spend their time trying to organzie groups of ten people. The post had hundreds of upvotes. It was only a couple of weeks ago. If you read through that thread, you'd see how much support there is for the idea that difficulty is not the main reason people avoid raids, unless you're talking about the difficulty of organization.
Which does not in anyway address the huge performance disparity between players which is evident at every step of PvE content (which would explain nicely how a certain part of the player base could potentially not perform adequately in a raid environment). Or past desire of players for easy mode raids. Or the developers attempt to bridge this performance disparity.
Whenever a casuals comes here on the forums to whine , its about the difficulty of the raid but rather than the hostile envoroment of the other l33t ppl .
(not enought dps and 2 wipes= kick )
Not about the boss that can 1-shot them , nor that the mechanics such as avoid the aoes , or hit the second target target .
The raid encounter can be killed in 4 min by an orginised group , but is has been tailored around the not-so-optiomal-gameplay a.k.a 12 min and when the boss is enraged it doesnt do 1-shot damage .
The casuals wants a easy mode ,to get away from l33t players
PPl saying that are huge performance disparity between players is an excuse that they dont want casuals in their group .
Or they have alts accounts , that are selling runs for huge amount of gold :P
The casuals dont want to create their onw group , without expiriance and they stick on trainning group forever or skip it entirly .
The company see that the majority does only the easy bosses every week , and not full runs
Not enought numbers = no need for future raids
(edit any chance for an investigation of alts account selling runs vs forums accounts ?:P)
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@Zok.4956 said:
Raiders earn gold and can convert gold to gems if they want to buy something with gems and very often they do not need to buy gems with real money. Whales on the other hand buy a lot of gems with real money because they do not make enough gold to convert it into all the gems they want.
Any player who runs daily fractals, is making more gold per week than players that only raid. Any player that does 1-2 hours of RIBA per day, or similar farms, is making more gold per week than a raider, matching the gold per hour of fast full clear groups.
The players who are super rich, as you point them out, are TP traders. Being a TP trader is unaffiliated to any content in this game.
I fail to see your argument make the criteria for raiders being wealthy enough to not buy gems. You are nicely playing off of a stereotype though: the oh so rich raiders subjugating the masses of poor casual players.
Raiders are usually not "super rich" (I never wrote they are super rich) like some tp-traders, and there are probably other ways to make gold more efficiently in the game (I never wrote that raiding is the most efficient way of making gold in the game), but Raiders get more wealth from raiding and have better access to cheap ascended gear than the majority of other PvE players from their play style, so the likelyhood, that raiders are typically "whales" or even spend much more real money for gems than the "average player" is quite low.
I do see a pattern in your arguments using hyberboles.
@Zok.4956 said:
Whales generate the main revenue stream in the gem-shop/microtransactions. The whales that I know are not raiders. The raiders (this includes myself) that I know are not whales. Raiders and whales are typically different player types. Of course it is possible, that there are raiders, that are also whales, but this would be a very small percentage of raiders and given the already small population of raiders in this game, it would be even less players, so this would not result in a significant revenue stream.
The population of raiders is so small at the moment, that Anet can not justify to invest money to create more raids. If the raid population would create a significant revenue stream, Anet would simply create more raids for this players and this revenue stream instead of creating strike-missions.
Without repeating myself, I've already explained why and how I define how players can get invested, and a central aspect of that being highly committed to the game, let's bring this down to 1 question again:
"highly committed to the game" can mean a lot of things and is too vague for the discussion.
For example: A person that is writing on the forum, never buys gems with real money and is not playing the game anymore can still be classified as "highly committed to the game".
@Cyninja.2954 said:
You are saying a vast majority of whales would not be raiders, ultimately arguing that devoting resources or content design to this niche group of players is incorrect,
Yes, I believe that the vast majority of whales are not raiders, and that the vast majority of raiders are not whales. But your saying "that devoting resources or content design to this niche group of players is incorrect" is from me is completely wrong. I never wrote that. Please do not try to put those words into my mouth.
I do however repeated Anets own statement, that they can not justify putting more ressources into the development of raids and I draw from that the conclusion, that raiders are not a main part of the revenue for the game (if they were, Anet would just make more raids).
And, just to be clear, I initially responded/answered to your question/thought ...
@Cyninja.2954 said:
What if: a main part of the revenue of the game was/is coming from the hardcore dedicated fraction of the player base?
… regarding to raids, because raids are the only 10-player-instanced content that is in the game for quite some time and sometimes raids are seen as "hardcore". I could also had written about 5-player-instanced content that is sometimes also seen as "hardcore", for example, about fractals 100-cm, but I do not do those, so I did not wrote about that. I also did not write about openworld-PvE because this is usually not labelled as "hardcore". I also did not write about PvP and WvW because the discussion was not about PvP or WvW.
Do you really believe, that raiders are the main part of the revenue of the game? Because: If you do not believe that, why are you even argueing with me?
@Cyninja.2954 said:
which seems to go against the developers approach (which offers enough potential discussion because in the end, the devs have all the metrics), fine.
The developers approach is to not make more raids at the moment until they get much more players into raiding.
@Cyninja.2954 said:
and congratulations, you managed to derail this topic to once again raiders versus non raiders.
The honor is completely yours with defending something that was not even attacked by me.
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@Zok.4956 said:
Raiders earn gold and can convert gold to gems if they want to buy something with gems and very often they do not need to buy gems with real money. Whales on the other hand buy a lot of gems with real money because they do not make enough gold to convert it into all the gems they want.
Any player who runs daily fractals, is making more gold per week than players that only raid. Any player that does 1-2 hours of RIBA per day, or similar farms, is making more gold per week than a raider, matching the gold per hour of fast full clear groups.
The players who are super rich, as you point them out, are TP traders. Being a TP trader is unaffiliated to any content in this game.
I fail to see your argument make the criteria for raiders being wealthy enough to not buy gems. You are nicely playing off of a stereotype though: the oh so rich raiders subjugating the masses of poor casual players.
Raiders are usually not "super rich" (I never wrote they are super rich) like some tp-traders, and there are probably other ways to make gold more efficiently in the game (I never wrote that raiding is the most efficient way of making gold in the game), but Raiders get more wealth from raiding and have better access to cheap ascended gear than the majority of other PvE players from their play style, so the likelyhood, that raiders are typically "whales" or even spend much more real money for gems than the "average player" is quite low.
I do see a pattern in your arguments using hyberboles.
That is simply untrue. I have pointed and given an exact amount of wealth raiders accumulate and even applied very generous assumptions (3-4 hour clear times, no wipes, no practices, full clear, etc.). The exact wealth/hour is well documented for players who participate in raids, and it does not hold up to a vast amount of other more casual content. It's actually a major complaint from raid players, that the rewards do not justify the effort, but who cares to listen to those complaints in the first place.
Unless you can prove that a raider outperforms some of the most run open world farms in gold/hour, you are simply pulling statements out of thin air.
Every T4 fractal player will get more loot and wealth per hour than raider.
Now, many raiders also do T4 fractals, and also farm in the open world, but that would automatically make the player more invested in the game. Then again there is players who farm 6-8 hours per day casually and have more money than most players. Just look at the outcries when the Istan farm got nerfed, or the regular boss farm trains.
The belief that raids as content alone are highly profitable is plain incorrect, and that is backed up by numbers.
@Zok.4956 said:
Whales generate the main revenue stream in the gem-shop/microtransactions. The whales that I know are not raiders. The raiders (this includes myself) that I know are not whales. Raiders and whales are typically different player types. Of course it is possible, that there are raiders, that are also whales, but this would be a very small percentage of raiders and given the already small population of raiders in this game, it would be even less players, so this would not result in a significant revenue stream.
The population of raiders is so small at the moment, that Anet can not justify to invest money to create more raids. If the raid population would create a significant revenue stream, Anet would simply create more raids for this players and this revenue stream instead of creating strike-missions.
Without repeating myself, I've already explained why and how I define how players can get invested, and a central aspect of that being highly committed to the game, let's bring this down to 1 question again:
"highly committed to the game" can mean a lot of things and is too vague for the discussion.
For example: A person that is writing on the forum, never buys gems with real money and is not playing the game anymore can still be classified as "highly committed to the game".
Sure they can, I never said otherwise. I simply pointed to the fact that a player more engaged with the game could be more likely more committed. You might notice that I explicitly never omitted casual players (as defined by me earlier as non raid playing) from this distinction.
@Cyninja.2954 said:
You are saying a vast majority of whales would not be raiders, ultimately arguing that devoting resources or content design to this niche group of players is incorrect,
Yes, I believe that the vast majority of whales are not raiders, and that the vast majority of raiders are not whales. But your saying "that devoting resources or content design to this niche group of players is incorrect" is from me is completely wrong. I never wrote that. Please do not try to put those words into my mouth.
I do however repeated Anets own statement, that they can not justify putting more ressources into the development of raids and I draw from that the conclusion, that raiders are not a main part of the revenue for the game (if they were, Anet would just make more raids).
And, just to be clear, I initially responded/answered to your question/thought ...
@Cyninja.2954 said:
What if: a main part of the revenue of the game was/is coming from the hardcore dedicated fraction of the player base?
… regarding to raids, because raids are the only 10-player-instanced content that is in the game for quite some time and sometimes raids are seen as "hardcore". I could also had written about 5-player-instanced content that is sometimes also seen as "hardcore", for example, about fractals 100-cm, but I do not do those, so I did not wrote about that. I also did not write about openworld-PvE because this is usually not labelled as "hardcore". I also did not write about PvP and WvW because the discussion was not about PvP or WvW.
Do you really believe, that raiders are the main part of the revenue of the game? Because: If you do not believe that, why are you even argueing with me?
Sure, I believe part of the hardcore crowd, especially raiders, are very invested in the game and among them are many who spend money on the gem store. As do some of the most dedicated WvW players and PvP players.
I think as far as average revenue per player, the niche communities will perform far better than the average revenue per open world only player. Does that mean that total revenue will be most from those niche modes? Very likely not, but I never said that I assumed that. I said I believe that revenue from all game modes is required to keep the game financially in good health.
@Cyninja.2954 said:
which seems to go against the developers approach (which offers enough potential discussion because in the end, the devs have all the metrics), fine.
The developers approach is to not make more raids at the moment until they get much more players into raiding.
The developers approach is to try to accommodate as much of their player base as possible with limited amount of resources while specifically mentioning a renewed focus on challenging group content. All while the overall player numbers have dropped, which affects niche game modes even more drastically (see the merging of WvW servers into 4 tiers instead of 5 too).
My personal belief, and I have no proof for this, is that they are hoping to keep the hardcore raid playing base sufficiently occupied with minimal content, similar to the WvW and PvP player bases btw, until they can turn the ship around while providing the bare minimum in open world and story content.
We don't have to wonder though, the amount of challenging content announced for this year is minimal, if at all. The amount of challenging content released last year was minimal. So from that angle, it will be very well documented how the games financial performance continues and develops.
As I said in the other thread - Strikes should have their own section for the achievements, and have a non mandatory "complete this strike mission" achievement, as per the Drakkar fight in the meta.
@Vayne.8563 said:
I know a whole lot of people who have no interest in raids, having raided in other games. None. Zero. Burned out on raids. Came here to get away from raids. Relaxing, not min/maxing, as one guy put it. You can say I'm wrong because there's a thread on the forums that asks for easy mode raids, but probably half the people in that thread were against it.
But the 100 response long pages of requests for easy mode raids that constantly gets brought up is direct evidence against what you're saying. Saying "I know people" is literally just anecdotal evidence. Also the fact that you think you NEED to download a dps meter and that you NEED to copy a meta build from a top tier raiding website also shows that you're out of touch with what it takes to raid. I don't have a dps meter and you just need to have slightly more than a basic grasp of mmo mechanics and build synergy to raid, and again, people who literally just press 1 and down world bosses in a mix of random gear with random traits don't have this because they've never had to. These are the same people that complain that story mode is too hard when most people can can sleepwalk through story mode.
Edit: Heres a quote from @Fundor.2098 I just found in another thread about the whispers of jormag strike. He seems to be exactly the type of person you're saying doesn't exist.
"Is it truly so difficult, it's comparable to raids?
I've never done raids before (well, after a couple of epic failures after Vale Guardian was added to the game), but I'm quite interested in them nevertheless. Always expected them to be far out of my skill level though, and finding a group to learn them with has been too much of a hassle thanks to my irregular gaming times. Let me tell you, a three-shift work and a long-distance relationship make it impossible to attend literally anything regularly.
But after figuring out the strategy for the Whisper, the groups I've attended haven't failed a single run, despite there having been people who were new to it. A simple explanation of what is to come and what to keep an eye for, making sure at least a portion of the people are playing with team support focused builds, and everything goes smoothly!
Are the Strike Missions actually doing their job? If so, I'm even more grateful for them, than I was before!
Anyhow, your point numer 5, about a strike mission currency, the like of raid currencies, was a very good one."
@Shadowmoon.7986 said:
And you are a vocal minority. And there is evidence to show this. Using gw2 efficiency data, of the 49653 people who started the episode, 8677 people have killed strike whisper of jormag, the boss the same difficultly as a raid boss. Compare this to people who completed all the light puzzles, 7433, jumping puzzles are a bigger barrier to the meta than strikes. If you ignore boneskinner achievements (he been bugged since the update) or the high skill "flawless" strike achievements, the lowest completed achievements are the mundane repeat events 20 times. Honestly repeating the same unrewarding event 20 is probably the biggest gate from completing the meta, not doing the strikes.
Only 8K players did strike? Thats a very small number.
Can we plz stop being disengenious, 8.6k out of a 50k sample size. That is almost 18%. Only 60% of the sample even finished the story. Less than 15% completed all the light puzzles. Less than 5% completed the totem events 20 times.
So back at the statement, about 1 in 5 people is not a small number.
@DonArkanio.6419 said:
I don't have a problem with that requirement. And I don't believe this discourages most players.
Strike Missions are a bridge between open-world and Raids. It's ANet's design choice and they simply want you to play the content they make. Don't like the content? Who's fault is that?
Well, if developer suddenly decides to change the content players like into one players do not like, it's definitely not players' fault.
Which does not in anyway address the huge performance disparity between players which is evident at every step of PvE content (which would explain nicely how a certain part of the player base could potentially not perform adequately in a raid environment). Or past desire of players for easy mode raids. Or the developers attempt to bridge this performance disparity.
Except, as it has been explained already, stikes do absolutely nothing about it. They are a bridge between two types of content, but to walk that bridge players need to take care about fixing that performance disparity completely on their own. Exactly as they had to do before strikes were introduced.
Basically, those that were not able (or didn't want) to walk the path to raids before, will still be unable/not willing to walk it today.
And as about easy mode raids - for the most part, people were asking about them exactly because they didn't want to go to normal ones. Yes, they were supposed to be able to function as an intermediary, but that was not their intended primary purpose. Their intended primary purpose was to give "raids-lite" version for more casual players.
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Their offerings are the exact same, they are just diversifying. Did they remove the open world? Did they remove the treasure chests everywhere will bad loot that is the signature of Pof? BM is in every way a PoF map sans hearts, so it is kinda like a pof/hot hybrid map.
Anet is trying to please everyone, that is why we have instanced content, jumping puzzles and world bosses. The meta should reflect doing everything there is to do in the content, like it has always been. How many time has the meta be locked behind doing jumping puzzles (which is one is also). There have been threads on this board complaining about jumping puzzles, but those people still have the do them to complete the meta.
Right now Anet needs to hold strong on this issue, and stop cow towing to this minority of players whining they can't just have everything handed to them.
OK ... whatever you want to call it, it's not worth a pedantic argument. No one is arguing that they want everything handed to them, so whatever sensationalism you want to peddle to push your agenda, it's not really welcome here. The point is how Anet offers content to players and how it affects 'winning', which in this case is getting achievements/map completion/etc ...
Trust me, if 'cowtowing' to the people that patronize Anet is what Anet needs to do to make this game live on, you WILL see it. Sooner or later, Anet must focus on the things that make this game it's own and the reasons that made it successful in the first place. That's certainly not what we see happening with strike missions linked to meta ... but hey, that's Anet's risk, not players.
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And you are a vocal minority. And there is evidence to show this. Using gw2 efficiency data, of the 49653 people who started the episode, 8677 people have killed strike whisper of jormag, the boss the same difficultly as a raid boss. Compare this to people who completed all the light puzzles, 7433, jumping puzzles are a bigger barrier to the meta than strikes. If you ignore boneskinner achievements (he been bugged since the update) or the high skill "flawless" strike achievements, the lowest completed achievements are the mundane repeat events 20 times. Honestly repeating the same unrewarding event 20 is probably the biggest gate from completing the meta, not doing the strikes.
_Why does choosing to work on an achievement make me not play casually or completing a map? Lots of achievements happen without even knowing you are doing them - killing 10 Ice Imps or consuming a food item, or using a transmutation charge to change an armour/weapon look, killing things with a weapon gets you another. Very few have to actively pursued and I haven't done any of the raid achievements. _
Who is it that says legendaries are not for casual players? Legendaries, gen 1 at least[ if you buy or get a precursor drop], are just crafting and following the wiki on how to make. I have played since launch and amassed a lot of materials and I was a bit apprehensive at first as it sounded complicated but if you take a step by step approach it's not complex or hard. The first one is a bit of work as you might have to follow the wiki but that does make it simple. .
Usage of the word casual seems to mean different things to different people. What makes you a casual player, ie how are you using this to define your play style?
I do not like to apply labels to how other people or groups of people play this game because there are so many reasons why they play the way they do. But I do define myself as casual as opposed to hardcore. I don't often play with a meta build, I just choose what seems ok, I use berserker gear on my characters, and most only have exotic gear, and I have sometimes played without accessories or rings. I do play to have fun and enjoy the game. I like helping people but I often don't like playing in groups Im not very social, bu tI am fairly casual.
I personally like that its there because this is an mmo and i relate mmos with multiplayer cooperative content, which sadly i didnt get from drakkar (feelsbadman).
I think its perfectly fine for an mmo to incentivise group content, esp content that incentivises some communication and party forming versus the play alone together aproach of the ow.
But im biased towards that kind of content and very much enjoyed content like it in the past (fractals, dungeons, raids and even hot meta way back when it was still fresh ish).
Ill go as far as to say the ep mastery requiring the strike made it feel like early hot to me.
I wish the story bosses of gw2 were at least strike 5-10 man encounters. Would make these fights so much more meaningful to me. It doesnt even need be hard, just make it a group content with group mechanics and ill be very pleased.
I find that we kill elder dragons, gods, immortal litches etc practicly solo very immersion breaking.
I initially hopped in here ready to agree with the original post. I was upset that strike missions were required for the map. Then after slogging through the thread and seeing the 54225846 replies to every single person expressing an opposing viewpoint, basically saying nothing new, but threatening to leave, and reading the various reasonable, logical replies, I have changed my mind.
I mean, after all, I already like raiding. I raid three nights a week. I was disliking the requirements because strike mission rewards are lackluster and my raid groups don't want to do them. Glad to hear from responses that they can be pugged.
Oh, incidentally. About age. I am 54 and am the third oldest on those teams. Age has nothing to do with whether or not someone can raid.
It was the opposite. First they did the condi rework. Then they doubled world boss health, to compensate to that. And then, when they realized they overdid it with that last change, they allowed bosses to be crittable to compensate. And when they noticed that the end result was still a nerf compared to pre-condi rework state? They did nothing, and left the situation as it was.
Problem is, when casual players say that what's preventing them from doing raids is raid difficulty, that doesn't mean they say they want to play better. They are saying that they wants raids to become easier. Pushing players into strikes does exactly nothing to change that. It just will cause them to protest against both raids and strikes. And, as long as strikes are required to do it, against the LS meta.
Yes. I have also done practically all of raid wings W1 to W6 achieves (apart from dhuum and Qadim CMs). Still not fan of strikes being required for LS meta.
Oh, it wasn't okay, and it did generate a lot of negative reactions then.
I still very much resent Anet for that - that achi alone delayed my meta completions of many LS metas by at least a year. Not having HoT meta completed i didn't care as much about finishing LS3 metas, and started to work on them more only after i finally managed to finish Migraine. As a result i still don't have all of those done yet - before i got finished with them, lot of other stuff happened that decreased my enjoyment in this game.
This meta i didn't even bother to start working on, and strikes are one of the major factors.
The whole point of a social game is to play with the people you want to play with, not be forced to play with the people you don't.
I personally agree that migraine likely shouldnt have been required because of the dificulty, but it deff deserved an achievement and good rewards (if not an achievements tab on its own)
That being said, base mordremoth fight should be a 5 to 10 man encounter and be required for act 4 and ill die on this hill, that fight felt like the most immersive fight in the game because of the lore aplication and context. We faught a god like being as a group of heroes and prevailed instead of graverushing it as a simple mortal doing it solo.
Then you should not have quoted that large text block yourself from another thread/context unchanged.
I did not write about "invested" players, whatever "invested" could mean. I wrote about raiders. Now you disagree with something, I did not even wrote.
And again, you disagree with something, I did not even wrote. In fact I wrote:
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You mean the big block of text which I clearly prefaced that it is from a different thread, then right after set into context how the argument there can be applied here and the train of thought adapted to this context? Seems to me, you could have simply actually read what you were quoting and commenting. Everybody else in this thread was able to, you were the only one who had problems it seems.
Yes, it was clear that you were quoting and referencing something absolutely unrelated to this thread.
You referenced whales, which you prefaced with comments about raiders and then directly commented how you did not believe raiders are a huge revenue stream for Arenanet. You were either very unclear and accidentally mixed up two different points. Or worse you tried to insinuate something and are now backpedaling. Neither is good form of arguing.
Either way, I disagreed that being a raider would in anyway relate to being a whale or not. I set into context what I believe makes up a whale and I gave examples of why your argument need not apply to raiders in this game (aka they being super wealthy gold wise and all etc).
My main point remains:
I believe players who are most invested in the game are the most likely to spend money, and as mentioned before, I do not differentiate between casual or hardcore players only if it might change the likelihood of a player becoming more invested.
Please quote and address my comments in proper context, get back on topic, or just ignore what I am writing if you do not intend to put in the effort for proper debate.
There's a Christmas meta. It has a bunch of stuff in it, but if you can't stand jumping puzzles you don't have to do it to get htat meta. They include options. I skip mad king says every year and do the jumping puzzle instead. Again options. I don't believe people should be forced to do a hard jumping puzzle to get a meta, nor do I think people should be forced into strike missions.
It's really funny because that statisitc would showthat I completed the new strike misson. I was carried through it and lay there dead for the last 13% of the boss, after a wipe. So I'm part of that statistic. I haven't gotten to the light puzzles yet, which I enjoy. So that statistic on GW 2 efficiency woulde be meaningless. IN fact, people can get carried through the strike mission but really can't be carried through light puzzles. It's a solo activity. I think a better metric is how many casual people that might have been doing light puzzles, saw the need for the strike mission and stopped playing the game or at least the zone.
Okay so I guess part of the problem here is in my head. It's not that I'm incapable of doing strike missions. It's that they were added to encourage me to raid and I don't want to raid, so I don't need to be "encouraged" to do something that is simply not in my list of things I want to enjoy. They didn't say, oh we're adding strike missions because we think most people will find them fun. They said we need path to raids, not enouugh people are raiding and we want to continue to offer raids. So strike missions...the path to raids. They want people to get better at the game so they're giving them a land bridge. Do this content, you'll get better than then you can raid. I have two problems with this.
First, my issue isn't that I'm bad or not good enough. It's a bad assumption. I'm good enough to raid, but I don't enjoy that type of content. It's not about skill. It's about why and how I play. I play for a living breathing world, not an instance where at 75% this happens and at 50% that happens, okay everyone run into the green circle, okay everyone dodge, okay everyone jump. This is not why I play. I didn't come here to raid or do raid like content. I came here to get away from games that strongly encouraged you to raid by making it the defacto end game.
I was against adding raids to this game because I said it would change the game. And people said no, no. Raids are a seperate thing. They're just offering new content for people who want to play this harder stuff. I said well then there will be all sorts of exclusive rewards you guys get and I'm not going to be having any of that, because I bought a game where raids didn't exist and adopted it as my game for a reason. Okay I dealt with that. I dealt with the whole I won't ever have the legendary armor skins, even though I like collecting skins, because I'm not going to do something I don't enjoy to get them.
Cut to today and again, my game is changing because of raids. Not because this is something that they think I'll necessarily find fun. But to say raids doesnt' have enough players, here's some encouragement oh and btw, too bad about the meta achievement you enjoy going for. Raids have again affected me game.
So yesterday I was about to take a guy who contacted me from reddit on a hero point run and he said hey, my friend said he'd carry me through a strike mission wanna come? We were already grouped so I so sure. I did the older strike mission and the newer one.
I stood on a tag. I dodged when I needed to. I didn't die at all until the new strike mission. There I died a bit earlier the first time and when the boss was at 13%. In order to enjoy this stuff you have to do it again and again. You have to learn the fight. You have to understand what's expected. But even after doing that with other similar content, I still don't enjoy the content. So Anet is asking me to get carried for an achievement and then go back to my regular game. But the only reason I need to do this is to get more people ready for raids, which on their own have failed to get the required player base.
So will they get enough people from this, or kitten off more people? Will Anet keep doing this every time a new zone comes out. I used to look forward to new zones, but with strike missions there'll be this element of, oh man, let me get through this. It's like eating my vegetable when I was a kid.
If raids couldn't make it on their own, while is what I enjoy suddenly being altered to help them along? It feels to me like Anet is throwing good money after bad. I'm convinced this game would be doing better if raids had never been introduced. But they're here now, I get it. Doesn't mean I have to like having it affect areas of the game that I want to play, particularly because I don't think many will get into raiding because of this. This is my experience in the new strike mission. I did what I had to do till the boss was at 13% when I died. Can't use a revive orb. Can't be rezzed, so I lay there until it was done and got my credit. Fun for me? Nah. Would I do it again...well that's the thing....I'm a guild leader. Aren't I obligated to learn this content to help my guild through it so they can all get those achievements. This fundamentally changes the game for me.
A metric impossible to obtain and on top of that includes the vague, wishy washy term of "casual" which indicates absolutely nothing because no one will ever agree what casual actually means. It's one of those nonsense buzz words that more often than not gets thrown in to define whatever people want it to define.
However, I will jump to your defence on this one. GW2 efficiency is an (ironically) inefficient guideline to prove much. Dedicated players are more likely to jump in to play the strike first (it's new, it's unique, it's got challenging mechanics etc etc) and are also more likely to be on GW efficiency. Strikes are also more time sensitive due to population variations so players will get that done as soon as they can or as soon as teams appear - it gets priority. The JPs can be done at any time at leisure, so they move down the priority list. I'm more inclined to play at peak and if I want something to do, I'm more inclined to do a strike in that time than a repeatable JP. Because it would be wasteful not to.
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Thanks, I already did those
I don't even know what you are talking about. I don't care who did what, how many or what 'vocal' classification you think people belong in so you pretend their concerns aren't worth considering. I get you have an agenda to push content you like, but no one here is suggesting to remove content. I think you need to go back and check yourself and understand clearly what is being asked for. There isn't any reason to feel threatened by what the OP is asking for. Disassociating strike mission achievements from meta achievements isn't some unreasonable ask and no one is asking anyone to just hand them things. Give your head a shake.
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So by your own admission, you did the strike and completed it. It is not locking you out of the meta. Doesn't it make your own argument moot and make this into a troll thread?
50k accounts is not a small sample size, they are probably representive of the entire playerbase seeing have only 30k of them have finished living story part. That is right 40% of the accounts have not finished the 2 hours of story content, clearly efficiency has casuals in its sample. And again, just saying you dislike my method, but unless you can come put up another objective measurement, you are honest just blowing hot air sprinkled in with antidotes and personal bias.
If that was actually the concern being expressed you would be right.
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The fact that I had to ruined my enjoyment of the meta, and therefore the entire zone. I'm not sure why that's so hard to understand.
At no point did I say I can't do this. What I said was the game is now asking me to do something I've never had to do before, that I don't enjoy, specifically to prepare me for doing raids, which I could do if I wanted and don't enjoy. Anet is assume people don't raid because they're not good enough. People don't raid because raiding isn't fun for them. Strike missions aren't fun for me.
If this trend keeps up and Anet is going to require me to do something I don't like in every single zone that comes out in the Saga, I'm going to stop doing it. And if I stop doing the new zones, it's only a matter of time before I play the game less and less. It's very simple logic.
So:
Hope that makes it more clear.
You need like 7 achievements from Strike missions. I don't have those yet. I have to go back into Strike Missions to get the meta.
Or you could just read and try to understand what I wrote instead of again arguing just for the sake of disagreeing about something what I did not wrote. Or just follow your own advice and just ignore what I am writing if you do not intend to put in the effort for proper debate.
Raiders earn gold and can convert gold to gems if they want to buy something with gems and very often they do not need to buy gems with real money. Whales on the other hand buy a lot of gems with real money because they do not make enough gold to convert it into all the gems they want.
Whales generate the main revenue stream in the gem-shop/microtransactions. The whales that I know are not raiders. The raiders (this includes myself) that I know are not whales. Raiders and whales are typically different player types. Of course it is possible, that there are raiders, that are also whales, but this would be a very small percentage of raiders and given the already small population of raiders in this game, it would be even less players, so this would not result in a significant revenue stream.
The population of raiders is so small at the moment, that Anet can not justify to invest money to create more raids. If the raid population would create a significant revenue stream, Anet would simply create more raids for this players and this revenue stream instead of creating strike-missions.
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Right or I can ignore it and send Anet a message that this is not really acceptable to me, and hope they don't keep doing it. Because I really don't want to. I didn't go for legendary armor, because I didnt' want to raid. I get that I can get it. It's not fun enough for me to bother, and that's an issue, no matter how you slice it. If they're trying to tain people for raids, I don't think it'll work. If they're trying to annoy people like me, it's worked.
I'm not a raider, but I definitely believe I'm a whale.
Fine, let's see what you wrote:
Raiders earn 60 liquid gold and around 20-40 gold in exotics per week. Add in the remaining loot, and you might get another 20 gold of value out of that. How do I know? I've been full clearing weekly within 3-4 hours on reset for months, and have run the gw2efficiency farming tracker multiple times during those clears.
That's around 100 gold per week a raider makes. Unless they are raid selling, which a very very very tiny fraction of the raid players do. That is without even accounting for players who do NOT full clear in 3-4 hours, of which the majority of players do not. Yes, that is without accounting for spare ascended gear, which many veteran players have multiple sets of, no matter if they raid or not if they've been playing for multiple years (and ascended is not easily, or at all monetize able).
Any player who runs daily fractals, is making more gold per week than players that only raid. Any player that does 1-2 hours of RIBA per day, or similar farms, is making more gold per week than a raider, matching the gold per hour of fast full clear groups.
The players who are super rich, as you point them out, are TP traders. Being a TP trader is unaffiliated to any content in this game.
I fail to see your argument make the criteria for raiders being wealthy enough to not buy gems. You are nicely playing off of a stereotype though: the oh so rich raiders subjugating the masses of poor casual players.
Without repeating myself, I've already explained why and how I define how players can get invested, and a central aspect of that being highly committed to the game, let's bring this down to 1 question again:
You are saying a vast majority of whales would not be raiders, ultimately arguing that devoting resources or content design to this niche group of players is incorrect, which seems to go against the developers approach (which offers enough potential discussion because in the end, the devs have all the metrics), fine. Let's reduce the resources devoted and all content design away from the hardcore player base. That is already mostly the case and has been for the entirety of 2019 btw.
So:
What if you are wrong? Are you willing to bet the games existence on your assumption?
EDIT: and congratulations, you managed to derail this topic to once again raiders versus non raiders. Something I intentionally tried to not raise and tried to avoid when making my comments earlier. Hence why I gave a clear explanation with my original post as to which aspects are relevant to this discussion and raised the question: what if all parts of the player base are needed for a healthy financial performance, and how would that change people's perception on topic creators issue?
I'm not defending adding strikes to the meta, but there are plenty of people who don't raid because they're not good enough. The constant dying due to lack of game knowledge eventually leads to frustration that leads to not liking raids. And there are people who just don't like raids at all as you say. Both of these types can exist at the same time. You can't just say everyone who doesn't raid does it strictly because they don't like raiding. It's difficult and the gap between open world bosses that require nothing more than afking while auto attacking and raiding isn't something someone should just expect to pug into one random night and 1 shot every boss for free stuff.
It wouldn't hurt the game if something coerced some players to do more than press 1 with a condi weapon while wearing a mix of magi/soldier gear with green runes in it.
But to clarify, I don't think forcing people into strikes for the meta is the way to go.
I don't really have any preference; Strikes or no Strikes, but it just seems a bit like cutting one's nose off to spite one's face to refuse to do the content one enjoys because there is content included that one does not enjoy.
Personally, I just play the parts of the game I do enjoy, and leave the parts others enjoy to...well, those that enjoy those parts.
It's just a game, after all.
(I think something will be done, though, as some seem unhappy with this Meta. Perhaps, lol, I should have created threads expressing my unhappiness for all the Meta's I didn't complete because they included Achievements I didn't care for. /shrug)
Only 8K players did strike? Thats a very small number.
I'd wager you're wrong about this. People don't raid because they're casual. That doesn't mean they're not raiding because they're not good enough. It means they don't care enough to get better to do content that doesn't interest them. See, in order to really be good, you'd need to go to a website an look up a build, get the correct armor sorted, and then practice in front of a golem and download a DPS meter. None of these are casual activities.
The thing is, anyone that wants to could do those things, but they don't want to do those things, because games aren't work to everyone. Those things aren't fun to everyone.
You're trying to make the correlation that they're not good enough so they don't raid. The real correlation here is that they don't want to raid, so they don't have to jump through those hoops. It's not about being able to do it. It's not wanting to do it. And people dont' seem to get that.
Do you really think I can't download a DPS meter and get a build from snowcrows and stand at a practice dummy until I have my rotation down? Of course I can. How many people have said raiding isn't hard. But the act of doing that would interfere with my actual enjoyment of the game. It would be less immersive. The more I look at numbers, the less I'm thinking about the world and the lore and the motivation of my characters. It's the difference between people focusing on mechanics and people focusing on immersion. I'm not interested in having a rotation at all full stop. I want to, and enjoy, reacting to the world around me.
I'm playing a different game that raids would take me out of. Anyone can learn that rotation, and get those builds and practice until they know where to stand. It's easy if you like doing it. But some of us don't like doing it. Those that enjoy it will likely never understand.
You dont play for the meta specifcally so iot doesn't affect you that much. But let's say they changed the game so it was so hard you had to have a specific build and learn a specifc rotation and use a damage meter or you couldn't do anything at all. Then you'd find yourself complaining.
Not just for me, but for many people, the more casual end game is this meta that comes out every two months. After having done everythign else in the game multipe times, or everything we enjoy it's what's left. And if the group of people who play this way is large enough, this change will affect everyone's game...even raiders.
Hmm...how do you know I don't play for the Meta? Is it ok to not finish the Meta when it's involving Strikes, and be unhappy about that, but not ok to not finish the Meta because of other content?
I was just making a joke about creating threads. The point still is: refusing to do content one enjoys because content one doesn't enjoy is also offered seems odd to me. But, each to their own.
Sorry, but this is not about you.
There has been ample arguments and discussion, as well as developer comments on huge performance disparity, that you can't simply put off the issue as:
raids are not to hard for me, hence they are not to hard for any other player.
It's fine to argue you don't believe raids have no place in this game. You can't with full honesty though argue that raids are not to difficult for part of the player base if even the developers state their intention is to introduce intermediate content especially to tackle this issue.
If you played for the meta, you'd be getting the meta instead of saying there are a lot of metas you haven't done. The point isn't whether or not you like content, so much as whether this is a signifcant change from what's already existed.
We've always had killing, and jumping puzzles and story achievements through the game, since launch almost. We've always had multi-man instanced content in this game that was kept seperated from zone type metas. The one exception, the MIgraine achievement was never actually repeated, with reason, I suspect. My issue is how this changed on us, not that I can't do the meta. It's a bad change in my opinion and I have a right to say so.
I've done plenty of things in this game I don't really enjoy for a reward. I got the PvP legendary back piece and there was plenty of that I didn't enjoy. But at the end of the day this is a significant change, and it requires more justification in my mind than we went more people to raid.
Still doesn't address the point. (Not sure why one can't express one's unhappiness and still play the parts of the game one enjoys.)
Regardless, whatever you think works best.
You've completely missed my point. THe question isn't whether raids are too difficult or not. That's never really been the question. The question is are people not doing raids because they're too difficult. Getting better is something anyone can do if they want to do it. They don't want to do it, not because they want to be carried through everything, but because they don't want their game to feel like a job and it would...for a lot of people, myself included.
I'm saying anyone who wants to get better and raid, gets better and raids. The fact that others aren't getting better is not the reason they're not raiding. They're not getting better because they don't have interest in that harder content. If they were suddenly better that doesn't mean they'd have interest in that harder content, or they'd get better if that makes sense.
A guy that wants to play sword and shield because that's the image he has of his warrior isn't going to want to swap to duel mace because it's more efficient. He's not a below average player due to lack of ability. He's making an immersion decision based on his desire to feel a certain way about his character. If getting into raids was actually important, more important thant the image of his character, he's make those changes and raid. Most people could be good enough to raid, if they cared enough about raids to put in that effort. But, as I've said, most people I've run into are playing characters in an RPG and raiding is a very differnet kind of game. RPG in the traditional sense of the world like D&D, not a computer simulation, that took the name RPG much later.
The 100s of page long threads about easy mode raids as well as the developer approach to this issue would suggest you are incorrect in your assumption, which is mostly based on your personal subjective experience. That's all I am saying.
I don't have a problem with that requirement. And I don't believe this discourages most players.
Strike Missions are a bridge between open-world and Raids. It's ANet's design choice and they simply want you to play the content they make. Don't like the content? Who's fault is that?
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I know a whole lot of people who have no interest in raids, having raided in other games. None. Zero. Burned out on raids. Came here to get away from raids. Relaxing, not min/maxing, as one guy put it. You can say I'm wrong because there's a thread on the forums that asks for easy mode raids, but probably half the people in that thread were against it.
I'm not saying your wrong, I'm saying you can't simply dismiss a notion like raids are to difficult simply due to personal experience (especially with weighted evidence against this opinion). You might very well be right.
I'm saying to simply dismiss something because it does not fit a personal argument or opinion is folly.
There was a very highly upvoted thread on reddit about just this topic. People didn't want to do raids because they didn't want to spend their time trying to organzie groups of ten people. The post had hundreds of upvotes. It was only a couple of weeks ago. If you read through that thread, you'd see how much support there is for the idea that difficulty is not the main reason people avoid raids, unless you're talking about the difficulty of organization.
Edit: Found the thread for you, take a look:
https://old.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/f0d4ki/if_people_arent_raiding_in_an_mmo_its_not_because/
Btw, 480 upvotes if you're not familiar with how Reddit works, doesn't mean 480 people upvoted it. It's the net difference between upvotes and downvotes, so it's more than the 480 total you see there that has upvoted.
Which does not in anyway address the huge performance disparity between players which is evident at every step of PvE content (which would explain nicely how a certain part of the player base could potentially not perform adequately in a raid environment). Or past desire of players for easy mode raids. Or the developers attempt to bridge this performance disparity.
You've been approaching this thread from your personal view the entire 4 threads so far bringing literally every argument down to: I believe because I feel this way and any opinion which is in congruence with mine is correct, every other is incorrect.
So fine, you are right. On everything. The developers and every one else with a diverging opinion is wrong. Let's hope the developers read this topic and discover the error in their metrics and ways. There is no reason to concern oneself with potential opinions or issues which do not agree with your view on the game or the player base.
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You did not actually read through that thread did you? Hint: it does not support your thesis. Nor does the article, which has been brought up in the past (and it's a strong opinion piece with 0 sources). There is literally commentators in the first few comments already disagreeing or asking for story mode raids for story purposes only due to the difficulty of raids.
The disparty has to do with focus. That's what you're not getting. I know how to get really good damage, if I were interested in just that. I get okay damage because I don't want to push myself that hard. I play to relax. That's all.
I linked that thread from reddit btw, in my last reply to you.
You seem to think just because someone is doing less damage, it means they can't do more damage. How many people are chatting with their buddies, watching a movie while playing, surfing the web while playing. I have two monitors and it's not unusual for me to play while I'm doing other stuff on the other side. I'm just not that focused or worried about doing damage, unless I'm doing something that requires that focus. Vinetooth Prime. A bounty maybe. But most of the time, If I'm doing a world boss Iv'e done 87 times before or even running through one of the old dungeons, I just don't need that focus, and I do less damage. I save my energy for when I really need it.
THIS IS NOT ABOUT YOU!
Why must every little argument for you boil down to:"I do this and thus it must be the only correct way to look at this?"
You did and it is clear you did not actually care to read through the comments. I did in the past. Both on that thread as well as the article it refers to.
Again, THIS IS NOT ABOUT YOU.
I seem to think that my personal observation is not the be all end all. I am keeping an open mind to what can and can't be by looking at which facts we actually have. I try to put developer comments into perspective which have directly said that there is a huge disparity which they want to address. I do not put in additional words like: people just don;t want to, or are afk, or etc.etc.etc.
I'm also not the one going: "oh strikes are easy because I can do them no problem with my raid static". That's your approach. I'm looking at what reasons might or might not be present for certain actions from the developers. Why they might want to reduce the performance disparity in the player base. Why that could matter.
Whenever a casuals comes here on the forums to whine , its about the difficulty of the raid but rather than the hostile envoroment of the other l33t ppl .
(not enought dps and 2 wipes= kick )
Not about the boss that can 1-shot them , nor that the mechanics such as avoid the aoes , or hit the second target target .
The raid encounter can be killed in 4 min by an orginised group , but is has been tailored around the not-so-optiomal-gameplay a.k.a 12 min and when the boss is enraged it doesnt do 1-shot damage .
The casuals wants a easy mode ,to get away from l33t players
PPl saying that are huge performance disparity between players is an excuse that they dont want casuals in their group .
Or they have alts accounts , that are selling runs for huge amount of gold :P
The casuals dont want to create their onw group , without expiriance and they stick on trainning group forever or skip it entirly .
The company see that the majority does only the easy bosses every week , and not full runs
Not enought numbers = no need for future raids
(edit any chance for an investigation of alts account selling runs vs forums accounts ?:P)
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Raiders are usually not "super rich" (I never wrote they are super rich) like some tp-traders, and there are probably other ways to make gold more efficiently in the game (I never wrote that raiding is the most efficient way of making gold in the game), but Raiders get more wealth from raiding and have better access to cheap ascended gear than the majority of other PvE players from their play style, so the likelyhood, that raiders are typically "whales" or even spend much more real money for gems than the "average player" is quite low.
I do see a pattern in your arguments using hyberboles.
"highly committed to the game" can mean a lot of things and is too vague for the discussion.
For example: A person that is writing on the forum, never buys gems with real money and is not playing the game anymore can still be classified as "highly committed to the game".
Yes, I believe that the vast majority of whales are not raiders, and that the vast majority of raiders are not whales. But your saying "that devoting resources or content design to this niche group of players is incorrect" is from me is completely wrong. I never wrote that. Please do not try to put those words into my mouth.
I do however repeated Anets own statement, that they can not justify putting more ressources into the development of raids and I draw from that the conclusion, that raiders are not a main part of the revenue for the game (if they were, Anet would just make more raids).
And, just to be clear, I initially responded/answered to your question/thought ...
… regarding to raids, because raids are the only 10-player-instanced content that is in the game for quite some time and sometimes raids are seen as "hardcore". I could also had written about 5-player-instanced content that is sometimes also seen as "hardcore", for example, about fractals 100-cm, but I do not do those, so I did not wrote about that. I also did not write about openworld-PvE because this is usually not labelled as "hardcore". I also did not write about PvP and WvW because the discussion was not about PvP or WvW.
Do you really believe, that raiders are the main part of the revenue of the game? Because: If you do not believe that, why are you even argueing with me?
The developers approach is to not make more raids at the moment until they get much more players into raiding.
The honor is completely yours with defending something that was not even attacked by me.
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That is simply untrue. I have pointed and given an exact amount of wealth raiders accumulate and even applied very generous assumptions (3-4 hour clear times, no wipes, no practices, full clear, etc.). The exact wealth/hour is well documented for players who participate in raids, and it does not hold up to a vast amount of other more casual content. It's actually a major complaint from raid players, that the rewards do not justify the effort, but who cares to listen to those complaints in the first place.
Unless you can prove that a raider outperforms some of the most run open world farms in gold/hour, you are simply pulling statements out of thin air.
Every T4 fractal player will get more loot and wealth per hour than raider.
Now, many raiders also do T4 fractals, and also farm in the open world, but that would automatically make the player more invested in the game. Then again there is players who farm 6-8 hours per day casually and have more money than most players. Just look at the outcries when the Istan farm got nerfed, or the regular boss farm trains.
The belief that raids as content alone are highly profitable is plain incorrect, and that is backed up by numbers.
Sure they can, I never said otherwise. I simply pointed to the fact that a player more engaged with the game could be more likely more committed. You might notice that I explicitly never omitted casual players (as defined by me earlier as non raid playing) from this distinction.
Sure, I believe part of the hardcore crowd, especially raiders, are very invested in the game and among them are many who spend money on the gem store. As do some of the most dedicated WvW players and PvP players.
I think as far as average revenue per player, the niche communities will perform far better than the average revenue per open world only player. Does that mean that total revenue will be most from those niche modes? Very likely not, but I never said that I assumed that. I said I believe that revenue from all game modes is required to keep the game financially in good health.
The developers approach is to try to accommodate as much of their player base as possible with limited amount of resources while specifically mentioning a renewed focus on challenging group content. All while the overall player numbers have dropped, which affects niche game modes even more drastically (see the merging of WvW servers into 4 tiers instead of 5 too).
My personal belief, and I have no proof for this, is that they are hoping to keep the hardcore raid playing base sufficiently occupied with minimal content, similar to the WvW and PvP player bases btw, until they can turn the ship around while providing the bare minimum in open world and story content.
We don't have to wonder though, the amount of challenging content announced for this year is minimal, if at all. The amount of challenging content released last year was minimal. So from that angle, it will be very well documented how the games financial performance continues and develops.
As I said in the other thread - Strikes should have their own section for the achievements, and have a non mandatory "complete this strike mission" achievement, as per the Drakkar fight in the meta.
But the 100 response long pages of requests for easy mode raids that constantly gets brought up is direct evidence against what you're saying. Saying "I know people" is literally just anecdotal evidence. Also the fact that you think you NEED to download a dps meter and that you NEED to copy a meta build from a top tier raiding website also shows that you're out of touch with what it takes to raid. I don't have a dps meter and you just need to have slightly more than a basic grasp of mmo mechanics and build synergy to raid, and again, people who literally just press 1 and down world bosses in a mix of random gear with random traits don't have this because they've never had to. These are the same people that complain that story mode is too hard when most people can can sleepwalk through story mode.
Edit: Heres a quote from @Fundor.2098 I just found in another thread about the whispers of jormag strike. He seems to be exactly the type of person you're saying doesn't exist.
"Is it truly so difficult, it's comparable to raids?
I've never done raids before (well, after a couple of epic failures after Vale Guardian was added to the game), but I'm quite interested in them nevertheless. Always expected them to be far out of my skill level though, and finding a group to learn them with has been too much of a hassle thanks to my irregular gaming times. Let me tell you, a three-shift work and a long-distance relationship make it impossible to attend literally anything regularly.
But after figuring out the strategy for the Whisper, the groups I've attended haven't failed a single run, despite there having been people who were new to it. A simple explanation of what is to come and what to keep an eye for, making sure at least a portion of the people are playing with team support focused builds, and everything goes smoothly!
Are the Strike Missions actually doing their job? If so, I'm even more grateful for them, than I was before!
Anyhow, your point numer 5, about a strike mission currency, the like of raid currencies, was a very good one."
Can we plz stop being disengenious, 8.6k out of a 50k sample size. That is almost 18%. Only 60% of the sample even finished the story. Less than 15% completed all the light puzzles. Less than 5% completed the totem events 20 times.
So back at the statement, about 1 in 5 people is not a small number.
Well, if developer suddenly decides to change the content players like into one players do not like, it's definitely not players' fault.
Except, as it has been explained already, stikes do absolutely nothing about it. They are a bridge between two types of content, but to walk that bridge players need to take care about fixing that performance disparity completely on their own. Exactly as they had to do before strikes were introduced.
Basically, those that were not able (or didn't want) to walk the path to raids before, will still be unable/not willing to walk it today.
And as about easy mode raids - for the most part, people were asking about them exactly because they didn't want to go to normal ones. Yes, they were supposed to be able to function as an intermediary, but that was not their intended primary purpose. Their intended primary purpose was to give "raids-lite" version for more casual players.
The whole point of a social game is to play with the people you want to play with, not be forced to play with the people you don't.