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@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) ...

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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?

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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.

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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)

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@"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.

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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.

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@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.

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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.

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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.

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@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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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 runsNot 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.

@Cyninja.2954 said:

@"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.

good day.

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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:

@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.

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@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.

@Zok.4956 said:

@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.

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@"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."

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@"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.

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