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People want games to be fun and casual now..look at GW2! Its super casual all you got is the whole community thing, outside of that there isnt much going on once you did the stories. Well thats fine for socializing but in this day and age a good majority of people just want to dip in for a short time and then log out and do other things. They want to be able to get stuff done in a reasonable amount of time and get on with it. Not sit at a pc for hours on end.

As for calling out wow for being casual..pot meet kettle imo.

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@Tiviana.2650 said:People want games to be fun and casual now..look at GW2! Its super casual all you got is the whole community thing, outside of that there isnt much going on once you did the stories. Well thats fine for socializing but in this day and age a good majority of people just want to dip in for a short time and then log out and do other things. They want to be able to get stuff done in a reasonable amount of time and get on with it. Not sit at a pc for hours on end.

As for calling out wow for being casual..pot meet kettle imo.

I did not call WoW out for being casual. I called WoW out for introducing anti grouping mechanics which worked directly against creating social bonds.

Those are vastly different issues and problems.

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@Tiviana.2650 said:I will say this LFR saved wow.You can be wrong. I'm okay with that.

I played WoW from Vanilla to Cataclsym. I'd occasionally dip my toes in the water back during Draenor and Legion but I left in a quick hurry each time because of how much of a hollow empty shadow the game is compared to what it used to be. Back when the push for Legacy servers were a thing and Nostalrius being shut down was making news I went back and played a classic WoW private server and played that for a while but the constant latency and anxiety of the server being shut down the way Nostalrius prevented me from committing to it as much as I would have liked.

The thing that people miss about what's bad about stuff like the breakneck speed of WoW's current leveling, as well as how braindead easy it is, alongside both effortlessly easy dungeons as well as autogroups is that is absolutely throttles the social aspects of the game. While a lot of stuff about Vanilla WoW are frustrating like stuff like Zefra Hooves having an abysmally low drop rate, is that the questing and dungeon experience is amazing for actually meeting people and making friends and snowballing into communities.

You start out with your easily soloable quests like kill quests on non elite mobs. But when you see competition for kills you can turn that competition into cooperation and invite them to join your party. And you taking that step to send them an invite is huge. Soon you find yourself doing quests in areas with Elites that can't be solo'd and now you need to get a party. And you have to make the effort to communicate with other people, say "Hey. Do you want to do this thing?" And then you go into dungeons. And dungeons aren't easy. You need crowd control as well as a viable group composition. And those aren't handed to you. And if you wipe you can completely lose your opportunity to get loot.

But when you do find a good party, players you want to play with more, you add them to your friendslist so you can group up with them quicker when you two want to do another dungeon. And since 1. dungeons are slower with bits of downtime to eat and drink 2. you had to actually speak with them to get that group, chances are good you had a nice chat while you were partying. Soon you're forming a guild. You're building a community. You're hitting level 60 and going into dungeons. Then into raid.

WoW had 12 Million players before Looking for Raid was added. It didn't need saving and it's only gone downhill since. Classic WoW being officially released has had more excitment and buzz about it since Battle For Azeroth dropped. Guild Wars 2 similarly struggles with the same problem that Retail WoW has of actively discouraging and disincentivizing socially grouping with other players. Raids are the only content that actually creates communities revolved around them.

Looking for raid and now group finder have a tremendous following in wow, because there are a lot of people that want to play it their way. Not play on a raid scheduled, or some dont want to be in a raid guild. LFR and GF open up the possibilities for them to play on their own time.

Yeah, the same way players get upset about things like whenever flying mounts are locked in new areas so they can't just effortlessly skip over everything. Or when their waterstriders get temporarily disabled. Games are exercises in adversity. And there's a point where you've made the game so convenient it's not a game anymore. Look at what happened with garrisons in Draenor. Warlord's of Draenor was so immensely convenient you could just sit in your base and just watch as raid quality look was mailed to you for no effort. The game was so convenient no one ever wanted to leave their garrisons anymore, which mean less and less people were playing together. Which mean communities were collapsing and no new communities were forming in their place. And when players don't have community they don't have anything keeping them in the game anymore and they leave for the next big thing. It was so dire Blizzard brought Illidan back to life and gave all the paladins in the game Ashbringer as an emegency situation.

And if you are a hard core raider it dont effect you one bit if people play LFR.

The endless drama and headache of WoW fussing around with end game's difficulty is literally why I quit that game. Blizzard adding 10 mans that are supposed to be easier than 25 man but frequently were way harder like 10 man Sartharion 3. Then they added 10 man heroic and 25 man heroic and none of them were ever properly balanced because QA testing all those various game modes is impossible to do properly and frequently something would be bugged or poorly tuned in 10 man and 25 man and because of the immense workloaded of having all those difficulty modes meant things would be unfixed for months and months on end. And then you had all the people playing 10 man angry that their loot wasn't as good as the 10man heroic, 25 man and 25 heroic gear.

WoW was healthier and a more enjoyable experience during Vanilla and Burning Crusade compared to when they started shoving a billion difficulty modes into their end game content and made grouping instant. There's a reason why Classic WoW is getting more attention and hype than Battle for Azeroth received.

You also friend. WoW isnt dead far from it, it still has more players than GW2, and there are communities, just in wow you arent forced to join them to get anywhere. If you want to be a solo player in that game you can.

Again, these games are MMOs. There is nothing wrong with giving players solo content, but when your entire game revolves around it and gets built around it, you are playing the wrong game.

No one is saying WoW is dead. You can't deny though, the game has lost a LOT of players and its luster, to be fair: due to a majority of reasons which are unrelated to some of the issues here too.

@Tiviana.2650 said:If you want to step up and join a guild and take it up a level you can. Thats why its still popular, dont you get it? The old days are gone, and games that adhere to forcing people to always have to join a community to get anywhere are dying. Society has changed, evolve or get left behind. Ofc people here are going to say , then why play a mmorpg if you want to play solo?

It doesn't have to be a life. But you also do not have to get all and every reward with minimal commitment.

@Tiviana.2650 said:Vanilla WoW sucked it was a slog grindfest, nothing was balanced and doing anything took forever. I remember grinding reps that took months on end. Its all rose colored glasses and nostalgia that make you say it was the best. It was terrible.

Vanilla WoW was the most casual MMO of its time. Yes, it was grindy compared to todays standards, that's not the issue at heart though. The issue is: building a group and overcoming group content actually had an impact on a players experience.

Case in point:
  • remember one, any will do, significant moment which you experienced while running LFR or LFG. Besides maybe seeing content for the first time.
  • now remember any significant moment which you experienced while making your own group or overcoming some other type of challenge

I guarantee you, those experiences will be vastly different.

This is the delusion, in what world are you getting everything for nothing? That does not happen and never did. Listen just because you get some low ilvl purples dont mean you are getting the best. Man thats delusional, you work for it if you want the best gear and weapons, you work your butt off, time and skill. Those cheap epics are only there like exotics in this game to get you started. Oh hey ho about the gearing here man its sure rains loot easy..see how that goes? You can say the same here

LFR literally has a buff which stacks up preventing successive failure. That is beside the removed mechanics, reduced damage.

When participation is all that is required for reward, and success is guaranteed, then my statement is not a delusion.

When was the last time you played wow? Go run some of the LFR raids yeah you get a buff, and because some of those mechanics are still active and will wipe a group, you will still wipe 20 times or more on those bosses. KilJaden, Argus, sisters, Coven, Avatar, Zul , Ghuun those are pug breakers even with buff stacks . If you dont do the mechanics your dead no matter how many stacks of determination you have.

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@Tiviana.2650 said:I will say this LFR saved wow.You can be wrong. I'm okay with that.

I played WoW from Vanilla to Cataclsym. I'd occasionally dip my toes in the water back during Draenor and Legion but I left in a quick hurry each time because of how much of a hollow empty shadow the game is compared to what it used to be. Back when the push for Legacy servers were a thing and Nostalrius being shut down was making news I went back and played a classic WoW private server and played that for a while but the constant latency and anxiety of the server being shut down the way Nostalrius prevented me from committing to it as much as I would have liked.

The thing that people miss about what's bad about stuff like the breakneck speed of WoW's current leveling, as well as how braindead easy it is, alongside both effortlessly easy dungeons as well as autogroups is that is absolutely throttles the social aspects of the game. While a lot of stuff about Vanilla WoW are frustrating like stuff like Zefra Hooves having an abysmally low drop rate, is that the questing and dungeon experience is amazing for actually meeting people and making friends and snowballing into communities.

You start out with your easily soloable quests like kill quests on non elite mobs. But when you see competition for kills you can turn that competition into cooperation and invite them to join your party. And you taking that step to send them an invite is huge. Soon you find yourself doing quests in areas with Elites that can't be solo'd and now you need to get a party. And you have to make the effort to communicate with other people, say "Hey. Do you want to do this thing?" And then you go into dungeons. And dungeons aren't easy. You need crowd control as well as a viable group composition. And those aren't handed to you. And if you wipe you can completely lose your opportunity to get loot.

But when you do find a good party, players you want to play with more, you add them to your friendslist so you can group up with them quicker when you two want to do another dungeon. And since 1. dungeons are slower with bits of downtime to eat and drink 2. you had to actually speak with them to get that group, chances are good you had a nice chat while you were partying. Soon you're forming a guild. You're building a community. You're hitting level 60 and going into dungeons. Then into raid.

WoW had 12 Million players before Looking for Raid was added. It didn't need saving and it's only gone downhill since. Classic WoW being officially released has had more excitment and buzz about it since Battle For Azeroth dropped. Guild Wars 2 similarly struggles with the same problem that Retail WoW has of actively discouraging and disincentivizing socially grouping with other players. Raids are the only content that actually creates communities revolved around them.

Looking for raid and now group finder have a tremendous following in wow, because there are a lot of people that want to play it their way. Not play on a raid scheduled, or some dont want to be in a raid guild. LFR and GF open up the possibilities for them to play on their own time.

Yeah, the same way players get upset about things like whenever flying mounts are locked in new areas so they can't just effortlessly skip over everything. Or when their waterstriders get temporarily disabled. Games are exercises in adversity. And there's a point where you've made the game so convenient it's not a game anymore. Look at what happened with garrisons in Draenor. Warlord's of Draenor was so immensely convenient you could just sit in your base and just watch as raid quality look was mailed to you for no effort. The game was so convenient no one ever wanted to leave their garrisons anymore, which mean less and less people were playing together. Which mean communities were collapsing and no new communities were forming in their place. And when players don't have community they don't have anything keeping them in the game anymore and they leave for the next big thing. It was so dire Blizzard brought Illidan back to life and gave all the paladins in the game Ashbringer as an emegency situation.

And if you are a hard core raider it dont effect you one bit if people play LFR.

The endless drama and headache of WoW fussing around with end game's difficulty is literally why I quit that game. Blizzard adding 10 mans that are supposed to be easier than 25 man but frequently were way harder like 10 man Sartharion 3. Then they added 10 man heroic and 25 man heroic and none of them were ever properly balanced because QA testing all those various game modes is impossible to do properly and frequently something would be bugged or poorly tuned in 10 man and 25 man and because of the immense workloaded of having all those difficulty modes meant things would be unfixed for months and months on end. And then you had all the people playing 10 man angry that their loot wasn't as good as the 10man heroic, 25 man and 25 heroic gear.

WoW was healthier and a more enjoyable experience during Vanilla and Burning Crusade compared to when they started shoving a billion difficulty modes into their end game content and made grouping instant. There's a reason why Classic WoW is getting more attention and hype than Battle for Azeroth received.

You also friend. WoW isnt dead far from it, it still has more players than GW2, and there are communities, just in wow you arent forced to join them to get anywhere. If you want to be a solo player in that game you can.

Again, these games are MMOs. There is nothing wrong with giving players solo content, but when your entire game revolves around it and gets built around it, you are playing the wrong game.

No one is saying WoW is dead. You can't deny though, the game has lost a LOT of players and its luster, to be fair: due to a majority of reasons which are unrelated to some of the issues here too.

@Tiviana.2650 said:If you want to step up and join a guild and take it up a level you can. Thats why its still popular, dont you get it? The old days are gone, and games that adhere to forcing people to always have to join a community to get anywhere are dying. Society has changed, evolve or get left behind. Ofc people here are going to say , then why play a mmorpg if you want to play solo?

It doesn't have to be a life. But you also do not have to get all and every reward with minimal commitment.

@Tiviana.2650 said:Vanilla WoW sucked it was a slog grindfest, nothing was balanced and doing anything took forever. I remember grinding reps that took months on end. Its all rose colored glasses and nostalgia that make you say it was the best. It was terrible.

Vanilla WoW was the most casual MMO of its time. Yes, it was grindy compared to todays standards, that's not the issue at heart though. The issue is: building a group and overcoming group content actually had an impact on a players experience.

Case in point:
  • remember one, any will do, significant moment which you experienced while running LFR or LFG. Besides maybe seeing content for the first time.
  • now remember any significant moment which you experienced while making your own group or overcoming some other type of challenge

I guarantee you, those experiences will be vastly different.

This is the delusion, in what world are you getting everything for nothing? That does not happen and never did. Listen just because you get some low ilvl purples dont mean you are getting the best. Man thats delusional, you work for it if you want the best gear and weapons, you work your butt off, time and skill. Those cheap epics are only there like exotics in this game to get you started. Oh hey ho about the gearing here man its sure rains loot easy..see how that goes? You can say the same here

LFR literally has a buff which stacks up preventing successive failure. That is beside the removed mechanics, reduced damage.

When participation is all that is required for reward, and success is guaranteed, then my statement is not a delusion.

When was the last time you played wow? Go run some of the LFR raids yeah you get a buff, and because some of those mechanics are still active and will wipe a group, you will still wipe 20 times or more on those bosses. KilJaden, Argus, sisters, Coven, Avatar, Zul , Ghuun those are pug breakers even with buff stacks . If you dont do the mechanics your dead no matter how many stacks of determination you have.

Last time I played WoW was with Legion, played for 6 weeks and cleared up to Mythic+12 while pro groups were doing +16.

Yes, because the effort people invest in LFR is not more than pressing auto attack 1. I was doing top dps in LFR by not even using more than 3 skills occasionally.

Yes, some mechanics might wipe a group initially (and no, a vast majority are removed which you would know if you explored normal, heroic or mythic raids) because the average player skill and effort invested is -100. That's why you get the buff, because people are so afk that even vastly reduced damage on mechanics wipes groups. People go into LFR to afk loot farm and hope for titen procs. That's what the game has devolved to: hoping the most afk brainless content luck procs so you can upgrade a gear item.

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@Tiviana.2650 said:People want games to be fun and casual now..look at GW2! Its super casual all you got is the whole community thing, outside of that there isnt much going on once you did the stories. Well thats fine for socializing but in this day and age a good majority of people just want to dip in for a short time and then log out and do other things. They want to be able to get stuff done in a reasonable amount of time and get on with it. Not sit at a pc for hours on end.

As for calling out wow for being casual..pot meet kettle imo.

I did not call WoW out for being casual. I called WoW out for introducing anti grouping mechanics which worked directly against creating social bonds.

Those are vastly different issues and problems.

There is no anti grouping mechanics, you want to do a raid you need a group. The only solable raid content is stuff from years ago that is way below your level. Anything recent you need a group. What you mean is anti social, and i wouldnt say that, there are plenty of tight knit guilds, but no you cant force players to join.

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@Tiviana.2650 said:People want games to be fun and casual now..look at GW2! Its super casual all you got is the whole community thing, outside of that there isnt much going on once you did the stories. Well thats fine for socializing but in this day and age a good majority of people just want to dip in for a short time and then log out and do other things. They want to be able to get stuff done in a reasonable amount of time and get on with it. Not sit at a pc for hours on end.

As for calling out wow for being casual..pot meet kettle imo.

I did not call WoW out for being casual. I called WoW out for introducing anti grouping mechanics which worked directly against creating social bonds.

Those are vastly different issues and problems.

There is no anti grouping mechanics, you want to do a raid you need a group. The only solable raid content is stuff from years ago that is way below your level. Anything recent you need a group. What you mean is anti social, and i wouldnt say that, there are plenty of tight knit guilds, but no you cant force players to join.

No, I meant anti grouping mechanics, as in: mechanics which cause you to not have to create your own group. Which in turn causes autopilot like play, which results in anti social behavior.

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@Tiviana.2650 said:I will say this LFR saved wow.You can be wrong. I'm okay with that.

I played WoW from Vanilla to Cataclsym. I'd occasionally dip my toes in the water back during Draenor and Legion but I left in a quick hurry each time because of how much of a hollow empty shadow the game is compared to what it used to be. Back when the push for Legacy servers were a thing and Nostalrius being shut down was making news I went back and played a classic WoW private server and played that for a while but the constant latency and anxiety of the server being shut down the way Nostalrius prevented me from committing to it as much as I would have liked.

The thing that people miss about what's bad about stuff like the breakneck speed of WoW's current leveling, as well as how braindead easy it is, alongside both effortlessly easy dungeons as well as autogroups is that is absolutely throttles the social aspects of the game. While a lot of stuff about Vanilla WoW are frustrating like stuff like Zefra Hooves having an abysmally low drop rate, is that the questing and dungeon experience is amazing for actually meeting people and making friends and snowballing into communities.

You start out with your easily soloable quests like kill quests on non elite mobs. But when you see competition for kills you can turn that competition into cooperation and invite them to join your party. And you taking that step to send them an invite is huge. Soon you find yourself doing quests in areas with Elites that can't be solo'd and now you need to get a party. And you have to make the effort to communicate with other people, say "Hey. Do you want to do this thing?" And then you go into dungeons. And dungeons aren't easy. You need crowd control as well as a viable group composition. And those aren't handed to you. And if you wipe you can completely lose your opportunity to get loot.

But when you do find a good party, players you want to play with more, you add them to your friendslist so you can group up with them quicker when you two want to do another dungeon. And since 1. dungeons are slower with bits of downtime to eat and drink 2. you had to actually speak with them to get that group, chances are good you had a nice chat while you were partying. Soon you're forming a guild. You're building a community. You're hitting level 60 and going into dungeons. Then into raid.

WoW had 12 Million players before Looking for Raid was added. It didn't need saving and it's only gone downhill since. Classic WoW being officially released has had more excitment and buzz about it since Battle For Azeroth dropped. Guild Wars 2 similarly struggles with the same problem that Retail WoW has of actively discouraging and disincentivizing socially grouping with other players. Raids are the only content that actually creates communities revolved around them.

Looking for raid and now group finder have a tremendous following in wow, because there are a lot of people that want to play it their way. Not play on a raid scheduled, or some dont want to be in a raid guild. LFR and GF open up the possibilities for them to play on their own time.

Yeah, the same way players get upset about things like whenever flying mounts are locked in new areas so they can't just effortlessly skip over everything. Or when their waterstriders get temporarily disabled. Games are exercises in adversity. And there's a point where you've made the game so convenient it's not a game anymore. Look at what happened with garrisons in Draenor. Warlord's of Draenor was so immensely convenient you could just sit in your base and just watch as raid quality look was mailed to you for no effort. The game was so convenient no one ever wanted to leave their garrisons anymore, which mean less and less people were playing together. Which mean communities were collapsing and no new communities were forming in their place. And when players don't have community they don't have anything keeping them in the game anymore and they leave for the next big thing. It was so dire Blizzard brought Illidan back to life and gave all the paladins in the game Ashbringer as an emegency situation.

And if you are a hard core raider it dont effect you one bit if people play LFR.

The endless drama and headache of WoW fussing around with end game's difficulty is literally why I quit that game. Blizzard adding 10 mans that are supposed to be easier than 25 man but frequently were way harder like 10 man Sartharion 3. Then they added 10 man heroic and 25 man heroic and none of them were ever properly balanced because QA testing all those various game modes is impossible to do properly and frequently something would be bugged or poorly tuned in 10 man and 25 man and because of the immense workloaded of having all those difficulty modes meant things would be unfixed for months and months on end. And then you had all the people playing 10 man angry that their loot wasn't as good as the 10man heroic, 25 man and 25 heroic gear.

WoW was healthier and a more enjoyable experience during Vanilla and Burning Crusade compared to when they started shoving a billion difficulty modes into their end game content and made grouping instant. There's a reason why Classic WoW is getting more attention and hype than Battle for Azeroth received.

You also friend. WoW isnt dead far from it, it still has more players than GW2, and there are communities, just in wow you arent forced to join them to get anywhere. If you want to be a solo player in that game you can.

Again, these games are MMOs. There is nothing wrong with giving players solo content, but when your entire game revolves around it and gets built around it, you are playing the wrong game.

No one is saying WoW is dead. You can't deny though, the game has lost a LOT of players and its luster, to be fair: due to a majority of reasons which are unrelated to some of the issues here too.

@Tiviana.2650 said:If you want to step up and join a guild and take it up a level you can. Thats why its still popular, dont you get it? The old days are gone, and games that adhere to forcing people to always have to join a community to get anywhere are dying. Society has changed, evolve or get left behind. Ofc people here are going to say , then why play a mmorpg if you want to play solo?

It doesn't have to be a life. But you also do not have to get all and every reward with minimal commitment.

@Tiviana.2650 said:Vanilla WoW sucked it was a slog grindfest, nothing was balanced and doing anything took forever. I remember grinding reps that took months on end. Its all rose colored glasses and nostalgia that make you say it was the best. It was terrible.

Vanilla WoW was the most casual MMO of its time. Yes, it was grindy compared to todays standards, that's not the issue at heart though. The issue is: building a group and overcoming group content actually had an impact on a players experience.

Case in point:
  • remember one, any will do, significant moment which you experienced while running LFR or LFG. Besides maybe seeing content for the first time.
  • now remember any significant moment which you experienced while making your own group or overcoming some other type of challenge

I guarantee you, those experiences will be vastly different.

This is the delusion, in what world are you getting everything for nothing? That does not happen and never did. Listen just because you get some low ilvl purples dont mean you are getting the best. Man thats delusional, you work for it if you want the best gear and weapons, you work your butt off, time and skill. Those cheap epics are only there like exotics in this game to get you started. Oh hey ho about the gearing here man its sure rains loot easy..see how that goes? You can say the same here

LFR literally has a buff which stacks up preventing successive failure. That is beside the removed mechanics, reduced damage.

When participation is all that is required for reward, and success is guaranteed, then my statement is not a delusion.

When was the last time you played wow? Go run some of the LFR raids yeah you get a buff, and because some of those mechanics are still active and will wipe a group, you will still wipe 20 times or more on those bosses. KilJaden, Argus, sisters, Coven, Avatar, Zul , Ghuun those are pug breakers even with buff stacks . If you dont do the mechanics your dead no matter how many stacks of determination you have.

Last time I played WoW was with Legion, played for 6 weeks and cleared up to Mythic+12 while pro groups were doing +16.

Yes, because the effort people invest in LFR is not more than pressing auto attack 1. I was doing top dps in LFR by not even using more than 3 skills occasionally.

Yes, some mechanics might wipe a group initially (and no, a vast majority are removed which you would know if you explored normal, heroic or mythic raids) because the average player skill and effort invested is -100. That's why you get the buff, because people are so afk that even vastly reduced damage on mechanics wipes groups. People go into LFR to afk loot farm and hope for titen procs. That's what the game has devolved to: hoping the most afk brainless content luck procs so you can upgrade a gear item.

Excuse me but if you wanted to run pro content then nothing stopped you. Join a team that knocks out mythic +20. What john doe is doing in LFR has no bearing on you since you dont do that content. Let other people worry about how they play and you worry about how you play. Mythic raiders the top level of pve content, not mythic dungeons, but raiders dont give a hoot about what players are doing in LFR, it dont have anything to do with them. Thats what i love about wow, you can play however you want. If you have the skills to raid mythic then hey there is a whole world for you to join. If you want to peddle around doing nothing but LFR and dungeons theres that too. Wow is not exclusionary , you can play however you want. And thats how it should be, everyone should be able to play the game in whatever content they feel they are capable of.

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@Tiviana.2650 said:People want games to be fun and casual now..look at GW2! Its super casual all you got is the whole community thing, outside of that there isnt much going on once you did the stories. Well thats fine for socializing but in this day and age a good majority of people just want to dip in for a short time and then log out and do other things. They want to be able to get stuff done in a reasonable amount of time and get on with it. Not sit at a pc for hours on end.

As for calling out wow for being casual..pot meet kettle imo.

I think this actually something far greater then GW2. Look at MMOs now a days now compare that to MMOs 15 to 18 years ago. I played Everquest back in beta and the quality of life in that game was borderline abusive. Exp loss on death, no real solo play, travelling from point A to point B taking huge amounts of time. Then there was the leveling aspect, which took forever. Everquest didn’t give a damn about your time. MMOs have been evolving from that point and are continuing to evolve. I think people are realizing that they spend 12+ hours on an MMO with no real return on their investment. I would literally spend hours spamming map chat for a group just to try to level a character and have nothing to show for it. WoW evolved from that genre and continues to evolve. Gw2 is also part of this same evolution. MMOs are changing, which might be upsetting to those used to the old days.

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@Tiviana.2650 said:I will say this LFR saved wow.You can be wrong. I'm okay with that.

I played WoW from Vanilla to Cataclsym. I'd occasionally dip my toes in the water back during Draenor and Legion but I left in a quick hurry each time because of how much of a hollow empty shadow the game is compared to what it used to be. Back when the push for Legacy servers were a thing and Nostalrius being shut down was making news I went back and played a classic WoW private server and played that for a while but the constant latency and anxiety of the server being shut down the way Nostalrius prevented me from committing to it as much as I would have liked.

The thing that people miss about what's bad about stuff like the breakneck speed of WoW's current leveling, as well as how braindead easy it is, alongside both effortlessly easy dungeons as well as autogroups is that is absolutely throttles the social aspects of the game. While a lot of stuff about Vanilla WoW are frustrating like stuff like Zefra Hooves having an abysmally low drop rate, is that the questing and dungeon experience is amazing for actually meeting people and making friends and snowballing into communities.

You start out with your easily soloable quests like kill quests on non elite mobs. But when you see competition for kills you can turn that competition into cooperation and invite them to join your party. And you taking that step to send them an invite is huge. Soon you find yourself doing quests in areas with Elites that can't be solo'd and now you need to get a party. And you have to make the effort to communicate with other people, say "Hey. Do you want to do this thing?" And then you go into dungeons. And dungeons aren't easy. You need crowd control as well as a viable group composition. And those aren't handed to you. And if you wipe you can completely lose your opportunity to get loot.

But when you do find a good party, players you want to play with more, you add them to your friendslist so you can group up with them quicker when you two want to do another dungeon. And since 1. dungeons are slower with bits of downtime to eat and drink 2. you had to actually speak with them to get that group, chances are good you had a nice chat while you were partying. Soon you're forming a guild. You're building a community. You're hitting level 60 and going into dungeons. Then into raid.

WoW had 12 Million players before Looking for Raid was added. It didn't need saving and it's only gone downhill since. Classic WoW being officially released has had more excitment and buzz about it since Battle For Azeroth dropped. Guild Wars 2 similarly struggles with the same problem that Retail WoW has of actively discouraging and disincentivizing socially grouping with other players. Raids are the only content that actually creates communities revolved around them.

Looking for raid and now group finder have a tremendous following in wow, because there are a lot of people that want to play it their way. Not play on a raid scheduled, or some dont want to be in a raid guild. LFR and GF open up the possibilities for them to play on their own time.

Yeah, the same way players get upset about things like whenever flying mounts are locked in new areas so they can't just effortlessly skip over everything. Or when their waterstriders get temporarily disabled. Games are exercises in adversity. And there's a point where you've made the game so convenient it's not a game anymore. Look at what happened with garrisons in Draenor. Warlord's of Draenor was so immensely convenient you could just sit in your base and just watch as raid quality look was mailed to you for no effort. The game was so convenient no one ever wanted to leave their garrisons anymore, which mean less and less people were playing together. Which mean communities were collapsing and no new communities were forming in their place. And when players don't have community they don't have anything keeping them in the game anymore and they leave for the next big thing. It was so dire Blizzard brought Illidan back to life and gave all the paladins in the game Ashbringer as an emegency situation.

And if you are a hard core raider it dont effect you one bit if people play LFR.

The endless drama and headache of WoW fussing around with end game's difficulty is literally why I quit that game. Blizzard adding 10 mans that are supposed to be easier than 25 man but frequently were way harder like 10 man Sartharion 3. Then they added 10 man heroic and 25 man heroic and none of them were ever properly balanced because QA testing all those various game modes is impossible to do properly and frequently something would be bugged or poorly tuned in 10 man and 25 man and because of the immense workloaded of having all those difficulty modes meant things would be unfixed for months and months on end. And then you had all the people playing 10 man angry that their loot wasn't as good as the 10man heroic, 25 man and 25 heroic gear.

WoW was healthier and a more enjoyable experience during Vanilla and Burning Crusade compared to when they started shoving a billion difficulty modes into their end game content and made grouping instant. There's a reason why Classic WoW is getting more attention and hype than Battle for Azeroth received.

You also friend. WoW isnt dead far from it, it still has more players than GW2, and there are communities, just in wow you arent forced to join them to get anywhere. If you want to be a solo player in that game you can.

Again, these games are MMOs. There is nothing wrong with giving players solo content, but when your entire game revolves around it and gets built around it, you are playing the wrong game.

No one is saying WoW is dead. You can't deny though, the game has lost a LOT of players and its luster, to be fair: due to a majority of reasons which are unrelated to some of the issues here too.

@Tiviana.2650 said:If you want to step up and join a guild and take it up a level you can. Thats why its still popular, dont you get it? The old days are gone, and games that adhere to forcing people to always have to join a community to get anywhere are dying. Society has changed, evolve or get left behind. Ofc people here are going to say , then why play a mmorpg if you want to play solo?

It doesn't have to be a life. But you also do not have to get all and every reward with minimal commitment.

@Tiviana.2650 said:Vanilla WoW sucked it was a slog grindfest, nothing was balanced and doing anything took forever. I remember grinding reps that took months on end. Its all rose colored glasses and nostalgia that make you say it was the best. It was terrible.

Vanilla WoW was the most casual MMO of its time. Yes, it was grindy compared to todays standards, that's not the issue at heart though. The issue is: building a group and overcoming group content actually had an impact on a players experience.

Case in point:
  • remember one, any will do, significant moment which you experienced while running LFR or LFG. Besides maybe seeing content for the first time.
  • now remember any significant moment which you experienced while making your own group or overcoming some other type of challenge

I guarantee you, those experiences will be vastly different.

This is the delusion, in what world are you getting everything for nothing? That does not happen and never did. Listen just because you get some low ilvl purples dont mean you are getting the best. Man thats delusional, you work for it if you want the best gear and weapons, you work your butt off, time and skill. Those cheap epics are only there like exotics in this game to get you started. Oh hey ho about the gearing here man its sure rains loot easy..see how that goes? You can say the same here

LFR literally has a buff which stacks up preventing successive failure. That is beside the removed mechanics, reduced damage.

When participation is all that is required for reward, and success is guaranteed, then my statement is not a delusion.

When was the last time you played wow? Go run some of the LFR raids yeah you get a buff, and because some of those mechanics are still active and will wipe a group, you will still wipe 20 times or more on those bosses. KilJaden, Argus, sisters, Coven, Avatar, Zul , Ghuun those are pug breakers even with buff stacks . If you dont do the mechanics your dead no matter how many stacks of determination you have.

Last time I played WoW was with Legion, played for 6 weeks and cleared up to Mythic+12 while pro groups were doing +16.

Yes, because the effort people invest in LFR is not more than pressing auto attack 1. I was doing top dps in LFR by not even using more than 3 skills occasionally.

Yes, some mechanics might wipe a group initially (and no, a vast majority are removed which you would know if you explored normal, heroic or mythic raids) because the average player skill and effort invested is -100. That's why you get the buff, because people are so afk that even vastly reduced damage on mechanics wipes groups. People go into LFR to afk loot farm and hope for titen procs. That's what the game has devolved to: hoping the most afk brainless content luck procs so you can upgrade a gear item.

Excuse me but if you wanted to run pro content then nothing stopped you. Join a team that knocks out mythic +20. What john doe is doing in LFR has no bearing on you since you dont do that content. Let other people worry about how they play and you worry about how you play. Mythic raiders the top level of pve content, not mythic dungeons, but raiders dont give a hoot about what players are doing in LFR, it dont have anything to do with them. Thats what i love about wow, you can play however you want. If you have the skills to raid mythic then hey there is a whole world for you to join. If you want to peddle around doing nothing but LFR and dungeons theres that too. Wow is not exclusionary , you can play however you want. And thats how it should be, everyone should be able to play the game in whatever content they feel they are capable of.

Exactly, we have the absolutely same system here:If you want to hang out and relax, you do easier content like open world, story, low level fractals, etc.

If you want more difficult content, you move up the ladder.

What you are asking for is mythic level rewards for easy content. Or developer time to introduce easy modes (let's not worry about the loot they reward for now) at the cost of other content.

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@Tiviana.2650 said:People want games to be fun and casual now..look at GW2! Its super casual all you got is the whole community thing, outside of that there isnt much going on once you did the stories. Well thats fine for socializing but in this day and age a good majority of people just want to dip in for a short time and then log out and do other things. They want to be able to get stuff done in a reasonable amount of time and get on with it. Not sit at a pc for hours on end.

As for calling out wow for being casual..pot meet kettle imo.

I did not call WoW out for being casual. I called WoW out for introducing anti grouping mechanics which worked directly against creating social bonds.

Those are vastly different issues and problems.

There is no anti grouping mechanics, you want to do a raid you need a group. The only solable raid content is stuff from years ago that is way below your level. Anything recent you need a group. What you mean is anti social, and i wouldnt say that, there are plenty of tight knit guilds, but no you cant force players to join.

No, I meant anti grouping mechanics, as in: mechanics which cause you to not have to create your own group. Which in turn causes autopilot like play, which results in anti social behavior.

Well i dont know when i dip into LFR i meet lots of people that talk and interact. The trolls that come in are the ones that try to ruin it for everyone. The main people that do LFR as their way of seeing the raids actually try. Im not an elitist dbag im not going to down people because they like LFR and they are happy with it. The mouthiest vocal minority gets heard the most, but its the ones that actually are happy and trying that dont yell and scream. There are a lot of nice people that for whatever reason cant do the hard raids, and they do LFR. Im sick and tired of people thinking all LFR players are lazy anti social jerks, thats not the case at all. Only the mouthiest jerks are the ones that get heard.

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@Tiviana.2650 said:People want games to be fun and casual now..look at GW2! Its super casual all you got is the whole community thing, outside of that there isnt much going on once you did the stories. Well thats fine for socializing but in this day and age a good majority of people just want to dip in for a short time and then log out and do other things. They want to be able to get stuff done in a reasonable amount of time and get on with it. Not sit at a pc for hours on end.

As for calling out wow for being casual..pot meet kettle imo.

I think this actually something far greater then GW2. Look at MMOs now a days now compare that to MMOs 15 to 18 years ago. I played Everquest back in beta and the quality of life in that game was borderline abusive. Exp loss on death, no real solo play, travelling from point A to point B taking huge amounts of time. Then there was the leveling aspect, which took forever. Everquest didn’t give a kitten about your time. MMOs have been evolving from that point and are continuing to evolve. I think people are realizing that they spend 12+ hours on an MMO with no real return on their investment. I would literally spend hours spamming map chat for a group just to try to level a character and have nothing to show for it. WoW evolved from that genre and continues to evolve. Gw2 is also part of this same evolution. MMOs are changing, which might be upsetting to those used to the old days.

Omg thats what im saying society has come a long way from Evercrack! People dont want that frustration anymore, i know i dont. And everyone wonders why the next big wave is mobile, think about it. Its fast you can do it on the go you are not chained to a pc and a chair. Mmos and games in general are evolving with that in mind.

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@Tiviana.2650 said:I will say this LFR saved wow.You can be wrong. I'm okay with that.

I played WoW from Vanilla to Cataclsym. I'd occasionally dip my toes in the water back during Draenor and Legion but I left in a quick hurry each time because of how much of a hollow empty shadow the game is compared to what it used to be. Back when the push for Legacy servers were a thing and Nostalrius being shut down was making news I went back and played a classic WoW private server and played that for a while but the constant latency and anxiety of the server being shut down the way Nostalrius prevented me from committing to it as much as I would have liked.

The thing that people miss about what's bad about stuff like the breakneck speed of WoW's current leveling, as well as how braindead easy it is, alongside both effortlessly easy dungeons as well as autogroups is that is absolutely throttles the social aspects of the game. While a lot of stuff about Vanilla WoW are frustrating like stuff like Zefra Hooves having an abysmally low drop rate, is that the questing and dungeon experience is amazing for actually meeting people and making friends and snowballing into communities.

You start out with your easily soloable quests like kill quests on non elite mobs. But when you see competition for kills you can turn that competition into cooperation and invite them to join your party. And you taking that step to send them an invite is huge. Soon you find yourself doing quests in areas with Elites that can't be solo'd and now you need to get a party. And you have to make the effort to communicate with other people, say "Hey. Do you want to do this thing?" And then you go into dungeons. And dungeons aren't easy. You need crowd control as well as a viable group composition. And those aren't handed to you. And if you wipe you can completely lose your opportunity to get loot.

But when you do find a good party, players you want to play with more, you add them to your friendslist so you can group up with them quicker when you two want to do another dungeon. And since 1. dungeons are slower with bits of downtime to eat and drink 2. you had to actually speak with them to get that group, chances are good you had a nice chat while you were partying. Soon you're forming a guild. You're building a community. You're hitting level 60 and going into dungeons. Then into raid.

WoW had 12 Million players before Looking for Raid was added. It didn't need saving and it's only gone downhill since. Classic WoW being officially released has had more excitment and buzz about it since Battle For Azeroth dropped. Guild Wars 2 similarly struggles with the same problem that Retail WoW has of actively discouraging and disincentivizing socially grouping with other players. Raids are the only content that actually creates communities revolved around them.

Looking for raid and now group finder have a tremendous following in wow, because there are a lot of people that want to play it their way. Not play on a raid scheduled, or some dont want to be in a raid guild. LFR and GF open up the possibilities for them to play on their own time.

Yeah, the same way players get upset about things like whenever flying mounts are locked in new areas so they can't just effortlessly skip over everything. Or when their waterstriders get temporarily disabled. Games are exercises in adversity. And there's a point where you've made the game so convenient it's not a game anymore. Look at what happened with garrisons in Draenor. Warlord's of Draenor was so immensely convenient you could just sit in your base and just watch as raid quality look was mailed to you for no effort. The game was so convenient no one ever wanted to leave their garrisons anymore, which mean less and less people were playing together. Which mean communities were collapsing and no new communities were forming in their place. And when players don't have community they don't have anything keeping them in the game anymore and they leave for the next big thing. It was so dire Blizzard brought Illidan back to life and gave all the paladins in the game Ashbringer as an emegency situation.

And if you are a hard core raider it dont effect you one bit if people play LFR.

The endless drama and headache of WoW fussing around with end game's difficulty is literally why I quit that game. Blizzard adding 10 mans that are supposed to be easier than 25 man but frequently were way harder like 10 man Sartharion 3. Then they added 10 man heroic and 25 man heroic and none of them were ever properly balanced because QA testing all those various game modes is impossible to do properly and frequently something would be bugged or poorly tuned in 10 man and 25 man and because of the immense workloaded of having all those difficulty modes meant things would be unfixed for months and months on end. And then you had all the people playing 10 man angry that their loot wasn't as good as the 10man heroic, 25 man and 25 heroic gear.

WoW was healthier and a more enjoyable experience during Vanilla and Burning Crusade compared to when they started shoving a billion difficulty modes into their end game content and made grouping instant. There's a reason why Classic WoW is getting more attention and hype than Battle for Azeroth received.

You also friend. WoW isnt dead far from it, it still has more players than GW2, and there are communities, just in wow you arent forced to join them to get anywhere. If you want to be a solo player in that game you can.

Again, these games are MMOs. There is nothing wrong with giving players solo content, but when your entire game revolves around it and gets built around it, you are playing the wrong game.

No one is saying WoW is dead. You can't deny though, the game has lost a LOT of players and its luster, to be fair: due to a majority of reasons which are unrelated to some of the issues here too.

@Tiviana.2650 said:If you want to step up and join a guild and take it up a level you can. Thats why its still popular, dont you get it? The old days are gone, and games that adhere to forcing people to always have to join a community to get anywhere are dying. Society has changed, evolve or get left behind. Ofc people here are going to say , then why play a mmorpg if you want to play solo?

It doesn't have to be a life. But you also do not have to get all and every reward with minimal commitment.

@Tiviana.2650 said:Vanilla WoW sucked it was a slog grindfest, nothing was balanced and doing anything took forever. I remember grinding reps that took months on end. Its all rose colored glasses and nostalgia that make you say it was the best. It was terrible.

Vanilla WoW was the most casual MMO of its time. Yes, it was grindy compared to todays standards, that's not the issue at heart though. The issue is: building a group and overcoming group content actually had an impact on a players experience.

Case in point:
  • remember one, any will do, significant moment which you experienced while running LFR or LFG. Besides maybe seeing content for the first time.
  • now remember any significant moment which you experienced while making your own group or overcoming some other type of challenge

I guarantee you, those experiences will be vastly different.

This is the delusion, in what world are you getting everything for nothing? That does not happen and never did. Listen just because you get some low ilvl purples dont mean you are getting the best. Man thats delusional, you work for it if you want the best gear and weapons, you work your butt off, time and skill. Those cheap epics are only there like exotics in this game to get you started. Oh hey ho about the gearing here man its sure rains loot easy..see how that goes? You can say the same here

LFR literally has a buff which stacks up preventing successive failure. That is beside the removed mechanics, reduced damage.

When participation is all that is required for reward, and success is guaranteed, then my statement is not a delusion.

When was the last time you played wow? Go run some of the LFR raids yeah you get a buff, and because some of those mechanics are still active and will wipe a group, you will still wipe 20 times or more on those bosses. KilJaden, Argus, sisters, Coven, Avatar, Zul , Ghuun those are pug breakers even with buff stacks . If you dont do the mechanics your dead no matter how many stacks of determination you have.

Last time I played WoW was with Legion, played for 6 weeks and cleared up to Mythic+12 while pro groups were doing +16.

Yes, because the effort people invest in LFR is not more than pressing auto attack 1. I was doing top dps in LFR by not even using more than 3 skills occasionally.

Yes, some mechanics might wipe a group initially (and no, a vast majority are removed which you would know if you explored normal, heroic or mythic raids) because the average player skill and effort invested is -100. That's why you get the buff, because people are so afk that even vastly reduced damage on mechanics wipes groups. People go into LFR to afk loot farm and hope for titen procs. That's what the game has devolved to: hoping the most afk brainless content luck procs so you can upgrade a gear item.

Excuse me but if you wanted to run pro content then nothing stopped you. Join a team that knocks out mythic +20. What john doe is doing in LFR has no bearing on you since you dont do that content. Let other people worry about how they play and you worry about how you play. Mythic raiders the top level of pve content, not mythic dungeons, but raiders dont give a hoot about what players are doing in LFR, it dont have anything to do with them. Thats what i love about wow, you can play however you want. If you have the skills to raid mythic then hey there is a whole world for you to join. If you want to peddle around doing nothing but LFR and dungeons theres that too. Wow is not exclusionary , you can play however you want. And thats how it should be, everyone should be able to play the game in whatever content they feel they are capable of.

Exactly, we have the absolutely same system here:If you want to hang out and relax, you do easier content like open world, story, low level fractals, etc.

If you want more difficult content, you move up the ladder.

What you are asking for is mythic level rewards for easy content. Or developer time to introduce easy modes (let's not worry about the loot they reward for now) at the cost of other content.

Thats patently false , i never once said anything about top gear for doing less difficult content. Never, if i wanted something i worked for it, if that meant raiding 4 nights a week 4 hours a night then so be it. You seem to equate lfr gear with hard content raid gear...as i said its like exotics are here.

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@Tiviana.2650 said:People want games to be fun and casual now..look at GW2! Its super casual all you got is the whole community thing, outside of that there isnt much going on once you did the stories. Well thats fine for socializing but in this day and age a good majority of people just want to dip in for a short time and then log out and do other things. They want to be able to get stuff done in a reasonable amount of time and get on with it. Not sit at a pc for hours on end.

As for calling out wow for being casual..pot meet kettle imo.

I think this actually something far greater then GW2. Look at MMOs now a days now compare that to MMOs 15 to 18 years ago. I played Everquest back in beta and the quality of life in that game was borderline abusive. Exp loss on death, no real solo play, travelling from point A to point B taking huge amounts of time. Then there was the leveling aspect, which took forever. Everquest didn’t give a kitten about your time. MMOs have been evolving from that point and are continuing to evolve. I think people are realizing that they spend 12+ hours on an MMO with no real return on their investment. I would literally spend hours spamming map chat for a group just to try to level a character and have nothing to show for it. WoW evolved from that genre and continues to evolve. Gw2 is also part of this same evolution. MMOs are changing, which might be upsetting to those used to the old days.

It's not upsetting, it's literally seeing people demand mechanics which have proven hurtful to social and community development (similar to mega servers to a certain extent) because they want instant access, instant gratification and instant rewards.

WoW over did this, the game literally imploded on over casualizing it's reward structure. WoW evolved its self out of a player base.

There is a fine line between ease of use, and minim self effort. The question one needs to ask ones self is this: how much is healthy for a supposedly massive multiple game, and how much is going to far.

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@Tiviana.2650 said:I will say this LFR saved wow.You can be wrong. I'm okay with that.

I played WoW from Vanilla to Cataclsym. I'd occasionally dip my toes in the water back during Draenor and Legion but I left in a quick hurry each time because of how much of a hollow empty shadow the game is compared to what it used to be. Back when the push for Legacy servers were a thing and Nostalrius being shut down was making news I went back and played a classic WoW private server and played that for a while but the constant latency and anxiety of the server being shut down the way Nostalrius prevented me from committing to it as much as I would have liked.

The thing that people miss about what's bad about stuff like the breakneck speed of WoW's current leveling, as well as how braindead easy it is, alongside both effortlessly easy dungeons as well as autogroups is that is absolutely throttles the social aspects of the game. While a lot of stuff about Vanilla WoW are frustrating like stuff like Zefra Hooves having an abysmally low drop rate, is that the questing and dungeon experience is amazing for actually meeting people and making friends and snowballing into communities.

You start out with your easily soloable quests like kill quests on non elite mobs. But when you see competition for kills you can turn that competition into cooperation and invite them to join your party. And you taking that step to send them an invite is huge. Soon you find yourself doing quests in areas with Elites that can't be solo'd and now you need to get a party. And you have to make the effort to communicate with other people, say "Hey. Do you want to do this thing?" And then you go into dungeons. And dungeons aren't easy. You need crowd control as well as a viable group composition. And those aren't handed to you. And if you wipe you can completely lose your opportunity to get loot.

But when you do find a good party, players you want to play with more, you add them to your friendslist so you can group up with them quicker when you two want to do another dungeon. And since 1. dungeons are slower with bits of downtime to eat and drink 2. you had to actually speak with them to get that group, chances are good you had a nice chat while you were partying. Soon you're forming a guild. You're building a community. You're hitting level 60 and going into dungeons. Then into raid.

WoW had 12 Million players before Looking for Raid was added. It didn't need saving and it's only gone downhill since. Classic WoW being officially released has had more excitment and buzz about it since Battle For Azeroth dropped. Guild Wars 2 similarly struggles with the same problem that Retail WoW has of actively discouraging and disincentivizing socially grouping with other players. Raids are the only content that actually creates communities revolved around them.

Looking for raid and now group finder have a tremendous following in wow, because there are a lot of people that want to play it their way. Not play on a raid scheduled, or some dont want to be in a raid guild. LFR and GF open up the possibilities for them to play on their own time.

Yeah, the same way players get upset about things like whenever flying mounts are locked in new areas so they can't just effortlessly skip over everything. Or when their waterstriders get temporarily disabled. Games are exercises in adversity. And there's a point where you've made the game so convenient it's not a game anymore. Look at what happened with garrisons in Draenor. Warlord's of Draenor was so immensely convenient you could just sit in your base and just watch as raid quality look was mailed to you for no effort. The game was so convenient no one ever wanted to leave their garrisons anymore, which mean less and less people were playing together. Which mean communities were collapsing and no new communities were forming in their place. And when players don't have community they don't have anything keeping them in the game anymore and they leave for the next big thing. It was so dire Blizzard brought Illidan back to life and gave all the paladins in the game Ashbringer as an emegency situation.

And if you are a hard core raider it dont effect you one bit if people play LFR.

The endless drama and headache of WoW fussing around with end game's difficulty is literally why I quit that game. Blizzard adding 10 mans that are supposed to be easier than 25 man but frequently were way harder like 10 man Sartharion 3. Then they added 10 man heroic and 25 man heroic and none of them were ever properly balanced because QA testing all those various game modes is impossible to do properly and frequently something would be bugged or poorly tuned in 10 man and 25 man and because of the immense workloaded of having all those difficulty modes meant things would be unfixed for months and months on end. And then you had all the people playing 10 man angry that their loot wasn't as good as the 10man heroic, 25 man and 25 heroic gear.

WoW was healthier and a more enjoyable experience during Vanilla and Burning Crusade compared to when they started shoving a billion difficulty modes into their end game content and made grouping instant. There's a reason why Classic WoW is getting more attention and hype than Battle for Azeroth received.

You also friend. WoW isnt dead far from it, it still has more players than GW2, and there are communities, just in wow you arent forced to join them to get anywhere. If you want to be a solo player in that game you can.

Again, these games are MMOs. There is nothing wrong with giving players solo content, but when your entire game revolves around it and gets built around it, you are playing the wrong game.

No one is saying WoW is dead. You can't deny though, the game has lost a LOT of players and its luster, to be fair: due to a majority of reasons which are unrelated to some of the issues here too.

@Tiviana.2650 said:If you want to step up and join a guild and take it up a level you can. Thats why its still popular, dont you get it? The old days are gone, and games that adhere to forcing people to always have to join a community to get anywhere are dying. Society has changed, evolve or get left behind. Ofc people here are going to say , then why play a mmorpg if you want to play solo?

It doesn't have to be a life. But you also do not have to get all and every reward with minimal commitment.

@Tiviana.2650 said:Vanilla WoW sucked it was a slog grindfest, nothing was balanced and doing anything took forever. I remember grinding reps that took months on end. Its all rose colored glasses and nostalgia that make you say it was the best. It was terrible.

Vanilla WoW was the most casual MMO of its time. Yes, it was grindy compared to todays standards, that's not the issue at heart though. The issue is: building a group and overcoming group content actually had an impact on a players experience.

Case in point:
  • remember one, any will do, significant moment which you experienced while running LFR or LFG. Besides maybe seeing content for the first time.
  • now remember any significant moment which you experienced while making your own group or overcoming some other type of challenge

I guarantee you, those experiences will be vastly different.

This is the delusion, in what world are you getting everything for nothing? That does not happen and never did. Listen just because you get some low ilvl purples dont mean you are getting the best. Man thats delusional, you work for it if you want the best gear and weapons, you work your butt off, time and skill. Those cheap epics are only there like exotics in this game to get you started. Oh hey ho about the gearing here man its sure rains loot easy..see how that goes? You can say the same here

LFR literally has a buff which stacks up preventing successive failure. That is beside the removed mechanics, reduced damage.

When participation is all that is required for reward, and success is guaranteed, then my statement is not a delusion.

When was the last time you played wow? Go run some of the LFR raids yeah you get a buff, and because some of those mechanics are still active and will wipe a group, you will still wipe 20 times or more on those bosses. KilJaden, Argus, sisters, Coven, Avatar, Zul , Ghuun those are pug breakers even with buff stacks . If you dont do the mechanics your dead no matter how many stacks of determination you have.

Last time I played WoW was with Legion, played for 6 weeks and cleared up to Mythic+12 while pro groups were doing +16.

Yes, because the effort people invest in LFR is not more than pressing auto attack 1. I was doing top dps in LFR by not even using more than 3 skills occasionally.

Yes, some mechanics might wipe a group initially (and no, a vast majority are removed which you would know if you explored normal, heroic or mythic raids) because the average player skill and effort invested is -100. That's why you get the buff, because people are so afk that even vastly reduced damage on mechanics wipes groups. People go into LFR to afk loot farm and hope for titen procs. That's what the game has devolved to: hoping the most afk brainless content luck procs so you can upgrade a gear item.

Excuse me but if you wanted to run pro content then nothing stopped you. Join a team that knocks out mythic +20. What john doe is doing in LFR has no bearing on you since you dont do that content. Let other people worry about how they play and you worry about how you play. Mythic raiders the top level of pve content, not mythic dungeons, but raiders dont give a hoot about what players are doing in LFR, it dont have anything to do with them. Thats what i love about wow, you can play however you want. If you have the skills to raid mythic then hey there is a whole world for you to join. If you want to peddle around doing nothing but LFR and dungeons theres that too. Wow is not exclusionary , you can play however you want. And thats how it should be, everyone should be able to play the game in whatever content they feel they are capable of.

Exactly, we have the absolutely same system here:If you want to hang out and relax, you do easier content like open world, story, low level fractals, etc.

If you want more difficult content, you move up the ladder.

What you are asking for is mythic level rewards for easy content. Or developer time to introduce easy modes (let's not worry about the loot they reward for now) at the cost of other content.

Thats patently false , i never once said anything about top gear for doing less difficult content. Never, if i wanted something i worked for it, if that meant raiding 4 nights a week 4 hours a night then so be it. You seem to equate lfr gear with hard content raid gear...as i said its like exotics are here.

Fair enough, then you now need to justify the developer resources spent on creating a LFR system, that's without discussing the negative impacts on community I described.

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@Tiviana.2650 said:People want games to be fun and casual now..look at GW2! Its super casual all you got is the whole community thing, outside of that there isnt much going on once you did the stories. Well thats fine for socializing but in this day and age a good majority of people just want to dip in for a short time and then log out and do other things. They want to be able to get stuff done in a reasonable amount of time and get on with it. Not sit at a pc for hours on end.

As for calling out wow for being casual..pot meet kettle imo.

I think this actually something far greater then GW2. Look at MMOs now a days now compare that to MMOs 15 to 18 years ago. I played Everquest back in beta and the quality of life in that game was borderline abusive. Exp loss on death, no real solo play, travelling from point A to point B taking huge amounts of time. Then there was the leveling aspect, which took forever. Everquest didn’t give a kitten about your time. MMOs have been evolving from that point and are continuing to evolve. I think people are realizing that they spend 12+ hours on an MMO with no real return on their investment. I would literally spend hours spamming map chat for a group just to try to level a character and have nothing to show for it. WoW evolved from that genre and continues to evolve. Gw2 is also part of this same evolution. MMOs are changing, which might be upsetting to those used to the old days.

It's not upsetting, it's literally seeing people demand mechanics which have proven hurtful to social and community development (similar to mega servers to a certain extent) because they want instant access, instant gratification and instant rewards.

WoW over did this, the game literally imploded on over casualizing it's reward structure. WoW evolved its self out of a player base.

There is a fine line between ease of use, and minim self effort. The question one needs to ask ones self is this: how much is healthy for a supposedly massive multiple game, and how much is going to far.

LOL no wow lost some thats true, but they lost it because no one wanted to work on long rep grinds to unlock content in BfA. They lost it because people got salty over warmode and the faction zone battles, they got salty that their waifu sylvannas was a psychopath and blizzard finally showed that, they got mad their faction got whooped and a city burned to the ground, they got mad that they had to get out and play the game in the zones to move forward. BfA is harder than GW2, and yet wow still has a healthy population of players, i talk to my wow guildmates about once or twice a week, dont worry wow isnt dying.

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@Tiviana.2650 said:People want games to be fun and casual now..look at GW2! Its super casual all you got is the whole community thing, outside of that there isnt much going on once you did the stories. Well thats fine for socializing but in this day and age a good majority of people just want to dip in for a short time and then log out and do other things. They want to be able to get stuff done in a reasonable amount of time and get on with it. Not sit at a pc for hours on end.

As for calling out wow for being casual..pot meet kettle imo.

I think this actually something far greater then GW2. Look at MMOs now a days now compare that to MMOs 15 to 18 years ago. I played Everquest back in beta and the quality of life in that game was borderline abusive. Exp loss on death, no real solo play, travelling from point A to point B taking huge amounts of time. Then there was the leveling aspect, which took forever. Everquest didn’t give a kitten about your time. MMOs have been evolving from that point and are continuing to evolve. I think people are realizing that they spend 12+ hours on an MMO with no real return on their investment. I would literally spend hours spamming map chat for a group just to try to level a character and have nothing to show for it. WoW evolved from that genre and continues to evolve. Gw2 is also part of this same evolution. MMOs are changing, which might be upsetting to those used to the old days.

It's not upsetting, it's literally seeing people demand mechanics which have proven hurtful to social and community development (similar to mega servers to a certain extent) because they want instant access, instant gratification and instant rewards.

WoW over did this, the game literally imploded on over casualizing it's reward structure. WoW evolved its self out of a player base.

There is a fine line between ease of use, and minim self effort. The question one needs to ask ones self is this: how much is healthy for a supposedly massive multiple game, and how much is going to far.

@Tiviana.2650 said:I will say this LFR saved wow.You can be wrong. I'm okay with that.

I played WoW from Vanilla to Cataclsym. I'd occasionally dip my toes in the water back during Draenor and Legion but I left in a quick hurry each time because of how much of a hollow empty shadow the game is compared to what it used to be. Back when the push for Legacy servers were a thing and Nostalrius being shut down was making news I went back and played a classic WoW private server and played that for a while but the constant latency and anxiety of the server being shut down the way Nostalrius prevented me from committing to it as much as I would have liked.

The thing that people miss about what's bad about stuff like the breakneck speed of WoW's current leveling, as well as how braindead easy it is, alongside both effortlessly easy dungeons as well as autogroups is that is absolutely throttles the social aspects of the game. While a lot of stuff about Vanilla WoW are frustrating like stuff like Zefra Hooves having an abysmally low drop rate, is that the questing and dungeon experience is amazing for actually meeting people and making friends and snowballing into communities.

You start out with your easily soloable quests like kill quests on non elite mobs. But when you see competition for kills you can turn that competition into cooperation and invite them to join your party. And you taking that step to send them an invite is huge. Soon you find yourself doing quests in areas with Elites that can't be solo'd and now you need to get a party. And you have to make the effort to communicate with other people, say "Hey. Do you want to do this thing?" And then you go into dungeons. And dungeons aren't easy. You need crowd control as well as a viable group composition. And those aren't handed to you. And if you wipe you can completely lose your opportunity to get loot.

But when you do find a good party, players you want to play with more, you add them to your friendslist so you can group up with them quicker when you two want to do another dungeon. And since 1. dungeons are slower with bits of downtime to eat and drink 2. you had to actually speak with them to get that group, chances are good you had a nice chat while you were partying. Soon you're forming a guild. You're building a community. You're hitting level 60 and going into dungeons. Then into raid.

WoW had 12 Million players before Looking for Raid was added. It didn't need saving and it's only gone downhill since. Classic WoW being officially released has had more excitment and buzz about it since Battle For Azeroth dropped. Guild Wars 2 similarly struggles with the same problem that Retail WoW has of actively discouraging and disincentivizing socially grouping with other players. Raids are the only content that actually creates communities revolved around them.

Looking for raid and now group finder have a tremendous following in wow, because there are a lot of people that want to play it their way. Not play on a raid scheduled, or some dont want to be in a raid guild. LFR and GF open up the possibilities for them to play on their own time.

Yeah, the same way players get upset about things like whenever flying mounts are locked in new areas so they can't just effortlessly skip over everything. Or when their waterstriders get temporarily disabled. Games are exercises in adversity. And there's a point where you've made the game so convenient it's not a game anymore. Look at what happened with garrisons in Draenor. Warlord's of Draenor was so immensely convenient you could just sit in your base and just watch as raid quality look was mailed to you for no effort. The game was so convenient no one ever wanted to leave their garrisons anymore, which mean less and less people were playing together. Which mean communities were collapsing and no new communities were forming in their place. And when players don't have community they don't have anything keeping them in the game anymore and they leave for the next big thing. It was so dire Blizzard brought Illidan back to life and gave all the paladins in the game Ashbringer as an emegency situation.

And if you are a hard core raider it dont effect you one bit if people play LFR.

The endless drama and headache of WoW fussing around with end game's difficulty is literally why I quit that game. Blizzard adding 10 mans that are supposed to be easier than 25 man but frequently were way harder like 10 man Sartharion 3. Then they added 10 man heroic and 25 man heroic and none of them were ever properly balanced because QA testing all those various game modes is impossible to do properly and frequently something would be bugged or poorly tuned in 10 man and 25 man and because of the immense workloaded of having all those difficulty modes meant things would be unfixed for months and months on end. And then you had all the people playing 10 man angry that their loot wasn't as good as the 10man heroic, 25 man and 25 heroic gear.

WoW was healthier and a more enjoyable experience during Vanilla and Burning Crusade compared to when they started shoving a billion difficulty modes into their end game content and made grouping instant. There's a reason why Classic WoW is getting more attention and hype than Battle for Azeroth received.

You also friend. WoW isnt dead far from it, it still has more players than GW2, and there are communities, just in wow you arent forced to join them to get anywhere. If you want to be a solo player in that game you can.

Again, these games are MMOs. There is nothing wrong with giving players solo content, but when your entire game revolves around it and gets built around it, you are playing the wrong game.

No one is saying WoW is dead. You can't deny though, the game has lost a LOT of players and its luster, to be fair: due to a majority of reasons which are unrelated to some of the issues here too.

@Tiviana.2650 said:If you want to step up and join a guild and take it up a level you can. Thats why its still popular, dont you get it? The old days are gone, and games that adhere to forcing people to always have to join a community to get anywhere are dying. Society has changed, evolve or get left behind. Ofc people here are going to say , then why play a mmorpg if you want to play solo?

It doesn't have to be a life. But you also do not have to get all and every reward with minimal commitment.

@Tiviana.2650 said:Vanilla WoW sucked it was a slog grindfest, nothing was balanced and doing anything took forever. I remember grinding reps that took months on end. Its all rose colored glasses and nostalgia that make you say it was the best. It was terrible.

Vanilla WoW was the most casual MMO of its time. Yes, it was grindy compared to todays standards, that's not the issue at heart though. The issue is: building a group and overcoming group content actually had an impact on a players experience.

Case in point:
  • remember one, any will do, significant moment which you experienced while running LFR or LFG. Besides maybe seeing content for the first time.
  • now remember any significant moment which you experienced while making your own group or overcoming some other type of challenge

I guarantee you, those experiences will be vastly different.

This is the delusion, in what world are you getting everything for nothing? That does not happen and never did. Listen just because you get some low ilvl purples dont mean you are getting the best. Man thats delusional, you work for it if you want the best gear and weapons, you work your butt off, time and skill. Those cheap epics are only there like exotics in this game to get you started. Oh hey ho about the gearing here man its sure rains loot easy..see how that goes? You can say the same here

LFR literally has a buff which stacks up preventing successive failure. That is beside the removed mechanics, reduced damage.

When participation is all that is required for reward, and success is guaranteed, then my statement is not a delusion.

When was the last time you played wow? Go run some of the LFR raids yeah you get a buff, and because some of those mechanics are still active and will wipe a group, you will still wipe 20 times or more on those bosses. KilJaden, Argus, sisters, Coven, Avatar, Zul , Ghuun those are pug breakers even with buff stacks . If you dont do the mechanics your dead no matter how many stacks of determination you have.

Last time I played WoW was with Legion, played for 6 weeks and cleared up to Mythic+12 while pro groups were doing +16.

Yes, because the effort people invest in LFR is not more than pressing auto attack 1. I was doing top dps in LFR by not even using more than 3 skills occasionally.

Yes, some mechanics might wipe a group initially (and no, a vast majority are removed which you would know if you explored normal, heroic or mythic raids) because the average player skill and effort invested is -100. That's why you get the buff, because people are so afk that even vastly reduced damage on mechanics wipes groups. People go into LFR to afk loot farm and hope for titen procs. That's what the game has devolved to: hoping the most afk brainless content luck procs so you can upgrade a gear item.

Excuse me but if you wanted to run pro content then nothing stopped you. Join a team that knocks out mythic +20. What john doe is doing in LFR has no bearing on you since you dont do that content. Let other people worry about how they play and you worry about how you play. Mythic raiders the top level of pve content, not mythic dungeons, but raiders dont give a hoot about what players are doing in LFR, it dont have anything to do with them. Thats what i love about wow, you can play however you want. If you have the skills to raid mythic then hey there is a whole world for you to join. If you want to peddle around doing nothing but LFR and dungeons theres that too. Wow is not exclusionary , you can play however you want. And thats how it should be, everyone should be able to play the game in whatever content they feel they are capable of.

Exactly, we have the absolutely same system here:If you want to hang out and relax, you do easier content like open world, story, low level fractals, etc.

If you want more difficult content, you move up the ladder.

What you are asking for is mythic level rewards for easy content. Or developer time to introduce easy modes (let's not worry about the loot they reward for now) at the cost of other content.

Thats patently false , i never once said anything about top gear for doing less difficult content. Never, if i wanted something i worked for it, if that meant raiding 4 nights a week 4 hours a night then so be it. You seem to equate lfr gear with hard content raid gear...as i said its like exotics are here.

Fair enough, then you now need to justify the developer resources spent on creating a LFR system, that's without discussing the negative impacts on community I described.

I hate to say this, I really do, but perhaps MMO the way we have known them in the past and now could be evolving to something that some of us of the old guard may not like, similar to music trends.

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@Tiviana.2650 said:People want games to be fun and casual now..look at GW2! Its super casual all you got is the whole community thing, outside of that there isnt much going on once you did the stories. Well thats fine for socializing but in this day and age a good majority of people just want to dip in for a short time and then log out and do other things. They want to be able to get stuff done in a reasonable amount of time and get on with it. Not sit at a pc for hours on end.

As for calling out wow for being casual..pot meet kettle imo.

I think this actually something far greater then GW2. Look at MMOs now a days now compare that to MMOs 15 to 18 years ago. I played Everquest back in beta and the quality of life in that game was borderline abusive. Exp loss on death, no real solo play, travelling from point A to point B taking huge amounts of time. Then there was the leveling aspect, which took forever. Everquest didn’t give a kitten about your time. MMOs have been evolving from that point and are continuing to evolve. I think people are realizing that they spend 12+ hours on an MMO with no real return on their investment. I would literally spend hours spamming map chat for a group just to try to level a character and have nothing to show for it. WoW evolved from that genre and continues to evolve. Gw2 is also part of this same evolution. MMOs are changing, which might be upsetting to those used to the old days.

It's not upsetting, it's literally seeing people demand mechanics which have proven hurtful to social and community development (similar to mega servers to a certain extent) because they want instant access, instant gratification and instant rewards.

WoW over did this, the game literally imploded on over casualizing it's reward structure. WoW evolved its self out of a player base.

There is a fine line between ease of use, and minim self effort. The question one needs to ask ones self is this: how much is healthy for a supposedly massive multiple game, and how much is going to far.

LOL no wow lost some thats true, but they lost it because no one wanted to work on long rep grinds to unlock content in BfA. They lost it because people got salty over warmode and the faction zone battles, they got salty that their waifu sylvannas was a psychopath and blizzard finally showed that, they got mad their faction got whooped and a city burned to the ground, they got mad that they had to get out and play the game in the zones to move forward. BfA is harder than GW2, and yet wow still has a healthy population of players, i talk to my wow guildmates about once or twice a week, dont worry wow isnt dying.

Yes, keep repeating that to yourself. Literally every person from my friends, life long WoW players of over 12-14 years, have quit because there is nothing to do.

This is not about how hard content is, it's about a completely failed reward structure and no incentive system.

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@Tiviana.2650 said:People want games to be fun and casual now..look at GW2! Its super casual all you got is the whole community thing, outside of that there isnt much going on once you did the stories. Well thats fine for socializing but in this day and age a good majority of people just want to dip in for a short time and then log out and do other things. They want to be able to get stuff done in a reasonable amount of time and get on with it. Not sit at a pc for hours on end.

As for calling out wow for being casual..pot meet kettle imo.

I think this actually something far greater then GW2. Look at MMOs now a days now compare that to MMOs 15 to 18 years ago. I played Everquest back in beta and the quality of life in that game was borderline abusive. Exp loss on death, no real solo play, travelling from point A to point B taking huge amounts of time. Then there was the leveling aspect, which took forever. Everquest didn’t give a kitten about your time. MMOs have been evolving from that point and are continuing to evolve. I think people are realizing that they spend 12+ hours on an MMO with no real return on their investment. I would literally spend hours spamming map chat for a group just to try to level a character and have nothing to show for it. WoW evolved from that genre and continues to evolve. Gw2 is also part of this same evolution. MMOs are changing, which might be upsetting to those used to the old days.

It's not upsetting, it's literally seeing people demand mechanics which have proven hurtful to social and community development (similar to mega servers to a certain extent) because they want instant access, instant gratification and instant rewards.

WoW over did this, the game literally imploded on over casualizing it's reward structure. WoW evolved its self out of a player base.

There is a fine line between ease of use, and minim self effort. The question one needs to ask ones self is this: how much is healthy for a supposedly massive multiple game, and how much is going to far.

@Tiviana.2650 said:I will say this LFR saved wow.You can be wrong. I'm okay with that.

I played WoW from Vanilla to Cataclsym. I'd occasionally dip my toes in the water back during Draenor and Legion but I left in a quick hurry each time because of how much of a hollow empty shadow the game is compared to what it used to be. Back when the push for Legacy servers were a thing and Nostalrius being shut down was making news I went back and played a classic WoW private server and played that for a while but the constant latency and anxiety of the server being shut down the way Nostalrius prevented me from committing to it as much as I would have liked.

The thing that people miss about what's bad about stuff like the breakneck speed of WoW's current leveling, as well as how braindead easy it is, alongside both effortlessly easy dungeons as well as autogroups is that is absolutely throttles the social aspects of the game. While a lot of stuff about Vanilla WoW are frustrating like stuff like Zefra Hooves having an abysmally low drop rate, is that the questing and dungeon experience is amazing for actually meeting people and making friends and snowballing into communities.

You start out with your easily soloable quests like kill quests on non elite mobs. But when you see competition for kills you can turn that competition into cooperation and invite them to join your party. And you taking that step to send them an invite is huge. Soon you find yourself doing quests in areas with Elites that can't be solo'd and now you need to get a party. And you have to make the effort to communicate with other people, say "Hey. Do you want to do this thing?" And then you go into dungeons. And dungeons aren't easy. You need crowd control as well as a viable group composition. And those aren't handed to you. And if you wipe you can completely lose your opportunity to get loot.

But when you do find a good party, players you want to play with more, you add them to your friendslist so you can group up with them quicker when you two want to do another dungeon. And since 1. dungeons are slower with bits of downtime to eat and drink 2. you had to actually speak with them to get that group, chances are good you had a nice chat while you were partying. Soon you're forming a guild. You're building a community. You're hitting level 60 and going into dungeons. Then into raid.

WoW had 12 Million players before Looking for Raid was added. It didn't need saving and it's only gone downhill since. Classic WoW being officially released has had more excitment and buzz about it since Battle For Azeroth dropped. Guild Wars 2 similarly struggles with the same problem that Retail WoW has of actively discouraging and disincentivizing socially grouping with other players. Raids are the only content that actually creates communities revolved around them.

Looking for raid and now group finder have a tremendous following in wow, because there are a lot of people that want to play it their way. Not play on a raid scheduled, or some dont want to be in a raid guild. LFR and GF open up the possibilities for them to play on their own time.

Yeah, the same way players get upset about things like whenever flying mounts are locked in new areas so they can't just effortlessly skip over everything. Or when their waterstriders get temporarily disabled. Games are exercises in adversity. And there's a point where you've made the game so convenient it's not a game anymore. Look at what happened with garrisons in Draenor. Warlord's of Draenor was so immensely convenient you could just sit in your base and just watch as raid quality look was mailed to you for no effort. The game was so convenient no one ever wanted to leave their garrisons anymore, which mean less and less people were playing together. Which mean communities were collapsing and no new communities were forming in their place. And when players don't have community they don't have anything keeping them in the game anymore and they leave for the next big thing. It was so dire Blizzard brought Illidan back to life and gave all the paladins in the game Ashbringer as an emegency situation.

And if you are a hard core raider it dont effect you one bit if people play LFR.

The endless drama and headache of WoW fussing around with end game's difficulty is literally why I quit that game. Blizzard adding 10 mans that are supposed to be easier than 25 man but frequently were way harder like 10 man Sartharion 3. Then they added 10 man heroic and 25 man heroic and none of them were ever properly balanced because QA testing all those various game modes is impossible to do properly and frequently something would be bugged or poorly tuned in 10 man and 25 man and because of the immense workloaded of having all those difficulty modes meant things would be unfixed for months and months on end. And then you had all the people playing 10 man angry that their loot wasn't as good as the 10man heroic, 25 man and 25 heroic gear.

WoW was healthier and a more enjoyable experience during Vanilla and Burning Crusade compared to when they started shoving a billion difficulty modes into their end game content and made grouping instant. There's a reason why Classic WoW is getting more attention and hype than Battle for Azeroth received.

You also friend. WoW isnt dead far from it, it still has more players than GW2, and there are communities, just in wow you arent forced to join them to get anywhere. If you want to be a solo player in that game you can.

Again, these games are MMOs. There is nothing wrong with giving players solo content, but when your entire game revolves around it and gets built around it, you are playing the wrong game.

No one is saying WoW is dead. You can't deny though, the game has lost a LOT of players and its luster, to be fair: due to a majority of reasons which are unrelated to some of the issues here too.

@Tiviana.2650 said:If you want to step up and join a guild and take it up a level you can. Thats why its still popular, dont you get it? The old days are gone, and games that adhere to forcing people to always have to join a community to get anywhere are dying. Society has changed, evolve or get left behind. Ofc people here are going to say , then why play a mmorpg if you want to play solo?

It doesn't have to be a life. But you also do not have to get all and every reward with minimal commitment.

@Tiviana.2650 said:Vanilla WoW sucked it was a slog grindfest, nothing was balanced and doing anything took forever. I remember grinding reps that took months on end. Its all rose colored glasses and nostalgia that make you say it was the best. It was terrible.

Vanilla WoW was the most casual MMO of its time. Yes, it was grindy compared to todays standards, that's not the issue at heart though. The issue is: building a group and overcoming group content actually had an impact on a players experience.

Case in point:
  • remember one, any will do, significant moment which you experienced while running LFR or LFG. Besides maybe seeing content for the first time.
  • now remember any significant moment which you experienced while making your own group or overcoming some other type of challenge

I guarantee you, those experiences will be vastly different.

This is the delusion, in what world are you getting everything for nothing? That does not happen and never did. Listen just because you get some low ilvl purples dont mean you are getting the best. Man thats delusional, you work for it if you want the best gear and weapons, you work your butt off, time and skill. Those cheap epics are only there like exotics in this game to get you started. Oh hey ho about the gearing here man its sure rains loot easy..see how that goes? You can say the same here

LFR literally has a buff which stacks up preventing successive failure. That is beside the removed mechanics, reduced damage.

When participation is all that is required for reward, and success is guaranteed, then my statement is not a delusion.

When was the last time you played wow? Go run some of the LFR raids yeah you get a buff, and because some of those mechanics are still active and will wipe a group, you will still wipe 20 times or more on those bosses. KilJaden, Argus, sisters, Coven, Avatar, Zul , Ghuun those are pug breakers even with buff stacks . If you dont do the mechanics your dead no matter how many stacks of determination you have.

Last time I played WoW was with Legion, played for 6 weeks and cleared up to Mythic+12 while pro groups were doing +16.

Yes, because the effort people invest in LFR is not more than pressing auto attack 1. I was doing top dps in LFR by not even using more than 3 skills occasionally.

Yes, some mechanics might wipe a group initially (and no, a vast majority are removed which you would know if you explored normal, heroic or mythic raids) because the average player skill and effort invested is -100. That's why you get the buff, because people are so afk that even vastly reduced damage on mechanics wipes groups. People go into LFR to afk loot farm and hope for titen procs. That's what the game has devolved to: hoping the most afk brainless content luck procs so you can upgrade a gear item.

Excuse me but if you wanted to run pro content then nothing stopped you. Join a team that knocks out mythic +20. What john doe is doing in LFR has no bearing on you since you dont do that content. Let other people worry about how they play and you worry about how you play. Mythic raiders the top level of pve content, not mythic dungeons, but raiders dont give a hoot about what players are doing in LFR, it dont have anything to do with them. Thats what i love about wow, you can play however you want. If you have the skills to raid mythic then hey there is a whole world for you to join. If you want to peddle around doing nothing but LFR and dungeons theres that too. Wow is not exclusionary , you can play however you want. And thats how it should be, everyone should be able to play the game in whatever content they feel they are capable of.

Exactly, we have the absolutely same system here:If you want to hang out and relax, you do easier content like open world, story, low level fractals, etc.

If you want more difficult content, you move up the ladder.

What you are asking for is mythic level rewards for easy content. Or developer time to introduce easy modes (let's not worry about the loot they reward for now) at the cost of other content.

Thats patently false , i never once said anything about top gear for doing less difficult content. Never, if i wanted something i worked for it, if that meant raiding 4 nights a week 4 hours a night then so be it. You seem to equate lfr gear with hard content raid gear...as i said its like exotics are here.

Fair enough, then you now need to justify the developer resources spent on creating a LFR system, that's without discussing the negative impacts on community I described.

I hate to say this, I really do, but perhaps MMO the way we have known them in the past and now could be evolving to something that some of us of the old guard may not like, similar to music trends.

Sure, that might be the case and given recent mobile revenues, this might happen. Doesn't mean the best idea is to get rid of the entire player base and try to catch up to a trend. If you want to compete with Fortnite, Apex Legends and other fast get in and get out games, you are way late to the party.

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@Tiviana.2650 said:People want games to be fun and casual now..look at GW2! Its super casual all you got is the whole community thing, outside of that there isnt much going on once you did the stories. Well thats fine for socializing but in this day and age a good majority of people just want to dip in for a short time and then log out and do other things. They want to be able to get stuff done in a reasonable amount of time and get on with it. Not sit at a pc for hours on end.

As for calling out wow for being casual..pot meet kettle imo.

I think this actually something far greater then GW2. Look at MMOs now a days now compare that to MMOs 15 to 18 years ago. I played Everquest back in beta and the quality of life in that game was borderline abusive. Exp loss on death, no real solo play, travelling from point A to point B taking huge amounts of time. Then there was the leveling aspect, which took forever. Everquest didn’t give a kitten about your time. MMOs have been evolving from that point and are continuing to evolve. I think people are realizing that they spend 12+ hours on an MMO with no real return on their investment. I would literally spend hours spamming map chat for a group just to try to level a character and have nothing to show for it. WoW evolved from that genre and continues to evolve. Gw2 is also part of this same evolution. MMOs are changing, which might be upsetting to those used to the old days.

It's not upsetting, it's literally seeing people demand mechanics which have proven hurtful to social and community development (similar to mega servers to a certain extent) because they want instant access, instant gratification and instant rewards.

WoW over did this, the game literally imploded on over casualizing it's reward structure. WoW evolved its self out of a player base.

There is a fine line between ease of use, and minim self effort. The question one needs to ask ones self is this: how much is healthy for a supposedly massive multiple game, and how much is going to far.

@Tiviana.2650 said:I will say this LFR saved wow.You can be wrong. I'm okay with that.

I played WoW from Vanilla to Cataclsym. I'd occasionally dip my toes in the water back during Draenor and Legion but I left in a quick hurry each time because of how much of a hollow empty shadow the game is compared to what it used to be. Back when the push for Legacy servers were a thing and Nostalrius being shut down was making news I went back and played a classic WoW private server and played that for a while but the constant latency and anxiety of the server being shut down the way Nostalrius prevented me from committing to it as much as I would have liked.

The thing that people miss about what's bad about stuff like the breakneck speed of WoW's current leveling, as well as how braindead easy it is, alongside both effortlessly easy dungeons as well as autogroups is that is absolutely throttles the social aspects of the game. While a lot of stuff about Vanilla WoW are frustrating like stuff like Zefra Hooves having an abysmally low drop rate, is that the questing and dungeon experience is amazing for actually meeting people and making friends and snowballing into communities.

You start out with your easily soloable quests like kill quests on non elite mobs. But when you see competition for kills you can turn that competition into cooperation and invite them to join your party. And you taking that step to send them an invite is huge. Soon you find yourself doing quests in areas with Elites that can't be solo'd and now you need to get a party. And you have to make the effort to communicate with other people, say "Hey. Do you want to do this thing?" And then you go into dungeons. And dungeons aren't easy. You need crowd control as well as a viable group composition. And those aren't handed to you. And if you wipe you can completely lose your opportunity to get loot.

But when you do find a good party, players you want to play with more, you add them to your friendslist so you can group up with them quicker when you two want to do another dungeon. And since 1. dungeons are slower with bits of downtime to eat and drink 2. you had to actually speak with them to get that group, chances are good you had a nice chat while you were partying. Soon you're forming a guild. You're building a community. You're hitting level 60 and going into dungeons. Then into raid.

WoW had 12 Million players before Looking for Raid was added. It didn't need saving and it's only gone downhill since. Classic WoW being officially released has had more excitment and buzz about it since Battle For Azeroth dropped. Guild Wars 2 similarly struggles with the same problem that Retail WoW has of actively discouraging and disincentivizing socially grouping with other players. Raids are the only content that actually creates communities revolved around them.

Looking for raid and now group finder have a tremendous following in wow, because there are a lot of people that want to play it their way. Not play on a raid scheduled, or some dont want to be in a raid guild. LFR and GF open up the possibilities for them to play on their own time.

Yeah, the same way players get upset about things like whenever flying mounts are locked in new areas so they can't just effortlessly skip over everything. Or when their waterstriders get temporarily disabled. Games are exercises in adversity. And there's a point where you've made the game so convenient it's not a game anymore. Look at what happened with garrisons in Draenor. Warlord's of Draenor was so immensely convenient you could just sit in your base and just watch as raid quality look was mailed to you for no effort. The game was so convenient no one ever wanted to leave their garrisons anymore, which mean less and less people were playing together. Which mean communities were collapsing and no new communities were forming in their place. And when players don't have community they don't have anything keeping them in the game anymore and they leave for the next big thing. It was so dire Blizzard brought Illidan back to life and gave all the paladins in the game Ashbringer as an emegency situation.

And if you are a hard core raider it dont effect you one bit if people play LFR.

The endless drama and headache of WoW fussing around with end game's difficulty is literally why I quit that game. Blizzard adding 10 mans that are supposed to be easier than 25 man but frequently were way harder like 10 man Sartharion 3. Then they added 10 man heroic and 25 man heroic and none of them were ever properly balanced because QA testing all those various game modes is impossible to do properly and frequently something would be bugged or poorly tuned in 10 man and 25 man and because of the immense workloaded of having all those difficulty modes meant things would be unfixed for months and months on end. And then you had all the people playing 10 man angry that their loot wasn't as good as the 10man heroic, 25 man and 25 heroic gear.

WoW was healthier and a more enjoyable experience during Vanilla and Burning Crusade compared to when they started shoving a billion difficulty modes into their end game content and made grouping instant. There's a reason why Classic WoW is getting more attention and hype than Battle for Azeroth received.

You also friend. WoW isnt dead far from it, it still has more players than GW2, and there are communities, just in wow you arent forced to join them to get anywhere. If you want to be a solo player in that game you can.

Again, these games are MMOs. There is nothing wrong with giving players solo content, but when your entire game revolves around it and gets built around it, you are playing the wrong game.

No one is saying WoW is dead. You can't deny though, the game has lost a LOT of players and its luster, to be fair: due to a majority of reasons which are unrelated to some of the issues here too.

@Tiviana.2650 said:If you want to step up and join a guild and take it up a level you can. Thats why its still popular, dont you get it? The old days are gone, and games that adhere to forcing people to always have to join a community to get anywhere are dying. Society has changed, evolve or get left behind. Ofc people here are going to say , then why play a mmorpg if you want to play solo?

It doesn't have to be a life. But you also do not have to get all and every reward with minimal commitment.

@Tiviana.2650 said:Vanilla WoW sucked it was a slog grindfest, nothing was balanced and doing anything took forever. I remember grinding reps that took months on end. Its all rose colored glasses and nostalgia that make you say it was the best. It was terrible.

Vanilla WoW was the most casual MMO of its time. Yes, it was grindy compared to todays standards, that's not the issue at heart though. The issue is: building a group and overcoming group content actually had an impact on a players experience.

Case in point:
  • remember one, any will do, significant moment which you experienced while running LFR or LFG. Besides maybe seeing content for the first time.
  • now remember any significant moment which you experienced while making your own group or overcoming some other type of challenge

I guarantee you, those experiences will be vastly different.

This is the delusion, in what world are you getting everything for nothing? That does not happen and never did. Listen just because you get some low ilvl purples dont mean you are getting the best. Man thats delusional, you work for it if you want the best gear and weapons, you work your butt off, time and skill. Those cheap epics are only there like exotics in this game to get you started. Oh hey ho about the gearing here man its sure rains loot easy..see how that goes? You can say the same here

LFR literally has a buff which stacks up preventing successive failure. That is beside the removed mechanics, reduced damage.

When participation is all that is required for reward, and success is guaranteed, then my statement is not a delusion.

When was the last time you played wow? Go run some of the LFR raids yeah you get a buff, and because some of those mechanics are still active and will wipe a group, you will still wipe 20 times or more on those bosses. KilJaden, Argus, sisters, Coven, Avatar, Zul , Ghuun those are pug breakers even with buff stacks . If you dont do the mechanics your dead no matter how many stacks of determination you have.

Last time I played WoW was with Legion, played for 6 weeks and cleared up to Mythic+12 while pro groups were doing +16.

Yes, because the effort people invest in LFR is not more than pressing auto attack 1. I was doing top dps in LFR by not even using more than 3 skills occasionally.

Yes, some mechanics might wipe a group initially (and no, a vast majority are removed which you would know if you explored normal, heroic or mythic raids) because the average player skill and effort invested is -100. That's why you get the buff, because people are so afk that even vastly reduced damage on mechanics wipes groups. People go into LFR to afk loot farm and hope for titen procs. That's what the game has devolved to: hoping the most afk brainless content luck procs so you can upgrade a gear item.

Excuse me but if you wanted to run pro content then nothing stopped you. Join a team that knocks out mythic +20. What john doe is doing in LFR has no bearing on you since you dont do that content. Let other people worry about how they play and you worry about how you play. Mythic raiders the top level of pve content, not mythic dungeons, but raiders dont give a hoot about what players are doing in LFR, it dont have anything to do with them. Thats what i love about wow, you can play however you want. If you have the skills to raid mythic then hey there is a whole world for you to join. If you want to peddle around doing nothing but LFR and dungeons theres that too. Wow is not exclusionary , you can play however you want. And thats how it should be, everyone should be able to play the game in whatever content they feel they are capable of.

Exactly, we have the absolutely same system here:If you want to hang out and relax, you do easier content like open world, story, low level fractals, etc.

If you want more difficult content, you move up the ladder.

What you are asking for is mythic level rewards for easy content. Or developer time to introduce easy modes (let's not worry about the loot they reward for now) at the cost of other content.

Thats patently false , i never once said anything about top gear for doing less difficult content. Never, if i wanted something i worked for it, if that meant raiding 4 nights a week 4 hours a night then so be it. You seem to equate lfr gear with hard content raid gear...as i said its like exotics are here.

Fair enough, then you now need to justify the developer resources spent on creating a LFR system, that's without discussing the negative impacts on community I described.

But see thats it i dont think LFR is a bad thing. It got millions of players that would otherwise never step foot in a raid instance to do so. The social part of the game is on the individual. I was with my guild for years LFR had no impact on that. This is players blaming something inanimate for the lack of community, community starts with the person, if people dont want to be social you cant force them. But the bright side is there are a lot of social people still playing, if you want to join them you can.

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@Tiviana.2650 said:People want games to be fun and casual now..look at GW2! Its super casual all you got is the whole community thing, outside of that there isnt much going on once you did the stories. Well thats fine for socializing but in this day and age a good majority of people just want to dip in for a short time and then log out and do other things. They want to be able to get stuff done in a reasonable amount of time and get on with it. Not sit at a pc for hours on end.

As for calling out wow for being casual..pot meet kettle imo.

I think this actually something far greater then GW2. Look at MMOs now a days now compare that to MMOs 15 to 18 years ago. I played Everquest back in beta and the quality of life in that game was borderline abusive. Exp loss on death, no real solo play, travelling from point A to point B taking huge amounts of time. Then there was the leveling aspect, which took forever. Everquest didn’t give a kitten about your time. MMOs have been evolving from that point and are continuing to evolve. I think people are realizing that they spend 12+ hours on an MMO with no real return on their investment. I would literally spend hours spamming map chat for a group just to try to level a character and have nothing to show for it. WoW evolved from that genre and continues to evolve. Gw2 is also part of this same evolution. MMOs are changing, which might be upsetting to those used to the old days.

It's not upsetting, it's literally seeing people demand mechanics which have proven hurtful to social and community development (similar to mega servers to a certain extent) because they want instant access, instant gratification and instant rewards.

WoW over did this, the game literally imploded on over casualizing it's reward structure. WoW evolved its self out of a player base.

There is a fine line between ease of use, and minim self effort. The question one needs to ask ones self is this: how much is healthy for a supposedly massive multiple game, and how much is going to far.

@Tiviana.2650 said:I will say this LFR saved wow.You can be wrong. I'm okay with that.

I played WoW from Vanilla to Cataclsym. I'd occasionally dip my toes in the water back during Draenor and Legion but I left in a quick hurry each time because of how much of a hollow empty shadow the game is compared to what it used to be. Back when the push for Legacy servers were a thing and Nostalrius being shut down was making news I went back and played a classic WoW private server and played that for a while but the constant latency and anxiety of the server being shut down the way Nostalrius prevented me from committing to it as much as I would have liked.

The thing that people miss about what's bad about stuff like the breakneck speed of WoW's current leveling, as well as how braindead easy it is, alongside both effortlessly easy dungeons as well as autogroups is that is absolutely throttles the social aspects of the game. While a lot of stuff about Vanilla WoW are frustrating like stuff like Zefra Hooves having an abysmally low drop rate, is that the questing and dungeon experience is amazing for actually meeting people and making friends and snowballing into communities.

You start out with your easily soloable quests like kill quests on non elite mobs. But when you see competition for kills you can turn that competition into cooperation and invite them to join your party. And you taking that step to send them an invite is huge. Soon you find yourself doing quests in areas with Elites that can't be solo'd and now you need to get a party. And you have to make the effort to communicate with other people, say "Hey. Do you want to do this thing?" And then you go into dungeons. And dungeons aren't easy. You need crowd control as well as a viable group composition. And those aren't handed to you. And if you wipe you can completely lose your opportunity to get loot.

But when you do find a good party, players you want to play with more, you add them to your friendslist so you can group up with them quicker when you two want to do another dungeon. And since 1. dungeons are slower with bits of downtime to eat and drink 2. you had to actually speak with them to get that group, chances are good you had a nice chat while you were partying. Soon you're forming a guild. You're building a community. You're hitting level 60 and going into dungeons. Then into raid.

WoW had 12 Million players before Looking for Raid was added. It didn't need saving and it's only gone downhill since. Classic WoW being officially released has had more excitment and buzz about it since Battle For Azeroth dropped. Guild Wars 2 similarly struggles with the same problem that Retail WoW has of actively discouraging and disincentivizing socially grouping with other players. Raids are the only content that actually creates communities revolved around them.

Looking for raid and now group finder have a tremendous following in wow, because there are a lot of people that want to play it their way. Not play on a raid scheduled, or some dont want to be in a raid guild. LFR and GF open up the possibilities for them to play on their own time.

Yeah, the same way players get upset about things like whenever flying mounts are locked in new areas so they can't just effortlessly skip over everything. Or when their waterstriders get temporarily disabled. Games are exercises in adversity. And there's a point where you've made the game so convenient it's not a game anymore. Look at what happened with garrisons in Draenor. Warlord's of Draenor was so immensely convenient you could just sit in your base and just watch as raid quality look was mailed to you for no effort. The game was so convenient no one ever wanted to leave their garrisons anymore, which mean less and less people were playing together. Which mean communities were collapsing and no new communities were forming in their place. And when players don't have community they don't have anything keeping them in the game anymore and they leave for the next big thing. It was so dire Blizzard brought Illidan back to life and gave all the paladins in the game Ashbringer as an emegency situation.

And if you are a hard core raider it dont effect you one bit if people play LFR.

The endless drama and headache of WoW fussing around with end game's difficulty is literally why I quit that game. Blizzard adding 10 mans that are supposed to be easier than 25 man but frequently were way harder like 10 man Sartharion 3. Then they added 10 man heroic and 25 man heroic and none of them were ever properly balanced because QA testing all those various game modes is impossible to do properly and frequently something would be bugged or poorly tuned in 10 man and 25 man and because of the immense workloaded of having all those difficulty modes meant things would be unfixed for months and months on end. And then you had all the people playing 10 man angry that their loot wasn't as good as the 10man heroic, 25 man and 25 heroic gear.

WoW was healthier and a more enjoyable experience during Vanilla and Burning Crusade compared to when they started shoving a billion difficulty modes into their end game content and made grouping instant. There's a reason why Classic WoW is getting more attention and hype than Battle for Azeroth received.

You also friend. WoW isnt dead far from it, it still has more players than GW2, and there are communities, just in wow you arent forced to join them to get anywhere. If you want to be a solo player in that game you can.

Again, these games are MMOs. There is nothing wrong with giving players solo content, but when your entire game revolves around it and gets built around it, you are playing the wrong game.

No one is saying WoW is dead. You can't deny though, the game has lost a LOT of players and its luster, to be fair: due to a majority of reasons which are unrelated to some of the issues here too.

@Tiviana.2650 said:If you want to step up and join a guild and take it up a level you can. Thats why its still popular, dont you get it? The old days are gone, and games that adhere to forcing people to always have to join a community to get anywhere are dying. Society has changed, evolve or get left behind. Ofc people here are going to say , then why play a mmorpg if you want to play solo?

It doesn't have to be a life. But you also do not have to get all and every reward with minimal commitment.

@Tiviana.2650 said:Vanilla WoW sucked it was a slog grindfest, nothing was balanced and doing anything took forever. I remember grinding reps that took months on end. Its all rose colored glasses and nostalgia that make you say it was the best. It was terrible.

Vanilla WoW was the most casual MMO of its time. Yes, it was grindy compared to todays standards, that's not the issue at heart though. The issue is: building a group and overcoming group content actually had an impact on a players experience.

Case in point:
  • remember one, any will do, significant moment which you experienced while running LFR or LFG. Besides maybe seeing content for the first time.
  • now remember any significant moment which you experienced while making your own group or overcoming some other type of challenge

I guarantee you, those experiences will be vastly different.

This is the delusion, in what world are you getting everything for nothing? That does not happen and never did. Listen just because you get some low ilvl purples dont mean you are getting the best. Man thats delusional, you work for it if you want the best gear and weapons, you work your butt off, time and skill. Those cheap epics are only there like exotics in this game to get you started. Oh hey ho about the gearing here man its sure rains loot easy..see how that goes? You can say the same here

LFR literally has a buff which stacks up preventing successive failure. That is beside the removed mechanics, reduced damage.

When participation is all that is required for reward, and success is guaranteed, then my statement is not a delusion.

When was the last time you played wow? Go run some of the LFR raids yeah you get a buff, and because some of those mechanics are still active and will wipe a group, you will still wipe 20 times or more on those bosses. KilJaden, Argus, sisters, Coven, Avatar, Zul , Ghuun those are pug breakers even with buff stacks . If you dont do the mechanics your dead no matter how many stacks of determination you have.

Last time I played WoW was with Legion, played for 6 weeks and cleared up to Mythic+12 while pro groups were doing +16.

Yes, because the effort people invest in LFR is not more than pressing auto attack 1. I was doing top dps in LFR by not even using more than 3 skills occasionally.

Yes, some mechanics might wipe a group initially (and no, a vast majority are removed which you would know if you explored normal, heroic or mythic raids) because the average player skill and effort invested is -100. That's why you get the buff, because people are so afk that even vastly reduced damage on mechanics wipes groups. People go into LFR to afk loot farm and hope for titen procs. That's what the game has devolved to: hoping the most afk brainless content luck procs so you can upgrade a gear item.

Excuse me but if you wanted to run pro content then nothing stopped you. Join a team that knocks out mythic +20. What john doe is doing in LFR has no bearing on you since you dont do that content. Let other people worry about how they play and you worry about how you play. Mythic raiders the top level of pve content, not mythic dungeons, but raiders dont give a hoot about what players are doing in LFR, it dont have anything to do with them. Thats what i love about wow, you can play however you want. If you have the skills to raid mythic then hey there is a whole world for you to join. If you want to peddle around doing nothing but LFR and dungeons theres that too. Wow is not exclusionary , you can play however you want. And thats how it should be, everyone should be able to play the game in whatever content they feel they are capable of.

Exactly, we have the absolutely same system here:If you want to hang out and relax, you do easier content like open world, story, low level fractals, etc.

If you want more difficult content, you move up the ladder.

What you are asking for is mythic level rewards for easy content. Or developer time to introduce easy modes (let's not worry about the loot they reward for now) at the cost of other content.

Thats patently false , i never once said anything about top gear for doing less difficult content. Never, if i wanted something i worked for it, if that meant raiding 4 nights a week 4 hours a night then so be it. You seem to equate lfr gear with hard content raid gear...as i said its like exotics are here.

Fair enough, then you now need to justify the developer resources spent on creating a LFR system, that's without discussing the negative impacts on community I described.

But see thats it i dont think LFR is a bad thing. It got millions of players that would otherwise never step foot in a raid instance to do so. The social part of the game is on the individual. I was with my guild for years LFR had no impact on that. This is players blaming something inanimate for the lack of community, community starts with the person, if people dont want to be social you cant force them. But the bright side is there are a lot of social people still playing, if you want to join them you can.

To lazy to look it up, there is literally a Blizzard developer post talking about how they regret implementing LFR on exactly these notes.

EDIT: strike that, google helped: https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/52fxo1/ama_league_design_lead_greg_ghostcrawler_street/d7jwm98/

I have a lot of regrets about Raid Finder for WoW. I am sure I worked on features that were much, much worse, but that's the first one that came to mind.To be clear, the goal of getting more players into raiding is a good one. But the way Raid Finder turned out removed, IMO anyway, a lot of the epicness of what made raiding raiding. I also haven't played WoW in a few years, so it's entirely possible they have solved the problem by now.

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@Tiviana.2650 said:People want games to be fun and casual now..look at GW2! Its super casual all you got is the whole community thing, outside of that there isnt much going on once you did the stories. Well thats fine for socializing but in this day and age a good majority of people just want to dip in for a short time and then log out and do other things. They want to be able to get stuff done in a reasonable amount of time and get on with it. Not sit at a pc for hours on end.

As for calling out wow for being casual..pot meet kettle imo.

I think this actually something far greater then GW2. Look at MMOs now a days now compare that to MMOs 15 to 18 years ago. I played Everquest back in beta and the quality of life in that game was borderline abusive. Exp loss on death, no real solo play, travelling from point A to point B taking huge amounts of time. Then there was the leveling aspect, which took forever. Everquest didn’t give a kitten about your time. MMOs have been evolving from that point and are continuing to evolve. I think people are realizing that they spend 12+ hours on an MMO with no real return on their investment. I would literally spend hours spamming map chat for a group just to try to level a character and have nothing to show for it. WoW evolved from that genre and continues to evolve. Gw2 is also part of this same evolution. MMOs are changing, which might be upsetting to those used to the old days.

It's not upsetting, it's literally seeing people demand mechanics which have proven hurtful to social and community development (similar to mega servers to a certain extent) because they want instant access, instant gratification and instant rewards.

WoW over did this, the game literally imploded on over casualizing it's reward structure. WoW evolved its self out of a player base.

There is a fine line between ease of use, and minim self effort. The question one needs to ask ones self is this: how much is healthy for a supposedly massive multiple game, and how much is going to far.

@Tiviana.2650 said:I will say this LFR saved wow.You can be wrong. I'm okay with that.

I played WoW from Vanilla to Cataclsym. I'd occasionally dip my toes in the water back during Draenor and Legion but I left in a quick hurry each time because of how much of a hollow empty shadow the game is compared to what it used to be. Back when the push for Legacy servers were a thing and Nostalrius being shut down was making news I went back and played a classic WoW private server and played that for a while but the constant latency and anxiety of the server being shut down the way Nostalrius prevented me from committing to it as much as I would have liked.

The thing that people miss about what's bad about stuff like the breakneck speed of WoW's current leveling, as well as how braindead easy it is, alongside both effortlessly easy dungeons as well as autogroups is that is absolutely throttles the social aspects of the game. While a lot of stuff about Vanilla WoW are frustrating like stuff like Zefra Hooves having an abysmally low drop rate, is that the questing and dungeon experience is amazing for actually meeting people and making friends and snowballing into communities.

You start out with your easily soloable quests like kill quests on non elite mobs. But when you see competition for kills you can turn that competition into cooperation and invite them to join your party. And you taking that step to send them an invite is huge. Soon you find yourself doing quests in areas with Elites that can't be solo'd and now you need to get a party. And you have to make the effort to communicate with other people, say "Hey. Do you want to do this thing?" And then you go into dungeons. And dungeons aren't easy. You need crowd control as well as a viable group composition. And those aren't handed to you. And if you wipe you can completely lose your opportunity to get loot.

But when you do find a good party, players you want to play with more, you add them to your friendslist so you can group up with them quicker when you two want to do another dungeon. And since 1. dungeons are slower with bits of downtime to eat and drink 2. you had to actually speak with them to get that group, chances are good you had a nice chat while you were partying. Soon you're forming a guild. You're building a community. You're hitting level 60 and going into dungeons. Then into raid.

WoW had 12 Million players before Looking for Raid was added. It didn't need saving and it's only gone downhill since. Classic WoW being officially released has had more excitment and buzz about it since Battle For Azeroth dropped. Guild Wars 2 similarly struggles with the same problem that Retail WoW has of actively discouraging and disincentivizing socially grouping with other players. Raids are the only content that actually creates communities revolved around them.

Looking for raid and now group finder have a tremendous following in wow, because there are a lot of people that want to play it their way. Not play on a raid scheduled, or some dont want to be in a raid guild. LFR and GF open up the possibilities for them to play on their own time.

Yeah, the same way players get upset about things like whenever flying mounts are locked in new areas so they can't just effortlessly skip over everything. Or when their waterstriders get temporarily disabled. Games are exercises in adversity. And there's a point where you've made the game so convenient it's not a game anymore. Look at what happened with garrisons in Draenor. Warlord's of Draenor was so immensely convenient you could just sit in your base and just watch as raid quality look was mailed to you for no effort. The game was so convenient no one ever wanted to leave their garrisons anymore, which mean less and less people were playing together. Which mean communities were collapsing and no new communities were forming in their place. And when players don't have community they don't have anything keeping them in the game anymore and they leave for the next big thing. It was so dire Blizzard brought Illidan back to life and gave all the paladins in the game Ashbringer as an emegency situation.

And if you are a hard core raider it dont effect you one bit if people play LFR.

The endless drama and headache of WoW fussing around with end game's difficulty is literally why I quit that game. Blizzard adding 10 mans that are supposed to be easier than 25 man but frequently were way harder like 10 man Sartharion 3. Then they added 10 man heroic and 25 man heroic and none of them were ever properly balanced because QA testing all those various game modes is impossible to do properly and frequently something would be bugged or poorly tuned in 10 man and 25 man and because of the immense workloaded of having all those difficulty modes meant things would be unfixed for months and months on end. And then you had all the people playing 10 man angry that their loot wasn't as good as the 10man heroic, 25 man and 25 heroic gear.

WoW was healthier and a more enjoyable experience during Vanilla and Burning Crusade compared to when they started shoving a billion difficulty modes into their end game content and made grouping instant. There's a reason why Classic WoW is getting more attention and hype than Battle for Azeroth received.

You also friend. WoW isnt dead far from it, it still has more players than GW2, and there are communities, just in wow you arent forced to join them to get anywhere. If you want to be a solo player in that game you can.

Again, these games are MMOs. There is nothing wrong with giving players solo content, but when your entire game revolves around it and gets built around it, you are playing the wrong game.

No one is saying WoW is dead. You can't deny though, the game has lost a LOT of players and its luster, to be fair: due to a majority of reasons which are unrelated to some of the issues here too.

@Tiviana.2650 said:If you want to step up and join a guild and take it up a level you can. Thats why its still popular, dont you get it? The old days are gone, and games that adhere to forcing people to always have to join a community to get anywhere are dying. Society has changed, evolve or get left behind. Ofc people here are going to say , then why play a mmorpg if you want to play solo?

It doesn't have to be a life. But you also do not have to get all and every reward with minimal commitment.

@Tiviana.2650 said:Vanilla WoW sucked it was a slog grindfest, nothing was balanced and doing anything took forever. I remember grinding reps that took months on end. Its all rose colored glasses and nostalgia that make you say it was the best. It was terrible.

Vanilla WoW was the most casual MMO of its time. Yes, it was grindy compared to todays standards, that's not the issue at heart though. The issue is: building a group and overcoming group content actually had an impact on a players experience.

Case in point:
  • remember one, any will do, significant moment which you experienced while running LFR or LFG. Besides maybe seeing content for the first time.
  • now remember any significant moment which you experienced while making your own group or overcoming some other type of challenge

I guarantee you, those experiences will be vastly different.

This is the delusion, in what world are you getting everything for nothing? That does not happen and never did. Listen just because you get some low ilvl purples dont mean you are getting the best. Man thats delusional, you work for it if you want the best gear and weapons, you work your butt off, time and skill. Those cheap epics are only there like exotics in this game to get you started. Oh hey ho about the gearing here man its sure rains loot easy..see how that goes? You can say the same here

LFR literally has a buff which stacks up preventing successive failure. That is beside the removed mechanics, reduced damage.

When participation is all that is required for reward, and success is guaranteed, then my statement is not a delusion.

When was the last time you played wow? Go run some of the LFR raids yeah you get a buff, and because some of those mechanics are still active and will wipe a group, you will still wipe 20 times or more on those bosses. KilJaden, Argus, sisters, Coven, Avatar, Zul , Ghuun those are pug breakers even with buff stacks . If you dont do the mechanics your dead no matter how many stacks of determination you have.

Last time I played WoW was with Legion, played for 6 weeks and cleared up to Mythic+12 while pro groups were doing +16.

Yes, because the effort people invest in LFR is not more than pressing auto attack 1. I was doing top dps in LFR by not even using more than 3 skills occasionally.

Yes, some mechanics might wipe a group initially (and no, a vast majority are removed which you would know if you explored normal, heroic or mythic raids) because the average player skill and effort invested is -100. That's why you get the buff, because people are so afk that even vastly reduced damage on mechanics wipes groups. People go into LFR to afk loot farm and hope for titen procs. That's what the game has devolved to: hoping the most afk brainless content luck procs so you can upgrade a gear item.

Excuse me but if you wanted to run pro content then nothing stopped you. Join a team that knocks out mythic +20. What john doe is doing in LFR has no bearing on you since you dont do that content. Let other people worry about how they play and you worry about how you play. Mythic raiders the top level of pve content, not mythic dungeons, but raiders dont give a hoot about what players are doing in LFR, it dont have anything to do with them. Thats what i love about wow, you can play however you want. If you have the skills to raid mythic then hey there is a whole world for you to join. If you want to peddle around doing nothing but LFR and dungeons theres that too. Wow is not exclusionary , you can play however you want. And thats how it should be, everyone should be able to play the game in whatever content they feel they are capable of.

Exactly, we have the absolutely same system here:If you want to hang out and relax, you do easier content like open world, story, low level fractals, etc.

If you want more difficult content, you move up the ladder.

What you are asking for is mythic level rewards for easy content. Or developer time to introduce easy modes (let's not worry about the loot they reward for now) at the cost of other content.

Thats patently false , i never once said anything about top gear for doing less difficult content. Never, if i wanted something i worked for it, if that meant raiding 4 nights a week 4 hours a night then so be it. You seem to equate lfr gear with hard content raid gear...as i said its like exotics are here.

Fair enough, then you now need to justify the developer resources spent on creating a LFR system, that's without discussing the negative impacts on community I described.

I hate to say this, I really do, but perhaps MMO the way we have known them in the past and now could be evolving to something that some of us of the old guard may not like, similar to music trends.

You know i felt the same way in the beginning, i hated the changes. But i see why they had to happen. Society is changing the best we can do is shrug it off gather like minded people to play with and run through the game together. Because in the end you cant make people do anything they dont want to, so dont stress it, just chill with your own group.

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@Tiviana.2650 said:People want games to be fun and casual now..look at GW2! Its super casual all you got is the whole community thing, outside of that there isnt much going on once you did the stories. Well thats fine for socializing but in this day and age a good majority of people just want to dip in for a short time and then log out and do other things. They want to be able to get stuff done in a reasonable amount of time and get on with it. Not sit at a pc for hours on end.

As for calling out wow for being casual..pot meet kettle imo.

I think this actually something far greater then GW2. Look at MMOs now a days now compare that to MMOs 15 to 18 years ago. I played Everquest back in beta and the quality of life in that game was borderline abusive. Exp loss on death, no real solo play, travelling from point A to point B taking huge amounts of time. Then there was the leveling aspect, which took forever. Everquest didn’t give a kitten about your time. MMOs have been evolving from that point and are continuing to evolve. I think people are realizing that they spend 12+ hours on an MMO with no real return on their investment. I would literally spend hours spamming map chat for a group just to try to level a character and have nothing to show for it. WoW evolved from that genre and continues to evolve. Gw2 is also part of this same evolution. MMOs are changing, which might be upsetting to those used to the old days.

It's not upsetting, it's literally seeing people demand mechanics which have proven hurtful to social and community development (similar to mega servers to a certain extent) because they want instant access, instant gratification and instant rewards.

WoW over did this, the game literally imploded on over casualizing it's reward structure. WoW evolved its self out of a player base.

There is a fine line between ease of use, and minim self effort. The question one needs to ask ones self is this: how much is healthy for a supposedly massive multiple game, and how much is going to far.

@Tiviana.2650 said:I will say this LFR saved wow.You can be wrong. I'm okay with that.

I played WoW from Vanilla to Cataclsym. I'd occasionally dip my toes in the water back during Draenor and Legion but I left in a quick hurry each time because of how much of a hollow empty shadow the game is compared to what it used to be. Back when the push for Legacy servers were a thing and Nostalrius being shut down was making news I went back and played a classic WoW private server and played that for a while but the constant latency and anxiety of the server being shut down the way Nostalrius prevented me from committing to it as much as I would have liked.

The thing that people miss about what's bad about stuff like the breakneck speed of WoW's current leveling, as well as how braindead easy it is, alongside both effortlessly easy dungeons as well as autogroups is that is absolutely throttles the social aspects of the game. While a lot of stuff about Vanilla WoW are frustrating like stuff like Zefra Hooves having an abysmally low drop rate, is that the questing and dungeon experience is amazing for actually meeting people and making friends and snowballing into communities.

You start out with your easily soloable quests like kill quests on non elite mobs. But when you see competition for kills you can turn that competition into cooperation and invite them to join your party. And you taking that step to send them an invite is huge. Soon you find yourself doing quests in areas with Elites that can't be solo'd and now you need to get a party. And you have to make the effort to communicate with other people, say "Hey. Do you want to do this thing?" And then you go into dungeons. And dungeons aren't easy. You need crowd control as well as a viable group composition. And those aren't handed to you. And if you wipe you can completely lose your opportunity to get loot.

But when you do find a good party, players you want to play with more, you add them to your friendslist so you can group up with them quicker when you two want to do another dungeon. And since 1. dungeons are slower with bits of downtime to eat and drink 2. you had to actually speak with them to get that group, chances are good you had a nice chat while you were partying. Soon you're forming a guild. You're building a community. You're hitting level 60 and going into dungeons. Then into raid.

WoW had 12 Million players before Looking for Raid was added. It didn't need saving and it's only gone downhill since. Classic WoW being officially released has had more excitment and buzz about it since Battle For Azeroth dropped. Guild Wars 2 similarly struggles with the same problem that Retail WoW has of actively discouraging and disincentivizing socially grouping with other players. Raids are the only content that actually creates communities revolved around them.

Looking for raid and now group finder have a tremendous following in wow, because there are a lot of people that want to play it their way. Not play on a raid scheduled, or some dont want to be in a raid guild. LFR and GF open up the possibilities for them to play on their own time.

Yeah, the same way players get upset about things like whenever flying mounts are locked in new areas so they can't just effortlessly skip over everything. Or when their waterstriders get temporarily disabled. Games are exercises in adversity. And there's a point where you've made the game so convenient it's not a game anymore. Look at what happened with garrisons in Draenor. Warlord's of Draenor was so immensely convenient you could just sit in your base and just watch as raid quality look was mailed to you for no effort. The game was so convenient no one ever wanted to leave their garrisons anymore, which mean less and less people were playing together. Which mean communities were collapsing and no new communities were forming in their place. And when players don't have community they don't have anything keeping them in the game anymore and they leave for the next big thing. It was so dire Blizzard brought Illidan back to life and gave all the paladins in the game Ashbringer as an emegency situation.

And if you are a hard core raider it dont effect you one bit if people play LFR.

The endless drama and headache of WoW fussing around with end game's difficulty is literally why I quit that game. Blizzard adding 10 mans that are supposed to be easier than 25 man but frequently were way harder like 10 man Sartharion 3. Then they added 10 man heroic and 25 man heroic and none of them were ever properly balanced because QA testing all those various game modes is impossible to do properly and frequently something would be bugged or poorly tuned in 10 man and 25 man and because of the immense workloaded of having all those difficulty modes meant things would be unfixed for months and months on end. And then you had all the people playing 10 man angry that their loot wasn't as good as the 10man heroic, 25 man and 25 heroic gear.

WoW was healthier and a more enjoyable experience during Vanilla and Burning Crusade compared to when they started shoving a billion difficulty modes into their end game content and made grouping instant. There's a reason why Classic WoW is getting more attention and hype than Battle for Azeroth received.

You also friend. WoW isnt dead far from it, it still has more players than GW2, and there are communities, just in wow you arent forced to join them to get anywhere. If you want to be a solo player in that game you can.

Again, these games are MMOs. There is nothing wrong with giving players solo content, but when your entire game revolves around it and gets built around it, you are playing the wrong game.

No one is saying WoW is dead. You can't deny though, the game has lost a LOT of players and its luster, to be fair: due to a majority of reasons which are unrelated to some of the issues here too.

@Tiviana.2650 said:If you want to step up and join a guild and take it up a level you can. Thats why its still popular, dont you get it? The old days are gone, and games that adhere to forcing people to always have to join a community to get anywhere are dying. Society has changed, evolve or get left behind. Ofc people here are going to say , then why play a mmorpg if you want to play solo?

It doesn't have to be a life. But you also do not have to get all and every reward with minimal commitment.

@Tiviana.2650 said:Vanilla WoW sucked it was a slog grindfest, nothing was balanced and doing anything took forever. I remember grinding reps that took months on end. Its all rose colored glasses and nostalgia that make you say it was the best. It was terrible.

Vanilla WoW was the most casual MMO of its time. Yes, it was grindy compared to todays standards, that's not the issue at heart though. The issue is: building a group and overcoming group content actually had an impact on a players experience.

Case in point:
  • remember one, any will do, significant moment which you experienced while running LFR or LFG. Besides maybe seeing content for the first time.
  • now remember any significant moment which you experienced while making your own group or overcoming some other type of challenge

I guarantee you, those experiences will be vastly different.

This is the delusion, in what world are you getting everything for nothing? That does not happen and never did. Listen just because you get some low ilvl purples dont mean you are getting the best. Man thats delusional, you work for it if you want the best gear and weapons, you work your butt off, time and skill. Those cheap epics are only there like exotics in this game to get you started. Oh hey ho about the gearing here man its sure rains loot easy..see how that goes? You can say the same here

LFR literally has a buff which stacks up preventing successive failure. That is beside the removed mechanics, reduced damage.

When participation is all that is required for reward, and success is guaranteed, then my statement is not a delusion.

When was the last time you played wow? Go run some of the LFR raids yeah you get a buff, and because some of those mechanics are still active and will wipe a group, you will still wipe 20 times or more on those bosses. KilJaden, Argus, sisters, Coven, Avatar, Zul , Ghuun those are pug breakers even with buff stacks . If you dont do the mechanics your dead no matter how many stacks of determination you have.

Last time I played WoW was with Legion, played for 6 weeks and cleared up to Mythic+12 while pro groups were doing +16.

Yes, because the effort people invest in LFR is not more than pressing auto attack 1. I was doing top dps in LFR by not even using more than 3 skills occasionally.

Yes, some mechanics might wipe a group initially (and no, a vast majority are removed which you would know if you explored normal, heroic or mythic raids) because the average player skill and effort invested is -100. That's why you get the buff, because people are so afk that even vastly reduced damage on mechanics wipes groups. People go into LFR to afk loot farm and hope for titen procs. That's what the game has devolved to: hoping the most afk brainless content luck procs so you can upgrade a gear item.

Excuse me but if you wanted to run pro content then nothing stopped you. Join a team that knocks out mythic +20. What john doe is doing in LFR has no bearing on you since you dont do that content. Let other people worry about how they play and you worry about how you play. Mythic raiders the top level of pve content, not mythic dungeons, but raiders dont give a hoot about what players are doing in LFR, it dont have anything to do with them. Thats what i love about wow, you can play however you want. If you have the skills to raid mythic then hey there is a whole world for you to join. If you want to peddle around doing nothing but LFR and dungeons theres that too. Wow is not exclusionary , you can play however you want. And thats how it should be, everyone should be able to play the game in whatever content they feel they are capable of.

Exactly, we have the absolutely same system here:If you want to hang out and relax, you do easier content like open world, story, low level fractals, etc.

If you want more difficult content, you move up the ladder.

What you are asking for is mythic level rewards for easy content. Or developer time to introduce easy modes (let's not worry about the loot they reward for now) at the cost of other content.

Thats patently false , i never once said anything about top gear for doing less difficult content. Never, if i wanted something i worked for it, if that meant raiding 4 nights a week 4 hours a night then so be it. You seem to equate lfr gear with hard content raid gear...as i said its like exotics are here.

Fair enough, then you now need to justify the developer resources spent on creating a LFR system, that's without discussing the negative impacts on community I described.

But see thats it i dont think LFR is a bad thing. It got millions of players that would otherwise never step foot in a raid instance to do so. The social part of the game is on the individual. I was with my guild for years LFR had no impact on that. This is players blaming something inanimate for the lack of community, community starts with the person, if people dont want to be social you cant force them. But the bright side is there are a lot of social people still playing, if you want to join them you can.

To lazy to look it up, there is literally a Blizzard developer post talking about how they regret implementing LFR on exactly these notes.

I believe this is what you are talking about, it wasnt so much about community he meant the hard challenge of talking down a boss and the epic feeling you had after. And yes LFR had its problems but on the whole it was good because it did get more people to try out raids and led to some of them going forward into harder content with guilds.

https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/52fxo1/ama_league_design_lead_greg_ghostcrawler_street/d7jwm98/

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@Tiviana.2650 said:People want games to be fun and casual now..look at GW2! Its super casual all you got is the whole community thing, outside of that there isnt much going on once you did the stories. Well thats fine for socializing but in this day and age a good majority of people just want to dip in for a short time and then log out and do other things. They want to be able to get stuff done in a reasonable amount of time and get on with it. Not sit at a pc for hours on end.

As for calling out wow for being casual..pot meet kettle imo.

I think this actually something far greater then GW2. Look at MMOs now a days now compare that to MMOs 15 to 18 years ago. I played Everquest back in beta and the quality of life in that game was borderline abusive. Exp loss on death, no real solo play, travelling from point A to point B taking huge amounts of time. Then there was the leveling aspect, which took forever. Everquest didn’t give a kitten about your time. MMOs have been evolving from that point and are continuing to evolve. I think people are realizing that they spend 12+ hours on an MMO with no real return on their investment. I would literally spend hours spamming map chat for a group just to try to level a character and have nothing to show for it. WoW evolved from that genre and continues to evolve. Gw2 is also part of this same evolution. MMOs are changing, which might be upsetting to those used to the old days.

It's not upsetting, it's literally seeing people demand mechanics which have proven hurtful to social and community development (similar to mega servers to a certain extent) because they want instant access, instant gratification and instant rewards.

WoW over did this, the game literally imploded on over casualizing it's reward structure. WoW evolved its self out of a player base.

There is a fine line between ease of use, and minim self effort. The question one needs to ask ones self is this: how much is healthy for a supposedly massive multiple game, and how much is going to far.

LOL no wow lost some thats true, but they lost it because no one wanted to work on long rep grinds to unlock content in BfA. They lost it because people got salty over warmode and the faction zone battles, they got salty that their waifu sylvannas was a psychopath and blizzard finally showed that, they got mad their faction got whooped and a city burned to the ground, they got mad that they had to get out and play the game in the zones to move forward. BfA is harder than GW2, and yet wow still has a healthy population of players, i talk to my wow guildmates about once or twice a week, dont worry wow isnt dying.

No. They didn't lose players over grind. They lost the majority because they cut the casual content like professions (still existing but completely useless outside of Alchemy, Herbalism, Fishing and Cooking; the professions needed for instanced content) out of the game because everyone now has access to instanced content and the real casual content is no longer needed. They used LFR and LFD to cut professions and open world content as all players have content to play but not necessarily content they enjoy.As Blizzard is starting again to pull scummy moves like that 6 months subscription for a mount while they know the content will be more than lackluster during that period shows that the population is rapidly declining. Also complains about empty servers are running rampart since years.

@Tiviana.2650 said:I believe this is what you are talking about, it wasnt so much about community he meant the hard challenge of talking down a boss and the epic feeling you had after. And yes LFR had its problems but on the whole it was good because it did get more people to try out raids and led to some of them going forward into harder content with guilds.

https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/52fxo1/ama_league_design_lead_greg_ghostcrawler_street/d7jwm98/

LFR has the same problems it had since its introduction. They changed nothing outside of making it even easier than it used to be.The very vast majority plays nothing except LFR. The percentage of players moving up is negligible. All of you sound that there is a relevant portion that moves up while it is way below 10%.Most players there aren't trying raids. They try to get loot with the least amount of effort possible.The only argument that is somewhat relevant is that LFR allows all players to see the environments and boss models (not fights, they are vastly different even in normal).

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@Tiviana.2650 said:I will say this LFR saved wow.You can be wrong. I'm okay with that.

I played WoW from Vanilla to Cataclsym. I'd occasionally dip my toes in the water back during Draenor and Legion but I left in a quick hurry each time because of how much of a hollow empty shadow the game is compared to what it used to be. Back when the push for Legacy servers were a thing and Nostalrius being shut down was making news I went back and played a classic WoW private server and played that for a while but the constant latency and anxiety of the server being shut down the way Nostalrius prevented me from committing to it as much as I would have liked.

The thing that people miss about what's bad about stuff like the breakneck speed of WoW's current leveling, as well as how braindead easy it is, alongside both effortlessly easy dungeons as well as autogroups is that is absolutely throttles the social aspects of the game. While a lot of stuff about Vanilla WoW are frustrating like stuff like Zefra Hooves having an abysmally low drop rate, is that the questing and dungeon experience is amazing for actually meeting people and making friends and snowballing into communities.

You start out with your easily soloable quests like kill quests on non elite mobs. But when you see competition for kills you can turn that competition into cooperation and invite them to join your party. And you taking that step to send them an invite is huge. Soon you find yourself doing quests in areas with Elites that can't be solo'd and now you need to get a party. And you have to make the effort to communicate with other people, say "Hey. Do you want to do this thing?" And then you go into dungeons. And dungeons aren't easy. You need crowd control as well as a viable group composition. And those aren't handed to you. And if you wipe you can completely lose your opportunity to get loot.

But when you do find a good party, players you want to play with more, you add them to your friendslist so you can group up with them quicker when you two want to do another dungeon. And since 1. dungeons are slower with bits of downtime to eat and drink 2. you had to actually speak with them to get that group, chances are good you had a nice chat while you were partying. Soon you're forming a guild. You're building a community. You're hitting level 60 and going into dungeons. Then into raid.

WoW had 12 Million players before Looking for Raid was added. It didn't need saving and it's only gone downhill since. Classic WoW being officially released has had more excitment and buzz about it since Battle For Azeroth dropped. Guild Wars 2 similarly struggles with the same problem that Retail WoW has of actively discouraging and disincentivizing socially grouping with other players. Raids are the only content that actually creates communities revolved around them.

Looking for raid and now group finder have a tremendous following in wow, because there are a lot of people that want to play it their way. Not play on a raid scheduled, or some dont want to be in a raid guild. LFR and GF open up the possibilities for them to play on their own time.

Yeah, the same way players get upset about things like whenever flying mounts are locked in new areas so they can't just effortlessly skip over everything. Or when their waterstriders get temporarily disabled. Games are exercises in adversity. And there's a point where you've made the game so convenient it's not a game anymore. Look at what happened with garrisons in Draenor. Warlord's of Draenor was so immensely convenient you could just sit in your base and just watch as raid quality look was mailed to you for no effort. The game was so convenient no one ever wanted to leave their garrisons anymore, which mean less and less people were playing together. Which mean communities were collapsing and no new communities were forming in their place. And when players don't have community they don't have anything keeping them in the game anymore and they leave for the next big thing. It was so dire Blizzard brought Illidan back to life and gave all the paladins in the game Ashbringer as an emegency situation.

And if you are a hard core raider it dont effect you one bit if people play LFR.

The endless drama and headache of WoW fussing around with end game's difficulty is literally why I quit that game. Blizzard adding 10 mans that are supposed to be easier than 25 man but frequently were way harder like 10 man Sartharion 3. Then they added 10 man heroic and 25 man heroic and none of them were ever properly balanced because QA testing all those various game modes is impossible to do properly and frequently something would be bugged or poorly tuned in 10 man and 25 man and because of the immense workloaded of having all those difficulty modes meant things would be unfixed for months and months on end. And then you had all the people playing 10 man angry that their loot wasn't as good as the 10man heroic, 25 man and 25 heroic gear.

WoW was healthier and a more enjoyable experience during Vanilla and Burning Crusade compared to when they started shoving a billion difficulty modes into their end game content and made grouping instant. There's a reason why Classic WoW is getting more attention and hype than Battle for Azeroth received.

You also friend. WoW isnt dead far from it, it still has more players than GW2, and there are communities, just in wow you arent forced to join them to get anywhere. Ifyou want to be a solo player in that game you can. If you want to step up and join a guild and take it up a level you can. Thats why its still popular, dont you get it?The old days are gone, and games that adhere to forcing people to always have to join a community to get anywhere are dying. Society has changed, evolve or get left behind. Ofc people here are going to say , then why play a mmorpg if you want to play solo? Maybe because its a game, not a life, and maybe they love running around doing their own thing and not interacting with people all the time. There are hundreds of thousands of solo players in wow, and there are even more that guild and socialize. And neither really stops the other thats the beauty of it. Too bad the old guard is always trying to take us back to the good ole bad days.

Vanilla WoW sucked it was a slog grindfest, nothing was balanced and doing anything took forever. I remember grinding reps that took months on end. Its all rose colored glasses and nostalgia that make you say it was the best. It was terrible.Which is why when Nostalrius was shutdown it's montly active playerbase made up 1/2 the total sales count of the Warlords of Draenor expansion. Not even counting other authentic Vanilla WoW servers.

I played retail WoW alongside going back and replaying Vanilla WoW. Retail WoW completely fucking sucks. It's an empty, hollow, soulless version and that's why Classic WoW's upcoming release has more positive buzz about it than Battle for Azeroth ever did. Because leveling, questing, dungeons, and raiding actually meant something and were rewarding for that. What I consider a slog is boring, flavorless series of objectives that are completely effortless and impossible to fail and where you're automatically rewarded, where you're given NPC's that will charge in an do the quest for you while you can just stand there.

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@mortrialus.3062 said:WoW was healthier and a more enjoyable experience during Vanilla and Burning Crusade compared to when they started shoving a billion difficulty modes into their end game content and made grouping instant. There's a reason why Classic WoW is getting more attention and hype than Battle for Azeroth received.

This.

I really don't feel like explaining this and it's fine if people enjoyed WoW past WotLK. I have friends who do and did (well did mostly since by now, WoW has finally imploded on it's approach).

There was a time in WoW where the MMO was a game, and not simply a loot generator which replaced all content with the next fix for gear and items. All people do today and every since mid WotLK in WoW is grind gear. Grind mounts. Grind reputation. Grind dailies. All with only 1 goal: better gear and loot.

LFR was not the only change made which lay at the end of this. Blizzard realized early on during BC that providing players with new gear, was way easier then with actual content. Content simply became a means to deliver gear a d the less barriers were in place, the better people could grind up gear. Over and over, creating an illusion of progress or character development.

LFR in WoW was one of the most damaging and community destroying additions in the history of MMOs.

Edit: and to people who believe the LFR saved WoW. The numbers do not add up. Wow had years of growth even before any type of LFR or LFG was added.

That had nothing to do with wows decline in subs. LFR is very popular just go try to say something about it and watch the posters shut you down back when they had downvotes. They would bury you in downvotes for wanting LFR removed. And if it wasnt popular blizzard would have removed it. They arent going to waste time on something that no one is doing. Its been in the game since wrath and that was 6 expansions ago.

LFR is very popular the way flying mounts are very popular. Yeah people like effortlessly flying through the terrain and never having to deal with other players or fight monsters. But long term a game with no actual gameplay is extremely unhealthy long term. It's not good for the game's world and feel for people to never have to actually look at the world or terrain or do anything. This is why Garrisons were so terrible and you and people like you want to turn the one really cool PvE experience in GW2 into Warlord of Draenor's Garrisons.

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@Tiviana.2650 said:People want games to be fun and casual now..look at GW2! Its super casual all you got is the whole community thing, outside of that there isnt much going on once you did the stories. Well thats fine for socializing but in this day and age a good majority of people just want to dip in for a short time and then log out and do other things. They want to be able to get stuff done in a reasonable amount of time and get on with it. Not sit at a pc for hours on end.

As for calling out wow for being casual..pot meet kettle imo.

I think this actually something far greater then GW2. Look at MMOs now a days now compare that to MMOs 15 to 18 years ago. I played Everquest back in beta and the quality of life in that game was borderline abusive. Exp loss on death, no real solo play, travelling from point A to point B taking huge amounts of time. Then there was the leveling aspect, which took forever. Everquest didn’t give a kitten about your time. MMOs have been evolving from that point and are continuing to evolve. I think people are realizing that they spend 12+ hours on an MMO with no real return on their investment. I would literally spend hours spamming map chat for a group just to try to level a character and have nothing to show for it. WoW evolved from that genre and continues to evolve. Gw2 is also part of this same evolution. MMOs are changing, which might be upsetting to those used to the old days.

It's not upsetting, it's literally seeing people demand mechanics which have proven hurtful to social and community development (similar to mega servers to a certain extent) because they want instant access, instant gratification and instant rewards.

WoW over did this, the game literally imploded on over casualizing it's reward structure. WoW evolved its self out of a player base.

There is a fine line between ease of use, and minim self effort. The question one needs to ask ones self is this: how much is healthy for a supposedly massive multiple game, and how much is going to far.

LOL no wow lost some thats true, but they lost it because no one wanted to work on long rep grinds to unlock content in BfA. They lost it because people got salty over warmode and the faction zone battles, they got salty that their waifu sylvannas was a psychopath and blizzard finally showed that, they got mad their faction got whooped and a city burned to the ground, they got mad that they had to get out and play the game in the zones to move forward. BfA is harder than GW2, and yet wow still has a healthy population of players, i talk to my wow guildmates about once or twice a week, dont worry wow isnt dying.

No. They didn't lose players over grind. They lost the majority because they cut the casual content like professions (still existing but completely useless outside of Alchemy, Herbalism, Fishing and Cooking; the professions needed for instanced content) out of the game because everyone now has access to instanced content and the real casual content is no longer needed. They used LFR and LFD to cut professions and open world content as all players have content to play but not necessarily content they enjoy.As Blizzard is starting again to pull scummy moves like that 6 months subscription for a mount while they know the content will be more than lackluster during that period shows that the population is rapidly declining. Also complains about empty servers are running rampart since years.

@Tiviana.2650 said:I believe this is what you are talking about, it wasnt so much about community he meant the hard challenge of talking down a boss and the epic feeling you had after. And yes LFR had its problems but on the whole it was good because it did get more people to try out raids and led to some of them going forward into harder content with guilds.

LFR has the same problems it had since its introduction. They changed nothing outside of making it even easier than it used to be.The very vast majority plays nothing except LFR. The percentage of players moving up is negligible. All of you sound that there is a relevant portion that moves up while it is way below 10%.Most players there aren't trying raids. They try to get loot with the least amount of effort possible.The only argument that is somewhat relevant is that LFR allows all players to see the environments and boss models (not fights, they are vastly different even in normal).

Im just going to say , pot meet kettle. GW2 is no different, its possibly the easiest game to get gear and rewards from for doing next to nothing. You want to know why wow lost players, some of it is vanilla boys wanting their grind back, but a big majority is because of the loss of feeling progressed. Yeah people that played wow for a long time including myself hated that they made everything we worked for null. When they started that level scaling a few years back people were mixed on it. Then they made it in more and more zones, then they did the unthinkable and not only scaled mobs to your level in the zones but scaled them to your ilvl, your gear level. People threw a fit saying it took away everything we worked for to become powerful. And it did, after a decade of being able to trounce low level mobs and instances when you hit level cap, they chucked it out the window and made everything scale up to us. There are other issues such as flying and mixed views on whether or not we should have to grind long reputations. But the reason i left was because of the loss of character scale in the game world.

Here i was in top gear and weapons at the top of my game, but could i flex that power like we used to in lower level areas? Nope everything scaled up, and we hated it. You could actually run through the zones in starter gear and do better at one point because of the item level scaling. At the end of the day though i love the overall game, and if they ever fix it ill go back.

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@"Cyninja.2954" said:Case in point:

  • remember one, any will do, significant moment which you experienced while running LFR or LFG. Besides maybe seeing content for the first time.
  • now remember any significant moment which you experienced while making your own group or overcoming some other type of challenge

I guarantee you, those experiences will be vastly different.Fun fact (not really all that funny, actually). The "significant moments" i can remember from those old time raiding? They are almost uniformly bad memories. Things i'd rather not remember. In fact, it's due to those memories why i was so dead set against raids in GW2.Yes, i'm sure i had a lot of good moments as well (or i would have quit raiding much sooner). The truth is, though, i don't really remember those all that well. The bad things eventually overwhelmed the good ones.

So don't blame me for thinking your argument is not as good as you think it is.

@"Cyninja.2954" said:To lazy to look it up, there is literally a Blizzard developer post talking about how they regret implementing LFR on exactly these notes.

EDIT: strike that, google helped: https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/52fxo1/ama_league_design_lead_greg_ghostcrawler_street/d7jwm98/

I have a lot of regrets about Raid Finder for WoW. I am sure I worked on features that were much, much worse, but that's the first one that came to mind.To be clear, the goal of getting more players into raiding is a good one. But the way Raid Finder turned out removed, IMO anyway, a lot of the epicness of what made raiding raiding. I also haven't played WoW in a few years, so it's entirely possible they have solved the problem by now.
  • Ghostcrawler, lead systems designer on World of Warcraft for nearly six yearsNotice, that he wasn't really speaking here against LFR idea. Only against that specific implementation. Notice, that his argument against it is highly subjective and emotional, not rational. He never actually said it was bad for the game - he just didn't like it. Notice also, that when he said that, he wasn't a WoW dev anymore (and that Blizzard apparently disagreed with him, because LFR remained).

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