SoF = "Stupidly Obligatory Fight"
Yeah, I said it.
I have a personal bias against using Raid-difficulty content in a game's STORY mode, though. If everyone who wants to see the Heavensward content they are paying for has to go through this obligatory beast of an instance just to GO to Ishgard, expect to see a lot of pissed-off casual gamers who just want to see some new territory and cool story without having to master something harder than many parts of Coil seem to be.
Referring to previous experiences, a decision like this dealt a massive blow to LOTRO when it put a very potent gate on the Main Story content, which, at one point, could not be completed without gear from raid-difficulty dungeons that permitted access to later parts of the story - gear that only dropped one piece for every run of 8 people. I understand they fixed this now, but that's the point: they had to fix it, and didn't before a lot of people got pissed off enough to actively hate an expansion that should have pumped massive life into the game.
So, yeah go ahead and tell me to stop complaining, SOF isn't THAT hard if you cooperate, that I did finally get past it, yadda yadda. Most of us reading these forums know people and have friends that helped us beat it. I am not against difficult content, but using it to gate a game's Main Story is a poor decision, especially if we do indeed have to slog through the WHOLE MSQ to get characters to the new content when the expansion is unleashed.
And yeah, I know, we had to do this before with all the primal quests, yes yes. I thought that was dumb, too. Eventually, this will all blow over. But the expansion is going to pull a lot of people with maxed-out characters back into the game, and there will be a hellish amount of anger at SoF, which is designed specifically to make your hard-won gear useless and will demand cooperation of hundreds of people who haven't played in months, and who will be blindsided by this instance. Controllers WILL be thrown. At least give people their griffins and Au Ra and access to Ishgard without having to do this mess, please, SE, for the sake of your bottom line?
I played another game that told its player base, at 50, "LOL Shutup and get good, noob." That game was Wildstar. Hey, Carbine, how's that working' out for ya... where did my RP server go, hm?
It's the vent thread, and I'm venting. Nyah.
Yeah, I said it.
I have a personal bias against using Raid-difficulty content in a game's STORY mode, though. If everyone who wants to see the Heavensward content they are paying for has to go through this obligatory beast of an instance just to GO to Ishgard, expect to see a lot of pissed-off casual gamers who just want to see some new territory and cool story without having to master something harder than many parts of Coil seem to be.
Referring to previous experiences, a decision like this dealt a massive blow to LOTRO when it put a very potent gate on the Main Story content, which, at one point, could not be completed without gear from raid-difficulty dungeons that permitted access to later parts of the story - gear that only dropped one piece for every run of 8 people. I understand they fixed this now, but that's the point: they had to fix it, and didn't before a lot of people got pissed off enough to actively hate an expansion that should have pumped massive life into the game.
So, yeah go ahead and tell me to stop complaining, SOF isn't THAT hard if you cooperate, that I did finally get past it, yadda yadda. Most of us reading these forums know people and have friends that helped us beat it. I am not against difficult content, but using it to gate a game's Main Story is a poor decision, especially if we do indeed have to slog through the WHOLE MSQ to get characters to the new content when the expansion is unleashed.
And yeah, I know, we had to do this before with all the primal quests, yes yes. I thought that was dumb, too. Eventually, this will all blow over. But the expansion is going to pull a lot of people with maxed-out characters back into the game, and there will be a hellish amount of anger at SoF, which is designed specifically to make your hard-won gear useless and will demand cooperation of hundreds of people who haven't played in months, and who will be blindsided by this instance. Controllers WILL be thrown. At least give people their griffins and Au Ra and access to Ishgard without having to do this mess, please, SE, for the sake of your bottom line?
I played another game that told its player base, at 50, "LOL Shutup and get good, noob." That game was Wildstar. Hey, Carbine, how's that working' out for ya... where did my RP server go, hm?
It's the vent thread, and I'm venting. Nyah.
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