RANT GET!
You elite raiders complaining about this move can go eat Moogle poms. SOMETHING needed to be done about SoF. Maybe not what they did, but something.
As I said before and will say again, a game needs hard content, but...
You Do Not Gate Your Main Story With Mechanics That A Pug Cannot Handle.
Do. Not. Do. It.
Make raids hard. Make dungeons hard. These reward people with loot. SoF was a kick to the crotch and a badly-timed design choice. People who have gone from the game will be coming back for the expansion, minus a good chunk of change from their wallets, and the first thing they'll hit is SoF... right when they are relearning the game. And wanting to see the new zone they paid for. And wondering how the hell to do this thing... and getting no loot or nothing after it, just a thumbs up from SE to let them get to the new content.
This is a textbook example of gating, and doing it wrong. Wildstar did this. Wildstar suffered deservedly for it. Carbine tried to make a game for Da Leet Folkz, and... smack.
No, I don't wanna hear about your 1337 Skillz. You did it fine? Fine. You've been playing nonstop for months. This isn't your issue. It's the issue for hundreds of people who want to get what they paid for, are returning to the game, and find this monster of an instance gating them.
Don't mess with people who have just put money in your hands when they are still in the "oh, lookie!" phase, and quite willing to take it back.
END RANT.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled Bard.
You elite raiders complaining about this move can go eat Moogle poms. SOMETHING needed to be done about SoF. Maybe not what they did, but something.
As I said before and will say again, a game needs hard content, but...
You Do Not Gate Your Main Story With Mechanics That A Pug Cannot Handle.
Do. Not. Do. It.
Make raids hard. Make dungeons hard. These reward people with loot. SoF was a kick to the crotch and a badly-timed design choice. People who have gone from the game will be coming back for the expansion, minus a good chunk of change from their wallets, and the first thing they'll hit is SoF... right when they are relearning the game. And wanting to see the new zone they paid for. And wondering how the hell to do this thing... and getting no loot or nothing after it, just a thumbs up from SE to let them get to the new content.
This is a textbook example of gating, and doing it wrong. Wildstar did this. Wildstar suffered deservedly for it. Carbine tried to make a game for Da Leet Folkz, and... smack.
No, I don't wanna hear about your 1337 Skillz. You did it fine? Fine. You've been playing nonstop for months. This isn't your issue. It's the issue for hundreds of people who want to get what they paid for, are returning to the game, and find this monster of an instance gating them.
Don't mess with people who have just put money in your hands when they are still in the "oh, lookie!" phase, and quite willing to take it back.
END RANT.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled Bard.
"But in the laugh there was another voice. A clearer laugh, an ironic laugh. A laugh which laughs because it chooses not to weep."
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