Flav wrote on Aug 15
th, 2015 at 12:11pm:
They want to kill static loot rewards on 3rd or 20th... They want to kill it HARD. It got rebuked last year by the PC, and let say that some people were grumy at how vehemently it was rebuked. I'm certain they are going to try to sneak it at some point ( they might have done it already ) through the 2015 council because they were really really keen to have that change.
The question is why? Why do they want to remove it?
How do they think it will improve the game?
Are they listening to the 3 or 4 uber-ultra-leet players left in the game who think it is weak sauce to obtain your raid items with less than 500 runs?
What they should be looking at is why players still play old raids for fun, but most recent ones are dead.
Most recent raids are annoying obstacles between the players and desired loot.
As soon as they get that loot or it gets superseded, the raid becomes redundant. Instead of making the raids fun or challenging, they instead make the loot drops more rare so if you have to grind the shit out of it. Again, not fun.
I think they have pushed the hurdle bar so high, that many don't even try.
I know that was my approach to TOEE - loot that I saw little value in combined with absurd grind made me avoid it.
I enjoy HH and rerun it for fun, even though there is nothing I need.
Miior is still a PITA for my Melee, but one day I'll nail her.
What we have is bunch of computer geeks trying to be creative while entrenched in the technical aspects of the game, which is always going to be hard, especially when they have little to no experience with playing the game itself. This comes across as a by-the-numbers job for them.
They actually need to either get someone with some creative flair (eg. we Greenwood for HH) or listen to the player base for ideas. Sure, they can set all the game parameters, but listen to the ideas boyz. Even then, I'm sure they'll frack it up.
My only hope is they move away from the 3 month tick-tock cycle and deliver U28 when it's ready. We all know it has to come out before Xmas though, so we're gonna get bug-ridden half assed shite for Epic Vale.