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Originally Posted by Zuuljin No, the casual gamer wants hardcore gear for the same time invested as a raider puts in. Raids arnt "harder", they just require a greater time commitment |
Ugh.
When will people learn that the difficulty in raids isn't about what buttons you push in-game ("Sundering a lvl 50 mob is the same difficulty as sundering a lvl 64 elite mob, I just hit my hotkey!!!!111one11") so much as it is all the background work associated with getting 40 people to all push those buttons at once?
Not to mention organization, recruiting, message boards, scheduling, consumables, guild banks, server politics, the inherent drama of putting 40 different people in the same room, determination, keying, the list goes on and on.
It's not the difficulty of the task, it's the enormity of it. As an offtank for Vael, if you aren't paying %100 full attention when the MT finally dies, you may have just cost 39 other people a few gold in repairs. (Learned the hard way one night when the "You really
are a funny guy!" part of Goodfellahs was on tv during Vael, weee).
Also, I propose that there isn't a properly tuned 5-man boss that you could possibly come up with that will keep those 5 people stuck on him for weeks at a time without adding so much twitch that the game ceases to be an RPG and becomes an FPS. But that's just a hunch of mine.
Also, in my humble opinion, by having casual "5-man" ubers, the game ceases to be an MMO. I think it is very obvious that there are quite a number of people that rather enjoy the "MMO" part of MMORPG. Where else to "raiders" get to go? If you want to be the coolest paladin possible in your game using only 5 people, there are always NWN servers.
And if you play a million hours a week just not during raid times, join a fucking Euro guild ffs.