Protip for Kittenstorm Avoidance
^ This is exactly the case.
toxic since 2012
To be honest, there is really nothing Anet can do to avoid kittenstorms.
The Moment they say something they need to be really careful otherwise People will twist their Words ( even if they are Careful ) just to kitten on Anet and normal People who are disappointed with something will join these kittenstorms ( because they are dragged into it, getting false Information or want to make fair Critisism at first but write themself into some sort of Rage because everyone else is doing it ).
If they say nothing, well it also gets ugly with the Community.
I have seen enough kittenstorms on the Forum here ( started by so many Reasons that I can’t say which Topic didn’t devolve into one at the last 3 Years ) to say: Nope they can’t avoid them. They can reduce them but not avoid such Storms.
I hope we will see less kittenstorms in the Future but I can say that next Week Friday, there will be a kittenstorm going on.
If you’re going to announce a reward nerf, include the details of the new rewards. Your playerbase is prone to overreaction, and when you say “lower rewards”, we will hear “NO MORE REWARDS EVER!”
What are the new rewards going to be? Is it a trivial reduction? Reduction by half? Or worse, something like 1 uninfused ascended shaman’s ring per run?
It’s like you’re trying to tease it, lol. You can’t hype bad news…you know? Just give the details instead of a tease.
actually its pretty clear it will be signifigant.
i woulldnt mind more info, but he was pretty clear.
the goal is to stop giving people reason to do dungeons on a regular basis
“Dungeons will still drop things as well as they will still have some gold, they will just have much less gold.”
much less. not adjusted, or less competitive,
My guess is no daily gold bonus.
probably back to the 28 silver per run thing?
regardless, the point is, we wont pay you to do this anymore. Because we dont really want to encourage people to do this content.
If you’re going to announce a reward nerf, include the details of the new rewards. Your playerbase is prone to overreaction, and when you say “lower rewards”, we will hear “NO MORE REWARDS EVER!”
What are the new rewards going to be? Is it a trivial reduction? Reduction by half? Or worse, something like 1 uninfused ascended shaman’s ring per run?
It’s like you’re trying to tease it, lol. You can’t hype bad news…you know? Just give the details instead of a tease.
Another tip : Prepare the ground !!!
For dungeons, the last time there was an interaction with dev’s there was a sentence like “Come on guys, if we would discontinue dungeon development you’d be the first to know”… and some months after we learn they want to deincentivize the players to play dungeons. This could have been slowly prepared so that the idea was more than a player tinfoil hat theory.
On the other hand, there was a reddit post once were they showed some in game discussion with another dev saying that SW chest farm is a bit too generous and that they may consider touching it with HoT…..in the blogpost of yesterday there was no mention of it.
Let the idea of future “nerfs” float around before officially doing it to prepare the minds and get some feedback before the final decision is made so that player slowly adapt to the idea. And please don’t say you want to support something fully if you know you want to abandon it on the long term.
They probably don’t know. Anet never has a plan before announcing.
Better idea: don’t nerf rewards on old content to strongarm the playerbase into doing new content you already know (or at least suspect) they wouldn’t do otherwise.