I’ve wondered this for years.
I won’t stop because I can’t stop.
It’s a medical condition, they say its terminal….
even better if we could “hot join” to play as 2 made-parties against each other..
Well, I’m not entirely certain, but this would actually allow people to manipulate the outcome of the fight, no? (achievement grinders, …)
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I think it’s mostly to prevent manipulation. I don’t want to be placed in a round of Crab Toss where a group of friends have agreed to let one person win while everyone else protects them, for instance.
It can be frustrating, though, especially for less competitive activities like the Halloween and Winter jumping puzzles.
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I think it’s mostly to prevent manipulation. I don’t want to be placed in a round of Crab Toss where a group of friends have agreed to let one person win while everyone else protects them, for instance.
It can be frustrating, though, especially for less competitive activities like the Halloween and Winter jumping puzzles.
This is precisely why they have done it this way.
An easy solution would be for “pre-made” groups to not be eligible to get credit towards achievements. You basically choose an “unrated” activity game. No achievement credit, but you can join as a team.
For example I’ve always liked the idea of having a Sanctum Sprint competition as a guild event. Where the whole game is made up of guildies and we give out rewards to the winners. This would be so much fun, and if they made it so you didn’t get achievements, then whatever, it wouldn’t bother me.
I won’t stop because I can’t stop.
It’s a medical condition, they say its terminal….
I honestly don’t see how the achievements thing is even a concern. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to say that many achievements in the game can be done by grinding in a “cheat” way. Heck, look at the top entries in the PvP hotjoin games to see that.
The only thing that would be an issue would be if there were titles, but activities generally don’t give them. At least, not prestigious ones. If it was something like Liadri with a title and mini, then maybe there’d be reason to keep the restriction. But who genuinely begrudges people the AP from Sanctum Sprint enough to want the activities “integrity” protected by preventing people from enjoying it together?
Kegmaster is a highly sought after title. I only know one person who has it, and he got it from farming it back when you could start it whenever in Hoelbrak. Him and a buddy went in for weeks farming the achievements.
If someone wanted Kegmaster nowadays it would take years.
I’m like you. The way I see it, AP hunters are not the majority. In fact, very few people have the patience to do Keg Brawl over and over and over and over with a pre-made group just for a title. I’m sure there are people that would farm it. But really, that amount of people is so minuscule that it shouldn’t even have been in consideration.
I won’t stop because I can’t stop.
It’s a medical condition, they say its terminal….
