Guild Wars 2

Arewn.2368:

Beldin.5498:

Haha .. so classic. Not much more to say.

Yes, ‘classic’ carrot-on-stick tactics are a primary means of getting people into content in MMOs.
If you’re invoking the word “classic” to imply anything else, you’re off-base.
Rewards are obviously a prime motivator to get people into content, but that is in no way mutually exclusive to a desire for challenging content.

The classic means just that first some people say : Nooo i don’t want rewards
the challenge is all i really want.
But as soon as they get challenge without rewards everybody says : i don’t
care for the challenge .. all i want is the reward.

So in the end the whole challenge thing for most people is only that they want
rewards that others are not able to get.

And for raids :
http://www.engadget.com/2014/11/24/the-soapbox-six-reasons-mmos-should-abandon-raiding-part-1/

Beldin.5498:

Arewn.2368:

Beldin.5498:

Haha .. so classic. Not much more to say.

Yes, ‘classic’ carrot-on-stick tactics are a primary means of getting people into content in MMOs.
If you’re invoking the word “classic” to imply anything else, you’re off-base.
Rewards are obviously a prime motivator to get people into content, but that is in no way mutually exclusive to a desire for challenging content.

The classic means just that first some people say : Nooo i don’t want rewards
the challenge is all i really want.
But as soon as they get challenge without rewards everybody says : i don’t
care for the challenge .. all i want is the reward.

So in the end the whole challenge thing for most people is only that they want
rewards that others are not able to get.

And for raids :
http://www.engadget.com/2014/11/24/the-soapbox-six-reasons-mmos-should-abandon-raiding-part-1/

Perhaps true if by, “some people,” and, “everybody,” you actually mean, “no one,” or, “almost no one.”

TexZero.7910:

You mean chest that pretty much always contain 2 blues and a green…..

and have as good a chance at those unique skins as getting a precursor to drop. Sure.

He actually means chests that drops one green and a shattered lockpick. And unique rewards that drops once in a solar eclipse.

No, it wont be raid. There is one simple rule: you dont compete with WoW.

I bought the expansion at a full game’s price – yeah a i got an extra character slot i wont use, thanks very much, worth it… I hope i didnt buy a cheaper version of WoW. Raids by Arenanet would just remind me of how Blizzard is a 100x better at making actual hardcore instanced group content.

It wont be raids.