I absolutely agree to this… when a game is made to be upscaled, then it should be also made in one and the same way to be also DOWNSCALED if neccessary.
And this neccessity becomes right now then the moment, once a map becomes so underpopulated, that people can’t play successfully the content in them anymore, because the maps are designed with their events and their difficulty with the mindset, that the map is populated and all the time full enough, so that the balance for the enemies with their chanps and legendary foes fits.
But once the atractivity of a map sinks and people move on to newer maps, the older maps need to get ADJUSTED, or better said, the maps need to autpomatically adjust themself accordign to the player population on the map.
Thats wherefore the freakign scaling system is in this game working for and the scaling system should be just a god stupid one way roud, that can only upscale…it should work into BOTH ways.
If Anet wants a new player friendly game, then this is an absolute must to change, because GW2 has to be a game for everybody, not just the full time active veterans, that do never make a longer break from the game and get due to this everythign easily done due to the maps beign overflown consistantly with enough people so that everyone just needs to constantly press 111111 to bet in massive player crods together every champ and legendary in a matter of seconds, while not so active players have the disadvantage to not be able to work on achievements and rewards that the game offers, because of the fact, that the battles become too hard if the maps get too underpopulated, because of the enemies not scaling down according to the significantly reduced amount of players in the map.
Only because an enemy gets in an underpopulated map downscaled, doesn’t mean, that the enemy can’t scale up live again right at the moment, when out of a sudden alot more people join the map.
There is no reason, why some special snowflakes should dictate Anet here not to make their game more long term player friendly, especially for those of us, that make from gw2 a longer break, because right at the moment, when people see when they return to a game after a longer break, that the game design gives them pretty much the middle finger, just only because they haven#t played the game actively like some other people, thats the moment, where you will ose practivally alot of players and that then forever.
Thats something that anets needs to work against by simply scaling more enemies down actively, once they see by their metrics, that maps become more and more desolated by players to the point, that whole enemies or even whole event chains get more or less “ignored” completely, simply because of the lack of players or because of the rewards not being good enough anymore at the current state of the game that anyone is even at all interested anymore in doing that content of the game, that Naet needs either to change somethign on the game, so that the interest in that content arises again by the players and the map gets revitalized, or if they don#t have the intention of improving the rewards for a map/event/content revitalization, that they then instead scale down these parts of the game in regard of enemy difficiulty, so that smaller player groups can do these things as well, when simply already too many people have went over further to other newer maps and just never come back anymore to the older maps, because they have basically done already everythign thats of interest for them there and going back to older maps feels for them like wasting time, cause of beign able to earn much more valuable thigns for them, working on other achievements or gettign simply far much more gold for their time, if they are just now on a newer map, instead of doing X old old map Y.
Anet does way too less for making their game long term attractive in regard of older maps, they work andesign aroudn their game like locusts, always on the fly for the next thing, but never look back on what is behind them and thats a very sad way of designing a game…
good game designers should also always look back constantly, on how they can improve older game content and how they can revive older content, that has already lost the interest of a majority of the player base to brign the people to return to older places and maybe eventually help by their return also indirectly newer players again with working on their stuff they are actually on, that these returning people maybe already have doen months to years before them already, while receiving some newer rewards this way maybe, which newer players won’t receive yet, because they have to work first on their older content’s rewards, even if both kinds of players, the old veterans and newer players may do together the same stuff, the same events together… but that hasn’t to mean, that both players must also always receive the same rewards.
Personally I like the idea behind sub classes ~ quoted from Chris Whiteside
