Guild Wars 2

Rednik.3809:

Lord Darghaz.2314:

Because players performed better in “old days” and “new age” people cant play video games in its intended difficulty?

Because after that developers realized that “3% who ever seen Naxxramas” is not worth development resources, and single difficulty model was dropped.

Oh sry, i didnt notice you were talking about WoW.
Let me give you a hint: requesting Naxxramas training mode will be more successful in WoW forum.
Sorry, was my fallacy to think this topic is about GW2 raids.

Rednik.3809:

Lord Darghaz.2314:

Raids are meant to be challanging. But there is no exclusion. If you dont want to raid in its current form, its not the content to blame.

Players with enough interest will always find a way to complete normal mode.

Yeah, this is pretty good motto for raids in 2005. Even for 2008 ones. Too bad that now is 2016.

Because players performed better in “old days” and “new age” people cant play video games in its intended difficulty?
I guess not.

maddoctor.2738:

An “easier” Raid WOULD NEVER be used for training.

this.

Even if it would be used for training, players would have to try it multiple times weekly in order to make it worth the development time.
Players would be like “bad reward, already completed it once or twice, no need to do it more often”

The funny thing is:
Making training mode worth its costs would most likely require more training time then completing normal mode

Raids are meant to be challanging. But there is no exclusion. If you dont want to raid in its current form, its not the content to blame.

Players with enough interest will always find a way to complete normal mode.

GW2 is WoW clone now
All raiders are toxic
And loot > challange
:P

Torolan.5816:

Yes, it seems fair from a pure numbers point. But how does that help me? It´s like the visit of the weird uncle at the holidays for me with raids, you just hope that he goes away soon or at least talks to some relatives he knows better than you. I mean good for you, but you basically build a roadblock into my favorite game, and I can´t lie good enough to tell people that this does not irk me.

And again, I believe Mr Stein that raids do not steal developing time from other stuff, but it is stealing lore away from me. And it also outright bans me from ever obtaining legendary armor, but that is another story. And I really hope Mr. Stein is going to properly adress at least the lore issue.

I am sure you can find some friendly people in order to experience the whole raid.

Until then, if you need a group, you can contact me ingame and i will try to organize a run for you soon.

Rednik.3809:

I’m playing this game more than majority of raiders. I don’t want to play raids because I had more than enough of them in WoW and this game promised to be not wow-like.
So what exactly wrong with asking for not wow-like endgame and wow-like endgame rewards model? Like, you know, fractals, pvp, wvw, all that stuff that was working as endgame pretty great for everyone, before anet decided to drop everything and pump out content and shinies for raids only?

I wonder why people cant stop calling games with raids “WoW clone” or “WoW-like”
GW2 is now WoW-like because WoW introduced raids earlier?
ok…
As far as i know, fishes were one of the first living things that had eyes.
Lets assume you have eyes, too.
Congratulations, i guess you are fish-like now

I am sure you got the idea.

GW2 is far away from being WoW-like.
And tbh i think you just want to provoke with this “wow-like” thing.

Great praise for the story and the boss mechanics.

On topic: A story mode with gold-reward only would be fair imo.
I would not even mind if legendary armor was available outside the raids.
But please guys, read the following points:

1) “amount of raiders is 5%.” Even if this is the truth…it is completeley meaningless.
The only relevant number is the amount of players playing raids multiplied with the amount of money they do spend. As long as you dont know both numbers (which you can not know for sure), 5% is just a meaningless number! It is waste of time to speculate about it.

2) Raid-team size: there are ongoing discussions about it in numerous threads. I will try to sum it up:
Player A: “Raid team steals our content!”
Player B: “No it doesnt!”
Player A: “Yes it does!”
Player C: “No it doesnt!”
Player D: “Of course it does!”
Player B: “No it doesnt!”
…
Well, i am sure this will lead to success.

3) “everything has to be available for me!”
First of all, there is no gate when it comes to raids. If you dont raid, you are excluding youself.
Btw, there is a lot of content that “excludes” me (as a raider)!
Like living story season 2. I almost fall asleep when i try to do those achievements (i still did not a single one)!
Same thing regarding to collections. Out of all collections, i completed 3 (three!) of them.
I have to accept that i will never get those rewards (and this is a large part of the game).
Why cant you accept that you wont get raid rewards if you dont play them????
(As a reminder: I dont mind if legendary armor will be available on a different way)

Please, think about it.

Imo raids are the best content so far.
And to all moaners…could you please explain how spreading conspiracy theories about the raid team size will make GW2 better?