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Then there’s the fact that the PvE ones kind of make you feel like you’re a dog doing tricks for a treat.
I think if they had actually gone farther and made the dailies actually difficult, it might have gone down better.
As someone that doesn’t like the new dailies, I 100% agree with this.
I also really liked the ideas you had for the daily challenges. I think if Anet adopted that approach to the dailies, that it would instantly make them more appealing. As it stands, telling me I have to go to Kryta to mine some minerals? F off. Even if that isn’t so difficult to do, it’s just annoying. The game is playing me, not the other way around.
At first, I was surprised there were so many people that actually preferred the new dailies. The rewards I get: the new rewards system is more enticing for many people. No one is complaining about that. But the actual mechanics of the new dailies? People really prefer having obnoxiously specific tasks?
…but then I noticed that a significant portion of the posts in the thread in support of the new changes are largely the same people posting over and over again telling everyone that they’re playing the game wrong.
Also, I just logged into my lower level characters today, and did not receive the login reward on any of them. It was only after I logged into my 80 that the chest showed up. Is that a bug? Or does the login reward only appear for level 80 characters?
If it’s the latter, that’s yet another unfortunate aspect to the new daily system.
The dailies were never particularly challenging. They were always trivial, and far more grindy than they are now. If anything, they just took the grind out of it.
The new daily activities in practice might be less of a grind than the old activities, but the appeal of the old dailies was that one could complete them without having to go out of one’s way. Whereas to complete to the new activities, it requires one to consciously seek them out. To me that feels like more of a grind, even if the activities themselves are less so.
If a daily task is to get 25 kills, I’m going to do that by either: participating in an event, completing personal story quests, doing a dungeon, exploring the world, WvW, heart quests, etc. But I’m doing all of that stuff anyway! So even though grinding out 25 kills for the sake of in and of itself would be and is a grind, the task does not exist in a vacuum, and therefor the old system felt very organic and served as just an extra reward for doing the tasks that one likes to do in any given period of game time.
The new system takes that away and forces that attention be paid to it. “So ignore it and don’t worry about dailies” one might say, but as others have pointed out: certain areas and activities become saturated with players, potentially bogging down and stagnating the play experience. This then forces me as a player to acknowledge the existence and shadow of the dailies even though I’d rather just be playing the game on my own terms. Is it the worst thing ever? No. And I understand why some people like it, but count me as one that was disappointed to log in and see such inconvenient choices for the daily activity.
Whether the tasks are easy or not is irrelevant to me. The fact that I have to spend extra time doing them (however slight that time may be) makes the game feel like much more of a grind than before. I personally will be ignoring the dailies however I can from now on, hence the new dailies are failing to do what Anet hoped to accomplish with the change for at least anyone that shares my mindset.