As one of [DV]‘s officers and commanders on Gandara I completely support every point given here. However, I’d like to point at one more issue, that apparently hasn’t crossed many people’s minds, and could be a potential future problem, if no change is done to the current situation.
I’d first want to mention how amazing work lies behind these World Bosses, as in my opinion, we’re talking about taking raiding-like content up to 150 people. Something that at first seemed impossible to me, yet you managed it. Not only that it’s working now, but it has been nicely balanced from the very beginning, without any actual nerfs done to it, only polishing.
And secondly, the most important thing is what it has done to community. You gave us a chance to try and succeed at gathering hundreds or people working and having fun together. Without ever excluding people, as I believe was the entire idea behind open-world content. And as you can see, so many communities were born from this, so many people brought together. And that in itself, is amazing.
Now what could happen, could be the result of making this content too restrictive. And at the moment, it does seem too restrictive. Firstly, events basically happening once a day (you can’t expect people to gather around 6am, or lunch time). So we’re pretty much ‘forced’ to summon World Bosses ourselves, and that being the second problem, because of fairly high cost of those consumables. They are something you’ll have to be working towards, a lot, and definitely not something you’ll easily waste.
And this could create a really toxic environment.
Let me explain, we’ve always had many players stuck in an overflow. It happens, and it will always happen. Good thing about is was that we’ve been organizing a lot of runs, so everyone could find fitting time for them, and often have a chance to get into those events. And what we’ve never been doing, is excluding anyone. Which means, quite often, members of our guild (organizing events) have been stuck in overflows as well.
Now this will become a whole different story, when we start summoning World Bosses ourselves. Because those players from our guilds stuck in an overflow, will be people who were helping us with influence, guild mission and therefore merits. They helped that guild to be able to earn those consumables and start events.
Those players then, will have a feeling like they’ve earned their place there, which they did, and having them left out will be much bigger problem.
And if we address this, trying to get all people from our guilds in that map, we’ll eventually have to start excluding other players.
And that is something we don’t want to do, we never wanted this content to be so exclusive, and I believe it’d be against everything open-world content idea is about.
This is something that will not be seen happening now, but with time. As I said, these kind of events brought so many people together, created such amazing communities.
And I’d never want to see it falling apart.
