Lion’s Arch. Well, the new Lion’s Arch.
Anet did a fantastic job with both DR and LA in my opinion. I would dearly love to see some urban adventures in these locations.
In fact, I loved all capitals except Hoelbrak. DR is indeed a holy-mother-of-kittens outstanding city.
It’s astonishing how afraid people are from raids, giving every sort of excuse: it will steal resources from doing other content, it will diminish player base, it will create elitism, it doesn’t fit the game because philosophy is casual-friendly (wtf?), we have “great” world bosses which are difficult already (w.t.f.?), it will require too much time spent to complete, just a minority is asking for it, it is not “needed”, etc. Seriously? Is it that hard to understand that it’s OPTIONAL? You don’t have to do? I don’t sPvP, I’m not forced to do it, and yet they’re constantly spending resources on that to make it more attractive, if you compare to PvE and WvW there aren’t as many players playing it, and yet they keep on refining it because they believe in e-sport and that game mode. For Jesus Christ’s sake, just STOP thinking the world revolves around yourselves and be a little less egoistics.
There is a reason Anet used the words “Challenging Group Content” and not “Raids”, the word “Raid” would cause an uproar mostly because people wouldn’t read what that means in the context of GW2.
The only valid concern that I can think of is the community split. If these hard instances are more rewarding than the open world then there is a chance that the open world will be devoid of life. If I recall, close to release, and shortly after, the devs said they don’t want to focus on instanced content as much as other games do, because they want their open world to stay alive and the player base not hidden inside instances. It will be hard, but certainly not impossible, for the devs to change their philosophy on this. I hope they do though, the game needs some harder more structured PVE content.
All other reasons against raids are just non-existent.
Understandable. In such case, just mimic Marionette: slice a reasonable part of the map, add mechanics there, and work out entrance requirements (eg. players limit), then trigger a player-based or guild-based “lock” to prevent multiple raid openings per overflow (so other guilds can do it). There, people doing raids in a controlled environment using a slice of the map, but it’s purposefully limited to a X amount of players.
Mhm, make pseudo instances within the open world
In the end it’s basically the same thing, just a more natural open feeling.
This is what I instantly thought they may be doing when I saw the Wyvern.
It’s something EQ did way back in like 2001 in the expansion after instances became a thing. They even had it such that you could spectate with open windows to look through. It didn’t really work perfectly there because of the whole “well they’re doing it, now we can’t” thing, but with megaservers GW2 could avoid that problem, though the system would be clunky and you’d have to try to find an open map. It’d be interesting to see done though.
It would be somewhat different because the amount of players wouldn’t be like open world zergs. It’s less than that, but surely more than a dungeon (14-24 members). They can fake it and whatnot, call it “Open Air Dungeons”. Whoot! There, our OADs.
It’s astonishing how afraid people are from raids, giving every sort of excuse: it will steal resources from doing other content, it will diminish player base, it will create elitism, it doesn’t fit the game because philosophy is casual-friendly (wtf?), we have “great” world bosses which are difficult already (w.t.f.?), it will require too much time spent to complete, just a minority is asking for it, it is not “needed”, etc. Seriously? Is it that hard to understand that it’s OPTIONAL? You don’t have to do? I don’t sPvP, I’m not forced to do it, and yet they’re constantly spending resources on that to make it more attractive, if you compare to PvE and WvW there aren’t as many players playing it, and yet they keep on refining it because they believe in e-sport and that game mode. For Jesus Christ’s sake, just STOP thinking the world revolves around yourselves and be a little less egoistics.
There is a reason Anet used the words “Challenging Group Content” and not “Raids”, the word “Raid” would cause an uproar mostly because people wouldn’t read what that means in the context of GW2.
The only valid concern that I can think of is the community split. If these hard instances are more rewarding than the open world then there is a chance that the open world will be devoid of life. If I recall, close to release, and shortly after, the devs said they don’t want to focus on instanced content as much as other games do, because they want their open world to stay alive and the player base not hidden inside instances. It will be hard, but certainly not impossible, for the devs to change their philosophy on this. I hope they do though, the game needs some harder more structured PVE content.
All other reasons against raids are just non-existent.
Understandable. In such case, just mimic Marionette: slice a reasonable part of the map, add mechanics there, and work out entrance requirements (eg. players limit), then trigger a player-based or guild-based “lock” to prevent multiple raid openings per overflow (so other guilds can do it). There, people doing raids in a controlled environment using a slice of the map, but it’s purposefully limited to a X amount of players.
Oh, forgot to say that it’s just how Guild Puzzles work. It becomes closed after some time. So it’s not new or “awkward”.
(edited by Valento.9852)