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So how about making WoW hard again?
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Press buttons. Boss dies. Get loot. Get victory rush. Where's the difference of experience, apart from an inflated self-delusionary ego, from doing it with 0%?
Ego is what drives every competitive activity. There are different degrees of it...but it is the source of our competitive nature. Ego to challenge oneself..ego to be better then everyone else. There are different ways to utilize it. Derek Jeter or Peyton Manning handle it with class...Barry Bonds or Terrell Owens the opposite side of ego. We see the same in WoW..people who are driven to be the best with a quiet nature and the other being nerd raging loudmouths. But without the ego no level of success would ever be obtained. Ego is what sets the limits for others to strive for.
Michael Jordon in his ego the be the greatest Basketball player of all time set new standards of excellence. Now suppose the league decides to lower the height and widen the net so more people can achieve that level..then you have marginalize what MJ had done. WoW has marginalized the standard of success all the other players who had come before set.
BUT. The thing was. When I hit 70 in TBC I could never get past Kara. The ONLY people on my server running it only did so out of boredom after doing everything ELSE. Needless to say I got nowhere before WotLK. I had to watch the content on youtube which is never quite the same. :/ Worse yet is I knew I would never get to see it first hand. It was a fact. No one wanted to go back and do that "crap" and even those that did only still did because they couldn't get past it.
But here's is the thing...why can't people accomplish a pre-set sequence of events. Why can some people grind through raids and others can't. The same mechanics exist for all...this is not a physical activity so body comp doesn't count...it's a video game...I can see the divergence of abilities making it take longer for one player to achieve success over another player..but to be so diverse as too see one player handle a raid and another completely fail? There has to be other mitigating factors. Could it be failure to understand his class...failure to want to learn macros...failure to study the information provided all over the internet explaining the fight...failure to understand addons or bring pots/food to the encounter? You see there are those who seek to achieve success and others who want to be carried to it. In weeding out the inept..what remains is a solid core of players from which everyone benefits...the game prospers.
Just ask any high/college school coach how many cuts he has to make to find players he will take to battle. The quality of the game is strengthen by it.
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Hardcore raiders throw themselves at difficult encounters for MONTHS on end for little to no expectation of loot, and typically, after the progression is done, players care very little for the BiS gear that no longer has a purpose.
The players who ought to raid, are those who enjoy it in its own right, not the players who do it because it happens to be the road to purple pixels.
Says the person who's quitting because heaven forbid Blizz makes a new version of your precious mount.
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Why are you arguing with him? He/she/it feeds off of this.
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