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8/5/2014 4:48:29 PM
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Raids, Don't Give In Bungie!

So I've been reading a whole lot of articles about why not having matchmaking for raids is a bad thing and I just can't agree, here's why. Bungie has stated they don't want this to be content people can just throw themselves at over and over again until some form of success slowly begins to occur (put that in my own words though, not Bungies). They want this to be content that takes effort to organize, if you can organize a team of people to play at the same time you gain a CHANCE at having the organization it'll take to beat this content. This content is not for every player, I'm sorry everyone feels entitled to ever bit of content that comes with a game but that's not how it works in reality, sorry. Yes you paid for the game, and they are giving you access to the content, the same level of access they are giving EVERYONE else. Whether or not you as a player have the time or patience to access that content the way they set it up is on you. If everyone where able to access this content whenever they want the next series of complaints you'd hear flooding from everywhere is likely how the content is too hard, and how can they expect a group of 6 strangers to work together at such a high level of play and beat this content. Also, Bungie has provided us tools to group together and find players for this content. If you plan to raid then you clearly have an internet connection, hell it's required for the game last I checked. So don't tell me you can't hop on the internet for a few minutes and post on the forums, join a group / clan or something to find the players you need to access this content. Don't be lazy and expect the world to be given to you, if Bungie adopted this lazy attitude of self entitlement they wouldn't be making the great games they do, and they'd be giving us trash like many other developers do, but they aren't. So you can't be either, and if you are, you don't deserve to access the content, it's not meant for you, no matter how that makes you feel on the inside, it's true, deal with it. That is all. Thanks for the great game Bungie, I really hope you don't back down to all the heat your getting about this. Just think how much heat the Demon's Souls / Dark Souls series got for being so hard and now it's a cult classic. You already have the fan base, the people complaining over this will still buy the game, and they aren't the people that'll be around months, years from now anyways, so don't make the game about them. Do what you knows best, I'm sure you will.
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  • Let me preface this by saying yes this is an MMO comparison. Anyone that has played World of Warcraft as long as I have knows that when it first came out it was freaking hard. 40 man raids, no matchmaking for them. yeah try to get those together consistently enough to do anything in the RAID itself. Then Blizzard saw a problem, there were 90% of players not seeing the content they created. Over the years Blizzard added matchmaking to each level of content so even the casual player could play it. Some people complained and some people were elated, but everyone kept playing(for the most part). The problem came when they instituted Looking For Raid. In order to ensure the Casual player could progress through the content they had to dumb down the content, THIS IS NOT GOOD!! No one that works hard at something wants it handed to someone else for a quarter of the work. But then it became just an extra step to serious raiders when they altered gear level to match the content level(well at least they tried). Everyone was ok for a while. Guess what, they decided to change it again and add FLEX system allowing groups of different sizes to enter the RAIDs and scaling the difficulty with the RAID group size. So the evolution of their RAID now has LFR, FLEX, 10 regular, 10 man Heroic, 25 man Regular and 25 man Heroic for each freaking RAID. Although I am not against a MM system, if Bungie ever does institute it I hope beyond hope that they do not alter the difficulty of it in doing so. Let the casual player understand what it really takes to get through the end game content and not just let them skirt by just so they can see it. That is all I got for now. thank you.

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