It's actually gotten ridiculous, to the point where people consider cheesing as "knowing what to do" and "having experience"; where people will actually ask you "Why [i]wouldn't[/i] you do the cheese?" Idk, why would I want to actually play the game? Not everyone wants to blast through everything as quickly and cheesily and easily as possible, just so they can turn around and complain that a game has no content? I can make and LFG group and sit in a channel for 1 hour + and get a total of 3 people willing to do a no cheese run, all while watching the LFG chat light up with kids saying "590+ MUST B ECKSPEERYENCED AT SHOOTING DA ROCKET AT DA MOUF"
I get it, people have lives and not everyone wants to spend hours doing a raid. But the point of the raid is to be challenging. It's not supposed to be something that the average player has 20+ clears on 2 months into its release. It'd be one thing if the riven cheese was akin to a one-phase strat, but it's nothing more than a straight up glitch/exploit that people are using to skip a good 90% of the encounter which I'm sure you developers spent the most amount of time on.
And for everyone else, just say no to cheese, plz.
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Last night I defeated riven for the first time as intended. It was immensely satisfying. In stark contrast when I defeated riven before with the cheese method, it was immensely unsatisfying. Riven of a Thousand voices is a beautiful raid encounter and it saddens me to see a vast majority of LFG players simply want to skip it. The desire to cheese riven is so widespread, it took very long to find a group of players willing to try riven the intended way. The riven cheese dampens my enjoyment of the game by limiting the playerbase willing to play the content I enjoy and that Bungie worked so hard to create. Please fix the Riven Cheese!