Raider Io has single handedly ruined the Gearing up experience in Retail and that statement isn’t even an exaggeration but i wish it was. It encourages toxicity. Raider io has essentially created a irrational hyper gate-keeping community that holds players hostage from gearing up.
Essentially, Gearing up becomes a privilege that not everyone gets to experience. By allowing Radio Io to exist, you’re basically unintentionally allowing toxic players have a monopoly on who gets to gear up or not, ONE OF THE CORNER STONE FEATURES OF WOW.
Is this the kind of community you want Blizzard? Is THIS the kind of experience you want to offer your player base, especially towards new players and returning veterans trying out retail. IS THIS the kind of game you want to be selling to new players Blizzard? Is this how you plan to keep them engaged enough to pay 15$ a month and have them as active subscribers? Reach max level for the first time and then what, get nothing but being denied out of every chance to gear up by a overly toxic egotistical community who think they can control an essential aspect of the game denying everyone just because they arent ‘‘cool’’ enough for their overly unrealistic standards? is that what WoW is supposed to be about?. Because if you ask me, that’s one fire way to demotivate new players causing them to unsub hence you lose money.
Like they say, Classic is about the Journey, Retail is about the Destination.
Except in this case, you can only get so far on your destination, until it’s blocked by a massive street hole, blocking you from the end of the destination. Unless you’re one of those Privileged™ few that is.
BY that philosophy, Raider io and the toxicity&monopoly it created around gearing SHOULDNT EXIST. PERIOD. Simple as. No more, no less. There is no destination, no journey.
You know what’s funny? Gearing up in Classic is 100 times easier despite taking some extra steps to get there, it’s seamless. It’s always within reach, not out of reach. It’s a journey, but a hopeful and clean one. The best part, Dungeons in WoW classic are 10x harder, requires a lot of coordination ect and despite the that, it still is seamless, with complete randoms even. Failure is bound to happen at times yes, but not as common as some would think. And why this is important? Because Retail Mythic 5+ and up isn’t anything grandeur, done it before. Not trying to make an argument about difficulty here though, i’m just pointing out that, if the players in Classic are as accepting on a game that is objectively more difficult, then there is no reason for people to be so toxic in retail regarding who gets in or not. They expect gods or something to play with them. The average player would do just fine.
Raider Io has no place existing in Retail, and hopefully never in Classic especially Classic. it would be horrible to see it be tainted by it. And i say it again, Retail philosophy is about the Destination, this is the experience Retail is based around.
You reach lvl 120, get everything readily available right off the back no need for Class trainers, and then you join Premade groups to obtain that sweet gear. Simple as, that is your Destination. BUT OH WAIT, you can’t! you’re Not cool enough because 50000000000+ Io score neckbeard said so even though he’s never ever seen you play even though who knows maybe you got top DPS on every dungeon finder dungeon you did while leveling so you had some confidence there! But will it matter in the end?
And oh, OH, i can already SMELL the replies from dishonest Raider Io apologists(who don’t actually know what its like to be the average player, the majority) coming from a mile away, so lette me answer em
Let me guess, youre gonna hit me with the same old, backwards ‘‘just make friends’’ mentality. Allow me to respond to that prematurely!
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All of my friends don’t play WoW and are not interested. paying 15$ a month isn’t something they’re interested in, only 2 do. One plays Classic only and the other one, is just one, not enough for a Dungeon. He hasn’t even been able to gear up SINCE 8.3 because of Raider io’s toxicity and his friends leaving WoW. He’s stuck in a loop now.
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WoW friends? No, i cant otherwise i wouldnt be making this thread if it were so easy. People don’t like to socialize nor ever answer to me in chat for this stuff. Not even the Guilds i joined, they’re filled with arrogant raider io users gate keeping.
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Ok, a lied a bit about 2. I DID actually make 4 friends, FOUR, FOUR IN A YEAR. By doing certain, funny things in Duskwood. One of them had very low esteem about gearing up because of you guessed it, the toxic Raider io community who seemingly are able to control the gearing aspect of the game. And he didnt even seem to want to do it with me even though i kept asking him to join my gearing team that never was(he unsubbed months ago, probably never coming back). The other one is named Bozomojo, who REFUSES to deal with gearing because of toxic Raider io community and also mostly because he’s more of a Funny guy in Duskwood if you know what i mean, he’s good enough at what he does so to him, they are a waste of his time, if it wasnt for that, he would have tried, but no. The other 2 in the other hand, constantly leeching their way trying very hard to get on a mythic, for our sakes. And that is my only source of mythic, i dont get to gear often neither do them.
Now, to be fair, YES making friends technically speaking IS the solution so you are not wrong, but it’s to an extent so and a very small one at that so in a sense it doesnt even count, so at what cost? It still is a headache. and there is no destination. It’s nothing but depressive tales and hopelessness. Having friends, really isn’t the ‘solution’. If anything, having friends is an eye opener, as to just how disgusting and vile the radier io community is and how it holds back the average player, segregating them.
The only way i can see Friends being a viable solution, is if you’re someone who is lucky enough to know enough people that play WoW. but not everyone has that luxury.
Gearing up as it stands in Retail is hard, not because people are bad at the game or because they don’t know what theyre doing, but because they dont have a choice, they have no control over it, it’s beyond their control.
If i could i would, i know how to get there, but can i, is there a choice for me?
An all powerful addon and the toxicity it created, is far worse fate than bad game design. Knowing full well, that things wouldn’t be this way if it didnt exist, and that blizzard if they wanted to, can drop the ban hammer on it, but havent for whatever reason, yet.
Blizzard, Ban Raider Io. doing so will be doing the community, the SILENT MAJORITY, a wonderful favor. Fix the road, and pave the way for players to reach their Destination. Keep them engaged and interested, in the World of Warcraft. In the long run, it’ll make you more $$$.
Raider Io DESTROYS and DIVIDES the community, is encourages the most disgusting form of Toxicity. Ban the Raider io Addon and request for their site to shut down as well. It will make the experience so much better for everyone.
