Honestly, do you want to know the real reason why they added it in its current state?
Streamers and Content Creators will love it. They can live stream a continuous run with commentary then create all of these guides on how to do X, Y, Z Bosses and mechanics.
Now keep in mind Blizzard does not do this because they care, but rather they need them to keep players engaged and attract new players. They are free marketing each with their own audience.
Additionally, gated weekly activities paces things out keeping players coming back. Player engagement metrics will look like they are going up holding players hostage with the new content. Cosmetics are the driving currency, which Citadel will have. More cosmetics can be sold as more players are driven into grouping.
Face it. You are in the abbatoire and Blizzard is leading you to slaughter.
In one Gamescom interview, the devs said that they do not count as Minions while you have stated in another interview that you ājust got confirmation that Mercenaries are considered Minionsā.
āYeah, I was given bad information in that moment, they do not count as a minion and so do not inherit things from you.ā - Rod
I sometimes wonder if Rod knows what is going on in a game that he is in charge of.
Holy Christ I hope not. Iām all for the DC based on the information we have so far but if at any point it becomes a timed dungeon with negative modifiers that annoy the player more than add to the experience then Iāll be skipping the content.
āBlizzard noticed that the players who want to socialize are growing,ā
Well no, you made it 4x more efficient to group for bosses so people want a group finder so they can group up for the added loot with the least amount of effort and communication with other players.
Rod is your typical gamer that remembers the gist of things but not the details. To be fair though thatās not really his job anyway. Itās also why Iām glad he hasnāt been on a live stream/campfire since last year. He detracts away from the important stuff.
i am like 100% sure that this is trash AI generated thing same as their ā150+ completly different dungeonsā aka NMD when the game started.
Itās more like Rod is your typical manager who pretends that he is completely immersed in his work and is interested in it , but in fact does not know anything about it except for some numbers. And all his knowledge is absolutely superficial. This is actually not a bad thing, a common situation for a top management, but in a gamedev managers mostly like their games and play them, which is absolutely not the case in our case.
Not trying to say Rod is the best, but he is actually playing the game.
Thatās one of the things I want to give credit to the team for, itās that they all actually seem to be playing the game. (Adam J rejoiced about his boulder druid killing Uber Lilith this season, Adam F was happy to have dropped plenty of mythics this season, Rod said he reached 100 with 3 toons in S5 etc.)
Unless they are just sharing other peopleās screenshots on social media and pretend it is theirs, but I donāt believe so.
They are however not the kind of players to push high pit tiers.
Thing is, Rod is the franchise manager, not the game director, not directly involved with dev. He is likely not micro-managing every single detail that goes in the balance and the maths etc. He just needs to know the system that are being implemented well enough to explain them to the mainstream audience. He doesnāt need to know if a Merc inherits your thorn (unless he wants to know about it for his beloved Necro thorn build).
This is their first respectable design choice. Itās almost like the devs have grown some balls. Unfortunately I donāt like deeply coordinated activities because other players expect me to talk while I play.
Yeah a real blast. Toxic people who rush, rush, rush, through the dungeon and get snotty if you are going slow due to health issues, or you die because you didnāt see a bossās one shot coming and missed dodging it.
Whereas if it was setup for solo play I could play and enjoy at my own speed and pace. Blizzard has no respect for their solo player base any more.
What are these hypothetical scenarios you are coming up with haha. You got some awesome mental gymnastics going on where itās going to be the dark citadel community against you.
If it bothers you that much just skip out on it for good or until the off chance they make it solo, which I highly doubt.
