I’m just thinking about trends & following the thought to its logical conclusion.
First we get follower dungeons. Which I think has positive benefits. One can use them to learn the basics of the new dungeons.
Next we get Delves promoting solo progression. The new ‘endgame pillar’. Which seems to be popular currently. It is solo or small group content.
Next I’ve seen a ton of posts about lack of progression in Mythic+ because many specs are not meta & are not getting picked.
Which leads me to the Equation 1+1+1=3
3 being follower Mythic+
Thus the only logical conclusion is Follower Mythic+ will be on the horizon.
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Let’s take it a step further:
3 person M+
Total death of paid carries.
1 tank/heal/dps
There was no logic leading to this conclusion. Delves already provide solo progression.
I’d be happy with low level follower raids but for now Story Mode Raids are fine.
I guess I should have said 1+1+1+1=4 because of all the threads on the forum for people asking for greater rewards. Wanting crests to max out their Hero gear & more.
I know from an economic stand point Blizz/MS will want to keep players subscription rates as high as possible.
Thus Follower Mythic+ becomes the logical conclusion.
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It’s not. Delves are the logical conclusion to solo progression, because they are the solo progression pillar. Blizzard isn’t likely to cannibalize endgame dungeons and raids when they have already created a system for this market.
Nah.
They arent going to trivialize m+.
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1+1+1+1+1=5. 5 being the Dad gamer. Most of the threads I read about Mythic+ is from the Dad gamer. They say they have limited time & say waiting around to be a “pick me please” to get a Mythic+ run eats up most of their limited game time. Follower Mythic+ solves their problem.
The thing about Dad gamers is they usually are in the prime of their careers & have disposable income for their hobbies. A prime target for engagement metrics. Probably why Delves are a thing in the first place.
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You cannot replicate the difficulty of group content by replacing group members with AI, because a portion of the difficulty of group content is the shared responsibility. What’s the point of a healing requirement when the AI healer is just an NPC who has to be designed to overcome it regardless?
You can make hard solo content, you can make hard solo content sufficieintly comparable in difficulty to Mythic+ in terms of difficulty and rewards. But it would be a lot more work than just slapping NPCs into current dungeons.
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But the learning together mentality is gone. One wipe and everyone just leaves. Effectively everyone is playing by themselves. They make a mistake and it’s over.
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In a way they already have with Delves. T8 Delves puts one in 619 Hero Track gear making the next progression point T10 Mythic+.
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There is no next progression point.
The reason delves have an ending to their progression point is because of how they are easier.
But delves aren’t dungeons and don’t reward dungeon gear and score.
Wouldn’t do it even they did add mythic follower dungeons tbh. Wouldn’t mind a heroic mode for fd’s though.
I agree they are not. And are the reasoning that led me to this conclusion. Even with various story mode Delves have limited replayability. Delves also have another development costs that the massive amount of existing dungeons do not.
Costs vs returns is always part of a business model.
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Then that lucrative Dad gamer demographic unsubscribes till the next season.
The basic business model is to keep the subscriptions active. Inactive subscriptions do not add to the bottom line.
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They already cater to this niche with delves. They have 0 incentive to butcher other gamemodes.
Too easy relative to keys, unfortunately, so such a mode will never exist and give competitive rewards.
Pug problems can be avoided.