Have you ever made a choice that caused a 5000+ post thread?
…Put this into long term memory please.
If you can’t make a system that makes people happy (and thats hard, I get that), please attempt to communicate intent more clearly and rapidly.
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Was scratching my head on how this could have ever hit a second thread and then I remembered that they kept merging threads together into one lol.
They should just make Dinars purchaseable for Gilded crests.
It’s a hardlined cost that can be attributed to a specific “earned x per week” amount to timegate it out as long as is felt necessary, while balancing against weekly gear upgrades/crafting, etc.
1 dinar = 90 crests
4 dinars = item purchase @ 678.
Gilded are only available from top end content. People can bank their gilded crests for a full month (4 weeks) to purchase a capped out myth track raid piece by forgoing any gilded level upgrades, or it becomes a season end goal once your crest upgrading is finished and you’re stuck on vault/drop roulette hoping for your BiS myth drops and your crests pile up with nothing to spend on.
THAT is what bad luck protection looks like, and it sure doesn’t incentivize Turbo-Boosting raid sales, which at this point is about the only thing I can assume “Turbo Boost” stands for.
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I wouldn’t call two pieces “a full set of best gear” that’s like saying we’re handed the best gear because crafting exists
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The answer is obvious, it was designed poorly for boosting monetization purposes.
The lackof friction with being handed gear for the rest of the season after a single paid mythic carry seems very intentional.
People literally cannot help themselves with doing a bad thing or shortcutting content if they can unless you physically stop them. In this case, the lackof friction and high rewards for a one time boost is going to have a very predictable outcome.
A million ways to have designed the dinars,
And they chose the one with boosting monetization in it.
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Guys, I miss the mega thread.
I know no good thing lasts forever but there hasn’t been a shoutbox that entertaining in years.
I will say though, 5000 posts and they add M+ loot to all timed 12s -that aint bad guys we got at least one concession
It’s clear Blizzard caters only to high end players and the rest of us are just kobalds #notakecandle
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Never underestimate M+ers ability to whine when blizzard ever does anything that might help raiders.
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Never underestimate mythic raiders ability to whine when blizzard adds an almost fair way for others to get mythic track gear
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I’m still waiting on them to remove the boosting monetization aspect. Unlike many others, some of us were peeved about that, rather than one game mode or another being the chosen favorite.
Throwing m+ a bone didn’t remove the capability of putting LFR on farm for the rest of the season for free myth track loot after a one time mythic raid carry. I still foresee a lot of 0N 0H 1M player profiles in the near future.
They could easily add a good amount of friction to avoid this issue, if they truly care about the integrity of the experience.
For Meow’s next trick, he’ll spend more time screeching about how overcharged delves encourage boosting than actually playing the game.
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I honestly feel like they went woke!
Agreed, I don’t know how they went from the simple teased system that they could of slightly modified to make it painful to upgrade past heroic( assuming it is terrible for the masses to have 2 pieces of myth gear) into this one that encourages buying it. Unless that is the motivation
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The DF S4 dinars were well received because everyone received them, so there was no p2w, so it felt okay, even if it bypassed the gearing loop. The iteration presented this month unfortunately has no friction against buying a one time boost to enable free myth track for putting 2s and lfr on farm the rest of the season.
It’d be very easy to discourage the impending bad behavior we’re outlining, without modifying the design much.
For those who still don’t understand why we had a 5k comment count’d post: to the suprise of no one, boosting being rewarded so heavily with no friction feels worse than nothing.
People literally cannot help themselves with doing a bad thing or shortcutting content if they can unless you physically stop them. In this case, the lackof friction and high rewards for a one time boost is going to have a very predictable outcome.
A million ways to have designed the dinars,
And they chose the one with boosting monetization in it.
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Adding to this, in case someone doesn’t want to back track 5000 posts.
“Boosting will happen [more than/less than] you think it will! It is [more of/less of] a problem than you think it will be”
We can spin in circles forever, or at least another 5000 posts.
Fact of the matter is tho that this system introduces an unparalleled boosting avenue that wasn’t there before. If this system is preventing Heroic and below raiders from aquiring Myth gear as a way to protect the sancity of Myth gear… it should not also at the same time increase the reward, consistency, and player power that boosters will get
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if your spending 1k on a mythic gally kill (average price btw) then frankly that says more about your intelligence than anything else
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Meow makes it seem like you can’t go anywhere in the game without tripping over a buyer, when in reality he has probably never interacted with anyone that has bought a Mythic raid, and it has never impacted his game experience.
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The constant mewling from them about boosting is getting pretty old.
no one in this thread has interacted with a mythic raid booster cause its so rare and expensive gold wise and or money wise. if someone is uniroincally going to spend nearly 1k dollars on a mythic boost for mythic jastors or whatever, then theyre a grade A sucker. this raid is probably the least boostfriendly raid since mythic amirdrasil due to bandit and mugzee which SURPRISE! most of peoples bis are from