RNG does not keep me playing, it frustrates me, makes me feel like I’m wasting my time and making a huge effort for no rewards and I log out… enough times and I cancel my sub… it’s that simple.
People say: Play classic, I try to login to my Classic character and run into a 3 hour queue of 8000.
Diablo’s long term is in its IP. When a new Diablo game releases, it makes more money than Disney movie. And the way you maintain interest in a franchise like that… is to have people continue to play it.
A lot of the heart of Blizzard simply does not work there anymore, and activision was allowed to come neuter the game which is a betrayal to the entire community.
The era of Blizzard is over in any real meaningful sense. They are just min maxing profits now… the guys who made this game out of love of gamers and gaming aren’t calling the shots anymore.
i’ve been crossing my fingers waiting for the Game Studio Bonfire to show what they have been working on. The people who left during WoD went and created that company and honestly… there’s more of Blizzards soul there than here
Hoping that Bonfire studios will be the light in the dark of the gaming industry <3
lets be fair though, classic is just as much RNG its just packaged different. You wait for a mob to spawn, or clear a dungeon to get to a boss and kill it and hope it drops what you want. If it doesn’t, you wait for the spawn, or clear it again. There are abysmally low drop rates for the best gear and 2X as many people in groups per unit of loot which then gets RNG rolled for in most cases. It is just as much RNG. Retail just gives you to many rolls to fast and it feels…just not as fun i guess? The amount of RNG is Vanilla is what pushed badges into existence.
We need to make raiding fun again and not some job. Condense the raids into a single difficulty with electable hard mode fights that require mythic raider levels of attention and coordination.
The RNG in WoW atm is ridiculous as you try to get better gear. For example if you want an item from M+ you need the item to drop, and by the way M+ drops like what, 3 items out of the item pool of the whole dungeon? That item then needs to forge if you already have the base version. And good luck getting something useful from the M+ Chest at the start of the week.
In addition why doesn’t azerite drop in M+ dungeons? Is it because they don’t want you to get your BiS without raiding? If that were the case then the raid azerite pieces would all have your best traits. Instead it takes months to get the specific piece and it still takes weeks to try to gamble and get the piece that way. it’s a completely BS system meant to stall you out of getting pieces that your class actually NEEDS. Each piece of azerite gear you have that doesn’t have the right abilities is a huge dps loss, compare suboptimal azerite pieces (i.e. only has 1 of the 2 major traits you need) to any other piece of gear that has 1 of the stats that you need the difference is crazy.
I tried doing other things, completing old zone quests for fun, until quest items never dropped. I tried getting my 300 mounts, until I realized I only had 270 unique mounts and they just never drop for me, running dungeons and raids every week til I want to die… I worked on pet battles, that was fun… but meh… I don’t need anymore pets I have lilke 900+… I bust my butt in raid for nothing, Mythic+ for nothing, open that weekly chest to junk every week, world bosses give me nothing… I really feel like the game is coded against us… I go into Molten Core, as a rogue wearing leather… every boss drops cloth and plate… it’s like the game is coded to know what you need and reduce the chance on purpose…
The profound casino mechanics in how RNG every thing is in game, and I do believe it’s coded against the player, really ruins it all for me at the moment.
No i’m really not. I quit. I’m done. I won’t be running them anymore until they can provide some bad luck protection to their total BS RNG casino.
I feel like the people in charge of this game lack generosity… if you’re a , the chance what you need will drop, lowers to almost nothing… running the same dungeons over and over, with such a low chance to get anything is deflating at best if not an absolute betrayal when you feel like it’s all done on purpose to you and keep you chasing a carrot on a stick… understand, all 8.1 was a total drought, never got my daggers from BOD, never got anything from a single world boss, mounts I’ve been trying to get for a decade or more, weekly chests of trash, every week after week after week after week after week… seeing people get 455s in a +5 while my groups see all 430’s in timed 14s… why can’t Blizzard be a little more generous in how they code their RNG system so it’s got some bad luck protection?