So they’re trying to stop us from ‘playing the game’… Interesting concept for a gaming company.
Playing the game the wrong way* : )
It is as if some dev made speedrunning impossible, speedrunners can cry all they want, but the devs goal is to get rid of them and they would succeed as they have the power to adjust the game’s rules.
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But in almost all certainty, smart and persistent people will just find some other glitch to exploit. Its basically impossible to write a game that has 0 bugs so they’ll just be playing whack-a-mole.
It is a lot easier to stop a player from doing something by creating new rules.
If a dev wanted to stop speedrunning from existing in their games they can easily create rules that stop speedrunning in its tracks, if a bug appeared they could just patch it.
Devs hold all the power in games, not players
Who is to say that by patching that one bug or adding an additional rule that it wouldn’t just create another loophole to exploit though? If you’ve ever worked on any serious code base you would know that perfect code just isn’t possible.
They can try to prevent people from doing things but people will almost always find ways around it if they’re persistent.
Yeah and in video games, the people who find such exploits are a tiny tiny minority which can also get banned if they are found to be abusing them.
Like you do realize what you are saying right? YOu are saying that a dev creates a game that has rules, the player goes “Me no likey dese rules and desperately tries to find a bug to avoid the rules”
That person not only is rare, they are going against the game and at best they ll get banned.
You dont seem to understand how game design works.
Ok tell me how they ll find a way around being optimal on a single character for every single boss which requires different conduits and different covenant and similar soulbind paths but with different conduits?
You cannot, there’s no bug they can exploit to achieve that, they are under the game’s rules, even if a bug would exist that player wouldnt be allowed to do it and get banned and bug patched.
You’re the one who brought up speedrunning and like I said there is nothing devs can do to stop people from speedrunning, they can patch all the bugs they want, people will just find more.
Similarly WoW devs cannot prevent people from min-maxing, its a waste of dev resources to try and do this because people will just figure something out or quit out of frustration. Likely it means play more characters in this instance.
You also seem to not be understanding how simple ideas can work rly well.
For example the simplest idea is to take a level, see how much time it takes for more people to complete, let’s say an average of 40 minutes? Fastest run being 30.
So you make the players unable to move to the next level if 35 minutes havent passed in that level, the fast player will have to wait 5 more minutes which isnt a big deal, the speedrunner though is utterly ruined because even if he does, he cant do anything other than wait for ages. Speedrunning successfully eradicated.
Let’s not pretend players are l33t haxorz m8, we both know that aint true.
Its still a speedrun though, a boring one but a speedrun none the less. This is basically just an example of an auto-scroller which is not uncommon. Also people are pretty clever, just take the Arbitrary Code Execution exploit in SMW, it wouldn’t matter if there was a timer because they could just warp to the credits.
We are talking about online games, single player games can be completely changed and controlled, nobody argues that, online games are a very different story.
Like i said, Blizzard doesnt want you to be optimal at everything by changing covenants/conduits all the time, you have no power over the game, you simply are not able to change them because they game stops you.
What do you believe will happen in this scenario? People are forced to obey the game’s rules, whenever they like it or not.
They will cave like they always do when they implement things that the player base doesn’t like. I’ve already got my bingo board for things they cave on in 9.1, 9.2 and 9.3
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Ah yes like pathfinder or borrowed power x D
Ralph seems to have a real problem with people who actually play content as opposed to being carried through it.
Your best bud Ion already stated they have their back up plan ready. So they will cave and it will change in a patch or two.
All these Ralph threads have gotten boring 
where is my man Clark at?
I’ve never stepped foot in a mythic raid, don’t care about numbers at all, and i’ve only been lurking the forums for a few weeks. i primarily play FF and used to be hardcore into SWTOR and play wow super casually every few years
This panda poster makes the most irritating and delusional posts out of any community ive ever been apart of
is grumbles still around? could really go for a cookie
There is literally no downside to being able to change your conduits whenever you want.
Literally. No. Downside.
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how you doing ralph