I posted this in the other thread and i feel it accurately describes whats happened. Its why i keep using words like sanitised and optimised. This game is now super clean. All the barriers to progression are removed. Your path is completely clear to just play LFG content.
The game needs more crunchiness and resistance to it. The rough ground if you will. The place where random stuff happens, where you can one day be on top of the world and the next in the pits of pure frsutration. Right now that game does exist. But in the three pillars (raid, mythic plus, arena). But not so much anywhere else. Its been sanitised, all the annoying rng and grinding has been pulled out of it.
I gave a list of stuff in that thread that had been simplified ‘for my convenience’, but why not add another one.
Why am i being given 3 renown tokens a week. Why am i not spending my time farming my renown over the course of the week by doing callings and general world content like side quests, killing rares etc? Because, that would give me a reason to do those things, right? That would give me at least some feeling of a goal im working on? Instead, i do three things (save some souls, collect 1000 anima, play the story), and thats me done.
And we know why they decided to do it that way. It’s grindy and inefficient, and people dont want to feel burdened to do it. Its rough ground. We want to buff that out of the game.
But… Thats been my gameplay for about a decade.
No but ipps! Cant you see! This is so much better! Its so much more efficient, now you can get into the real end game of LFG much quicker and with less resistance!
But, dudes, i dont want to play that game…
/surprised pikachuface