WoW More Competitive

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I saw this and I couldn’t help but agree on several levels, but I don’t really play RPG’s, JRPG’s, or story based games anymore. If anything I feel like a lot of these games are pretty close to movies and JRPG’s are close to novels, but I do play WoW.

What I do think is is that games should be competitive and I’m going to suggest something. I think with the dailies, pvp, and raiding I don’t think there’s a means to an end and I think there needs to be. So what I’m suggesting is more competition.

I think if your guild is breaking records I think people on the server should know about it, but not only that. They should also be rewarded for staying on top and this could be gear upgrades, crafting materials, toys, and pets for guild or players that can stay in the top ten.

These rewards should be advertised so every player and guild could possibly compete to take those top rewards or at least dream that they can. I think several weekly ranking tiers should be shown for not just raids and pvp, but most dailies done in a week, most gold earned in a week, and most honor earned in a week. Anything to show to the server that you are top in something would make players work to keep those top tiers and the rewards don’t even have to be as good as multiplayer rewards. Just something that you can take a screenshot of and post it on your social media that you were top for doing this thing… But it should reset every week.

The filling up of the honor bar has been tedious to say the least, if anything filling up any bars is one thing I dislike most about WoW the most. But I do like the quest and some different PvP requirements might be a little more refreshing. A certain amount of killing blows, healing, or even CC a healing class a number of times should give you some kind of quest reward that would go into filling that honor bar. Also this would be a great place to add a ranking tier so you can see how much healing, killing, or CCing you’re doing compared to the entire server.

Lastly, maybe once a month, every two months, or every seasons, cross server competitions and let the players or guild leaders write a little message so they can advertise there Twitch or Youtube accounts.

So I’m just going to say from a business aspect, you want to sell the dream better. The people and guilds that are the best of the best may mostly likely want to be famous and the only way a lot of people on-line have become famous is from there own accord of making there own videos and showing people that they are good at the game. With this ranking tier for servers and cross servers I think that it help assist a lot of players reach a level of stardom.

Because as it sits right now people are only becoming famous for saying bad things about your games and I’m pretty sure you want that to stop. Or could be wrong about that too.

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Hell with competition. There’s nothing worse for a game than competition.

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Games by definition are competitions. IF you don’t like competitions, watch movies, no one will ask you to compete in anything

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No.

I mean, why isn’t it enough for you that you’re doing good with your guild or whatever?

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I disagree. There are many games that do not feature competition in any meaningful way, unless you consider Solitaire a form of metaphorical competition against yourself, or you vs. RNG.

I think a better generic definition would be games are by definition a form of ENTERTAINMENT.

Honestly I think the modern culture is already WAY too obsessed with the unhealthy sort of competition: status obsessed comparitive valuation, where you can only feel like you “win” if other people “lose.” Never just stopping to smell the roses and enjoying what you have, always on to the next conquest, always desperate for that next ego validation.

The whole YOLO culture is based on this and frankly I find it an embarrassment and disgrace to the greater achievements of our ancestors.

There is nothing wrong with HEALTHY competition, which is more about cooperation than the sort of petty exclusivity that modern competition has become, or SPORTSMANSHIP which is respectful and mature about it.

I feel people who can’t appreciate what they have unless they crush their perceived opponents are exhibiting a lower evolved level of humanity.

All that emphasizing competition in games accomplishes is to tell the greedy parent companies they can get away with de-funding story and substance and just throwing players into a half-a$$ed phoned-in sandbox of “emergent gameplay” where they basically pay the company to be told to make their own fun.

We see this with games that feature leaderboards and the whole esports nonsense. All it does is diminish the quality of the entire game until all that remains is a thinly veiled shallow and uninspired front end for a cash shop money grab.

Yeah. No thanks.

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LOL You clearly don’t know how disliked I am.

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:man_facepalming: Sigh