08-18-2006, 06:29 PM
I kind of agree with this analysis. After some thought along these lines, it seems almost like there is too much gear with high droprates.
Diablo II was fun if you could find a group of friends and just go out and work together. Maybe under constraints (class balance, skill balance, /players, etc...) maybe not. You would (rather quickly) get to a point where a chance of getting decent gear from doing something like a meph run or baal run was something like a 1 in 100 to 1 in 1000 chance... low enough that you could pretty much assume you weren't going to get anything and you could just focus on the enjoyment.
WoW drop rates are high enough that the opposite happens... you have a 12-25% chance for most items, which is a legitimate chance of getting a decent piece of gear on a run. People can focus on gear and this blurs the focus on friendship / fun.
But this is why I switched to a Lurker guild. We still focus on the friendly / fun runs about twice a week, sometimes with little in terms of "gear goals" or the "gear goals" are of rather minor importance.
Diablo II was fun if you could find a group of friends and just go out and work together. Maybe under constraints (class balance, skill balance, /players, etc...) maybe not. You would (rather quickly) get to a point where a chance of getting decent gear from doing something like a meph run or baal run was something like a 1 in 100 to 1 in 1000 chance... low enough that you could pretty much assume you weren't going to get anything and you could just focus on the enjoyment.
WoW drop rates are high enough that the opposite happens... you have a 12-25% chance for most items, which is a legitimate chance of getting a decent piece of gear on a run. People can focus on gear and this blurs the focus on friendship / fun.
But this is why I switched to a Lurker guild. We still focus on the friendly / fun runs about twice a week, sometimes with little in terms of "gear goals" or the "gear goals" are of rather minor importance.
Conc / Concillian -- Vintage player of many games. Deadly leader of the All Pally Team (or was it Death leader?)
Terenas WoW player... while we waited for Diablo III.
And it came... and it went... and I played Hearthstone longer than Diablo III.
Terenas WoW player... while we waited for Diablo III.
And it came... and it went... and I played Hearthstone longer than Diablo III.