06-06-2007, 12:59 AM
Tigole posted to a thread on the Elitist Jerks forums (entitled "Pace of raiding progession" or something similar). It's worth reading.
The problem in a nutshel is: how do you design content that challenges the best guilds while still being accessible to the larger raiding population?
One of the examples Tigole uses is the Four Horseman encounter. This is generally regarded as the pinnacle of Blizzard encounter design. It tooks weeks for guilds to learn how to beat it, but it required no tuning at all. However he pointed out that the expansion came out before the large majority of raiding guilds even reached the 4 Horseman - and you're run of the mill guild might have been less happy with the raid stacking required. (On Malygos, I believe only one guild ever even attempted the Four Horseman).
I can understand the bleeding edge guilds being disappointed that Black Temple has not turned out to be Naxxramas 2.0. But for say a guild like mine, it gives us hope that we might defeat Illidan before the next expansion comes out. One of my great disappointments is that I only got to experience half the encounters in Naxxramas before the expansion removed any incentive to go back there.
Chris
The problem in a nutshel is: how do you design content that challenges the best guilds while still being accessible to the larger raiding population?
One of the examples Tigole uses is the Four Horseman encounter. This is generally regarded as the pinnacle of Blizzard encounter design. It tooks weeks for guilds to learn how to beat it, but it required no tuning at all. However he pointed out that the expansion came out before the large majority of raiding guilds even reached the 4 Horseman - and you're run of the mill guild might have been less happy with the raid stacking required. (On Malygos, I believe only one guild ever even attempted the Four Horseman).
I can understand the bleeding edge guilds being disappointed that Black Temple has not turned out to be Naxxramas 2.0. But for say a guild like mine, it gives us hope that we might defeat Illidan before the next expansion comes out. One of my great disappointments is that I only got to experience half the encounters in Naxxramas before the expansion removed any incentive to go back there.
Chris