06-15-2006, 05:51 PM
Quote:Yeah, I'm glad about that, too. It'll be interesting to see what they do with it. As he said, the whole reputation system was thrown into the game with very little attention given it. The main reputation grind in the beta was the centaur quests in Desolace, and since Desolace was far away and wasn't well developed, only a few crazy people (like Bolty) actually completed the grind.You're right that I'm crazy; I wanted to see what the point was behind it. I did it once, deemed it complete BS, and have been recommending to people not to bother with it from then on. :)
Still, I wouldn't have too much hope here. All the dev said was that they are "looking into" revising the faction process. The problem is, you *need* some kind of grind in place to keep people playing, and that grind turned out to be reputation. If it wasn't rep, it would have become something else.
I'm finding for my main character that most of the faction grinds to Revered aren't too bad or annoying. Argent Dawn, Zandalar, Cenarian Circle, etc. It's going from Revered to Exalted that the grinds enter the "this is utterly stupid" phase. Even still, the super-hardcore 1% of players actually do them. What else can you put in to keep those 1% happy? Content alone could never be created fast enough to cater to them; there has to be something grindy to keep them busy.
-Bolty
Quote:Considering the mods here are generally liberals who seem to have a soft spot for fascism and white supremacy (despite them saying otherwise), me being perma-banned at some point is probably not out of the question.