VitaminK.2517

Ha! I was also thinking about Venom while participating in the event. Especially the "ballad" reminded me somehow of Venom's Countess Bathory.

So MMORPGs shouldn't concentrate only on one part of potential customer groups? What a life changing revelation. In favor of Carbine, risk is part of entrepreneurship. It's always easy to criticise and know better afterwards. They surely knew that they were developing for a specific niche audience. You are not the only one with a brain. The living story in GW2 is something similar. In my opinion Anet saw an opportunity in it but unfortunately changed the course multiple times over the years and lost player due to it. Might not be the most relevant group to them but still.

Since my "hardcore" days are over in MMOs, i like to play a more casual gaming style. i was quite happy to see the fractal changes after i came back in january this year. Through the changes i can just hop in for 1-2 fractals and leave. Raids look very interesting but i don't want to invest so much time into raiding. So i hope strike missions will be a good substitute on a less time consuming level.

Hopefully the PoF improvements will arrive soon. Looks like Anet tries to get more players into PoF maps again.

It's hard to agree with that ... did anyone here think the latest LS epsiode didn't create the powerful moments that he is referring to? I think it did. I think it's easy to lose sight of what really is delivered with an expansion; I could care less about how many ways I can kill Champions to earn HP's or grinding meta's ... fundamentally, the expansions are more about good storys and gameplay than mechanics. In my opinion it depends on the player. For example I think the whole LS didn't create a powerful but stereotyped/zeitgeisty moment. I am more into the mmo part of this game which means at some point the grinding you are speaking of. But i get it if people like the LS; just a different type of taste.