Muckbeast on Raiding Design
Cambios is a game dev who may just have started his blog recently, yet posts interesting stuff from day one. Taking on some of the more visible flaws in raiding in current MMOs, he writes:[...]
Blizzard Buffing Seasonal Events
Until last Fall, I’ve always looked at WoW’s seasonal events as a bit of a waste of time, mainly because they only offered mostly cosmetic rewards.
Full Tokenization of Dungeon Drops Idea Spreading
In the wake of Tobold’s latest thoughts on providing more incentives to guild loyalty, fellow blogger PΘtshΘt came up with quite similar ideas I’ve been putting forward, to remove the impact of sheer luck from instance drops and replace the loot tables with token drops.
Stop The Warrior Gets his Warglaive
Stop rejoices about getting his Warglaive. Let me say it here once: Congratulations, well done.
Although…
Random thoughts on Welfare and Patch 2.4
With reliable predictability, the 2.4 test patch notes brought a new round of QQing on the topic of loot distribution.
The debate has, however, not evolved at all since last time, and the same cheap shots get thrown around. As usual, of course, it’s a tiny but vocal fringe of hardcore PvE players doing all the [...]
Closing the 2007 Welfare Epics Debate with a Look at PvE
As you will have noticed, I’ve had a couple of things to say on the whole PvP loot distribution system and its perception by the playerbase.
From the other side of the issue, Rohan has been using about as much virtual ink over the matter pointing out the flaws of the arena rewards system and why [...]
The Hardcore Raider’s Alien Mindset
Round #25817 of the reincarnated hardcore vs. casual debate, which has now morphed into Hardcore Raider vs Arena, Rohan (and the various people supporting his positions in the comments to his recent Welfare epics posts) gives us an insight why he and his peers get so annoyed by arena gear that they must have it [...]
Enough with the Armchair Arena fixes. Disclose your Rating first.
What happens when well-spoken and otherwise smart raiders get all worked up over S3 gear? You get armchair designers devising ways to fix arena loot distribution from the perspective of sour, disgruntled raiders with a barely hidden agenda of denying other people loot they didn’t catass for through BT.
Never mind that raiders get a disproportionate [...]
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