I have an expectation when I play an MMO such as Rift that I can come home from a long day at work, have some dinner, maybe catch a 20 minute nap afterwards while I relax with my wife, and then jump on the computer and log in. This usually occurs somewhere around 6/7ish pm.
When I log on I expect to be able to knock out a few daily crafting quests, chat with my guildmates either ingame or on TS/Vent.
I also expect to be able to run at least a few daily dungeons.
My expectation is not being met.
I have better than T1 gear. So do my guildmates. We have been MMOing longer than alot of forum posters have been alive. We are not bad players nor are we dumb/stupid/bad players.
Logging in to an MMO and only being able to run 1 dungeon (speaking T2 here, because theoretically if its all we did, we could run 3 T1s before bed) does not make us happy/feel good/want to keep playing.
We realize that this expecation is not shared by a certain number of other people. This does not make our expecation right/wrong/stupid/brilliant. It is OUR expectation.
Now the reason I post this mainly is to feed the trolls. The second reason I post this is because I got a sneaking suspicion that the MAJORITY of players are in the same boat or something like it timewise.
Blizzard is not dumb. You all whine about omgitssoeasy, and fail to realize that MMOs are a business. And to stay in business, they need us old folks to pay the bills. They know that you high schoolers, and you taco bell employees come and go like the wind, but those of us with wives and kids and mortgages that still love to game do so to have FUN and hang out with friends and accomplish things.
In our minds FUN does not mean killing trash for 1-2-3 hours with 3 or 4 bosses dropping blue loot mixed in.
You want to cry and whine about dead servers yet you want everything to be hard to get and time consuming. Well guess what, Either us old farts get catered to, or the game dies.
Blizzard is on board, and Trion will follow suit. I have already read that bosses are getting easier and trash is losing HPs next patch.
If you want time consuming go play EQ1.
Rift is EXACTLY like WoW and dozens of other games like it in that its the exact same grind. You do stuff to get loot to kill harder stuff to get better loot to kill harder stuff to get better loot to kill harder stuff...it's never ending. They all do the exact same thing.
Whine all you want here. It is really falling on deaf ears. Give us LFD, give us quicker dungeon runs. Its all about accessability and if those of us with limited time to play can't raid anytime soon, we won't bother playing the game.
Flame on...
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