Originally Posted by
Alhanelem
Your counter-claim is just as dubious as his claim. Neither of you have data, and you're just saying he's probably wrong. This sounds to me more like "I want you to be wrong and I think you're wrong because it goes against what I want."
Personally, I do know some people who enjoyed the old-school leveling scheme, but not because of the game experience itself- They enjoyed chatting with friends for hours. The EXP-gaining process was just what they happened to be doing while chit chatting. I don't know anyone that specifically liked the EXP-farming process itself- They liked the socializing that went with it. That, to me, speaks of a boring game that is made less boring by chatting- not a game that's lots of fun in and of itself. The problem with this is we could all be playing UNO on facebook and chatting and getting the same level of enjoyment, because the game itself isn't what they're having fun with. From a gameplay standpoint, the endgame content is generally more fun than the leveling process, in my humble opinion.
Honestly though, I think you're just defending your suggestion to the death regardless of what anyone thinks of it. You're just going around calling people wrong or likely to be wrong without anything backing up your assertions. The reason I can recognize this is i myself have been guilty of it on several occasions- I'm pretty (in)famous on this board for defending an unpopular viewpoint on certain issues here. Please, by all means, give us something tangible to show the support for your suggestion- because I'm honestly not seeing it. 80% of this thread is you replying to me or someone else saying they're wrong because they don't agree with you.
I could get behind this idea if the devs responded to this by saying they could reasonably do it without compromising the development of version updates to the main game. But until they weigh in on this, I'm not convinced it can be done without a significant impact on the main game.