Rate of Leveling and the New Player Experience

[Olor]

Is that not the very point of gated content? Gotta agree with Xant, it comes off as "I don't want to do that, gimme the rewards NOWZ!" They've gone back and removed nearly all (or maybe all?) of the JP midnight and conquest tally waits. From my understanding, it's far, far easier to complete these things now. HP warps, Waypoint warps, faster travel, higher character power level making it easier to get through, etc. It's fairly easy to do, yet it's an unrewarding grind that's unnecessary, says the one's who want the rewards, without the work.

W/E I've done most of it now on this character and a lot of it on multiple other characters I lost over the years because of SE's formerly crummy payment system... it's about wanting to play with other people not do really REALLY REALLY boring stuff alone and pay a company for the privilege of doing it. Look down on it all you want, easy to say when you're done all of it - but I personally would like to see this game continue for a long time and that will never happen if the community continues to fight for this to be a game for masochists only.

Of course people want content to be rewarding. I don't see why that's seen as some kind of moral weakness. People want to make progress on their character. Grind is okay as long as it's meaningful... expecting people to mindlessly grind just to unlock the "privilege" of accessing meaningful grind... well that's not a good way to retain subs.

Funny I don't see all these posters talking about how MUST NOT MAKE GAME FUN FOR NEW PLAYERS going out of their way to help/lead people through this content - at least they wouldn't then be stuck tabbing to a wiki, bored out of their mind, frustrated and lonely...

but nope, all the lifers here, complain that a new player might like to actually play the fun part of the game, and then don't do a thing to help said new players get through the horrible horribly boring grind of going through all the gates.

When's the last time you helped a new player get atma? Or ran them up the Tor?