3.3 Hinderences

[Yukiko]

Name me an mmo where the dungeon content caused a large group of the population to leave? before you mentioned wildstar, people started to leave that before getting to max level as it was terrible.

FFXIV:ARR and Coil - exodus to other games had its peak around T8 clears...
FFXIV:HW and Steps of Faith - players begun to leave because they could not progress in story and some complained to have bought HW but had to do all ARR quests before...
FFXIV:HW and PvP - players leaving their servers because weak pvp groups to servers with more pvp players or leaving the game...

[KarstenS]

My biggest issue with the whole thing as been the extreme level of toxicity by the community. Verbally abusing someone for struggling with the mechanics is NOT going to help the figure it out.

Just take a closer look to who is getting verbal. Its the same as in so called "farm groups": Mostly the ones that are causing the wipes are the ones that are calling out others to be bad.

B2T: Did Nidhogg Story mode with 2 chars now. First one with 2 friends. Second one I queued solo. Both times oneshot.

[seekified]

This is hilarious. Nidhogg NM is very much doable by a full team of i205s - assuming they have a decent handle on how to play. As long as mostly everyone dodges avoidable damage, the healers will be able to keep up. LB one of the adds and you'll have plenty of time left on the DPS check in the adds phase, and then the final phase is a short and simple rotation.

I went in with my i205 WAR and cleared it after three wipes. I realise not everyone has such luck in DF, but as long as you bring a couple of reliable friends with you when you queue, that shouldn't be much of a problem.

[Teraluna]

FFXIV:ARR and Coil - exodus to other games had its peak around T8 clears...
FFXIV:HW and Steps of Faith - players begun to leave because they could not progress in story and some complained to have bought HW but had to do all ARR quests before...
FFXIV:HW and PvP - players leaving their servers because weak pvp groups to servers with more pvp players or leaving the game...

You can add WoW Cataclysm to that list. Bliz upped the difficulty - resulting in one of the biggest population drops in the game's history.
I will mention Wildstar, as the dungeon difficulty was one of the major reasons cited by people for leaving. The forum posts on this are still available to view.
GW2 dungeons caused so much upset, ArenaNet has now announced they're not giving support to these anymore.

The list is long enough to show that if developers aren't in tune on this it can have a significant effect on population. As for this game - next couple of months will tell.

[mandodo69]

I downed Nidhogg first try, although i died at the end, still, first try, PUG btw.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAjWTTp1krY