MrHappy interview with Yoshi-p (Raid boss tiers, set bonuses)

[aesteval]

That's not what I'm doing at all. I'm saying that raiding is niche and bribing people into doing them won't actually increase the numbers.

And if you're gonna use WoW as example, the lack of things to do outside of raiding was a common complaint from Cataclysm and forward.

Bribing players with the Garo gear and mounts sure appears to have increased the popularity of another less than well appreciated game mode.

[Ririta]

Bribing players with the Garo gear and mounts sure appears to have increased the popularity of another less than well appreciated game mode.

PvP is much more accessible than raiding.

[Shougun]

PvP is much more accessible than raiding.

Hopefully they can make PvP even better with the updates, I really liked leveling my characters up via pvp rather than spamming dungeons. Would be nice if they can make that a thing ~

[Zojha]

Bribing players with the Garo gear and mounts sure appears to have increased the popularity of another less than well appreciated game mode.

"Popularity"... I dunno. It has increased the traffic, sure, but a lot of people are just botting their way through, are standing around or otherwise are a liability to their team. It hasn't made people care about the content or getting better at it one bit and the queues have already increased again, because every reward only works until it has been attained.

On the flipside... simply making Creator easier than previous tiers has given it a huge increase in popularity. Similar applies to story mode - Just by making it easier, you made it hugely more popular and could even reduce the value of the rewards! So that would be the more obvious way to go here.