Quote Originally Posted by ArmachiA View Post
IPersonally I felt OS1 was the perfect start for a beginning raider, it would be just challenging enough for them but not too hard so they wouldn't get disheartened about trying. Shame to see that it still didn't incentive people to try.
For many people the difficulty has very little to do with players being disheartened or lacking the incentive to try.

It's simply the fact the rewards just aren't desirable enough to warrant making any real effort to get. As suggested by this comment.

Quote Originally Posted by loreleidiangelo View Post
IGear isn't a motivator for everybody, sure, but I guarantee it's a motivator for a decent number of people and right now a maybe 5% difference in output from BiS vs full tome gear isn't enough to make people give a crap.
Another motivator is challenge but even that is only temporary. In was quite motivated to clear coil for example and wore that final witness title with pride and it had a sense of prestige about it. Then 3.0 landed and players could unsybc it all. Completely destroying the challenge and that sense if prestige associated with its rewards.

In my case I love challenges in games and my psn / Xbox profiles both have a good selection of trophies and awards for clearing many games on there maximum difficulties. And sometimes the only reason I do that is for the trophy. So the challenge of raiding really isn't a problem for me personally. It's just in my view raiding simply isn't worth it for what you get out of it. No lasting rewards no lasting prestige, Loot that's incredibly undesirable. All adds up to 2 very big reasons many players just have no interest or incentive to try raiding.

The difficulty doesn't scare them. If the rewards were actually lasting and valuable. Many players would embrace the challenge as increased challenge equals increased accomplishment. But those accomplishments also need to hold there value over time. Its undermining when people end uo roflstomping thing you bust your ass off for. Which is what many players said about coil. 2 manning t13 is just an insult to players who worked there ass off for it.