Yoshida on "carrying" other people

[Goji1639]

Hard disagree. While it shouldn't feel notably "punishing" nor use that brand of difficulty as its selling point, alliance raids do not need to be literally zero-responsibility face-rolls, either.

There are also oceans of specific and general difficulty factors that separate the feeling of being PKed or wiped by a few from "idgaf" content.

I'm sure none of us will ever agree on where exactly the line should be, but DF alliance raids are the content that should slant the hardest towards being VERY casual. DF alliance raids are the situation where a concerted team effort is the least likely and the most difficult, so why pretend it's a good idea? DR, for example, is just punishing and long enough for you all to be having aneurisms on the forums every time you get paired with a few slackers.

DR introduced some fun quasi-punishing ideas that would've been really cool in a 4 person setting where communication and coordination is less of an annoyance. Small groups/Solo are where you can really get the most creative and crazy with punishing content, so that's where the effort should be.