Quote Originally Posted by weeble View Post
u say the day of people having gear others don't and hard content is over but take diablo3 for instance, they are adding a online cash shop by players. this means for blizard to make money on it they need to really make rewards harder, content harder and less drop rates. so if this succeeds technically it can go back the other way?

but i also don't agree with the idea of a rare/ex that takes 1 week over a non rare ex that takes a year? why do it then, there needs to be a point ..i'm sorry but the concept of 2 things for diff amount of work is not gonna work. no one will do it, it would be a waist of dev time and money even trying to make it. if the one u can add materia and one u can't something to that point then maybe, but it needs to be "Worth" the time invested. but i agree hardcore need there game play too.

also no matter how easy u make things in a mmo, the biggest problem for most casuals is they don't motivate enough time to actually trying to put things together, they will run around solo in pve or even pvp games till someone does it, or they see a shout. leaders stooped doing dungeons for 2 weeks and guess how many dungeon runs got done even though people still need stuff? none, so how easy does everything need to be, it all needs to be fully solo for any casual to do and that isn't a online mmorpg that is 15bucks a month extra for a offline game with aol chat. but that is my opinion, this game will suck and fail without real and challenging and party play contents including hnm types with or without the time for pops. u may not think so right away but for sure even the most dedicated to hating hnm's and hard content will end up leaving the game in a year tops without. ...but again maybe that is what 80% want in a mmo for it to die out in a year and go f2p.
you do i understand what i said was a example and not something for real right? don't take it so literal.

The issue with HNM/BCNM is to fix that issue it's not to make everything x2 that only one issue. Everything else can be fix but making it fun and hard but also very casual. The HNM fastest fix was to make two version of it and give other type of reward also for the BCNM.