The Weekly Cap - Am I completely disillusioned?

[Aeyis]

Yeah, I know it's crazy, but with the cap, I now have the ability (since HW came out) to put the game down and do some necessary life things. With no cap, I was consistently under pressure (from myself however) to just keep playing to get to that next milestone that ups my ilvl.

I feel the opposite. With a cap present I feel forced and pressured to meet that cap each week. A lot of people feel that way. Without a cap we could just put the game down because we wouldnt lose out on not capping this week.

Caps = making grinding mandatory. Making it like a job. A job that you pay for, no less.

[Hundred]

They do it to prevent people from getting everything in the first two weeks, completing everything and then going "got nothing to do, might as well unsub until 3.1".

It's to retain players by cementing that they basically are never "finished" the gear treadmill before they can release more.

[DkDerek]

It's not about the gear.

It's about the power the gear gives you. If there was no cap, Alexander Savage would have been cleared on the second night.

We'd have no content. We would literally be done raiding until the next raid comes out. Thats why there is a cap. It's to throttle the power of the players.

I don't understand how this is so difficult to understand.

[Terribad]

The weekly cap is simply for lazy devs that really don't have anything else in game AND to keep subs. There is really no real legit reason for a tome system other than to slow down progression to keep you coming back. But if there was more than one set to aim for it wouldn't really matter. I've also noticed that most people that like the cap are people that are extremely worried about what someone else is doing. If someone can/wants to grind out gear all day. Why does it really matter? It doesn't.

[Core1019]

I would like the cap to be removed, but I can see why it's there.

Tbh, if it was removed it'd probably take me even longer to get Eso gear, because I wouldn't have the pressure of being locked out of progression to get me moving.

[okitaluc]

This is a sub game , they will try keep you engaged to the game , a cap is a way to do that. Why would you keep paying if there is nothing more to do ...

[ValkyrieL]

I like cap, my static farms Alexander normal for specific drop, and it sucks when we have run same turn over and over.
Can you imagine no cap and rng force down our throats with very low item drop rate AND the extra rng of getting specific. Drops.

[Kaedan]

Welcome to gear progression MMOs. If they didn't have a cap, then people would subscribe for a month, get all their crap, then unsub until the next content update. Not good for business.

So what SE does is cap it until the next content update, then remove the cap and add a new token and gear. Unless of course you'd rather that Gear was completely RNG and the chances of getting what you want are like 1%. That's what a lot of other MMOs do.

The interesting thing is the gimme, gimme, gimme attitude, especially when the gear is essentially useless to 90% of the people whining. The vast majority don't even do raids and just want it for the sake of wanting it.

You should be thankful you came later. The weekly cap used to be 300 tokens. 450 is a good compromise.

[GalkaBikini]

This has been the system since the game came out almost 2 years ago. It's worked for 2 years, why change it now?

[WinterLuna]

I think it's fine the way it is.