Excluding Players from Ultimate Savage is Not the Right Move

[Paladinleeds]

Ok, so before you start going all gung-ho saying "You just wanna keep raiding exclusive to your circle", I haven't touched Savage. So clearly I'm wanting to keep something exclusive to my circle that I'm not even in (I got the Savage Coil titles unsynced, which is another thing)... With that being said, I do feel that this Super Savage does need to be exclusive. It has been stated that it is going to be ball-bustingly hard. Probably harder than A3S and A6S were combined back in their heydey, and it's going to be designed to be so hard it breaks statics. Basically, anything less than the hardestcore or the hardcore will not be able to beat this. Plus by the sounds of it, it's going to be locked to minimum ilvl. If you are not super-hardcore, this will be a source of frustration and salt. It will make you want to destroy your PC because unless you're hardcore already, you're going to feel hellfire and brimstone. And, it will bring out the worst in people.

If everyone can try it, then people will cry nerf. SE, because this is meant to be ball-bustingly hard, will face a choice. Cave in and watch as some of the playerbase complains that SE won't give the hardcore players a bone, or refuse and watch as other players keep crying nerf until the cows come home (and you bet there will be millions of topics on it). Or they'll start making ridiculous comments about SE, or quit the game.

One thing is for certain, no matter what SE does, someone will complain to do the opposite of what they did. The company cannot win.

EDIT: Actually, one thing I haven't yet talked about. Consider O4S as like a training wheels exercise. Consider O4S as like training to make sure you are up to the task. Because it's going to be a LOT harder than O4S.

[Nestama]

Probably harder than A3S and A6S were combined back in their heydey, and it's going to be designed to be so hard it breaks statics.

But what if we threw in a Cruise Chaser into the mix... or will that be Second Ultimate?
Y'know, I have a strange feeling there'll be an 'Ultimate' that will include the Warring Triad (I can't be the only one who has thought about a fight involving these three all at once).