Gating interesting content behind artificial side leveling

[Reynhart]

Alexandre: People AFK Eureka because it sucks.

That's not what he said. He said Eureka is badly designed because people can AFK in it and still "clear" it.

I have seen maybe 20 afker's total outside of Eureka in the 5 years of playing this game (not counting the obvious bots you see out in the world) whereas the number of people who AFK in Eureka is somewhere in the neighborhood of half every single instance.

I've seen more than that every time a new alliance raid is released, with people staying outside the boss gates. And there are probably enough in total over the years that SE recently had to make something to draw you inside. The big difference is that, in those instance, people will kick you for being AFK.

Crybabies is a hilarious term for feeling like people aren't putting in enough work for your arbitrary standards of who gets to own a bad weapon that glows though.

If they don't want to put effort in an optionnal weapon, why do they even show there ? Like you said, the tome weapon is easier and better to obtain. But no, they wan't their shiny new toy, but don't want to work for it...and they come here complaining that they shouldn't have to work for it and that they're forced to do Eureka.

This very topic was created by someone complaining that you have to do Eureka...to be able to do Eureka.