Quote Originally Posted by Deslyxic View Post
The point is, if I'm right and this hurts the engagement of the game I believe most people aren't going to forums or reddit or twitter to express critique for the game, they will either just stop doing the content or if worse come to worse, stop playing altogether.
Right, like tons and tons of people did with Shadowbringers and Endwalker. Because they were boring and had nothing to do once you finished the MSQ if you didn't raid. I just don't see how you can take a personal opinion about your experience in the game and extrapolate it to the entire community. Do you know how many midcore players came over from WoW and then immediately went back when Dragonflight came out because Endwalker had no endgame outside of savage? A lot. Do you know why WoW is having a huge resurgence in popularity right now? Because the devs decided to actually listen to their most dedicated players, hardcore and midcore alike, and designed the game FOR them. The same thing happened with Destiny 2 recently. That game is also experiencing unprecedented levels of positive PR, because they also listened to their most dedicated fans instead of catering to the lowest common denominator. That is how games become popular, when they have a vision and stick to it, and cater to the audience that actually cares to play the game regularly. And by the way, this is not me saying that CBU3 should cater exclusively to hardcore raiders or whatever, but that they should cater to the people that care enough about the game to post on the forums, reddit, etc. the ones that actually log in and play the game regularly and don't let their subscriptions lapse the month after a story patch comes out. I see a lot more of those types of people on here agreeing with me than they do with you.