Crazy Game Design Idea

[Kaurhz]

What if different players are interested in different things? SE is trying to make content for all the different categories of players, which spreads them thin:
- RPers (housing, furniture, glam).
- Casual players (alliance raids, MSQ, dungeons).
- Midcore players that want grinds, relics, mounts and things like that (lots of mount grinds with hunts, FATEs, beast tribes, scrips, Extremes, Field Operations, etc)
- Raiders (Savage and Ultimate).
- People who want dungeons to have more variety (variant dungeons).
- People who want mythic+ (criterion).
- People who enjoy BA and DRS large scale raiding (Chaos raids).

But by satisfying all these different types of people, it spreads them thin making few of them actually satisfied.

To be honest in this instance they should have just learned that after a decade of developing content you should have a good structure for when content comes out or how it is developed...

Let's take raiders who enjoy large scale raiding (BA/DRS/Chaotic) and casual players that want alliance raids, there is no reason why you cannot satisfy both at the same time. In the similar way they did when they added Variant -> Criterion as a multi-step difficulty. There is very little reason why Chaotic could not have served as a 2 step difficulty.

Midcore players that want grinds? There is no reason why you cannot release the relic sooner in the games lifecycle, and then eventually integrate it into exploratory content or the sort. Like what is there to stop them from adding in a tomestone grind, or a FATE grind like they did in animated quest for the HW relic. To my knowledge the asset models for the initial weren't even entirely fresh either, but recycled from 3.05 with some visual effects added. The option is there, and it just seems they elect not to.. At this point most people wouldn't even mind if the initial model was recycled from another model as it would actually give them something to do.