Season One, Race Event 21: One Week Party

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if you changed it to where its based on time played, it would become way more fun and interesting.

Here is the scenario:
1. Started the race, pushed it pretty hard
2. Went to bed around 2am got a good 8 hr sleep
3. wake up, have coffee, check the ladder. See how you're progressing
4. Clock in and plow. You have an idea of your current standing, how much you need to improve, and how much your work has paid off.


Often when you /ladder you see the top 10. If you're the top 10, who knows what your progress is til its over. the 11th spot should be the nth spot where it shows your current standing

so it would look like

1. Nugiyen
2. Kripparian
3. xxxxxxx
4. xxxxxx
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130th. Yourself

the excitment builds up, when you finish at night and you find out ur 90th. and then you go to sleep and wake up and find out your back at 150th.

Often times its not worth the time to be able to research your current standing.
Being able to take a minute without feeling like you're just getting further behind is taking a lot of potential fun out of it.

just my 2 cents again.

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Aux wrote:

Definitely don't think it's worth the time investment, especially since you have no chance as a solo player.

I am personally boycotting these races and not participating until the point system becomes a bit more fair. As I see it, the time needed to get anywhere near the last price for the season takes such a substantial chunk of time and effort (and lack of responsibilities in real life) that it is practically impossible. I predict maybe 20 people will get the 480 point reward.

Adding to that the amount of hours taken away from your permanent character is more than enough to deter most people who are leveled-headed enough to weigh their options. In the estimated 300-400 hour investment it would take to achieve the 480 point reward, imagine what you could accomplish on your permanent league--instead of making 100+ lvl 20 characters from racing.

To sum it up: this game has everything going for it, one of the best is the competitive racing. It obviously needs a lot of tweaking to make it more accessible to people. Sure the 480 point reward should be attainable only by a few people who are very good, but it should not be determined by the lack of real life responsibilities. Some days require 9+ hours of racing and a commitment of a 7 day a week schedule for almost 2 months straight.

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Litheum wrote:

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Aux wrote:

Definitely don't think it's worth the time investment, especially since you have no chance as a solo player.

I am personally boycotting these races and not participating until the point system becomes a bit more fair. As I see it, the time needed to get anywhere near the last price for the season takes such a substantial chunk of time and effort (and lack of responsibilities in real life) that it is practically impossible. I predict maybe 20 people will get the 480 point reward.

Adding to that the amount of hours taken away from your permanent character is more than enough to deter most people who are leveled-headed enough to weigh their options. In the estimated 300-400 hour investment it would take to achieve the 480 point reward, imagine what you could accomplish on your permanent league--instead of making 100+ lvl 20 characters from racing.

To sum it up: this game has everything going for it, one of the best is the competitive racing. It obviously needs a lot of tweaking to make it more accessible to people. Sure the 480 point reward should be attainable only by a few people who are very good, but it should not be determined by the lack of real life responsibilities. Some days require 9+ hours of racing and a commitment of a 7 day a week schedule for almost 2 months straight.

There has to be awards that are nearly impossible. It only makes sense.

Think about it, if the average player could get the very best award, what would the hardcore players, putting in 12 hours a day have to work towards?? Nothing.

It is unfair, a player that doesnt put in ridiculous hours and compete at the very top of the ladder will not get as many prizes. But it would also be unfair to just give all the prizes away to every player just for playing a few hours a day.

All GGG is trying to do is make sure there are prizes for all types of player. Any player can get a few of the rewards, the Wanderlust IMO is the best reward, and pretty easy to get. I will never see a 480 point reward, because I don't play as much, and I am not as good as these guys at the top of the ladder. Seems as fair as it can get, really.

Personally, it is incredibly refreshing to see a game stick to it's guns, and keep this game Hardcore friendly. I honestly believe that Blizzard and other game companies casual friendly design makes there games suck. They get more players, sure, but there was a Company a long time ago that made games because they loved making games, and the only thing that mattered was making the very best games possible. Than they got greedy, and created Diablo 3.

It's OK if GGG scares off some casual, younger players wanting everything handed to them, maybe they will make a little less money, but the community will be much better without them. And honestly, a lot of those types of players will never spend a penny on this game.

I would imagine most of their income is coming from the big supporters, who are all "hardcore" players, and people buying up a bunch of tabs. Again, the only reason you would need that many tabs is because you are farming enough hours a week to need them. I don't think they need to cater to casuals, because they are not the ones paying $100s or even $1000 to play this game.

And maybe, just maybe, there goal is to make a great game, not squeeze every penny out of every winy kid wanting to charge up mommies credit card for instant top-end gear.

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Zenoth wrote:

There should be progression rewards too, killing big bosses like brutus, merveil, vaal & piety is much harder than farming ledge/western/docks for x amount time.