SSF should be different, not punishing

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teodar1987 wrote:

The reason is simple - greed. GGG wants players to crave what other players have and grind and scam to get it, that's the hook to keep them playing and eventually splurging on mtx.

A rewarding ssf experience will allow most of the players to explore the boundaries of available content in a reasonable time frame. At that point the only thing to keep them interested would be meaningful new content - at the level of an expansion at the least. Which translates into more work for GGG and less profit.

So, a big fat nope. The gods may be crazy, but GGG probably ain't.

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teodar1987 wrote:

The reason is simple - greed. GGG wants players to crave what other players have and grind and scam to get it, that's the hook to keep them playing and eventually splurging on mtx.

A rewarding ssf experience will allow most of the players to explore the boundaries of available content in a reasonable time frame. At that point the only thing to keep them interested would be meaningful new content - at the level of an expansion at the least. Which translates into more work for GGG and less profit.

So, a big fat nope. The gods may be crazy, but GGG probably ain't.

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Anthron wrote:

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teodar1987 wrote:

The reason is simple - greed. GGG wants players to crave what other players have and grind and scam to get it, that's the hook to keep them playing and eventually splurging on mtx.

A rewarding ssf experience will allow most of the players to explore the boundaries of available content in a reasonable time frame. At that point the only thing to keep them interested would be meaningful new content - at the level of an expansion at the least. Which translates into more work for GGG and less profit.

So, a big fat nope. The gods may be crazy, but GGG probably ain't.

I think it is even more malicious than that, the more casual players are there to feed currency to the "power-gamers" who have been indoctrinated into gambling addicts.

Splitting off parts of the population destroys this interaction and must be punished, SSF is made to be punishing to people who choose to not conform. You need to have the casuals to buy the cast offs of the people who grind the game like a profession. They can take currencies gained from that interaction and ‘Craft’ items with slot machines eventually pulling the lever enough times to get into the next tier of grinding zones and even more trash to sell.

Any thing that would disturb that ‘food chain’ by splitting off the top of the food chain players from the casual krill to sate there gambling addiction is not going to happen, this is why it hasn’t happened.

It would be trivial to add private leagues with modifiers that could be used to customize the difficulty of the game to whatever the player wants with the requirement that easier modes would be required to be voided leagues, all those things have been done before. This would effectively be like adding a subscription option to the game, but it would be a delicious poison killing the game surely. The food chain would break down with the trade league top 10% not having gawking masses to fawn over there most recent slot machine item victories that trivialize the game content making end game boss runs count in seconds. The casuals would be able to reach a point of satisfaction and could finally move on from their tormented spirit existence.

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Anthron wrote:

I think it is even more malicious than that, the more casual players are there to feed currency to the "power-gamers" who have been indoctrinated into gambling addicts.

Splitting off parts of the population destroys this interaction and must be punished, SSF is made to be punishing to people who choose to not conform. You need to have the casuals to buy the cast offs of the people who grind the game like a profession. They can take currencies gained from that interaction and ‘Craft’ items with slot machines eventually pulling the lever enough times to get into the next tier of grinding zones and even more trash to sell.

Any thing that would disturb that ‘food chain’ by splitting off the top of the food chain players from the casual krill to sate there gambling addiction is not going to happen, this is why it hasn’t happened.

It would be trivial to add private leagues with modifiers that could be used to customize the difficulty of the game to whatever the player wants with the requirement that easier modes would be required to be voided leagues, all those things have been done before. This would effectively be like adding a subscription option to the game, but it would be a delicious poison killing the game surely. The food chain would break down with the trade league top 10% not having gawking masses to fawn over there most recent slot machine item victories that trivialize the game content making end game boss runs count in seconds. The casuals would be able to reach a point of satisfaction and could finally move on from their tormented spirit existence.

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Chalace2 wrote:

Love the fact you completely ignored my post, in favor of some ridiculous conspiracy theory...

Again, EVERYTHING is cleared in a few days, every league on SSF HC...
The sheer level of denial on these forums is actually insane.

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Anthron wrote:

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Chalace2 wrote:

Love the fact you completely ignored my post, in favor of some ridiculous conspiracy theory...

Again, EVERYTHING is cleared in a few days, every league on SSF HC...
The sheer level of denial on these forums is actually insane.

I ignored your post cause it isnt a valid argument.

Yes everything is completed very quickly even on SSF and HCSSF, mostly completed by people who may not even sleep for the first few days. SSF is more punishing then trade league by design, you cant argue against that as a fact.

How does one players view on the game invalidate anothers?

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Chalace2 wrote:

How is it not valid?
Clearly shows the game is trivial at this point.

This has nothing to do with invalidating one statement or another, but with looking at actual facts.