the issue with raiding for me is needing to find 5 other people, at the same time, who aren’t toxic, who won’t kick you, and needing to maintain the grind year-round to have the meta load out, some of which are items you can only get if you’ve already done the activity you’re trying to do, and have an entire uninterrupted 6 hour session to do so.
There’s only so much “you can’t play this because…” before it turns into “I won’t play this because…”
that’s the other issue. I can’t have a raid group - I don’t have a set gaming time or day or even length of time to play, or even set location in my house, and Destiny is a very needy game in terms of you needing to clock in regularly or else you miss narrative-shaking story events you can never experience again.
All it takes is not being able to play for a couple of months and you’re pretty much out for good.
My group of friends struggles to get 6 players on at the same time and when it does, 6 players that are good enough FPS players to actually pull off the raid, that have time for the raid …
Raids are basically not happening for me because of the player count requirements. I’m also not big on random teammates for stuff like that so … it’s a part of the game I have engaged with and it’s interesting but it’s not something I engage with at any regularity and I’d rather they put more effort into more interesting dungeons (or allowing smaller teams to viably do the raids and just using scaling if you have a full party) personally.
I agree with you mostly. But for me, the raids were fucking peak. I could play a game that just focuses on that.
the issue with raiding for me is needing to find 5 other people, at the same time, who aren’t toxic, who won’t kick you, and needing to maintain the grind year-round to have the meta load out, some of which are items you can only get if you’ve already done the activity you’re trying to do, and have an entire uninterrupted 6 hour session to do so.
There’s only so much “you can’t play this because…” before it turns into “I won’t play this because…”
I guess I’m lucky. We had 2 raid groups. I have hundreds of hours of cherished time spent raiding with Tsunami Bomb Squad.
that’s the other issue. I can’t have a raid group - I don’t have a set gaming time or day or even length of time to play, or even set location in my house, and Destiny is a very needy game in terms of you needing to clock in regularly or else you miss narrative-shaking story events you can never experience again.
All it takes is not being able to play for a couple of months and you’re pretty much out for good.
My group of friends struggles to get 6 players on at the same time and when it does, 6 players that are good enough FPS players to actually pull off the raid, that have time for the raid …
Raids are basically not happening for me because of the player count requirements. I’m also not big on random teammates for stuff like that so … it’s a part of the game I have engaged with and it’s interesting but it’s not something I engage with at any regularity and I’d rather they put more effort into more interesting dungeons (or allowing smaller teams to viably do the raids and just using scaling if you have a full party) personally.