World of Menucraft

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@Vilroth-the-maelstrom

Its a non stop thing. Ppl play GW2 for fun.

Ppl play wow for weekly lootboxes. Since they play purely for lootboxes the means to that end becomes less important.

So they buy boosts …
Play one arena or RBG game to be eligible for the weekly …
Stop playing once they lose one or two games… since it will drop them below X rating.

Blizzard doesn’t care about your activity as long as you pay your monthly fees. So the game is designed around that idea. Weekly Skinner boxes to keep you just engaged enough so you pay your fee.

You can imagine that a game without weekly resets and a soloq system that is designed to create activity that the social interaction follows that same pattern. In GW2 we communicate with eachother just for fun. Just like we play pvp for fun.

Must be hard to grasp as wow player right?

Soloq reminder

^ Those two are likely the main reasons why it hasn’t degraded as much in GW2, assuming you’re correct in your statements that is. For one thing, quick seasons means it fades out a bit. People already don’t need to level and no need to gear in GW2 for PvP, so there’s little preparation needed which means less anticipation and less investment. Then the fact that the seasons are quick, means that people place less value in each individual season. It becomes more bland. It dulls the emotional i…

Already covered that part in that post.

Basically you don’t go raging in a game like pacman the way you’d do in a game like WoW or LoL.
Because the reward scheme is different, and the psychological hooks are different. The existence of comparing yourself to other people is also an influential factor in emotional triggers.

Basically a casual game designed for casuals with no “prestige” like in typical esport games, leads to different player behavior.

@Vilroth-the-maelstrom

Toxic comments are caused by a difference in skill, gear level, goals etc.

@Vilroth-the-maelstrom

Difference in skill gets eliminated by proper matchmaking.

^ That’s also laughable. This isn’t that kind of game where rating can quantify ability to such an extent, buddy. Not even with a solo queue.
On top of the premise you stated being wrong as well.

But you still have a lot more to answer.