Titles are not enough
Posted by: Anromir
On: Sep 21, 2009 at 11:23am
In one of my previous posts, I praised Mythic for putting together a weekend event for a scenario. I even encouraged them to continue this. So I was happy when I saw they were going to do it every weekend in September.
But they missed an important part of the equation. Incentive to take part. Just because it's different does not mean it's going to be a big attraction. Especially in MMO's. "If you build it, they will come," does not really apply in MMOs. There has to be a draw to get players in there. The only carrot Mythic has put up for these scenario weekends is titles. And, while titles are fun, there's no concrete reward to make them more enticing than regular RvR.
On my server, Gorfang, there has not been a serious SC metagame as of late. There are those in the forums who talk about them and certainly enjoy the rewards they get from them. But in my experience as of late, scenarios have not been popping very much in recent months. And one would think that with the live event for the Gates of Ekrund, there would have been good activity in that scenario.
Across two characters, I got one scenario pop for each of them this weekend. In the past when they've had these weekends, like with Nordenwatch, the scen pops were flying around like crazy. But not this weekend, and though I didn't really have a chance to try it out last weekend with Mourkain, Grimnir says he was not getting a lot of activity in that scen either.
So, as I said, a title for that amount of work is not enough for people, and the scenarios were underpopulated. How are you supposed to participate in a scenario ten times when it pops twice? Especially when, on Anromir, I was able to get a hefty dose of Renown Points by flipping zones. Especially the ones where I helped take keeps and BO's. Three zones and I was able to go up a Renown Rank. Regular RvR was much more rewarding for people in T4 this weekend. (Mind, I was queued for Ekrund the whole time I ran around locking zones. Only one pop.)
So, I know the RP and XP earned has a 20% bonus throughout the game this whole month, but that's pretty much the only thing which will draw people into the scenarios: increased RP gain. So, if Mythic wants these to be a success, I think they'll have to throw something like that in.
But they missed an important part of the equation. Incentive to take part. Just because it's different does not mean it's going to be a big attraction. Especially in MMO's. "If you build it, they will come," does not really apply in MMOs. There has to be a draw to get players in there. The only carrot Mythic has put up for these scenario weekends is titles. And, while titles are fun, there's no concrete reward to make them more enticing than regular RvR.
On my server, Gorfang, there has not been a serious SC metagame as of late. There are those in the forums who talk about them and certainly enjoy the rewards they get from them. But in my experience as of late, scenarios have not been popping very much in recent months. And one would think that with the live event for the Gates of Ekrund, there would have been good activity in that scenario.
Across two characters, I got one scenario pop for each of them this weekend. In the past when they've had these weekends, like with Nordenwatch, the scen pops were flying around like crazy. But not this weekend, and though I didn't really have a chance to try it out last weekend with Mourkain, Grimnir says he was not getting a lot of activity in that scen either.
So, as I said, a title for that amount of work is not enough for people, and the scenarios were underpopulated. How are you supposed to participate in a scenario ten times when it pops twice? Especially when, on Anromir, I was able to get a hefty dose of Renown Points by flipping zones. Especially the ones where I helped take keeps and BO's. Three zones and I was able to go up a Renown Rank. Regular RvR was much more rewarding for people in T4 this weekend. (Mind, I was queued for Ekrund the whole time I ran around locking zones. Only one pop.)
So, I know the RP and XP earned has a 20% bonus throughout the game this whole month, but that's pretty much the only thing which will draw people into the scenarios: increased RP gain. So, if Mythic wants these to be a success, I think they'll have to throw something like that in.
