Comments on: Wizard 101: Cyrus Drake apologizes for difficult boss encounters

By: Tesh

Tesh — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:43:14 +0000

…and to add to Tipa’s comment, you can’t even buy the (now mediocre) Crown gear with gold any more. It’s just baffling, and a bit frustrating. The design was great before, and the changes make me question their judgment.

By: One Wizard’s Treasure « Tish Tosh Tesh

One Wizard’s Treasure « Tish Tosh Tesh — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:10:04 +0000

[...] gimmick fights, as noted by Tipa over here (Cyrus Apologizes), are another strange decision. I’m very sympathetic to the notion of introducing a bit more [...]

By: Tipa

Tipa — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:51:33 +0000

The old uber Zeke gear has been replaced with just merely okay gear,

By: Saylah

Saylah — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 02:53:20 +0000

@Tesh – Losing some of the old cool old gear? Not playing right now. hadn’t hear that.

By: Quantize

Quantize — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:41:12 +0000

judging by the amount of negative feedback they have received on central and main forums, i expect a patch removing the boss battles in the next few days

By: Tesh

Tesh — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:22:11 +0000

Saylah, sure, there would need to be loot table changes. I mistakenly assumed that was obvious. ;) Considering that there’s more loot in the game these days (despite losing some of the really cool old gear, which I’m still very sad about), that might be a good idea anyway.

By: Saylah

Saylah — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:22:17 +0000

I think harder fights or more strategic fights is a “nice to have”. However, I couldn’t solo most of those bosses anyway. You do needed at least two players to do them which isn’t actually that easy to come by in a game populated with youngsters. And it’s difficult to get your adult friends on your friends list plus have them online when you need to do the fight. I done some fights with kids and they can do really annoying and silly things, then they flee when they die so, no thanks to fights where now it takes more than two players to down a boss. I’d never get them done.

How were kids going to get them done with increased difficulty? Doing them duo still meant people being on their A game. The safer number was three. Now consider how long some of the trash clears are in the game and 3 people need to be there for the boss, what the heck was going to happen if you need the full 5??

I can understand them not considering options for dungeons. If everyone low-balls and then just farms them for the loot there’s no point in options. They’d need to change the loot tables to match the difficulty for it to have meaning. You can’t have someone taking the low road and getting the same rewards as those doing the more difficult option, so it’s not really as simple as “let people choose”.

I like that they do listen to their community and at the very least, acknowledge that they’ve heard the concern.

By: Tesh

Tesh — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:47:58 +0000

This is another case where it would have been nice to offer options. Not everyone *wants* puzzle raids. Not everyone *wants* simple “bash and loot” fights. Why not implement both, and let the players decide which they want to play with?

One Size Fits All just doesn’t work, nor does changing game design midstream, and with as many other smart things that King’s Isle is doing, I’m a bit surprised they didn’t see this one coming.

By: Anjin

Anjin — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:27:41 +0000

Reading that mea culpa from the devs, I actually feel kind of bad for them.