https://www.reddit.com/r/thedivision..._from_massive/Originally Posted by desrocchi Go to original post
my concern is with how easy it will be to optimize now the point of hunting for loot is gone when you can just optimize it simply. People will be god rolled out and now what would be the point in playing. The loot hunt is the main draw for playing like any looter and the loot hunt now got several times quicker. Like when you've got rolled all your sets out, what purpose is there to continue to play since all gear drops wont help, nothing is hard to get. I mean sure commendations and such but the change concerns me for longevitiy for the more hardcore of players (who are a lot of the times the ones who actually purchase the premium stuff).
A lot of people right now really only log in to do the easy season content now for the one time cosmetics and little bits of lore. I expected 30% to keep about the avergate time it takes to actually go out and farm a tripple god roll. But 75% is FAR to much. Put it this way, just casucal play a day will get you 1 optimize a day. Theres only 27 Total stats on a character's gear, 4 of which can be recalibrated to max to save for talenl recals, so 23 stats to max. (assuming high end buidls, set builds only have 23 so 19 optimizable stats). Its not hard to find at least one god rolled stat on a piece of gear to start with which lowers the count from 23 to 14 stats. 14 optimiza rolls and that its, that gear is done, maxxed out.
And it is a little slap in the face for those players who actually spent hours and days farming places for those triple god rolls. While yes time advances and things get easier over time for games and a lot of people understand it, to slap 75% reduction and make optimization now far far better way of getting gear then actually farming for gear removes a lot of te point of a looter game.
Unless there is something big planned for year 3, this will lower the player base quite quickly as those that get maxxed out stop playing since they get maxxed out. And I dont say it lightly since ive been around since beta launch, provided numerous testing feedback for PTS's and a lot of number crunching for builds and balance. This change is concerning as its div1's opti bench all over again.
I'm not sure what the issue with you all is here...
Those who enjoy the looter part will continue on looting without any interference from the non-looters.
Those who enjoy the shooter part & would like to keep the pieces they have indefinitely will play the game without any interference from the looters.
It's like no one deserves to enjoy a maxed build if they didn't put 10.000 hours or SHD1.000.000 or 10.000.000 uPlay credits into the game.
This is a video game. It should be fun, entertaining & rewarding for everyone!
***Everyone = money to keep this game's servers on or develop another game.***