You guys are asking for MORE DAILIES?

#1 - Jan. 8, 2015, 7:34 p.m.

Either I'm going crazy or you guys have really short memories.

http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/6297652888

Since then, the game has become nothing more than a giant pile of dailies. You want gear? Do dailies. You want quests? Dailies. You want end-game content without raiding eight days a week? Dailies, dailies, dailies.

But guess what? I don't have time for dailies! And neither does the average casual player in a similar situation like me! I am in a casual guild with casual players, and it has become nearly impossible for us to keep up with the immense amount of dailies required to even give the game meaning.

http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/6149555026

These daily q's are at best repetitive mundane boring tedious coma inducing grinds that are about as much fun as sticking needles in your eyeballs, Faction rep isnt even BOA ( which it should be) so you have to repeat the same grinding boring boring boring rep/daily quests again and again for every alt until your that suicidal your ready to put your head in the oven with the turkey .

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/7166796803

I've already done the dailies/rep grin once and have ZERO interest in doing them again. Blizz, you really need to think about replacing you developers if you can find a single one that thinks doing the EXACT same quest for the 1000th time is in ANY way fun.

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/7004040471

I don't find dailies hard, but I do find them very time consuming. Low gold payout, low rep payout, only way to grind out rep for MoP factions. I get that blizzard wants players to work for their stuff, but seriously. I'm a casual player, and as such, I don't want to spend all morning farming rep for factions in MoP.

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/6935295989

MoP feels more like a job than a game.
If I am not out grinding dailies I am having to stock up on mats I will need to get ahead for when dailies reset.
For the average player ie those that dont spend 8+ hours a day on here there is lots to do even without having to spend 2 hours a day flying around pandoria just to do dailies.

Bashiok

Community Manager

#154 - Jan. 8, 2015, 11:57 p.m.

We don't think dailies are innately evil or anything, and we don't think most people think they're evil either, there are obviously some in the game now, and they CAN be a force for good. :D Like anything it's really just about using them as one of many tools in our toolbox. We can do lots of things in lots of different ways, and it's just about trying to be smart about how to best use each piece of content or type of mechanic in the best ways possible.

Lots of people play WoW, and there are lots of different types of players, with different amounts of time to play, and different tastes for the content and difficulty and time commitment they want to give to any of those pieces of content. The person that plays for an hour or so a few times a week is playing the same game as the person that plays five hours every night, and so that requires a lot of different types of content with lots of different types of players in-mind, and really trying to make sure we're giving everyone something they enjoy. It's hard!

Reminds me of a quote from a recent interview with Neil Peart--certainly one of the greatest living drummers, if not of all time--and his mom wondering why he doesn't smile more while he plays drums, and his answer: "It's hard!" Being talented, or even being the best, doesn't save anyone from the requirement of determination and a herculean effort to get it done well.

Anyway, in 6.1 (as announced) we have a new series of quests--tasks, if you will--that will be daily, and also be randomized among you and your friends. So people will be able to coordinate, and visit each others Garrisons, and get these tasks. There's a variety of quest types, and then multiple missions within each type, and so you can just do yours, or really make sure you do all of the types each day by coordinating with friends/guild mates. Rewards vary but they're all very opt-in in nature. There are a bunch of achievements, some fun rewards, and some interactions with professions and crafting materials.

We think it'll be a fun addition that is daily but not... OH NO IT'S DAILY, and as always we'll be looking for feedback and testing once the PTR spins up.

Bashiok

Community Manager

#169 - Jan. 9, 2015, 12:26 a.m.

01/08/2015 04:20 PMPosted by Faifel
I don't think it sounds very fun having to visit 10 other ppl's garrisons to pick up quests I want to do. Stop developing this horrible sounding system now Blizzard. It'll only end in many complaints.

You don't have to, you can just do the one you got if you like. It's a social game, so encouraging social experiences is sort of a goal, even if it's as small as "Anyone have an enchanting building that can invite me?" Those small interactions have the possibility to become much bigger ones, so they're still important.

And that's especially true if/when these daily tasks require more than one player to complete.

Bashiok

Community Manager

#174 - Jan. 9, 2015, 12:30 a.m.

01/08/2015 04:26 PMPosted by Peppi
alot of us don't have friends or are in very inactive guilds

You should find some friends! Or a more active guild! What's the holdup?

Bashiok

Community Manager

#178 - Jan. 9, 2015, 12:31 a.m.

01/08/2015 04:30 PMPosted by Cirno
"Interactions with professions and crafting materials" though makes it sound like it'll be like "I need x hexweave" or something like that, which I pray isn't.

Probably more as a way to put those stacks of mats to better use, and speed up some of the crafting cooldowns. Still in-development of course.