Digimonk wrote on Feb 7
th, 2017 at 3:50pm:
A month or two ago when Reaper hit Lama, our guild had a lively discussion about it. I predicted that it would be exciting for most at first but in the end would only serve to further divide the haves from the have nots in DDO.
Power gamers will be fine. They'll just Reaper with their powergamer friends/guilds or solo missions on low to mid skull Reaper.
Casuals on the other hand won't be welcomed into the high-skull Reaper runs because they'd just be a handicap. They generally won't have the gear, past lives and min/max'd builds to solo EE/LE/low skull Reaper. They might normally be fine just running non-Reaper like they have in the past, but now the pool of powergamers that have helped/carried them through EE/LE will be MIA because they're busy running Reaper. This will lead to increased wait times for LFMs to fill and as a result, increased boredom and frustration with the game.
There have already been posts along these lines, both here and on the official forums. On Ghallanda at least, non-powergamers noticeably outnumber the hardcore players. Ignoring the larger customer demographic and increasing their unhappiness with the game is generally not a good long-term plan for the health of your product, especially when marketing initiatives and new, long-term customers are virtually non-existent.
Meh. This is overblown, I think. Mostly power gamers thinking they are more important to the casuals than they actually are. Because they really have been separate and haven't interacted with the casuals for years and years already.
You say power gamers were carrying casuals through LE/EE content. That's a fallacy. Casuals weren't running that much EE/LE. On Khyber the pug LFM's for raids/end game were all LH. LH Shroud, LH spine, LN Hound, LH slavers. While the power gamers are running LE shroud, spine, hound and LE slavers. Mostly filling in channels. Maybe they pug a spot or two. The power gamers were already MIA from the casuals. The gap you speak of was created by PL's and EPL's and min/max gear. That has done happened.
Reaper might make the line more pronounced and a small minority on the fringes might get pinched one way or the other, but that is not the majority. And since the casuals/lower skilled base outnumbers the power gamers 3 to 1, at least, there is enough of them that these players can drop down and run the N/H/E runs that these groups do. They might just have to throw up some LFM's, talk to the joiners and find a new guild and a new group of folks to run with.
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