Too Long; Didn’t Listen episode 56 — All nonsense all the time

It’s an “anything goes” forum for today’s episode, as Dodge and Syp go off the rails to discuss whatever’s on their minds. Lazy? For sure. Genius? That too! Entertaining? Your call.

Two topics in 30 minutes or your next podcast is free. You know you would listen to all this if it just wasn’t so… long!

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Complaints and first world problems
Topic #1: How do you fight burnout?
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Topic #2: Are casual endgame systems compelling?

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Paul Benfield

Great episode, two very well matched topics. Regarding burnout I just take a break, I did with WoW for nearly a year and it was worth it. The casual end-game is a tough one, though it often leads to burnout as you stated.

Dailies are a pretty lame design, playing the new 5.2 patch Thunder King island in WoW I can see just how formulaic it all is (I came back to WoW recently so skipped over the dailies faction overload issue). The really annoying issue is how content, i.e. story, gets locked behind these grinds. Surely there must be a better way to pace how quickly players see a story unfolding? I can’t think of anything myself though it’s a worthy thought-experiment!
Tapkoh

Lotro has been a painful experience for me lately. I didn’t care for Rohan, but I got to 85 on 3 characters anyway. Then there was literally nothing to do but skirm raids for group content that had any decent loot, which was the majority of endgame content we had to do at 75 for a long time. When I learned that completing Hotbolt was the only way to “complete” the Rohan story, I felt compelled to do so at least on one character, so I could see it. For 44 days, I logged in, did dailies, logged off. Then I found out it was just 2 quests involving NPCs that I had not interacted with for 44 days (or more) and I had practically forgotten most of them.

My real reward? I can barter for Bind to Account armor for other classes (i.e. my alts)…by going out and doing more dailies. >:( After that, I just had to get away. I was even having a mild physical aversion to seeing the Lotro icon. Since I’m a kin leader I only stopped for a couple weeks. If I didn’t have that responsibility to a community, I would probably have quit Lotro entirely.

Too Long; Didn’t Listen episode 56 — All nonsense all the time

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