F@*king Yuku ate my post.
Short version.
Here's the thing - these badges were attainable by normal means. If they were impossible to get by normal play, the devs would never have included them.
So what's the problem? Well, people don't want stuff eventually. They want it now.
How do you get stuff now? Some folks would resort to obvious exploits. A mission filled with nothing but glowies...to get the click badges, for instance. I'd call that badge farming. Mild farming, but farming all the same. If you do that then...I'd agree, you don't have a leg to stand on.
But...you can also have folks who just run lots of regular AE content with the badges in mind. To give a basis of comparison, when I wanted to help earn the SG healing badges for the Legendary way back in the day, I didn't set up a healing farm.
I just played my defender more.
I'd have been rather annoyed if the SG healing badges were removed shortly after they were acquired.
So. There's gonna be people pissed off by this change. No big deal, right? Players are always pissed off. And you could say it takes major balls on Synapse's part - major balls for him and his colleagues - to admit they were wrong in their design choices and take a step back.
Except...they haven't apologized. The developers have never said... 'we're sorry, guys, this was bad design on our part'.
No, it's always been 'we didn't expect players to do this, so we're changing it'.
That implicitly puts the blame on the players, and not the developers.
I don't like this.
-- Acyl
Short version.
Here's the thing - these badges were attainable by normal means. If they were impossible to get by normal play, the devs would never have included them.
So what's the problem? Well, people don't want stuff eventually. They want it now.
How do you get stuff now? Some folks would resort to obvious exploits. A mission filled with nothing but glowies...to get the click badges, for instance. I'd call that badge farming. Mild farming, but farming all the same. If you do that then...I'd agree, you don't have a leg to stand on.
But...you can also have folks who just run lots of regular AE content with the badges in mind. To give a basis of comparison, when I wanted to help earn the SG healing badges for the Legendary way back in the day, I didn't set up a healing farm.
I just played my defender more.
I'd have been rather annoyed if the SG healing badges were removed shortly after they were acquired.
So. There's gonna be people pissed off by this change. No big deal, right? Players are always pissed off. And you could say it takes major balls on Synapse's part - major balls for him and his colleagues - to admit they were wrong in their design choices and take a step back.
Except...they haven't apologized. The developers have never said... 'we're sorry, guys, this was bad design on our part'.
No, it's always been 'we didn't expect players to do this, so we're changing it'.
That implicitly puts the blame on the players, and not the developers.
I don't like this.
-- Acyl