The new Chaotic Alliance Raid will again make 1% of players happy but where is the mid-tier content for the rest of us amateur players? For the rest of us this content just highlights the miserable difficulty systems that get neglected. Want to use Duty Finder: wait a few hours for it to not fill. Use the PF: spend hours going through lists trying to mentally filter Duty Completes from Duty Incompletes, blue text from yellow text, weird prog point descriptions, different strategies/plans, different emotional requirements, different skill requirements, trying to fit your job requirements ... all after a long day with real life requirements. Get your high definition displays ready. Have a second monitor with third party sites explaining what to do. Make sure you're on Discord. Have your group of purple(?) parsers ready. Make sure to record everything for post analysis. Have a 25th player doing analysis and commentary live. Make sure you did hours of homework before playing. If you do finally fill up three teams, it is only a matter of time before one person leaves and the alliance goes from 24 to 7. You should have had a difficulty warning like Eureka BA had back in the day, but a lot of your extra content is headed in this direction now it seems. I'm starting to think the developers fixate on the experiences and opinions of youtubers, steamers, and podcasters when it comes to raids. What about the rest of us who have very little voice and no financial interest?
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