This is a terrible analogy. (Destiny)

by narcogen , Andover, Massachusetts, Monday, November 12, 2018, 16:17 (2304 days ago) @ Claude Errera

Cody's argument is that Bungie could make it easier for both camps to be happy relatively simply and I'd agree. There's no reason the Raid has to drop so close to the expansion other than wanting to get people who are on the fence to buy it more quickly.

No, that's not Cody's argument at all. That's your argument. (Or maybe it's not. It's an argument that hasn't been voiced before this post of yours, so I don't know WHO subscribes to it.) Cody's argument was that discovery was everything, and since he can't have that, there's nothing worth having.

Pretty sure I've said similar things. Even in raids that I thought did this better than others (King's Fall) I was a bit disappointed by mechanics that were impenetrable if you were trying to figure out what they might be by observation and deduction instead of just trying every random thing until something happens.

The reason the I think raid drops when it does is to allow promotion through the "world's first" competitions and to ensure that the field for those are relatively assured to be streamers with significant audiences. That's the only thing achieved by retarding the rate of progress of the average player and then dropping raid content significantly in advance of when the broad part of the population reaches raid level.

I disagree with Cody on a lot, if not most things, but this isn't one of them.