Especially for an online activity. (Destiny)

by Vortech , A Fourth Wheel, Tuesday, September 29, 2015, 00:13 (3438 days ago) @ Claude Errera

I'm right there with you. I've given up the idea of a blind raid in the sense that I wanted it due to the raid dropping so soon after the expansion, there being a larger-than-one-fireteam-group of PS4 late nighters, and being super busy at work these past few weeks. It's a shame, but it is what is it. Nobody to blame really, (well, a little bit Bungie for launching the raid what I feel is too early, but I don't blame them too much), just one of those things.

I think sometimes people think the point of a blind raid is to be surprised. For me, it's not. The point is to solve problems and puzzles with your friends. Even if they stay silent about the raid your first time through, the opportunity for a blind raid is lost.

I also understand why people don't want to spend their game time doing something that is almost exclusively composed of failing without even being sure if you should keep trying, but it sounds fun to me because eventually you will won't fail and you got there all together.

When you talk about the success of a blind raid, don't forget that it's not the activity of raiding without foreknowledge that you like, it's the manifestation of the fact that you found a group of people that you have so much faith in, and enjoy so much that you like failing with them more than you like succeeding with others. That's pretty rare and great.