Rethinking that whole daily quest idea
Ever since TBC we’re all subject to the madness that is daily quests. I mean, honestly, a game doesn’t get more repetitive than “do the same thing every day, over and over”, does it? For wintergrasp blizzard realized that it’s weird, that whole daily thing, and made the quests weekly instead. And i love it.
I love it. Really do. It’s just awesome. It’s win-win all over the place. And it got me thinking. What if all the daily quests out there would be changed to a weekly system? I know that I for myself have found my “best return on time invested” daily quest hub, and that’s what I stick with. Because, after all, I’m not doing dailies because I love them so much. How about you? Anybody out there who loves their dailies? Somebody? No?
A change every once in a while would really be welcome. Also, it’s annoying to “miss out” on dailies every day you don’t play. So let’s run down a list of advantages vs. disadvantages of changing all daily quests to a weekly system, with the rewards scaled up appropriately:
Pros
- Flexibility
I can pick a day or two to do “my weeklies”. Dedicated weekly-day, so to say. Like raid day. Which brings me to point #2: - Saving time
There’s no conflicts between raid day and gold farming. I can organize my week around my primary goals in the game and throw in weekly quests wherever they fit - Variety
Since people won’t be able to do the same quests for maximum profit, they’ll go out and try those other dailies. Thus people would see more content. - More space
I don’t know about your server, but my little-populated one is already having crowded argent tournament quest areas. Turning dailies into weeklies would spread the load over a couple days, thus giving us more room to breath. - Less pressure
I really don’t want to login every day to spend an hour on dailies, yet I really want to raid and keep my gear enchanted & gemmed. With the opportunity to focus the gold-grind on one or two days I could then lean back and enjoy the content with ease. - A smack in the face of gold farmers?
No I don’t know about gold farming tactics, but I would imagine daily quests are part of their routine. They bring the most profitable ones to perfection, do them in a couple minutes, and thus farm more gold than normal people, because they spend more time farming. With a weekly system everybody would, essentially, have access to the maximum of the 25 weekly quest’s rewards.
Cons
- More overcrowding
I assume the quest hubs to be less crowded, but there’s a chance that with the increased rewards people will focus that much more on the “most profitable” quest hubs, thus crowding those even more.
I really can’t think of any more cons on this department, sorry, but I’d love to get some more opinions on the idea. What do you people think would happen, and would you welcome the change?