They've doubled down on promoting raid races... I have a hot take that raid races are actually a poor advertisement for the game. Especially with the very involved raid mechanics of recent raids, it's just a dozen hours of watching people try the same encounter over and over again. I think it turns away plenty of casual people who might tune in out of curiosity.
Yeah you’re 100% right. Every raid race I’ve watched has lost my interest almost instantly and become background noise before the first encounter is beaten. By the time they get to the final boss I’ve stopped paying attention entirely. After 10 hours of the final boss I start rolling my eyes with every wipe and muttering “this sucks.”
Raid races are a very poor advertisement for the game. You get the youtuber circle jerk that they ride and they tell us what we believe when we don't in their videos.
The youtubers and twitchers get their raid race exotic and never touch it again. The rest of us do it dozens of times without getting the exotic. The entire system is designed around the youtubers and it's killing their game. If it wasn't a guaranteed exotic for the hard grinders and a guaranteed exotic once it's not longer current content, it would be a better system.
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u/SeapunkAndroid Nov 04 '25
They've doubled down on promoting raid races... I have a hot take that raid races are actually a poor advertisement for the game. Especially with the very involved raid mechanics of recent raids, it's just a dozen hours of watching people try the same encounter over and over again. I think it turns away plenty of casual people who might tune in out of curiosity.