Why i am get stress again vMA ?

dark_wood7 · May 2020

With the new update for perfected vMA weaponswe should enter vMA. (because normal version get now same weapon) before update i spent my all my night get vMA weapons hardly , now again i am stress for DLC place which released 5 years ago.

JTorus · May 2020

dark_wood7 wrote: »

With the new update for perfected vMA weaponswe should enter vMA. (because normal version get now same weapon) before update i spent my all my night get vMA weapons hardly , now again i am stress for DLC place which released 5 years ago.

For the same reasons casinos add new machines, offer free drinks, and put a shiny new car on the floor that someone might 'win'.
For the same reasons amusement parks renovate old rides and build new ones.
For the same reasons television and movies recycle/re-hash old content and make nostalgic references.

Keeping your content 'fresh' ensures that dopamine levels are elevated and those pleasure pathways in your brain are firing away. Keeping the player engaged, and rewarded with new colorful trinkets, awarded with fanfare ensures your return.

In the immortal words of Ron Bennington 'Carnies and rubes'

(Not a judgement, we are all free to derive entertainment as we like.)

MartiniDaniels · May 2020

JTorus wrote: »

dark_wood7 wrote: »

With the new update for perfected vMA weaponswe should enter vMA. (because normal version get now same weapon) before update i spent my all my night get vMA weapons hardly , now again i am stress for DLC place which released 5 years ago.

For the same reasons casinos add new machines, offer free drinks, and put a shiny new car on the floor that someone might 'win'.
For the same reasons amusement parks renovate old rides and build new ones.
For the same reasons television and movies recycle/re-hash old content and make nostalgic references.

Keeping your content 'fresh' ensures that dopamine levels are elevated and those pleasure pathways in your brain are firing away. Keeping the player engaged, and rewarded with new colorful trinkets, awarded with fanfare ensures your return.

In the immortal words of Ron Bennington 'Carnies and rubes'

(Not a judgement, we are all free to derive entertainment as we like.)

But there are no new machines, and no free drinks, no new rides in VMA. It is absolutely the same VMA. If they added VMA HM and put perfected versions there, there will be no complaints. But as it happened it is just some stubborn attempt to make people re-grind old content.

JTorus · May 2020

MartiniDaniels wrote: »

JTorus wrote: »

dark_wood7 wrote: »

With the new update for perfected vMA weaponswe should enter vMA. (because normal version get now same weapon) before update i spent my all my night get vMA weapons hardly , now again i am stress for DLC place which released 5 years ago.

For the same reasons casinos add new machines, offer free drinks, and put a shiny new car on the floor that someone might 'win'.
For the same reasons amusement parks renovate old rides and build new ones.
For the same reasons television and movies recycle/re-hash old content and make nostalgic references.

Keeping your content 'fresh' ensures that dopamine levels are elevated and those pleasure pathways in your brain are firing away. Keeping the player engaged, and rewarded with new colorful trinkets, awarded with fanfare ensures your return.

In the immortal words of Ron Bennington 'Carnies and rubes'

(Not a judgement, we are all free to derive entertainment as we like.)

But there are no new machines, and no free drinks, no new rides in VMA. It is absolutely the same VMA. If they added VMA HM and put perfected versions there, there will be no complaints. But as it happened it is just some stubborn attempt to make people re-grind old content.

And my neighbor upgraded his TV from a 75" TV to an 80" TV, granted there's nothing new on TV, but it's got an extra 5 inches. I need one too.

I'm not disagreeing with you, but watch your guild chat, watch your zone chat, watch when people show off their new perfected vMA weapons. Note how it makes you feel, and how those without react.

All by design.

EmEm_Oh · May 2020

dark_wood7 wrote: »

With the new update for perfected vMA weaponswe should enter vMA. (because normal version get now same weapon) before update i spent my all my night get vMA weapons hardly , now again i am stress for DLC place which released 5 years ago.

You should have no stress for good it will be.

Kadoin · May 2020

Because one man thinks it was a good idea to send us back to an arena where 1/2 your skills don't work and you get "target is immune" or "target is busy" while trying to roll, block, or finish off the boss at the last stage before the game decides to kill you instantly.

Are you telling me you don't find that fun and innovative gameplay?

Oh and then there is an unnamed DoT that mysteriously drops you hp the entire time that was never present before, or maybe it's just a bug - you never know with the game and its lack of consistency with "mechanics".

It's just a crappy POS piece of content built around a hard DPS check -- ironically the same can be said of nearly every PvE dungeon in the game.

Only problem is its kinda hard to DPS when you get "target is immune" or "target is busy" etc. -- the same crappy messages you get in Cyrodiil when you freeze up and can't do anything.

ZOS calls things like vMA difficult, I call it artificial difficulty because it's not hard, it simply doesn't work or works with an RNG rate before or after this crappy update I still want deleted.

Lazarus_Rising · May 2020

They can keep their perfected versions...

dark_wood7 · May 2020

So i can not trust finish vMA now, maybe future we update super perfected weapons, or special perfected weapons ? who knows ?

Lazarus_Rising · May 2020

dark_wood7 wrote: »

So i can not trust finish vMA now, maybe future we update super perfected weapons, or special perfected weapons ? who knows ?

or a level increase to 300 cp for gear, you can go again then also + all the other gear

blkjag · May 2020

The added “bonus” isn’t worth the grind. It’s just a label to keep you busy in game. You gain nothing by trying to get your weapons again.

SidraWillowsky · May 2020

I *like* vMA and the thought of going back there to farm stresses me out. It's a miserable grind if all I'm doing is waiting to finish so I can see what weapon I get. I also know that if I START grinding for the weaps, I won't stop til I get everything I want, which could take ages.

During the Wrothgar event last year I was running it for fun to increase my score. It was able to remain "fun" because at that point I had all of the weapons and wasn't just trying to finish and open that chest of RNG hell at the end. I was able to focus on what was actually happening, and that actually made it a lot more pleasant. If I go back in now though? I'm just gonna grab all of the sigils and finish as quickly and brainlessly as possible because I'm only there for the weapon.