What I increasingly have a hard time with is foregoing the rest of Destiny (or just my life) for a week. I enjoying blind raiding. Every time I enjoy it a little less when we’re four evenings in and I start to feel the pressure to play so we can get it done when I’d really rather be doing something else.

Next raid, I’d love to do it on a weekend off. Start Friday night and play for as long as we need to through the weekend, but end on Sunday evening. We make it as far as we make it, but the commitment ends Sunday night.

Because that’s really what I struggle with. Staying blind is pretty easy. It’s the commitment to devoting all of my play time for a week or sometimes even more. I feel bad signing up for a blind raid without seeing the whole thing through. But Last Wish broke me in that regard. We spent weeks on that raid, and I guess I just don’t enjoy it enough for that to be okay anymore.

I have been basically only PC since CoO. Cross Saves be damned. I don’t know what my regular group will be looking like, and we have more than 6 people who play Destiny. And I don’t know what the real world will be like this weekend either. But yeah. There is life in the PC realm here even still.

I'll be playing through all of the story stuff on PC, though I like to run solo through each character's story missions. Once the story stuff is done and I'm moving on to the power grind, I'll totally be down to team up and knock some stuff out. If you or anyone else wants to add me on Steam, my friend code is 36034368.

-Disciple

And I hate leaving people out--we've got 8 people wanting to do a 6 person activity, and it just sucks.

This is a tough thing to deal with when running any event, but don't necessarily feel like it's all your burden to bear. The group can usually offer a solution.

Specifically, I already know I won't be able to play Sunday night. If the other 5 of the group plus an extra can play that night, I'm fine with letting the group attempt to move forward, although I'd hope to be able to rejoin when the group reconvenes again.

Blind raiding is the most fun this game has to offer.

I was going to say it’s become a case of diminishing returns every time now, but I don’t think that’s the way to put it.

It’s becoming increasingly more difficult to organize and commit to running a blind raid. I no longer truly want to dedicate every evening for a week to raiding. That would probably be different the raid didn’t drop at the same time as other content. I often find myself wishing the raid would drop like six weeks after the expansion, so I can take my time and play everything on offer before I decide to essentially shut myself off from the rest of the game for a week or two.

I've always found it difficult. The only one that maybe wasn't was the first one where Beorn assigned teams and he put a lot of work into it. At that time no one knew what we were in for. We didn't play until three weeks after VoG dropped! I know my team was blind, but I'm not sure how. Maybe clickbait wasn't such a thing.

Aside from chasing down commitments from everyone (using the method of communication they prefer), part of that difficulty is how hard it seems to be for people to stay blind after the raid drops combined with people wanting to do it as soon as they can. So it has to be an intense grind.

I'll say now in advance of the next raid: if the schedule is similar and five people can live with the raid being out there a week without playing it, I'll organize that. At least we can spread the grind out over a reset.

I never even finished the last raid. I think for me the issue is that most people here like to raid Tuesday-Thursday, and those are bad nights for me. I might start setting up Friday night events this coming season just to see if I can get some traction.

I am too!

It's just that the organization part is always more mentally taxing than I anticipate. And I hate leaving people out--we've got 8 people wanting to do a 6 person activity, and it just sucks.

Well, that just means you need 4 more. (I haven't signed up, for example.)

It's just that the organization part is always more mentally taxing than I anticipate. And I hate leaving people out--we've got 8 people wanting to do a 6 person activity, and it just sucks.

I was going to say it’s become a case of diminishing returns every time now, but I don’t think that’s the way to put it.

It’s becoming increasingly more difficult to organize and commit to running a blind raid. I no longer truly want to dedicate every evening for a week to raiding. That would probably be different the raid didn’t drop at the same time as other content. I often find myself wishing the raid would drop like six weeks after the expansion, so I can take my time and play everything on offer before I decide to essentially shut myself off from the rest of the game for a week or two.

It's fun seeing, or rather absorbing the art teams works for the first time. It's fun to figure out the puzzle at hand & it's fun... moving at a cadence, if it can be reached. Larger the then sum and all that.

This thread alone has me feeling preemptively exhausted instead of excited.

Maybe one day I’ll have a PC that can run Destiny.

1) blind raiding
2) anti-blind raiding (for lack of a better word--I like the time [sometimes near the end of a season] when we're like a well-oiled machine, each doing our part).

Heh. The only reason I posted is that I thought we had an extra slot open for you.

I know. And I definitely appreciate it. I just thought the way it played out was funny :p

Me: Oops. Missed my chance for the Xbox raid. Any interest from PC players?

You: I haven't gotten confirmation from a lot of the Xbox crew, so there's probably still room!

Me: Oh, yeah! That would be c-

Xbox Player 5: *confirmed*

Xbox Player 6: *confirmed*

Xbox Player 7: *confirmed*

Me: -ool.

PC Players: *crickets*

To be honest, one of the reasons I didn't sign up sooner is because I'm getting pretty burned out on the blind raiding thing. I love the idea, but my last several attempts have turned out to be way more frustrating than fun for me. There was just enough of a spark of enthusiasm left to sign up when it looked like you guys might have been short on confirmed participants, but definitely not enough to potentially bump anyone who signed up as tentative earlier but had their schedules clear up enough to confirm.

I was hoping maybe a PC raid would have enough "new" to offset the potential frustration, but even with cross-saves potentially expanding the PC roster, the interest on that side is still holding steady at zero.

-Disciple

So, right now for the Xbox crew, we have

Myself
Kermit
Bluerunner
INSANEdrive
squid
Korny

Chris also switched from tentative to confirmed today, but was the 7th to do so. And Disciple also wants to play.

If someone really wants it, I’m willing to give up my spot. Blind raiding is fun and I’d love to play, but it doesn’t quite have the same shine it used to for me.

I'm with you on blind raiding cheapLEY. I just want to get in to the first wave and see how far we can get. Once we get stopped, be it mechanics, time, whatever... when the group disbands, so does my slot. That's not to say I won't be rejoining, I'd love to. I'd love to finish what we started as a group. Hey, if we can do it in the first week, even better. But I'm busy doing real life shit, and don't want to hold anyone up if I gotta do what I gotta do. Syncing up my schedule to Destiny is possibly going to become a difficult affair.