When trying to cause players to behave a certain way, designers have a variety of tools available. You have to carefully balance game mechanics to ensure that players are gently steered toward the right way of play while also rewarding players who do the right thing. So how, for example, do you make sure that players in Gigantic know to damage the Guardians in a match?
Well, you can always just run a community event asking players to deal billions of cumulative damage for a couple of weeks. That works.
https://twitter.com/GoGigantic/status/894588958973317120
Taking part in this particular challenge will reward a new skin for Mozu and the satisfaction of inflicting a lot of pain on gigantic critters. Of course, you should theoretically be helping to deal that damage anyway, so it’s sort of rewarding you for what you were already planning to do. Not that this is a bad thing.
