[i]For fark sakes.[/i]
Who thought this was a good idea? Was it the same guy that sat in on a meeting and thought "lawl, now wait a week" was a great idea for a quest step? Was he drunk? Are you sure? Did you check? You should probably go check. He could be passed out with his hand stuck in the vending machine and require emergency assistance.
Seriously though, its irritating and a real slap in the face after the amount of effort people put into finding and completing these exotics quests. Its like getting grounded for a week after coming home with a straight A report card.
( No really though, go check the vending machines just to be safe ).
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[i]For fark sakes 2.0[/i]
I'm not sure why people are talking about RNGesus or vanilla Destiny. This isn't a binary problem with only two solutions. Exotic quest lines aren't going to vanish because the requirement to sit on your ass for a week or wait for a certain quest on a certain day were removed. I'm not not sure why people think being drip fed existing content makes the game better or more "fair" or whatever.
It would be a different story if we were talking about new content being created and added on a semi regular basis. But I'm referring to existing content we already knew about weeks in advance. Which was not available at release and/or which Bungie allowed us to run around trying to find without telling us it was impossible. Bungie does have the ability to keep things out of the database away from our prying eyes as well as the ability to not hype something a month before release without mentioning the little problem that it wouldn't be available at release.
[b]Let me bullet point this:[/b]
1. Showing players things they can't have without telling them they can't have it = BAD.
2. Forcing players to wait and watch for a specific day / time window ( people have lives you know ) to obtain something or miss out = BAD.
3. Forcing players to wait for a week or two at random in the middle of a quest line for no reason whatsoever = BAD.
At no point did I suggest we should all go back to chasing the White Whale, er, Gally as the ideal exotic solution. ( and you guys do remember there were exotic quests before TTK, right? )
The ideal exotic solution would be for exotics to be a balanced mixture of engrams, quest lines and challenges ( such as Black Spindle. ) without the pointlessly arbitrary stop gaps of forced waiting periods or limited time windows. Those serve no purpose at all to the players. They may serve a purpose to Bungie or Activision ( Stretching limited available content, trying to finish content that they should have had ready at release, etc ) but that is not in [b]our[/b] interest. That's in [b]their [/b]interest.
The game should be in the player's interest. We're the ones who play it, support it and paid for it.
( Really though, did you check the vending machines yet? I'm getting worried. )
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They just need to stop with this fire team bs. Give me a quest that I can do on my time not on other peoples time. Especially a raid at that. If they want to do raids the whole quest should be raid related.
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Yep. Really takes the piss and is unnecessary. If they want to release exotics later on at least make sure they're always available to do.
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Edited by miles: 10/21/2015 4:43:01 PMThe guy who originally thought of the idea was drowning in money, he said "DON'T TIME GATE THE EXOTICS!" all they heard was "TIME GATE THE EXOTICS!"
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I appreciate the room reference
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It gives the "illusion" of steady new content.
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I think it's fine. Gives you something new to play for every week. Just chill out
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Keep. Timegating. Exotics
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I agree. Timegated content sucks for people that don't have the time to play like others do.
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It is literally my favorite thing about TTK
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So if I already did the VoG quest and got Praeydth's ghost can I join FWC and start the quest any time?
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And in which case you will probably be busy and unable to get on for that one day, so will need to wait weeks again at another opportunity. So -blam!-ing annoying. I don't see how making it the daily makes any difference either, surely just make it the heroic version then we can do it when we all have the time.
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So time your quest completions so that you finish on Sunday or Monday. Then you only have to wait a day or two.
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WHERE THE FACK IS TWILIGHT GARRISON?!?!?!?!?!?!!?
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"Slap in the face" has to be the most ridiculous, childish buzzword (phrase) that all these immature kids HAVE to put in their posts.
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I don't mind, gives people a reason to come back to Destiny when they're done with what they want to do in that period of time, and they don't have to pay extra for it. It's been paid for when they bought TTK.
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Most of it is already behind time requirements. Like having to wait until the next day to do the Simulant strike, or waiting until the next daily heroic of paradox to occur. Or waiting two weeks to get the First Curse. Don't timegate the ones that were advertised to us, but use that Micro-transaction money you're so proud of to release new exotic quests twice a month or some shit.
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"How can we claim 100 hours of new content added?" "Add content?" "No!" "Lock content for 99 hours?" "Brilliant!"
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Too goofy to take seriously, but I'm sick of time gated exotics as well. I want something genuinely hidden. I also want RNG to die a painful death. Farming is lame and boring and I just want all of the exotics (armor included) to be obtainable with quests (quests that require more effort and thinking than a time gate).
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It's for an exotic though...isn't it much better then year one? Just hoping rng blesses you sucked
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The issue that I have with it is that timegating completely screws over the crowd that enjoys Destiny, but can't play every day or are unable to log in the same day to complete something if they have other priorities going such as work, family, travel, etc. For example, when the Sleeper Stimulant came out, I was unable to obtain it as it happened on a weekday (had to work) and was unable to log in that exact day as i was traveling (also for work). If the quest were available for lets say a few days, or a week at a time, or at least give players enough notice ahead of time so that we can coordinate around it, then that would be great. But what I am afraid of is that the day the Sleeper Stimulant quest lines becomes available again without any prior notice will be on a weekday when many people have to work. At least with Trials, Iron Banner, etc we know when those events are coming and we can coordinate our schedules around it. But these exotic quest lines associated with daily heroics or only being available one day at a time are really pissing me off.
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patience is a virtue...enjoy your other guns until then...are people so addicted that they can't wait a week for something?...instant gratification is the way of the world now
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Would rather have it time gated then wait a whole year to get it from rngesus
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Damn year 2 players, you'll never know the pain of waiting for months for rng to bless you