[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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It's one of the large reasons why my playtime has been greatly reduced. That and combined with piss poor drop rates for anything worth while, well, guess that's why I haven't really played for a week. Used to be a big fan of the game, still has potential, but it all comes down to its simply not rewarding anymore.
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I am 100% fine with it. It's adding more wanting to comeback
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I kinda like the idea. But I work all week and only get home on weekends and they like to do them during the week, where I can't get them. Really would like the sleeper
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You realize the game has only been out for almost 6 weeks right? And they have given us 3 exotics in those 6 weeks. And in between those drops the raid has come out and now hard mode. Is it really as bad as you make it to be... or are you just mad because you can't speed run through the game and get everything done in 4 days and have nothing else to do and then complain about lack of content for 4 months till the next dlc drops?
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What this does is actually help most people get the exotics period. Instead of waiting for RNG to drop the ghallahorn or what have you and waiting 5, 6, 7 or 10 months to drop said exotic or for it to be sold by Xur. I seriously don't understand why people complain about this. You wanna wait till say February of next year for your sleeper or time to explain then that's how it would be. Realize how the past has been and get over how it is now.
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This way you aren't burning the game and always have something to look forward to, to be honest I think it's a good mechanism
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I like it makes the game more interesting.
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It's so that people don't just burn through all the content, u may not like it but from a business PoV it's actually quite intelligent. It means that people who thought they had burnt through it all come back and play each time they find out there is something new to do. It's all about stats; 'like did you know that we had over a million people log in this week? Doesn't that just show u how awesome this game is?' It's stuff like this that earns game companies bigger budgets for there next game.
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Why do you do this to me, Lisa? You're tearing me apart!
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Maintain the longevity of the game and keep people coming back. It's smart.
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I like it.
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Idk maybe because they don't want to spoon-feed us and get all the content all in one day otherwise people will complain about no content. Whenever we get something that was time locked as well people will still complain about it being time locked and keeping content away from us, make up your minds people.
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Congratualtions. You have all found the new meta Thorn. Once I get it I shant even level it up. Straight into the vault it will go. #herewegoagain
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Well people ask for content nonstop, so this allows them to give people a reason to return to the game for how ever long it takes for them to accomplish the set goal.
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Why? Why do you need everything on day one? Hell, I think it's a great idea and hope there's plenty more. We've got a year until the next expansion, and drip feed content till then.
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I guarantee you this quest was changed after the response to ss
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Oh dear god. Not requirements to complete quests. Activate timed quest, turn off destiny, play another game, profit.
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Tomorrow I have all known exotics that I can obtain
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Same dumbass that nerfed weapon parts.
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Post of the year so far
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Bump, whatever happened to feeling like you were unique when you felt like you were the only one with your exotic? Now everyone will have the same thing because everyone gets it the same day.
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To all the people saying "Why rush through all the content...." Waiting 7 days is not content. I don't want to finish everything NOW but time-gating does not imply there is more to do. The actual quest content is done, it's a wait period for a reward.
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YOU ARE TEARING ME APART LISAAA
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Agreed
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Bump and signed
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Well if they've released 320 or 330 exotics Whilst ToC were being massively abused. I imagine it would have been a totally different ballgame right now.. Lol.. this is just my take though