[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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Serious question, not trolling. Would you rather these guns be thrown into the RNGeezus pile? Having an absolute way to obtain them other than Random Von Randomness is a welcome change. So they are staggering them a bit, not a big deal. This DLC is still on the newer side here guys. If they released all of these missions at once, we would all have the exotics in the first week and be holding out our empty porridge bowl saying "please sir, may I have some more". I will take staggered, guaranteed exotics over RNG any day. Now my friends and I can all get these guns and I don't have to secretly hate them for getting drops I don't. But that's just one anonymous internet guys opinion.
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Learn. How. To. Use. Full. Stops.
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I'm currently waiting for my Chaperone-_-
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Bump. The sleeper quest was bad and the no time to explain was a huge let down because the quests where simply on a timer before they started. I spent all last week about 200 rep away from Gunsmith rank 5, this annoyed me to no end that there was no way I could up it anymore. I finally got to rank 5 gunsmith yesterday, got some hand cannon kills and now I've got to wait until next arms day again, like wtf.
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Actually the problem is that they announced weapons that were time gated. If they just suddenly showed up without our knowledge, the community would LOVE the idea. People only hate it because we know about them beforehand.
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Edited by Kd: 10/22/2015 7:52:32 AMThe only reason it annoys me is because we knew about the exotics, but we didn't know we couldn't actually get them. If it actually went as advertised we should see a stellar amount of new exotics, comparable to the number of the vanilla game again. But instead, most of us bought engrams and such, and got duplicates for days. only to be told now we can't actually get them. Booo to that! Loving the new missions, and questlines for exotics is fantastic Hate the lack of transparency though... I'ts like every claim they make has a shadow following it around. I'm in advertising, half their quotes should come with disclaimers attached!
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It's bungies way of making sure people don't get all exotics right off the bat. Yes it's a retarded way to do things, but It made sense to someone. Honestly they have poor team leads at bungie, because a lot of the things they do are just straight up retarded. I guess this is what happens when you need hundreds of people to make a modern game. Bigger something is, the more things fall through the cracks
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I like it cuz you never know what mission things will pop up in and gives us reason to explore these missions in hope of finding something
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Smart on their part. Instead of grinding for a month and be done, they're extending play time until the next dlc. Normally I'd be done by this point but since there's always more I'm still having fun
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Bumped
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Not as much a drunk as a sadist. Probably keeps someone tied up at home in an elaborately constructed dungeon. Only coming home every 12 hours to tighten the screws and empty the bucket.
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I personally don't care I've gotten them all
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patience is a virtue.
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I like time gated exotics
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Bungie: "We didn't make enough Destiny for you guys so we took some of it and spread it out over a period of time." Its one thing to come up with new content after the game has come out and then add it as you come up with it... And another thing entirely to create it all from the start but choose to release some of it later at a predetermined time. As frustrating as time releasing premade content is, it isn't as frustrating as the artificial and unnecessary wait times that millions of players have to endure. We have to wait for the next 2 Paradox daily heroic story missions to come up before we can even get the quest to get the gun? How asinine is that? Even waiting a day is annoying, but waiting potentially for weeks for the next Paradox daily story mission? That's just terrible game design. Bungie seems to be showing a consistent record of screwing up. This stuff is old news. Do some research Bungie. Other games have went through things like this and have figured out how to avoid making the fans angry.
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RNG has to go. So does time gating. RELEASE EXOTIC BOOTS ALREADY!
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I don't think people are getting what this guy is saying. This is not extending content because I have to wait a week for something. What am I doing for that week while a wait? Nothing new that's for sure. I'm not complaining I enjoy the game but take the sleeper simulant for example. We all found those 4 fusion rifles and the trail went cold for like a month. There was even a whole subreddit dedicated to finding the answers to this quest and nobody could find anything because all you had to do was just wait. Seems kind of lazy and it obviously worked because somehow people see that as more content?
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Probably the same guy who thought stopping all progress from year one and nerfing every gun but pulses and scouts into oblivion was a good idea
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Here's a solution https://www.bungie.net/en/Forum/Post/165347748/0/0
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"Can't wait to get my sleeper stimulant tomorrow, I can't play today due to real life things. But that's okay, I'll start the bounty tomorrow." [quote]tomorrow[/quote] [quote][quote]tomorrow[/quote][/quote] [quote][quote][quote]tomorrow[/quote][/quote][/quote]
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Stop.... Hammer time......
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So that we don't get everything in one week?? What are you gonna do when you have everything? Not play? Cuz that's what I'll do. It's what I did year one... glad they are doing it honestly.
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Edited by Wyise: 10/22/2015 4:07:32 AMI feel like if my guardian can visit Venus Mars moon and dreadnaught within the same day, then it should not take the gunsmith, Amanda holiday, and lord shax 1-2 weeks to get material...1 day at most.
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Matter of weeks before Black Ops 3 and Fallout 4. Problem solved.
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You want to see time gate, have a look at the ship that some got with black spindle, then have a look in its top right hand corner.......