[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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Time gate or RNG? Both very tough choices, nah just RNG that shit so everyone gets a fair shake on oh I know absolutely freaking nothing. At least with time gated material it gets released and everyone gets a fair chance at obtaining set exotic. While time gates aren't ideal at least we get them in time rather than not at all. Good luck Guardians and good night.
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I think it's a smart way to keep players engaged for a longer period of time. Maybe it's annoying but it's also important to realize that it potentially keeps the game going.
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[quote] For fucкs sake [/quote] Fixed
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Signed
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I need to quit this game. It is an endless race with no respect for my real life. And for what, making them rich? It's fun, but I shouldn't feel any pressure from a game. That feels wrong. Or maybe I should just a take break for some months. That or only play on weekends. Oh well, it will always be there when I want to play.
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That's a big reason why I stopped playing lol. I hang around forums because the toxicity is entertaining as hell haha
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I wouldn't mind timegates, except I kept my cult shell thinking "oh, maybe its linked to a quest that involves actually having it, ill keep it and see what happens" and now i get to hand in my cult shell and wait for god knows how much longer than everyone else, simply because i didn't care for future war cult rep at the time, and every source said "nothing happens" when you hand it in, a bit of warning would be nice, but thanks bungie, thanks for making me wait even longer for this crap.
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I agree. It kinda if you miss it ..you are done. SS...I still fighting the RNG to get the last (the 4th) gun fragment.
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Atleast now u can't say "I EARNED MY WEAPON" lol cause everyone can earn it
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Add more gear it's that simple. Holding back 6 exotics isn't going to extend the game. Look at borderlands or Diablo they have tons of gear that's what keeps people coming back is the chase for loot. Time gating is a joke
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Edited by Hawk, The Maidenless: 10/21/2015 7:56:47 PMThis comment will be available in 05d 22h 31m 54s
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I like the idea of exotic quests like sleeper and no time to explain. Good job bungie
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It's a brilliant idea.
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How do you know it's time gated?
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I love timegating, it gives players that invest more time into the game extra incentive to login each day
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The timegating doesn't bother me as much as the limited time(even if recurring) ones that make me feel like I'm being punished for making plans on, say, the day No Time to Explain is found.
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With Spindle, Sleeper Stimulant, and now No Time To Explain, I'm convinced Destiny caters to these kids with no jobs and nothing to do with their lives but play games all day. The ONLY sensible reason to time-gate things is because of the fact that once those gates are lifted, people will 100% be sitting there waiting to blow through the content in minutes. Meanwhile people with shit to do that can't sit at home all day waiting for these opportunities are honestly just shit out of luck "until the next time", an undisclosed day that they still can't prepare for. I didn't think playing the game was too much to ask for these days.
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Besides the time gates, the thing with those exotics that bothers me is that there isn't a grimoire card.
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I don't mind limited availability quests, but it would be nice to at least have the upcoming daily missions available on the website. I have to schedule my playtime days in advance to run raids and such. It would be nice for my schedule if I knew which days the secret missions would be available.
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But if they didn't, I'd have em all by now. Which I'd be fine with. Having them all never hampered my play time in year one.
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Edited by manic: 10/21/2015 5:26:01 PMIt's their way of slowing down thin content of this game. Just like they nerfed weapon part drops, they realized that most people have 90% of exotics in the first month of TTK release, with nothing on horizon for at least next 3months they need to slow down our progress. I am glad there are better FPS games coming in next month so I can finally give this game a middle finger and move on.
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Edited by bigdeeztrankle: 10/21/2015 5:19:53 PMYeah it's really dumb. I have a love\hate relationship with this damn game and this is another reason why. And Tuesdays are bad for me, why can't it drop on a weekend why just Tuesdays?
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Don't stop
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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.