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Edited by Waybreaker:
10/22/2015 10:52:18 AM
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Stop. Timegating. Exotics.
[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 ).
[b]Edit:[/b]
[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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3 RepliesEdited by Reproachful: 10/22/2015 11:28:50 AMFor those who are extremely upset about time gate exotics, let's consider the counterpoint some year one players are making. Some of us prefer this method over RNG, however time locked exotics are kind of annoying when the weapon obtained is typically not that great. Except for the Black Spindle, and The Touch of Malice (referring to the Court of Oryx Tier 3 weekly cycle) Now, can we consider what is more frustrating? Grinding VOG and Crota every week on three characters praying for a gally, red death, hawkmoon, or ice breaker. Some players were lucky enough to get many of these weapons to drop without help. Many counted and prayed that Xur would sell them each [b]week[/b]. Which when you think about it, these methods are basically a combination of RNG and time locking. Many day one players put over a [b]thousand[/b] hours into this game to get those weapons with no success unless by chance, Xur was selling them again. Which he usually did, but [b]months[/b] later. So to everyone who is upset about about these time locked exotics. Things could be so much worse. RNGesus does not bless everyone, and now each day he gives a chance that the Daily will give us an opportunity to acquire one of these new exotic weapons. Not to mention, Father Time has decided to move our wait times from months and thousands of hours, to weekly pick ups after completing the required quest lines. Minimizing elitism, and getting groups of players to help each other while on these quests. For Bungie, you may want to consider withholding information about the new "awesome" weapons so the community isn't disappointed after obtaining them. Ex. People were disappointed in the Sleeper Simulant because it was so hyped, and the quest line was relatively short . People weren't disappointed in the black Spindle, because we didn't even know it existed when it was discovered. It created so much excitement in the community we began hunting and glitching daily missions for other hidden things. -[i]Reproachful[/i]
