This argument, stated so many times in this thread, is irrelevant. Blizzard already has your sub money for 30 days each month, once they have that, thats all they care to have and extending that out. The die hards are going to play the game regardless, the entire marketing of the game is predicated on casuals jumping into the game to have fun and “easy access and a welcoming expansion” (literally right out of their youtube ad btw) If everything is time gated, people would just wait till the .5 patch to jump into the game and catch up with everyone as their progression wont be gated(which a fair amount of people do) or just unsub when you hit the time gates for real player progression, the only people who couldn’t feasibly do this is hall of fame players. People are either still subbed during this time, or they unsub to save the $14.
This is why we have the .5 patches, to bring people back into the game who already finished the content they want or people who didnt have the time commitment on launch. Who are you(or anyone for that matter) to decide how much someone plays a game or how fast they finish released content? If I get 3k the first month, I can totally quit until the next patch because there are other games to play? grass to touch? I have maxed out my reward track. If a casual wants to take weeks to get their vision rewards, when I could get everything I want in a week, why do I have to wait for someone who plays less so I can play more? The argument is so out of touch and rooted in trying to support a company that regularly posts record profits in the hundreds of millions and continues to layoff staff.
They are delivering rehashed slop content to save costs(buggy at that per Ions interview last week), and then gating that to stretch out this patch even more. Remember, this .5 patch LAUNCHED a month ago with a 15 minute weekly bar fill quest and an exp boost(that is now over) lol. We lost a whole raid tier per expansion of content for these “accelerated patch cycles”.
Were also 100% ignoring the fact we just spent 3 months grinding crests/flightstones for upgrades and they just uncapped all of them after holding such a hard line on the caps since DF, its only uncapped becuase there is so little actual new content to do now if youre done with m+ pushing or raid.