Why does everything in this game have to be locked behind such bad time gating, I just want to switch my covenant back, and I have to wait a week, for what reason, this just makes me want to not play for the whole week, it’s not like we’re betraying them, we’re all fighting for the same goal story wise, why make us wait what does that do for us.
4 Likes
I’m not defending the system itself…but up until recently, the covenants were not working together at all.
The Necro Lord’s attacked the kyrian, the Venthyr attacked everyone, foresworn kyrian attacked everyone and the Night Fae ignored all of the problems in the world.
Hopefully in the .5 patch they acknowledge the renewed relationships and allow for easier switching
Time gate is not terrible. give time to take a break, finish quest, is like a tv show some out all the episodes at once and people bench on them finish one night. Others like Ted lazo are one episode per week and that keeps people paying the subscription longer till the end of the show/expansion.
I do like a little bit of story every week instead chasing quest or finding what quest i didnt start to get the chain going and get f lost on the storytime line.
Certain stuff should not be gated? Absolutely
Seriously? Time-gating is what you do when you have thin content and a need to extend “MAUs.”
Real games don’t need time-gating.
2 Likes
The storyline for this patch is over as of this week - but the renown time gating continues. There’s no episode to miss, it’s just an artificial delay to anything you want to accomplish.
2 Likes
That they are doing time gate wrong timelines and badly align to the needs of gear yes is bad.
Time gate well use will be while story time gate, after remove it and do catch up mechanism.
Wow this expansion has miss everything. Gearing experience, pvp experience, raid experience, story telling with covenants, i only got to see 1/4 of the story.
I had to look on you tube for the other covenants cinematics.
Blizz is terrified for anyone to “finish” the game apparently lol
Technically the patch is finished.
Raid defeated
Story quest done
All that’s left is grinding korthia for anima/research and doing the 2 weekly renown quests for 2 1/2 months. Then farm gear or transmog from the raid.
And with everything going on, who knows when 9.2 comes out? Nov? Dec? 2022? Spring?
1 Like
I take it you never did any covenant campaigns. Or emissary quests.
Obviously I did. But helping each other during a few quests does not immediately change the relationship between the covenants
It never changed. They’ve always worked together.
Time gating exists to hamstring people so those with a million alts can play them without falling behind. It also exists to stop people from whining about not enough content.
Because blizzard wants you to have a “MeAnInGfUl ChOiCe” derp derp derp
Obviously you are right. They are just attacking each other for fun.
My bad
The covenants are not fighting one another. The attackers are a splinter group under the allegiance of the jailer. Finding out and defeating them was a huge part of the storyline.
The leader of the Venthyr and the acting leader of the Necrolords were both involved in directly attacking other covenants.
Those are not splinter groups. The splinter groups are the ones who overthrew the corrupted leaders
1 Like
Uhhh… do you even read the quests? Even the base story ends up with them all working together in some form or another. Hell, even dailies since forever have been helping the other areas out. So no, we’ve been working together the whole time outside of the leveling experience quest chain, and even then, those were TRAITORS.
It certainly can be “not terrible”.
Before the Korthia skip, dinging 60 dumped 8000 quests on you. “Hello Champion, you need to go in to Torghast to save $HERO” “Thank you for saving $HERO from Torghast, now go back in to Torghast to save $OTHERHERO”.
It was back to back to back campaign quests, and covenant quests, etc. All things that were gated in the beginning…
And it can be exhausting. Some folks play different from others. Some don’t mind chaining 100 quests together in a day. Me, not so much.
Of course you can always “self-timegate”, but we also know that people just don’t do that. We’re constantly bombarded by folks complaining about “stuff they have to do” because the pit is bottomless. “Why aren’t you exalted yet, rube?”
People CAN have self discipline, but in practice most folks don’t.