why is it that every single thing released into the game is timegated anymore … the last 3-4 things added … ALLL TIMEGATED … yet i recall recently there was a press release or some interview or something saying that they want to do better about timegating … WELL WHY IS EVERYTHING HAVING IT ANYMORE??? WHY CANT WE JUST HAVE THE ENTIRE EVENT AT ONCE??? either its imcomplete meaning the devs are imcompitent … which we all know to be the case anyways b.c nothing can be added correctly either … or its the much simpler option … they dont care about making the game better … soo now why are we paying for this game… when they cant add anything without it having massive issues for weeks … or when they do add something without bugs its 6 weeks long takes 1 hour to do the entire event and you gotta come back week after week FOR LITERALLY NOTHING … glad you enjoyed this kick in the pants… why??? who wants this? who wants this? ABSOLUTELY NO ONE WANTS THIS … if your told hey you dont need to do anything just wait 5 weeks for the entire thing to release and THEN you can do the WHOLE THING in 20 mins OR you can come back week after week and get 5% a week untill the last week… WHY WOULD I PLAY THE FIRST 5 WEEKS??? … idk but for whatever reason thats what the approach has been recently and its getting really annoyingly stupid imo … i get its all about the money and wasting your time soo they profit more … I GET IT i really do its all buisiness … BUT I DO NOT CARE ABOUT THEIR PROFIT I WANT THE GAME TO BE BETTER INSTEAD OF ALWAYS BEING TIME GATED TO WORTHLESSNESS … its is beyond annoying to read the article about “we will do better on timegating” and the next 3-4 events after that release was ALLLLLL TIMEGATED… i dont get it … litterally stating ull do better then following up by doing worse… must be nice to lie to your customers consistently and get away with it
i dont understand what is wrong with releasing the ENTIRE PATCH all at once … and allowing people to do what they want at their pace … instead of constant timegating and releasing 4 patches a season all with step stone content like its all nonsense just let it all out at once and then tune for a couple weeks AND LET IT GO … for 2 MONTHS … then release new stuff again … kinda like how it used to be when everyone i knew actually enjoyed the game instead of constantly feeling like this stupid drip feed nonsense is just stringing you along
They make content several months in advance, what you get in live servers the week after the press conference was actually made like 5 months ago and it’s been on the PTR (public test realm) for 2+ months. If you wait 6 or so months on live you might see things that aren’t so heavily time gated (and if not then, I will agree with this thread).
i wouldnt know it was made in advance … considering almost nothing works correctly for weeks after its added in the game … you would think its litterally made last week how untested most of the additions are anymore… lets take dous for instance … DK pet was bugged for 3 days … ilvl scaling broke on thursday due to them not testing that legendaries scaled up on tues/wednesday soo they had to fix that issue right? its bug after bug after bug … no1 tested anything we just made it up and then tried to put it into the game i guess … and they wonder why things have issues … it took me litterally 10 seconds to realize the dk pets were bugged … your telling me ABSOLUTELY no1 @ blizz who worked on this project EVEN TRIED to run an unholy dk through it?
i dont know maybe it stops the i have completed everything in the patch and when the new stuff is coming out or there is nothing to do after i did everything in this patch threads
That’s just PR speak for (if we say something positive it helps retention). So, the PR department writes up something nice for Ion to read to the paying customer that helps to ease in the time gating.
The thought of the Developers doing better, being sorry for the missteps and all the time gating is to help tuck us in at night with thoughts of sugar plums dancing in our heads.
Well, I’m not saying time gating = bad, it doesn’t and some things I am sure need to be done like that to avoid players rushing through all the content then complaining they don’t have anything to do.
But for fudge sake, don’t release a statement apologizing to your customers about how your company isn’t doing as well as they can only to turn around and keep on with the keeping on same old stuff.
At this point, best to take everything that gets brought up as an apology from the Developers with a grain of salt in one ear and out the other type thing.
That’s an excellent take away from “these complaints”, very astute observation. Though it wouldn’t fix anything and as has been stated many times before you can’t please everyone.
But, again, as I pointed out, don’t Pr speak your customers about being sorry only to keep doing the same crap. I know Blizzard isn’t Disney, and I know Ion isn’t Bob Iger, but sometimes I think ole Bob may just be Ion’s dad.