And, yet, the lockout is for 6 hours in a day. Not for 6 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Why would you put them on the same bnet? That’s just being silly.
Good job proving your imagination wrong.
Yes now you can only do it for 6 hours.
Do you speak English sir? Elaborate
The only person arguing the point you proved was in your imagination.
Probably. Everyone knows nigh elves aren’t really people. It’s usually a cult of highly skilled frogs
Yes. That’s the problem.
Why are we getting enforced play time? Blizzard isn’t my mother.
If playing for more than 6 hours is unhealthy, go ahead and start a movement to bring work hours down to 6 hours too.
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You still can play more than 6 hours. You can even spend 24 hours a day in dungeons if you want.
it’s just some nonsense reason to hate on someone else.
You play less than me? filthy casual scum!
You play more than me? sweaty tryhard!
You play exactly as much as me? good job, that is the only acceptable amount to play.
For multiple years of a single log in…
I know, blizzard convenience bent me over again. I need to start pre-lubing, it’s getting raw.
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Stop being deliberately obtuse. It’s not endearing or convincing.
Here’s a likely scenario even for a more casual player… Friday night you wanna dungeon farm HoJ/Sgc so maybe you play 3-4 hours with your buddies/guildies. Say 20 lockouts… Saturday morning you wake up and are like hmm ima sell some runs on my mage alt to farm some gold… low and behold way less then 24 hours your locked.
This is a problem for a lot more people then some of you realize. Me and a shaman can pretty much 2 man any dungeon and some can lockout very easily…
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What people fail to realize (or are being so cheeky they forget to point out) is it’s generally much, much less than 6 hours.
It takes 6 real life hours to get enough resets. You do not need to be logged in for 6 hours. You just need 30 resets over 24 hours, which at minimum occurs over 6 hours.
Let’s say I am doing Arena/angerforge runs. These runs generally take around 5-8minutes with a competent group. I will hit my lockout in 25-40 minutes, and be unable to make more instances for between 35-20 minutes.
Time passes. I do another set of lockouts. What is key here, is that this doesn’t have to start as soon as it’s available. I can get up, have lunch, watch a movie, come back, etc.
Over the course of 24 hours I have 30 attempts. I have been logged in for 255 to 405 = 125 minutes (a little over 2 hours) to 200 minutes (3 hours 20 minutes). I am now locked until it has been 24 hours since the first lockout, which is maximum 18 hours.
The real life time is minimum 6 hours, but the time spent actually logged in and playing is only 2-3 hours. That’s not actually a lot of time spent playing! And it can be spread out over the course of an entire day!
Let’s say I wake up and do one set of lockouts at 8 am. Then I go have breakfast, do another set of lockouts. I watch a movie and have lunch, third set of lockouts. Switch games, play some warzone with buddies for an hour, then a fourth set of lockouts. Make dinner, then 5th set. Read for a bit, 6th set. It is now 8 pm and I have used all the lockouts.
Does that sound like hardcore, unreasonable, impossible grinding for a weekend to you? You’ve spent 2-3 out of 12 hours actually in game, the rest of it doing something else, and you are now locked on doing any instance for 12 hours.
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Really? I’m pretty casual, and work full time, but could play 6+ hours/day (in reality, I probably average around 2 hours/day, but that’s now — around the time of BC, I averaged over 8 hours/day, while also working full time).
I’m curious what’s “dubious” about that.
when i was farmin my pre-bis 6+hours a day was nothing, when i farmed my blade of eternal darkness my goal was 10+hours everyday it took me 5 days to get it
this change going to hurt everyone
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not impossible but unreasonable. need to get a life if you run that many dungeons tbh
That’s their decision to make. Not yours.
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6 hours at a whack isn’t strange…6+ hrs a day, 7 days a week is strange, borderline “troubling”…“suspicious”… “Dubious”
And yet people lack sympathy for people who do go 6 hours “at a whack” and not necessarily everyday. It is odd.