Ion Hazzikostas[G.D.] clarification regarding the invasion timer.

[RoutinelyWorgen]

Earlier today, game designer Ion answered a concern over on twitter that concerned the unfeasible timing of the newly introduced Legion Invasions and responded as follows, "It's not every day at the same time... it'll cycle through all possibly times of day over time."
https://twitter.com/WatcherDev/statu...36750318497792

Good news for generally busy people?

[stabya23]

In other words...Blizz favors people who dont work or go to school. It's almost as great an idea as having an alt and duel spec killing expansion!

[Jasperline]

I have the time to be on whenever and it's still incredibly silly to try and fit people into a :window: that they might not see again for some time.

[Beazzles]

The best part is when you are able to actually line up a little bit of invasion time, and you zone in and it is literally broken and offers you nothing to do at all including 0 world quests.

[Richardbro]

Ian said "The entire cycle is 4 zones every 3 days, repeating forever. If you miss something today, it'll be back in a couple of days."

[Jaylock]

Good news! Hopefully this puts to bed all the toxic bile coming from players who think they have been "jipped" that they cant do the content.

[RoutinelyWorgen]

Ian said "The entire cycle is 4 zones every 3 days, repeating forever. If you miss something today, it'll be back in a couple of days."

He made that statement before the one I highlighted here in the post, yes.
But it does give some hope to players that aren't around on the mornings.

[DesMephisto]

it'll be at 1:30-2:00 am today, ending at 7-8

[Phunkle]

In other words...Blizz favors people who dont work or go to school. It's almost as great an idea as having an alt and duel spec killing expansion!

In other words, you did not understand the statement. But at least you shat on Blizzard, so good on you! You'll do great around here.

[Bathory]

In other words...Blizz favors people who dont work or go to school.

Literally said the direct opposite, but don't let facts get in the way of whatever gripe ya got.

[TITAN308]

In other words...Blizz favors people who dont work or go to school. It's almost as great an idea as having an alt and duel spec killing expansion!

Your lack of reading comprehension is pretty disturbing.

[iamthedevil]

Literally said the direct opposite, but don't let facts get in the way of whatever gripe ya got.

He literally did not. If it cycles through the day, then it favors people who can play at anytime over people that can only play between certain hours. that seems pretty obvious or am i reading it wrong?

[Pyro1990]

Literally said the direct opposite, but don't let facts get in the way of whatever gripe ya got.

It's still only 6 hour cycles which can very easily (and already have) cause people working basic 8 hour shifts miss the entire thing. That makes it still a stupid design. Some days I'll be able to do it, some days I'll be at work see it pop up and just accept that i'm going to miss it. They could easily up the duration a couple hours to accommodate a basic 8 hour work day but no, that's unreasonable.

[donbooger]

Not that pleased, I play very casually and I can see myself getting a little impatient if I have trouble getting one last specific invasion done so I could fly.

[Gyrotex]

It's still only 6 hour cycles which can very easily (and already have) cause people working basic 8 hour shifts miss the entire thing. That makes it still a stupid design. Some days I'll be able to do it, some days I'll be at work see it pop up and just accept that i'm going to miss it. They could easily up the duration a couple hours to accommodate a basic 8 hour work day but no, that's unreasonable.

Exactly this.

If they wanted to make it more of an all-inclusive design, they'd make invasions 12 hours long. BOOM, problem solved immediately with zero other changes required.

So what Ion is doing is called damage control. He promises us that design is smart enough to rotate through hours of a day, yet if you and I work (and sleep), it could be weeks until our play time window coincides with e.g. Aszuna invasion.

It's subtle gating. Or not so subtle, depending on how thick your rose-tinted glasses are.

[Grimnakh]

Invasions should be up for 18 hours and phase out when youre done. This is just dumb game design. (This from someone that generally agrees with Blizzard design and defends them, theres no defending this lemon)

[TheFirstOnes]

RiP Flying dream...

I'll wait for summer then....

[Varjo410]

Seems like it's about 12 hours, the first EU one started at 9 and ended at 3 in the afternoon. A new one started 10 minutes ago at 3:30 in the night and will end at 9:30 in the morning.

[yetgdhfgh]

I would love to have been a fly on the wall when they thought this was a good idea

"Hey you know those invasions at that prelaunch event you know how people loved them cause they could do them at any time and it was great for xp and fun well lets just ditch all that and just have WQs but the gimmick is we only allow you to do them at a certain time of the day and if you aint online well sucks to be you!"

"Great idea promote that man Iam sure it wont piss off a already pissed off playerbase"

[Hey There Guys its Metro]

In other words...Blizz favors people who dont work or go to school. It's almost as great an idea as having an alt and duel spec killing expansion!

If you think this expansion made alts harder to play you should unsub. You aren't able to cast an impartial, educated opinion on the game design.