Never has gating been this aggressive, not even in Legion and BFA. Some specs have to play with objectively pisspoor soulbinds and conduits because the viable ones won't unlock until x amount of weeks. I can't access a viable legendary power because the ones who are viable are locked to raids which I'm not interested in doing and a world boss that might not spawn for another 6 weeks while other classes/specs have viable options from day 1. I have to play a lesser version of my class/spec for months and delve into content I don't want to do because stuff has been arbitrarily gated for the sake of retaining a subscription base. It's dogshit!
Really? The only thing that is timegated is soulbinds and the convenant campaign, but that's about it.
And the convenant campaign is not even that important
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You are aware that you couldn’t get any legendary without raiding in the past right? And that every legendary quest line was time gated? Or that if you wanted BIS things it would take you multiple weeks as raids dropped less gear and had lock outs?
It’s not any more time gated then past expands.
Most things are time-gated this expansion and that's not a bad thing, like most of you "i want it all and i want it now wawa"s make it out to be.
Blizzard doesn't want a game where players would only log in at major patch releases for a day or 2 to consume all content and then go on hiatus again. Just look at GW2... that game has a system like that and it's not good.
ye but not to this ridiculous extent.
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funny guy you are
i logged in on wednesday - i did my m0 farm , i did my thorgast im done till next wednesday .
i could as well go on hiatus to play cyberpunk and come back when timegates are over.
so what was your point exackly ?
similiar with my hunter- dinged 60 on weekend - bought 151 gear of AH , cleared all m0 on monday , cleared thorgast on tuesday - guess today i will do the same what i did on main on my hunter and then what ? go and level another alt ? cba that early in expansion to have 12 alt because thats what this is heading.
boring game is boring.
When you have people who rush through the game to get to max lvl in 60 days i'm not really sure time gating is the problem here.
The content they managed to put into this expansion would last 2-3 weeks if they wouldn't timegate everything
But honestly, that's what we asked for. Content with a foreseeable end instead of the endless grind trough the whole expansion
Time gate and grind are direct opposites
This is modern WoW, if you don't enjoy it, fair enough. It's made for a different audience now, get over it.
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Since people have necro’d this thread and stating the OP is correct, let’s look at some things:
Rep grinds don’t really matter. You get a few crafting items from some of them, but for the most part you get specific quests that unlock Renown that take about 30 minutes at a time. Rep is more cosmetic item related.
Pathfinder isn’t tied to rep (at least not yet) as Blizzard has even stated as much.
Titanforging is gone.
Blizzard has catch up mechanics in place to allow people to not fall too far behind others if they are new or returning players. This actually lowers MAUs because, unless you are playing for other reasons (raid/m+/sheer enjoyment of the game) then they can’t time gate you for MAUs since you’re already playing. Otherwise you can just not play for a few month, come in, and catch up, which also doesn’t affect MAUs.
Good news OP: rep has almost zero influence on end game unless you really want to be the one in your raid group with a feast or cauldron drop. People complain about the Maw not allowing any mounts, but with portals being opened up as you progress, and the fact that people haven’t stated yet how those 2 dailies just can’t be completed on a daily basis because they are on foot, then it’s obviously not that big of an issue. Nor does that increase MAUs as people are still playing to play the game.
Seems like anyone who has played so far would be able to tell you your fears are unwarranted and you can jump right back in to the game and play.
The time gating sure isn't impacting my gameplay in any negative way yet.
I was wondering if it would, because some time gating has been somewhat obnoxious, but it looks like it doesn't. If I was no-lifing it I could see being a bit mad, but even then M+ and raids haven't even opened up, so give WoW a minute for god's sake.
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OP here, it's actually not as bad as I thought it was gonna be. I'm sure some of you disagree but I'm glad that it's finally not just doing WQs to fill up a rep bar, I like that. I'm also playing pretty casually too so there is that.