Originally Posted by
splatomat
Sadly, if you care about value of your time, the best period to play an expansion is during the 6 months before the next expansion, when all the content is released and most of the artificial barriers (aka, "time gates") are removed or reduced. You can play at your own pace and very quickly realize how content that would realistically be completed in 6 months was specifically-designed to be stretched out to cover a time period up to four times longer.
They say it's to keep people from feeling like they need to grind, but it seems patently and painfully obvious that it's actually to try and force people to stay subscribed longer than they would have otherwise. I mean this is a business: you have to adopt a business mindset. Why spend funds and staffpower developing 2 years of content when you can just develop 6 months of content and parcel it out? When people are so thoroughly bamboozled (or slave to a sunk cost fallacy) that they'll come to this board and defend the process? LOL
SMH at some of the comments in this thread. You can complain about entitled players who want everything immediately (strawman argument, BTW) but you read as either oblivious or disingenuous, and both are pretty equally untrustworthy.