LFR people please. You're not even supposed to play this game as you are not necessary. Refrain from complaining.
I just returned to WoW a couple of weeks ago and one thing that amazes me is how many artificial gates, limitations and mechanisms there are now that are designed simply to stretch out the game experience so that people will stay subscribed.
I think that WoW is the last gasp of the linear content progression endgame model for MMOs. WoWs Raids are very cool and fun to experience once or twice. However they are not fun to grind on week after week because everything is scripted and happens the same way every time. Eventually somebody will need to come up with a dynamic endgame where raids and dungeons change and vary and feel more real.
The great failure of the WoW raid model is that it is too much like synchronized swimming practice. You bring a team, you put in your hours of practice and eventually you learn to dance the complex dance with perfect timing. Sure it can be rewarding in a way but at a big price in grind and boredom.
If flex was fully available the first week, guilds would feel compelled to run flex and normal.
This isn't about 'keeping subscribers artificially by gating the content'. This is about how guilds often 'force' their members to do everything that's available. Solution? Gate normal/heroic content? Or gate LFR/Flex? Or open everything at once with the knowledge that people will be 'forced' to raid far too much at the start of the tier and burn out?
a shame flex is gated by a week. I was hoping i could get the most of it for 2 weeks of my remaining sub after 5.4 comes out.
And you should keep quiet as they have every right to voice their opinion, even if you and others might get bothered by it. They can play the game their way and you can play it your way, so shut it and please respect others and their playstyle.
No need to whine about it all though, not like it's taking longer than other times. Silly people...
so pathetic.
THIS is their tactic on keeping subscribers?.. what a joke.
I have to agree with this, no matter how face roll they make this game people still whine and cry. And to the other lazy/bad's no one is forced to do anything, people actually enjoy pushing progression and choose to use every avenue to do that while other's will sit on these forum's crying that Normal mode is too hard and that Flex takes too long to come out.
It is impossible to tune encounters for people like you because they can't tune around lazy and whiny.
Ironically i see everyone that doesn't have loremaster, hasn't played warcraft 3, doesn't have above 13k+ achievements, hasn't read every wow novel , doesn't have 500+ unique pets, doesn't have 150+ unique mounts, doesn't have 60+ exalted reps as not deserving to play the game :P Do you fit into all those categories? If not please refrain from complaining.
Imagine that actual raiders get to go first.
What a concept.
Why are people surprised? It was the exact same situatuion with ToT lfr. Even 5.0 lfr wasn't released at launch.