Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[klaps_05]

How are professions timegated?

Professions have research recipes which teach you more recipes and increase what you can craft, but the research gets a 20 hours cooldown after a few crafts.

[Hugnomo]

ohhhh the slime saber looks cool!

[Lorgar Aurelian]

Kinda disappointed they seemingly went with a full skeleton for the mount the pet missing some bones made it alot more endearing.

[Fahrad Wagner]

OMFG I can't believe my boy Lor'themar got married and we missed it! Like, wtf-

[Feali]

OMFG I can't believe my boy Lor'themar got married and we missed it! Like, wtf-

Daddy got hitched

[Raetary]

OMFG I can't believe my boy Lor'themar got married and we missed it! Like, wtf-

I can't wait for the Bloodborne babies.

[Feali]

I can't wait for the Bloodborne babies.

Why not Night Elves? Wait...

[Raetary]

Why not Night Elves? Wait...

Turns out the elves went full circle.

[Feali]

Glad to see development time being used for the important stuff:



(This is a joke, I know these don't take away any resources from any team <3)

[Jaggler]

Why not Night Elves? Wait...

That'd be Ashborne

[Mekkle]

I might be stupid, but are the forum emojis or ingame emojis? i have a hard time reading at times.

[Gorsameth]

I might be stupid, but are the forum emojis or ingame emojis? i have a hard time reading at times.

They are forum emoji's for people to copy and use elsewhere across the internet.

In the meantime, we hope that this lovingly curated selection of some of our favorite dracthyr emojis helps enrich your communities across Discord, Twitch, and social media.

[Mekkle]

They are forum emoji's for people to copy and use elsewhere across the internet.

In the meantime, we hope that this lovingly curated selection of some of our favorite dracthyr emojis helps enrich your communities across Discord, Twitch, and social media.

gotcha thank you!

[huth]

Not sure why they still want to timegate stuff - both professions and reputations timegated. Why wont they just LET PLAYERS PLAY? if someone wants to dedicate the time to push through something, let them.

Because players have repeatedly proven themselves incapable of any kind of moderation and will unhealthily binge unless forced.

[Aeluron Lightsong]

Because players have repeatedly proven themselves incapable of any kind of moderation and will unhealthily binge unless forced.

Or whine because they feel "Forced" to do it.

[unfunnymeme]

Because players have repeatedly proven themselves incapable of any kind of moderation and will unhealthily binge unless forced.

That shouldn't be a problem. That's a choice, on the player's part. If they do it, it's the their own fault, and devs should grow a spine and tell them that.
Modern game development tries way too hard to control every little detail of a person's play experience, but the game was much more fun back when you went and chose what you wanted to do, how you wanted to approach something, and how much time you wanted to put into it(wotlk).

But anyway, to anyone within the alpha, I'd like to ask a question about the dragonriding mounts. Do you notice the player model shrinking when you mount up on them? It's a horrible problem with some mounts in the game, and I'd like to see people reporting the issue if it's there, because it absolutely ruins a lot of really good mounts. I ask this because one of the dragons uses the pterrordax model, and it is one of the mounts that shrinks your character.

[klaps_05]

Because players have repeatedly proven themselves incapable of any kind of moderation and will unhealthily binge unless forced.

thats because u are assuming players will suddenly log off if stuff is timegated. this is just like world first raiding - if ppl want to do degenerate shit and play, they will.

a few years ago there were a lot of talk about player AGENCY - giving the PLAYER the choice. Guess blizzard's memory doesnt last very long, as timegating in shadowlands was also universally not liked, yet they still push it.

[Nymrohd]

Because players have repeatedly proven themselves incapable of any kind of moderation and will unhealthily binge unless forced.

Binge? People will consume the product that is available yes. And because a majority of people do not enjoy repeatable content, at least not past a small number of repetitions, they will stop playing. That is not unhealthy. The game actually offers a solid amount of content for the price tag if you could actually experience the content within a sub or two. But they stretch that out with timegating so that even people who are not interested in "endgame" i.e. farming the same content with slight variations ad infinitum have to stick around. It's artificial scarcity.

Would we accuse someone who uses most of their free time to finish a CRPG like e.g. the Witcher 3 as an unhealthy binger? People expect to get value for their entertainment. And for many people the value of questing and initially experiencing instanced content far surpasses repeating that content; this is the most likely reason why every new expansion sees a peak in subscribers and it drops a few months after.

Imo the issue is with the obsession of keeping people online in your game. Get their money, let them have their fun and then let them go.

[Shadochi]

OMFG I can't believe my boy Lor'themar got married and we missed it! Like, wtf-

I wonder what the ceremony was like, was it in like a trailer park camp? Since both races are/were crackheads/addicts

[Nymrohd]

I wonder what the ceremony was like, was it in like a trailer park camp? Since both races are/were crackheads/addicts

They are addicts but they are rich addicts. Twilight Vineyards wedding.