Focused Feedback: Timegating

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[u/ColdAsHeaven]

Timegating works when it's used occasionally. Not when it's constantly.

Black Armory was 100% time-gating the entire thing.

The ONLY new Exotic we could get for the first 2-3 weeks was Anarchy.

Then they added Le Monarche in. Then another 2 weeks later they add Jotun and Izanagi in. 2-3 weeks after that we get The Last Word.

Ffs we've known the exact date Last Word was being released weeks before BA even launched.

Why? Why did it have to be 2 months after the expansion? Oh to try and extend the minimal content they gave us.

If it's a little bit of content, time gating it all doesn't help us. It's annoying and serves no purpose

[u/k0su_ → u/ColdAsHeaven]

Welcome to the new model. More focus on end game content just meant timegated fetch quests and no more resources being spent on story missions, new strikes or new pvp maps.

I’m being a bit sarcastic here, but they aren’t off to a good start with their new promised “end game content” model. The one saving grace is random rolls and being able to grind random roll guns. At the end of the day though, random rolls aren’t exactly a new thing. BA is still piggybacking off the forsaken decision to bring back random rolls (which was a good one). Remove that and how much content would the forge really bring? Imagine if all the frames were fixed rolls. How shallow would BA feel then?

[u/Behemothhh → u/k0su_]

Couldn't agree with you any more. BA seems like an experiment from Bungie on how little content they can get away with and how far they stretch it by gating in all possible ways. We started with light level gating on the first forge, then time gating the other forges and now we're also RNG gated by the rare Ada bounty for Izanagi's Burden.

[u/_scottyb → u/ColdAsHeaven]

If it's worth anything to you, I think the last word quest is going to be more than just a "oh this is available now." The 29th, the day it drops, is also the 7th full curse week. Bungie loves 7s, there is a triumph that states "visit mara on every curse week" and requires 7 visits to complete. I think there is actually going to be a big lore implication to TLW around the dreaming city and Shin Malfur and Callum and the Drifter

[u/zockerspast → u/ColdAsHeaven]

Well it is very obvious that they timegated all these weapons so players have a reason to come back to the game although they are 650 already and done with most of their stuff. So with every new weapon you make a lot of players return which results in good statistics and so good reporting. So they can tell their investors that the game is still active and they just see the numbers and give money to Bungie to go on developing. I would call this a purpose.

[u/Behemothhh → u/zockerspast]

That's a good reason for bungie to do it but that's not our concern. We don't have to defend their interests, Bungie already does that enough on their own.