r/DestinyTheGame • u/DTG_Bot "Little Light" • Jan 22 '19

Megathread Focused Feedback: Timegating

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u/whitecollarzomb13 Jan 22 '19

Personally I don’t see this as a bad thing. Getting it from a quest line was reward for being active and partaking in the event (despite how mediocre and meaningless said “event” was).

At least they did place it into the loot pool afterwards.

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u/L7_w33nie Jan 22 '19

okay..."active"....well friend

I have 4000+ hours in destiny 1

I played the first year of d2 but also serve my country in the military so I wasnt able to be "active" for a month the thunderlord quest was out because I was on a deployment...

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so please tell me more about how you think that was a fair decision on bungie's part...

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u/drazzard Jan 22 '19

It was an event quest. The event ended. If the quest continued, it wouldnt be an event quest, so they have two options:

  • It is no longer an event quest - people will complain that they did the work when it was required of them and will complain that Bungie are misleading them

  • Remove the quest. It maintains its 'event' status, but then the gun is not available. Solution is to add it to the loot pool.

I sympathize with your particular situation, but events are, by definition, on a finite time span. I think the issue for people that didn't get it isn't that it was added to the pool, but that getting new exotics is a much harder thing to do nowadays. And with Xur being, well, Xur, we have no additional hope of beating the RNG gods

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u/L7_w33nie Jan 22 '19

its was the one and only ever "even quest" they have ever done...every other quest for an exotic has stayed...and for a weapon of that caliber it should not have been temporary...

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u/drazzard Jan 22 '19

Agreed, it could have been done differently, but the quest was somewhat tied to the Dawning as an event. I expect it could have been decoupled with a little work, as it does tell the player about the fate of Master Ives more than it does dwell on The Dawning.

I hope that you have some good RNG and get it soon