Rain.7543

Exactly. One hour content + 2-3 hours map completion and some events. This is the entire episode. Delayed and delayed again. To hide this they dilluted the content on 5 separate days. Stopping your progress to the mount even if you want to spend this effort. Is this a good design? It's MMO design ... I don't get why this concept is so offensive to people ... I've yet to play an MMO where you don't see one of two things:Blast through new contentGrind through new content Either way, there are people that complain about it. That says nothing of the design being good or bad. We have content in this game that spans the spectrum of both. Because you seem to forget what most MMOs offer with new updates. They offer a set of rewards that then can be aquired through new game modes or new mechanics, new character progression etc. If all you have after 7 years is the base game unchanged with a few new classes and then you throw every 4 months a new map in that ppl play for 3 hrs then that's not good game design. The mounts offer new game mechanics, at least in the way you move around in the game. They offer new customization etc. That's why ppl got so excited, not only about the mount but about the episode itself. Having the mount behind a timer that is longer than the time many ppl can bear running around and doing the same year old gameloop in yet another map. And having the most tedious and soulless and unfun collections on top of the time gating is not making it any better. So why are you here defending something like timegating? We all already know it's a game. We are here to tell anet that what they implemented sucks and we want them to make it better. We're not here because our lives ended and we're falling into depression. If you think we're only crying then I don't honestly know why you are going to the one place where ppl criticize and give feedback for the devs.Really? 7 years and Guild wars 2 have nothing new, but the base game and a new map every 4 months? You do realise that spewing such nonsense only discredit however many good points you might have made in your post? Guild wars 2 currently has the most stable and consistant game content being periodically released, most of it for free, yet people continue to find things to complain about. You haven't paid anything for it, so if you don't like it, then simply don't play it. But you, nor anyone else are entitled to demand Anet to change it, because you/they don't like it. Pretty sure you should be also talking for yourself only and not other people. People hardly give any constructive feedback in the number of topics I've seen on the subject. All it boils down to 'I don't like it, so you should change it!'Most of the posts are just over the top dramatic. It's not the first content ever being time-gated, yet suddenly this seems like such a HUGE issue. And since when spirit shards are such a big issue? Ever since PoF released i haven't been getting any Spirit Shards from its maps, since I haven't bothered with unlocking every single mount mastery yet, and I am sitting at 8k Shards atm. Core Tyria and HoT should've gotten you tons of Shards already.

That's why nowadays we have issues of intense development crunch times in a number of games, where the developers are put through insane 100 hours a week work times so they can produce content faster and it's still not enough. Gamers still burn through it all in over a day or a week. If Anet made the collections possible to complete in a day, people would complain that they have nothing new to work towads, just like people now complain about the time gate. However the design for the collections were made, some people would be happy and other not. Anet decided to go with that design, so you can either accept it or not, but realisticly i don't see them changing it, as this would be no easy task i am sure.

You do realise that the loan version of the mount is without any of the masteries, right? So look at it, as a very limited version of the mount. As for the rest I dont personally mind time gated achievements and collections. If those collections werent time gated people would already have the mount and begin posting topics, about how they have run out of things to do. Anet cant please everyone either way. If you don't like the way it is done, then don't do it. You are free to not like how it was implemented, but for god sake, dont post topics to complain, about something you get completely free. Its redicilous.

Why? Because obviously he can't be bothered with doing it the way it is and wants it easier and use every thread, as opportunity to let his wish be known. Well, too bad. It isn't happening. On the topic on hand. A wonderful QoL change indeed. I never had problem at obtaining my rewards, however I can absolutely see how frustrating it would be to people that had that issue before.

There is some weapon/armor skins you can earn in game, though they are behind lengthy grinds (DLC ones). But they are there at least, even if in small amounts. But for a game that revolves around cosmetics, it is a bit off-putting that almost all those cosmetics are Gem Store only. Not many have the hundreds of gold to convert to gems to afford an outfit/armor skin, so they have to spend real money to get any of these skins. I get they need to make money and god forbid we suggest adding skins to the actual game or else everyone will scream at you for it, but they really do need to add some skins to the game that we can earn at least. Kind of tired of the only way to get anything new in this game is to whip out the credit card instead of actually playing the game. What is tiring for me imo is some of the entitlement in these forums. There is no subscription cost to this game, there is new, free updates that have already added alot to the game, yet people want MORE? for free! How dare they dont give me stuff for free! /s There is a whole new updgradable armor sets coming with the new LW episode along with new map, new mount and a new legendary weapon. How's that fitting into the definition of new stuff being released only through the gemstore? Also guess what.. converting gold to gems and then buying stuff from the gemstore is ALSO playing the game. That gold came from you playing the game, no? The current model is fine as it is, imo.