Since Heelz unfortunately no longer is doing videos on WoW (again, I respect his decision), I’ve decided to do a blog post on time gating as a whole and try to be as in-depth as he gets in his videos (but from my POV). And hopefully this’ll be the last post that isn’t future patch notes or related to BlizzCon.
So I’ve been lurking in the General Discussion forum, looking at all the fine threads (occasionally posting what’s on my mind and loving the number of dislikes I get).
There’s been a few repeating threads that have come up and died by being buried in the thousands of pages. One of these is the request for Mythics to be part of the Group Finder tool.
I can see the argument on both sides of this pretty clearly, and agree with both. On one hand, people that do these premade groups are able of figuring out who’s a *bad*(players who don’t know and/or refuse to know the fights). And on the other, it’ll be more convenient for more people like myself who do these groups, to have it more automated.
I personally never had an issue with *bads* of the three Mythics I cleared by setting up a premade, but it’s just such a hassle trying to find players that aren’t “is this Mythic+?” when I clearly state it’s for regular Mythic.
The reason why I say this first thing about LFGs having Mythic as an option, is it ties with the 3rd paragraph.
Another theme is people who don’t understand why casuals are even bitching for not being able to do Karazan in Mythic. And no matter how the two sides try to counter eachother, it ends at a stalemate. And this causes more threads to pop up, and the process begins anew.
Finally, there are people (like myself) who feel the 80 Mythics to complete a single quest(getting 80 prisms to get Illidan’s soul away from Sargaras) is way…way too much work for a pair of 855 ilvl boots(which is pretty much a pat on the back). This alone… WTF Blizz?
Though it’s pretty obvious that all of this that I have said, has to do with their “master plan” of delaying content on players as much as they can, to get more content in. But why? Why do they think they have to do this? Is it because they don’t have enough content? …Is it because they have ran out of ideas since Cata?
There’s got to be more to this. I personally feel this is a “scheme to keep us subscribed” as I said in the post below this. Yet clearly not everyone is seeing it (as they aren’t on GD and talking).
Now don’t get me wrong – Legion was a HUGE step in the right direction for WoW (since WoD at least) – but it just .. isn’t enough in some places. Or maybe perhaps too much.
This ‘desire’ to delay content, could be why players are being “forced” to do Mythic-only content in order to complete endgame questing. Or it could be a move to make WoW more of an MMO than ever before.
It could even be the answer of why there’s hardly any rep gear as previous expansions (with it mainly coming from World Quests). Even this BS requirement of getting a Falcosaur mount. Everything was designed, to delay.
However, it doesn’t explain why they released 7.1 in less than two months since its release. I think it could be because of BlizzCon, or the fact Halloween is just around the corner.
Whatever the reason is, I find this doesn’t suit well for the future of the World of Warcraft. And I’m going to say it here. In 7.2 and so on, if they continue to go this path, I will unsub and possibly never cover news of WoW in the future of this website.
Now before you react, it’s not because I refuse to do it (like I originally did dungeons as I was leveling up and in early endgame). Folks, I WANT to do this content. I really do. But I also want it to be reasonable that anyone, even casuals, can enjoy. No more of this Mythic-only bullshit. They are being ridiculous here. Again, maybe it’s the fact they’re doing it to keep content relevant.
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That’s just my two cents. Let me know what you guys think by shooting me some emails. Also let me know if I did a good or a horrible job of trying to be as in-depth as Heelz was when he did WoW videos.
FYI, I’m not trying to replace him. I just want to be as good as he is when it comes to explaining things like this.