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[Editorial] World of Warcraft: Limited Time Only
SBFord
Former Associate EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 33,129
We’ve all seen the signs before: ‘limited time only’ the words say, usually with a McDonald’s McRib sandwich plastered on it. We all scoff, the sandwich comes back like a zombie next year, and we continue to dismiss the idea of it truly being a ‘limited time only’ experience. This is not so different with MMORPGs and their holiday events. Holiday events come along like the seasons they represent with mini-games, encounters and goodies, but we don’t truly find it devastating if we missed out—it will all come back next year. However, what if a feature, a paid one, was truly here for a limited time only… should players be punished for the lack of participation?
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I think limited time things are a fantastic motivator to stay in the game and earn them. Why not remove things? If you missed a chain or an opportunity to get something, be sure to get in on the next one that comes along, such as Draenor's epic ring quest.
I did not get the cloak on all 6 of my 'toons by choice but I did on two of them. I also finished the Challenge Mode on my Druid and got the Garrosh heirlooms on all of my 90s. I love it that those things are now out of the game, not because they will be worth much in a very short time and not because I give a damn about bragging to anyone. I feel like I accomplished something grand, even if in a small "in a game" kind of way. I can honestly say, "I was there and I did it!"
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I never understand why temporary content bothers people so much. But I also don't feel like I have to be there and do every single thing.
Some people don't play GW2 for two months and have such an issue that there was living story content they can't do now. Like some how Anet owes them the right to do every single thing in the game whenever they feel like doing it.
Remember back in the day when achievement rewards were only provided if you accomplished the feat before the next set of raids came out? They decided to move away from the limited time model for those. Remember all those 1-60 quests that now don't exist? Quests and the like are removed all the time. Also, likely there was not enough interest in challenge modes so they removed it. None of this is unprecedented. Blizz makes bad decisions sometimes for sure (pandas for instance), on the scale of what they've done, this seems trivial.
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Anet - bad cuz they give free content regulalry
but when blizzard release expansion that last for few hours for 50 bucks its awesome
Thanks. You are right and those WoW fans even pay for it and are happy. Weird.
so, you exploited that rank too? and you think any of us would be impressed?
lemme think about that, naaaaah.
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Removing the rewards isn't the issue from what I read it's the story line content. Not caring about raiding I could care less about raid rewards, but do like to see/experience the full story.
Games with a huge abundance of content could (I'll assume they still have this around) pull out old content - ex. Vanilla WoW opening of Ahn'Qiraj. You have to be level appropriate, etc. They merge servers now for low pop zones. How hard would it be to have some of that content available for those that haven't done it or to redo it?
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The only thing Anet added to their game as "we will provide free content as responsible developer" are these so called living stories. and then they removed them. ANet promised players will get regular update and buy2play is not an issue when providing content, yes they did provide it but they were limited time and they did not say content would be limited time. While blizzard bring more to WoW expansions than just one big limited time quest chain. People who complain about GW2 "living story" have valid reason to complain.
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I've noticed some people mention the PvP titles as the first example of limited time content. There's actually a pretty big difference between what happened with the old pvp system and what blizzard is doing eliminating story content lines. Namely, when they changed how pvp rankings worked they had to gut the old system and convert any rankings into player titles. Likewise, when they removed quest lines due to the world revamp in cataclysm, it was part of making the world work with flying mounts and to clear out a lot of the bad transition points between zones.
What is happening here is eliminating content for the sake of making it a timed exclusive, which tends to just divide people and make them very angry at each other. It's also very much a "stick disguised as a carrot" approach to getting both old and new players playing the game once more.
I do think that limited time only rewards are totally OK. I missed out on the cloak by I am not crying about it. I just missed it and it is nothing more about it.
I like to see more things like this happening.
I feel that limited time...wait, what's that UI you've got there on your character sheet?
So pretty! Me want! Me likey! Tommy want UI!
Sorry, what was I saying again?
Im ok with that time limit.
Got the cloak on 2 of my chars.
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Exactly,
They forget that a lot of People play MMO´s for the leveling experience and couldn´t care less about Raiding.
So People starting over or anew with a New character, now have to play through Pandaria with butchered story content. Content that was part of the expansion people paid for!
And what is the big deal with these cloaks? I mean, they are now mostly obsolete in Power anyway due to Level cap raise. So what if People want to do this storyline leveling up New characters?
SOE didn´t remove the Epic Weapon questlines either. People can still do them, eventho the reward is obsolete in Power now.
But People still do it, because they either like it or like the appearance of the weapon and use it as cosmetic. (transmorg in WoW).
With Guild Wars 2 I don´t like the Whole timed content either, tho that game is B2P and that story content was added for free last year. So less of a big deal.
Tho it still backfired and now with Season 2, it´s no longer timed and everyone can do it, no matter when they joined.
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As if it could exist, without being payed for.
F2P means you get what you paid for. Pay nothing, get nothing.
Even telemarketers wouldn't think that.
It costs money to play. Therefore P2W.