Stop with the FOMO

[Astralrisk]

Timegate as well as weekly currency+loot drop FOMO has the opposite effect of their intention on me. Apparently other people need to be trolled in order to play or subscribe and won't self admit it though.

Raid drops aren't really a timegate, or at least a bad timegate. The weekly loot lockouts are in place specifically to prevent players from farming out a raid in the course of a week and being gear capped instantly. I know that the game would have 0 incentive to play raids after the first week if I could just get all my drops on the first week of an 8 month raid tier. The raid content itself isn't even timegated since you can access all the raids, and the only real gear you at all is just crafted gear so it's not like your missing out on any of the actual gameplay. But if you personally don't like having to deal with gearing in that kind of environment every week, I would recommend just not doing it if it isn't enjoyable for you.

edit: I will say that at least by a certain point in the raid tier, they should just unlock the loot in the raid because gear doesn't matter at that point and only really exists for making the you do more damage beyond the required amount, or just cosmetic purposes. However, in a general "remove gear lockouts" from raids would be really bad for that initial player retention from any raid tier.