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[Vahlnir]

You’re now very close to understanding why I posted a thread a few days ago about why I dislike timegate.

It’s farming player sunk cost for subscription revenue rather than having companies rely on making content stand up on their own to generate profit with.

Time gating is an MMO thing that should be expected. It's all about how it's handled that determines whether it's reasonable time gating or not. WoW struggles with this. FF XIV seems to get it.

[SquishyPlushie]

Time gating is an MMO thing that should be expected. It's all about how it's handled that determines whether it's reasonable time gating or not. WoW struggles with this. FF XIV seems to get it.

It’s fine personally if it’s done on cosmetics. But as soon as you make ilvl based on how long your subscription is, it’s worthless as I can see right through it.

I view cosmetics behind such as loyalty rewards. But doing it to power scaling is nope.

[Brightamethyst]

It’s fine personally if it’s done on cosmetics. But as soon as you make ilvl based on how long your subscription is, it’s worthless as I can see right through it.

Things like tomes and raid gear are time gated because players can consume content exponentially faster than the devs can create it. The limits are there because the alternative is hardcore players running a hundred dungeons and raids and getting BiS in the first week, and then spending the next 4-8 months complaining that there's nothing to do.