Even if they want to time-gate stuff . . . (Destiny)

by cheapLEY , Wednesday, November 07, 2018, 21:09 (2277 days ago) @ Morpheus

There are better ways to accomplish time delays.

Just waiting for the weekly reset sucks.

Make them based on community goals instead. Bungie already has all sorts of collectible materials in the game, through the salvage patrols. Let enemies drop those things all the time when necessary for a quest, and make the entire Destiny community collect millions of them, with the next quest step unlocking upon completion.

It accomplishes basically the same thing in that it extends the quest, but it also gives us something actually do and not just wait.

I desperately want to see more collective goals implemented in the game, and just having massive resource grinds seems like an easy enough place to start.

Imagine if there were some cool items that could only be unlocked from Festival of the Lost if the community collected a set amount of Fragmented Souls. The twist being that you would have to actually spend your souls into the collective bank to try and and unlock them. So you would have to choose between helping the entire community or buying that Shaxx mask (or just both, if you played a lot).

Now imagine something like that implemented for every vendor and activity in the game. Faction Rallies could change to be something like that, versus some half-assed competition. But again, there'd be that trade-off of choosing between adding to the community bank or just buying faction engrams.

I think it would be a cool way to do live events, and it would actually let the community work together to accomplish a goal, rather than just collectively waiting for the next quest step to unlock.