Yeah I don’t enjoy it at all. I loved the release schedule in Legion.
Hope that will be back for the next expansion, honestly. But maybe with a few changes.
How about a tier season and a non tier season? They could alternate them… One season you get a new ilvl cap, new raid and such and in the other season just some ‘gimmicks’ and some new stuff to earn.
Honestly… I like how SWTOR is doing seasons. I’m actually enjoying playing it now, because with the weekly goals you get to pick what sort of content you like doing. And sometimes, you get taken a bit from your comfort zone if you want to max the amount of points you can earn, and that’s fine.
I’d love for WoW to try something like that. Hell… They can have a season pass and sell that on the store - for real money only, no BattleNet Balance - so you get a second path of rewards besides the basic one. Taking the season to work towards those extra rewards by doing the content you already liked doing; win/win imo. If they did that, the seasons could be longer.
The mindset of many people has changed. That’s the big thing.
I blame the players. Not the game. You shouldn’t play MMORPGs if you want instant gratification. There’s plenty of crap games to choose from for that.
In fact; a dev once said that they consider a season 8 months.
They haven’t officially said this season was 8 months, true. But if that’s what they consider a typical season length to be… Well…
He is mentioning a “typical duration”. Which more sounds like “normal length” to me. I am not expecting another 8 months season. Not at all. But it is pure speculation of course.
The next expansion announcement in 8 days will maybe tell us more.
I’m not sure if they’ll announce a release date, or at least a ‘general time period’, but that could be an indicator of how long we can expect these 2 seasons to be.
Yup
But my guess is they want to get back to shorter seasons again since too many people say they have nothing to do for too long periods of the current longer seasons.
And with this in mind i can hardly blame people for wanting their tier set basically halfway a normal seasons length. It would be completely hartbreaking to get your set finished the week before a new season starts and you are never able to use the new acquired gear.
And honestly; I hope it’s going to be 5 months. And then 5 months for season 4.
Because that would mean 10.0 pre-patch in 10 months, which already puts it at feb which in turn means the expansion would be released about a month later (ish). Still much too late for my taste, but yeah… Better than 16 months from now (which would mean august - not likely, so probably sept pre-patch oct release at earliest then. And that would be horrible).
PS: Subtract 2 months-ish, if you think this current season will be 5 months - I personally don’t believe they’ll make that timeframe (which would put the expansion at feb-ish or july-ish with an 8 month timeframe).
“Let me tell you back in my day exactly 18 years ago gear was intentionally much more sparse which is why it got changed over the years because it was bad design”
