Wayshrines and DLC content

Mashille

Hi, this is a tiny issue and not really an issue at all but this is just me voicing my view on something

I wanted to make a little thread about something that gripes me with the game at the moment involving DLC. When you create a new character all Wayshrines are revealed for DLC zones, probably to let the user know that they own the DLC and give them ease of access to the content.

My problem with this is that it doesn't really make any sense, for new players especially. Yes it may be convenient for players who know how to play and only need the Wayshrines to pop into the zone for something or other. However, imagine a new player who buys the Gold Edition goes into the game and see's these random Wayshrines in Zones they've never been in before. It doesn't make any sense? Why are there random Wayshrines in a few certain zones in the game but no others.

I feel the reasoning that 'We want to make it easy for players to access content' is a bit silly. I mean, someone playing Skyrim doesn't get Fast Travel access to the home of the Thieves Guild and Dark Brotherhood just because they want to do that specific content, they have to go and work out how to join them and travel there etc.

Furthermore randomly sticking some Wayshrines on the map could confuse completely new players who don't even know what Wayshrines are and may lead to them getting lost and not really knowing what they're doing. I understand many would probably not have this problem, but I still dislike it as they are just zones in the game in the grand scheme of things so the inconsistency of having them already revealed just because they are DLC zones doesn't make sense to me. I'll use Skyrim as the example here again, people did not get given Fast Travel access to Fort Dawnguard just because they bought the DLC, they still had to get there through something.

This was surprisingly longer than I thought it was going to be for such a tiny, minor 'not really an issue' grip.

So... Yeah, that's it.

imnotanother

I don't know.

Wayshrines seem to make everything easier, not harder or confusing.

Danikat

For what it's worth I've seen people confused by a lot of things in this game (heck, I've been confused by a lot of things myself) but I've never seen this one come up.

I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn it has happened at some point, but it certainly doesn't seem to be a common problem so it may well be that you're worrying unnecessarily.

And if they are going to be confused by wayshrines they're going to be just as confused by ones leading to the other starter islands or the main cities as ones leading to the DLC areas. To a brand new player who doesn't know the first thing about the game an unfamiliar location is an unfamiliar location. It's unlikely they're going to work out whether it's DLC or a base-game area (and if they can then they can probably work out how they got there and how to get back).

Mashille

@imnotanother

But would it really be that hard to visit a zone for the first time just by getting there through the intro quest etc. Maybe make it a thing where they Wayshrines are revealed for all characters once a users Character has already been there and done something there or something.

imnotanother

Mashille wrote: »

@imnotanother

But would it really be that hard to visit a zone for the first time just by getting there through the intro quest etc. Maybe make it a thing where they Wayshrines are revealed for all characters once a users Character has already been there and done something there or something.

Hard? Not at all but inconvenient.