Comparing Steps of Faith to Wildstar's gating isn't fair in my opinion. Nor does it have anything to do with 'elitism' for people to not want content to be made simple to the point where it becomes very trivial.
I can understand why they did it but it risks setting an unfortunate trend. We've already seen Pharos Sirius hit with the nerfbat and that was completely optional. It wasn't tied to the main scenario quests.
Wildstar's 'gating' was criticised so heavily because it literally involved completing every dungeon within a strict time limit, lots of grinding and a reliance on gathering thirty nine other players who had gone through the attunement process to even enter a raid in the first place.
From what I've hear they've since changed that but...a slightly challenging mandatory instance just doesn't compare as far as I'm concerned.
I can understand why they did it but it risks setting an unfortunate trend. We've already seen Pharos Sirius hit with the nerfbat and that was completely optional. It wasn't tied to the main scenario quests.
Wildstar's 'gating' was criticised so heavily because it literally involved completing every dungeon within a strict time limit, lots of grinding and a reliance on gathering thirty nine other players who had gone through the attunement process to even enter a raid in the first place.
From what I've hear they've since changed that but...a slightly challenging mandatory instance just doesn't compare as far as I'm concerned.
