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The user criticizes the "silver shield" time-gating mechanic in the Demacia Rising story event, stating it severely hinders story pacing and enjoyment. They compare it to frustrating mobile game mechanics and detail how it forces players to wait weeks to progress through content that would otherwise be a quick read.
The silver shield mechanics feels absolutely horrible. The same kind of time gating mechanics in mobile games like clash of clans. The main issues cause by the silver shield mechanic is the terrible breakup of the story pacing. The player see the game through Luxs' eyes and learns about the history and development of Demacia. For a nerd like me this stuff is amazing to see. But the silver shield makes it impossible to enjoy the story at a reasonable pace. The only way to gain silver shield by completing quests for league off legends or tft. The daily quest gives 300 for winning a game or playing 2 games. The weekly quest gives up to 3750 for playing 7 games. There are 3 categories I know of that use silver shields. first is the next turn button costing 10 which is at a reasonable cost. second is upgrading towns level 1 costing couple hundred to a thousand which is ridiculous as the story quests require you to upgrade towns to progress. And finally research which ranges from couple hundred to over one thousand. So to get the same amount of lore and story progress as a comic would have from last year, you would need to wait several weeks.