Bungie what the fuck.
If I’m totally honest I don’t think this is that slimy of Bungie. Obviously, it’s not something you have to buy, 99% of us won’t, like all microtransaction enabled games they money gets made on the minority of players with lots of money who are willing to spend it so I don’t see this becoming a noticeable thing in the wider community.
The challenge of Destiny and the bragging rights that players have all come from the drops they’ve gotten and the stuff they’ve done in the endgame. There’s absolutley no pay to win here as far as I’m concerned because completing the campaign and getting to 25 aren’t anything anyone has much challenge doing and for people making new characters or just starting the game it can be a bit of a drag and I think something that really threw a lot of new players out of it.
They’d buy Destiny and see all their friends raiding and doing Heroic Strikes together and they’d be stuck soloing the missions to get their level up and nobody of high level would help them through it, and even when they did all they would end up doing is following their level 40 friend around as they wreck the entire level.
I think giving players the opportunity to skip the initial climb and get to a point where they can start joining in with at least some activities that their endgame level friends have been doing is a great idea as I’m sure we can all agree the endgame is when it gets fun.
Maybe it is a little too much, I’d say it’d make a lot more sense to just sell the spark of light for like $5-10 but I’m not sure what else comes in these packs (weapon telemetries I think?).
I just really don’t see this as a threat to Destiny’s playerbase, I’m the kind of person who might be temped by Microtransactions if they gave me something cool and I’ve already bought a fair few things from Tess but as an endgame player I see nothing worthwhile for myself here and that’s the pay to win edge we need to be looking out for and complaining about should it ever show it’s ugly face.
Yeah, this is more of a “i want to skip a bunch of grinding so i can play with my friends” pack. And it affects nothing, who cares if some people skipped a bunch of gameplay? I did that with my Titan when we got one of the level up items for free with TTK.
Come on people, just stop complaining when Bungie does anything to make money, they spent 500 million dollars on the game, and aside from buying it and a couple DLC’s, they have not asked for more than that. Hell, getting the TTK bundle was 80 dollars, for a game that honestly would have every right to charge a subscription because THEY HAVE NOT TAKEN TIME OFF. THEY HAVE BEEN WORKING ON DESTINY NON STOP SINCE IT RELEASED.
I love how Bungie gets blamed for this and not Activision
The whole reason destiny was a “flop” at launch and had a paper thin story was because the bungie executives canned the original story, saying it was too much, and was too expansive
Most of what they spent that money on, you didn’t and most likely will never see in game, because the destiny execs said it was no good
While Activision may partially be to blame and maybe even told the bungie execs to can the original cut, you can’t say bungie is free of blame for the game that was released
Now as far as the game how it stands today and how hard they have worked to make destiny more like the experience they originally planned, I can’t say. I haven’t played destiny since the dark below came out, but it seems they are really working their asses off to make up for the original blunder
Note: I plan to pick up destiny again in a year or two when they get more time to even out destiny and get it back on track