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Edited by c1outMel0n:
3/18/2015 5:49:18 PM
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Destiny = Pay To Play
I hate how one of the weekly strikes
REQUIRE you to have TDB expansion; it makes me sick with anger whenever I ask my friend "Hey wanna run through the nightfall strike with me real quick?" and he replies "Nope, can't. It's omnigul." My friend doesn't have the expansion pack. The hell, Bungie?!?! My friend could have gotten an exotic, or a weapon that is absolutely OP in the crucible, but you deny him that chance because of this.
He can't get above level 30 either, so that means he gets stomped in the Iron Banner. (There's some Pay To Win for ya.) He can't get HoC and doesn't have G-horn, so it takes forever to find a VoG group that isn't full of the kind and intelligent elitists that we all know and love.
There are even places that are from the HoW that people have [i]already glitched into[/i]! (I've done it myself.) The $hit that we are all psyched to throw our money at is already in the game! Why are they making us pay for something that is already in the game?!
I'm so afraid that this rumored "Comet, Plague of Darkness" Mega DLC will also feature the content for the other two remaining DLCs. The Comet bs will be so full of Pay To Win/Play at this rate. What if the rumored new subclasses are OP? What if the weapons in this expansion are OP?
The bungie I know wouldn't do this. (Hell, any smart company wouldn't do this...)
If you don't like speculation then don't read this spoiler. [spoiler]I personally think it's Activision's fault. Bungie never did anything of this magnitude to us loyal fans before they paired up with Activision. They were great to their crowd when they were paired up with Microsoft, even.[/spoiler]
Hope you enjoyed my rant. I'll be adding edits later on.
Edit 1: I play with him on PS3. He got his own a long time ago, and he got Destiny for his birthday from another friend.
Edit 2: You guys totally are right about the term Pay To Play and how I should have expected a lot of expansions. Don't get me wrong, I like the dark below. But I really think that having to pay for content that's already in the game is fuqed up. I don't believe that you should have to pay again for something that you already paid for.
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9 RepliesNot to be rude, but it's hard to believe threads like these still get posted. Here's my perspective: While it's true that [b]areas[/b] of The Dark Below and House of Wolves are already on disc, that doesn't mean all the content is on the disc. The designers need to already have the skeleton of the maps, guns, etc. laid out first or else they would need to completely build all the DLC's from scratch. Now, Bungie and Activision are high-end corporations that had a business plan laid out for Destiny. That includes a timeline and a release schedule for additional content. Now in order to stay professional and on point with their schedules and releases, they had to make sure that when the game released, they were already thinking ahead to House of Wolves. So when they built the game they had to build the layouts for the other DLC's. If they did not, then the wait between expansions would be more like half a year to a year. You are [b]not[/b] paying to just "unlock" content that's on disc. The entire Crota's End raid was not just "locked" content on the disc. It had to be built, tested, scrapped, rebuilt, retested, polished, and then released. Not to mention the additional story missions, dialogue, weapons, strikes, etc. that came with The Dark Below. If all of those were "locked" content then it would have been leaked by data miners A LONG TIME AGO. Proof of this is the fact that even though certain images, sprites, placeholder names, etc. have been leaked from the House of Wolves but [b]nothing definitive[/b] such as actual story layouts, raid mechanics, strike layouts, etc. TL;DR Bungie is a game company with a plan. DLC's need to be planned out and have foundation laid out to build on to cut down on wait times and meet deadlines. [b]Content[/b] is not "locked on disc" only [b]FOUNDATIONS[/b] Hopefully this clears up any misconceptions.
