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Edited by Der Sheff: 12/2/2017 3:53:42 AM
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Enjoying the December Update may mean you need to buy the DLC

I just realized this: if what Bungie has done in the past with DLC content prevails, vanilla players will not have access to heroic strikes, Nightfalls, Iron Banner, Trials of Osiris or Raid Lairs. All pieces of content that will see major improvements with the December Update. This includes quality of life updates, like how we are rewarded and the quality of rewards we receive. In other words: yeah, we’re fixing a bunch of issues with the update, but you’ll only see the benefits if you own Curse of Osiris. This creates a pay wall, in short. This follows on the heels of the XP fiasco, irritation with duplicate rewards, limited ways to get rewards (Iron Banner exemplified this), reward caps (faction rally), lack of end game and zero incentive to play the end game. These issues plague vanilla and are a major source of player frustration and are set to be addressed with the December Update. However, it may not matter to vanilla players as those pieces of content could be locked behind DLC. And just like the XP dampening factors felt like a cash grab for bright engrams, this DLC feels like a cash grab for players to be rewarded in a correct manner, not a DLC. Bungie had the benefit of Destiny 1, where they accumulated three years of data to see what players liked; to see what worked. It feels like they purposely withheld the good, time stamped it for a DLC update and are trying to get away with selling it back to us. This is not praise worthy. This feels criminal. Bungie needs to address what happens to non-DLC holding customers and how they’re going to be able to take advantage of what they, in my opinion, may be cheated out of - the changes in the December update.

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  • [quote]Bungie had the benefit of Destiny 1, where they accumulated [i]paywalls and cashgrabs galore[/i][/quote] Fixed. I don't actually feel bad in the least for people who didn't see this coming. I get it, yadda yadda "they ought not to drop support for the base game just because people didn't purchase" ... whatever. Y'all knew it was going to happen, or else were willfully ignorant. Either peeps paid $90 3+ months ago and are good until next summer, or they're about to get hosed, or they can move on to another game, or they can wait for the complete collection to go on sale in 2020. By now you know what the game is. If you like it, buy the season pass. If not, you're going to be slowly edged out into obscurity and eventual nonfunctionality. Bring your Sound and Fury to the forum all you want, you're not going to upend the business model with your forum posts. Vote with your dollars if you want. Write a letter to your congressman.

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