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Destiny 1 losing Trials of Osiris and Iron Banner after August
- Thread starter EL CUCO
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benicillin
Banned
I expect Destiny will just be put in like a maintenance mode where the servers are up and still running but they don't bother with seasonal events or timed things like Trials and IB.
Still dumb to remove. There's gear tied to them and stuff like Mercury that you can't go to without Trials.
ByWatterson
Member
This makes zero practical sense, and is only happening to force players into a sequel they may not want.
So transparent.
So transparent.
Cornbread78
Member
MaKTaiL
Member
They gotta keep the consistency. Every major expansion gated content for people that didn't buy it. Destiny 2 should be the same right?....... Right?
Joking aside, that's so stupid. Imagine if EA turned BF4 MP OFF so that it could re-emerge on BF1? It's surreal if you think about it.
They are treating Osiris and Iron Banner as features/entities that will travel to Destiny 2. Why can't they both coexist on both games at the same time?
Sword Of Doom
Member
They've always been pretty bad with this stuff. They may as well have a subscription model. They release an expansion and instead of creating a new playlist to differentiate between people who own the expansion and people who don't own it, they just take away content from people who don't own it. So I'm not surprised they'd do something like this.
It's not a joke though. It's a shitty practice.
It's not a joke though. It's a shitty practice.
benicillin
Banned
The practical sense is probably that working on Destiny 1 is a time consuming nightmare, including getting Iron Banner and Trials out there, and they don't want to anymore.
Diablohead
Member
They want all you destiny 1 players to move over to their shiny new sequel, a dirty move.
Strangelove77
Member
I don't see the big deal. Those events couldn't be around forever.
At best they'll let you get that loot from doing regular pvp or a mission in pve. Trials gear has always looked really cool. Might as well let everyone have it now.
At best they'll let you get that loot from doing regular pvp or a mission in pve. Trials gear has always looked really cool. Might as well let everyone have it now.
Daffy Duck
Member
Hahahahahaha what an utter fucking joke.
benicillin
Banned
I'm pretty sure you can get trials guns just from doing crucible bounties now. Armor I'm not so sure, maybe they'll add it to the loot pool.
You can already get the weapons from the pvp packages. It's been that way for a while now.
QuantumBro
Banned
People realize that one day you're going to try to start Destiny and won't be able get past the menu cause the servers are offline, right?
Hopefully they port all the old content to the new game.
Hopefully they port all the old content to the new game.
EL CUCO
Member
It's a legit playlist that offers better rewards and overall end game pvp experience tho. Why remove it all? Are they expecting everyone to jump ship on day one?
That being said, we probably wont see Trials on D2 until the first DLC so it makes even less sense to me.
WickedLaharl
Member
Bungie is in a perpetual state of fuckupidness.
This is flat out how you shouldn't treat your player base.
Gotta due their best to force upgrades and removing events is the first step.
This is flat out how you shouldn't treat your player base.
Gotta due their best to force upgrades and removing events is the first step.
yanipheonu
Member
Yeah, the special events won't be continuing after official support had ended.
That's... Not surprising at all.
I get the feeling lots of posts in here barely know what these events are, and are just in it for the Bungie dogpile. >_>
Sucks they couldn't automate it at all, but I'm sure Destiny 1's engine has problems in that regard.
That's... Not surprising at all.
I get the feeling lots of posts in here barely know what these events are, and are just in it for the Bungie dogpile. >_>
Sucks they couldn't automate it at all, but I'm sure Destiny 1's engine has problems in that regard.
Spartancarver
Member
Gotta force them upgrades.
Amazing how quick the hype for D2 has died down since the reveal. This is literally more of the same artificial gating shadiness that Bungie pulled with D1.
Will consider picking up the PC version at a steep discounted after the first few expansion packs at this point. Meh.
Amazing how quick the hype for D2 has died down since the reveal. This is literally more of the same artificial gating shadiness that Bungie pulled with D1.
Will consider picking up the PC version at a steep discounted after the first few expansion packs at this point. Meh.
RichiRamjag
Member
Y'all fools act like destiny doesn't mainly stay relevant because of pvp. Iron banner is always a treat (at the end of the week).
Not even surprised by now, they have made tons of bad and dumb decisions like this with Destiny. It doesn't really make sense, Trials is available all the time and Iron Banner could be automated quite easily. They forced me to buy Rise of Iron to access all the content, not gonna happen twice.
jasminlovesyoux
Banned
This is pretty absurd to me. What if people just want to keep playing Destiny 1? Bungie is assuming everyone's jumping ship.
benicillin
Banned
Xur is automated so I'm pretty sure he'll stick around, Trials and IB have always required manually doing some stuff and they've even had to skip some weeks because they were too busy doing other things, so it's not surprising that they don't want to have to pull people off D2 for a legacy weekly event on D1.
RecRoulette
Member
Not surprised because "Fuck you buy our new game."
John Caboose
Member
I won't be personally affected but it is indeed strange that they wouldn't just automate it. Maybe their live event tools are just plain shit and would need a complete overhaul to support scheduled events automatically?
I don't understand how anyone can view Destiny 2 with anything other than scepticism and wariness after the way Activision and Bungie have handled the first.
It's put me off the game and the series, I know people say "but the gunplay!" and "my friends!" but that's just a cop out.
If we always bend over, companies will treat us worse and worse.
It's put me off the game and the series, I know people say "but the gunplay!" and "my friends!" but that's just a cop out.
If we always bend over, companies will treat us worse and worse.
benicillin
Banned
They are. It's been something they've talked about a bunch of times and why they've talked at length about how D2's live event tools are built to make this kind of stuff way easier.
LoserMakesGood
Member
Every piece of info that comes from Destiny 2 makes me want the game less and less. It's like they want to see how far they can push it before the hardcores will turn on them.
No one is asking for them to be around forever.
But ending them a month before Destiny 2 is ridiculous.
Guess they should just shut down the entire Destiny 1 servers then, eh?
This is an incredibly anti-consumer decision. There will still be plenty of people playing Destiny 1 after Destiny 2 launches.
Psychoward
Banned
Daffy Duck
Member
I regret buying Destiny the collection now and not having the time to grind my ass off in your game, another Dev pushing me away because I don't have hours to sink in.
Sorry I won't be buying destiny 2 either now.
Sorry I won't be buying destiny 2 either now.
CEJames
Member
Haaaa, laughed too hard at that word.
Okami Haundo
Member
Kind of surprising to hear this so soon, but it's definitely par for the course with a service game.
GustyGardens
Banned
Maybe I'm in the minority, but I honestly didn't expect them to continue with those after the new game launched. They were on borrowed time.
Even then, I'm always hearing that Trials is stale now, and there's no point to it anymore. When Iron Banner comes around, I hear similar criticisms. It seems to me like a lot of the community has been done with them for quite a while.
Even then, I'm always hearing that Trials is stale now, and there's no point to it anymore. When Iron Banner comes around, I hear similar criticisms. It seems to me like a lot of the community has been done with them for quite a while.
ByWatterson
Member
That's not really the point. The point is that people have paid for access to these things multiple times (TOO was part of the House of Wolves expansion, and then it and IB were paywalled when each new expansion came out), but now can no longer access them - less than a year after they last paid for them. Or, in the case of new customers, mere weeks or months.
It's just inexcusable.
It's honestly kind of insane. They released Destiny: The Collection when Rise of Iron launched. And people who bought that are having two of the biggest post-game activities taken away from them before the sequel even launches.
And of course, when The Collection launched, Bungie still hadn't announced that were dropping the "your character comes with you on a 10 year journey" promise that was made when Destiny came out.
And Trials isn't even in Destiny 2 at release, so we're looking at a long hiatus before Destiny's most popular game mode (Twitch-wise) comes back. Forcing people to play and stream other content, I guess.