That is the way i see it happening. It cannot be core to the game since not all version will get it day one. It has to be extra stuff...
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Destiny PS4 Timed Exclusives will last until "At least Fall 2015"
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That is the way i see it happening. It cannot be core to the game since not all version will get it day one. It has to be extra stuff...
Vire
Member
The unfortunate thing is that the exclusives will probably extend past Destiny 1.
Old twitter post:
TropicanaTwista
Member
Getting the ps4 verison, but god I hate timed dlc. I wish everyone would stop doing it
Wouldn't do shit, because the whole reason that this "Exclusive DLC" is even a thing is because of retailers. If you want to target the source of it all, target GameStop/Best Buy/Walmart/Target etc.!
Bolts-n-Rays1109
Banned
I wonder how much Sony spent for a year of this exclusive content? The content isn't really all that much, but for a full year seems odd.
Final Verdict
Member
Well, I had thought that this was going to be permanently exclusive, so I guess a years at least a little better than that....
Jest Chillin
Member
I'm guessing you didn't get a chance to play the game. Strikes are like dungeons in RPGs. They have level requirements. The level requirements for Strikes are determined by the level requirements for the areas around the Strikes. Destiny starts the Players on Earth. This exclusive Strike takes place on Mars. We have no idea where, level wise, Mars will sit but it would make absolutely no sense at all for a single Strike in a non beginner zone to be a beginner level Strike.
It could be that Mars is relatively early in Progression or it could be late in progression. But it's not going to be a beginner area.
contract. they paid a shitload for GTA 4
Puppet Shadow
Member
In business, they're the same thing.
This sucks, I wish publishers wouldn't do this.
For me its not a spin just reality. Businesses want to make money and will pay to do so, that's just life. Expecting anything different is asinine.
I am surprised its so long though. I figured it would be for 6 months at the most.
WooHooAlex
Member
God damn, that's a long time.
figadapaura
Member
That's a ridiculously long time. Would it even be worth the wait? Most of this kind of exclusive stuff tends to fairly shite.
This is a shit practice, an awful one.
But it's absolutely impossible to stay competitive in the market once the competitor started it. And you know what? If the market weakens for the PS4 against the Xbox One and the parity clause for indies doesn't go away, the exact same thing will happen over there: They will emulate the other to become competitive again, and establish a parity clause.
It's why we have to cut the bullshit at the start. It's too damn late for exclusive DLC, but there can still make a difference for other things.
But it's absolutely impossible to stay competitive in the market once the competitor started it. And you know what? If the market weakens for the PS4 against the Xbox One and the parity clause for indies doesn't go away, the exact same thing will happen over there: They will emulate the other to become competitive again, and establish a parity clause.
It's why we have to cut the bullshit at the start. It's too damn late for exclusive DLC, but there can still make a difference for other things.
It is likely just a marketing deal. Sony is putting out a destiny PS4 bundle and marketing the game hard on PS4. Just like xbone and titanfall. But MS likely paid a lot more to get it off ps3/4 completely.
BlackBuzzard
Banned
Microsoft started this bullshit console exclusive crap, Sony just decided to play Microsoft's dirty game, its also pretty easy to do for them, cause they are spanking your competition.
Well yea, I suppose so. This doesn't sound like its going to be just little tiny DLC exclusive stuff, but full DLC expansions and whatnot.
I never really had a problem with like '2 week' exclusivity for DLC or something. I mean, I'm not that impatient that I'm gonna choose a certain platform just cuz I cant wait a couple weeks. This hurts, though. People super hyped about this game but only have an XboxOne will likely be pretty bummed.
Oh well.
ReturnOfTheRAT
Member
Money well spent.
It doesn't sound like I'm the one living in denial when I'm suggesting that there may be more than one reason a piece of content is exclusive.
The spin is trying to act like Sony is better than Microsoft in this regard.
Its possible. Its just fairly unprecedented and you're just trying to reach for absolutely any position possible that stops you from having to admit that this is a plain old moneyhat.
Is anybody doing that ?
BuggeryBugz
Member
I don't understand what timed-exclusive content proves. All it does is annoy people who want to buy your game on a different console.
Wow!
Wow!
I'll be the oddman out and bet against Sony for Q3/4 2014. I don't think they have the exclusives for this season, and I think that's why they're money hatting exclusive content so hard, because they're in a bit of a panicy situation.
Published by Activision, but I have to think Bungie has some say in the content that gets made exclusive. If I was a dev, I wouldnt want to keep something as important as levels exclusive from a huge swath of my player base. Such an ugly practice that MS takes part in too.
Blaim Microsoft, they started it last gen. If sony doesn't do it, it weakens the ps4's image.
They are.
Reacting to anti-competitive measures is not as bad as starting them. There's no reason to whitewash everything as "just as bad".
Unless there's actual evidence that Sony started this (it may very well be the case), then I will flip it around.
The more I think about it this is honestly making me hesitant to even buy the game. If I have to wait an extra year to get DLC/expansions just because the console I bought didn't throw heaps of cash at the publisher I think I'm out. Or at least I'll wait for it to be in the bargain bin.
Really? This practice has been going on for years. It has to be making a considerably difference otherwise it would have died out by now.
Haha, yeah, they're all the same. Competition from Sony has been good so far for Xbox though. I'm glad MS reversed the direction they were trying to go.
I'm saying that money was involved, though. I'm not acting like Sony politely asked them to make more content for them, or that Bungie, out of the goodness of their hearts, wanted to make a bunch of content only for PS.
And, yeah, it would be a little unprecedented, but you know what else is unprecedented? Timed exclusive content being exclusive for over a year.
Vire
Member
Surprisingly the new Assassin's Creed has no exclusives for either platform.
I guess AC is old hat now and not worth dropping the dough on.
mysteriousmage09
Member
Exclusive for the duration people will care about the game. The entire game may as well be PS4 exclusive at this point.
PS3 and Xbox 360 versions will be garbage.
Xbox One crowd will be busy with Halo: Master Chief Collection a couple months after Destiny releases.
PS4 gets all the exclusive stuff long enough for it to not matter when it does go to other platforms.
PS3 and Xbox 360 versions will be garbage.
Xbox One crowd will be busy with Halo: Master Chief Collection a couple months after Destiny releases.
PS4 gets all the exclusive stuff long enough for it to not matter when it does go to other platforms.
Sony players got kicked in the teeth all last Gen by this, let's see
Microsoft got Netflix first
Fall out 3 dlc
CoD Dlc
Preference in fixes for Skyrim
I'm sure there is more
HBO Go I'm pretty sure Microsoft got first
Minecraft
Let us eat for a change
KoopaTheCasual
Junior Member
BuggeryBugz
Member
So because it has been going on for years, that makes it ok?
If you're buying a specific console or console version of a game because it has an extra "timed" mission, that's a bit silly. If it's the console you wanted in the first place, then it's a win-win.
But but but Shouldn't you be furious that you don't get to play some free bonus DLC? I mean, your lifeblood has been taken away from you. Such unfair practices that are ruining the industry! Et Cetera!
Actually, every version had an exclusive character. PS2 version had Heihachi and Xbox version had Spawn.Guys, Microsoft didn't start it.
Sony didn't start it.
Nintendo started it.
No, it's shitty, but you were acting like it didn't make sense from a business perspective.
Every Destiny add is a PS4 add. Every Destiny add tells you that if you wan't the full game, get it on PS4. The majority of people who are going to be seeing those adds will not have a PS4 or XB1, these systems are still extremely young, so the idea that people will already have their mind made up on which version to get is not true.
Jinfash
needs 2 extra inches
Are those player controlled vehicles? I was under the impression there was only one the one in the alpha.
My followup question would be: how many strikes and MP maps will the base game ship with anyway?
And in its stead the Division is getting timed XB1 content. Ubisoft is annoyingly all over the board with this stuff, lol.
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