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You can now buy class boosters for Destiny. $30/30/£25 each
- Thread starter Ambitious
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Blue Ninja
Member
At this rate I'm expecting their next expansion to be free to play.
PSN wishlist feature.
RageWaffles
Member
holy shit that's a lot of money
Don Draper's Hat
Member
What's the point of playing the game if your character already has it all?
Odd.
Odd.
For 25 notes?, jesus.........
So it begins:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1124265&highlight=
Glad I was able to jump out of Destiny as soon as I could.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1124265&highlight=
Glad I was able to jump out of Destiny as soon as I could.
Giriath_89
Member
That's way too expensive.
BananasWithGuns
Member
Okay I get the logic behind it but $30? Seriously?
You'd be better off just buying some Red Bull codes off eBay and leveling it up that way.
You'd be better off just buying some Red Bull codes off eBay and leveling it up that way.
toastyToast
Member
Why the fuck do they cost that much?
Also and I think it's intentional if not incredibly devious. The item for fast tracking to level 25 doesn't actually give you experience points, you just wind up at 25. Ordinarily getting to 20 will unlock a fair chunk of a subclass table but the person who uses that item will be level 25 instantly with absolutely nothing. No grenade, no double jump (you'll get them quick but still).
Basically if you wanna hit the ground running with the game you'll need to buy a level up boost and a subclass boost. Otherwise you should probably start at the beginning and level a subclass along the way. Doing level 25 stuff immediately is gonna be balls hard and kind of annoying.
Also and I think it's intentional if not incredibly devious. The item for fast tracking to level 25 doesn't actually give you experience points, you just wind up at 25. Ordinarily getting to 20 will unlock a fair chunk of a subclass table but the person who uses that item will be level 25 instantly with absolutely nothing. No grenade, no double jump (you'll get them quick but still).
Basically if you wanna hit the ground running with the game you'll need to buy a level up boost and a subclass boost. Otherwise you should probably start at the beginning and level a subclass along the way. Doing level 25 stuff immediately is gonna be balls hard and kind of annoying.
Backfoggen
Banned
30? Fuck off.
People asking why even play, this only gets you to the same point that the boost you got with TTK gives you. It does not instantly bring you to the level cap. I see this as the same as Blizzard's Level 90 boost with WoW (which sells for $60). If people want to save a few hours for $30 then it's fine by me.
Saiyan-Rox
Member
It's not my Destiny to buy this
It's not Bungie's Destiny to sell this
But it is Activisons Destiny
It's not Bungie's Destiny to sell this
But it is Activisons Destiny
Ghost Slayer
Member
Almost bought Taken King last week, glad I didn't :0
Via Purifico
Banned
They probably made it expensive to encourage people to play the game and level up... Uhum.
Slightly Live
Dirty tag dodger
These are really not cosmetics.
Triggerhappytel
Member
Twenty-five fucking quid?! Holy shit Bungie.
If they actually cared about people playing the game, leveling up, they wouldn't give you this option.
Triggerhappytel
Member
Stop blaming Activision for every egregious business decision within Bungie or with this game. Bungie have proven quite competently themselves that they're capable of being a money-grabbing corporation.
Goldfishking
Member
Yup, it's pretty obvious that the decision to move away from more content to micro transactions was a decision that bungie made. It's not necessarily a bad one, but they are definitely not going about it in a good way.
SomedayTheFire
Member
I assume the price is high to put people off using it. It's only for people that are too lazy to grind up to 25 or want to get a second character ready for end game stuff?
Saiyan-Rox
Member
True enough.
The Pandabus
Neo Member
This seems even more absurd when it stands beside the fact that I just bought the entire Legendary pack for €30 last night off PSN. Paying for character boosting has always seemed weird to me but its been done by other games so I can't say this is a surprise.
Nitty_Grimes
Made a crappy phPBB forum once ... once.
Do we think they'll start selling strange coins and packs of legendary marks soon?
gigantor21
Member
I wonder if the two things are connected, as there was a recent push on both platforms with large discounting.
Zomba13
Member
1) That's a hell of a lot of money
2) Isn't this one of the things they said they wouldn't do? Like it was leaked or code was found or something and Bungie said they didn't have plans on selling those?
EDIT
Ah, looks like they said they wouldn't sell drop boosters but never said no to levels.
2) Isn't this one of the things they said they wouldn't do? Like it was leaked or code was found or something and Bungie said they didn't have plans on selling those?
EDIT
Ah, looks like they said they wouldn't sell drop boosters but never said no to levels.
Or maybe they just want 25 us dollars?
To be fair they said it about King's Fall loot, which is level 40 loot and this one only gets you to 25.
StaffyManasse
Member
Maybe they are changing their business model? Sell a pile of copies on discount(s) and then after a while turn FTP with micro transactions?