Confused Cheeseburger
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I'm in the crowd of people who thought there would be many planets and you could freely explore huge areas on those planets. Hell, I even thought you could fly your ship, instead it's just a glorified loading screen.
Playing through the beta I had little hype or expectations but while walking through Old Russia I keep thinking that the area was so good looking that it would be impossible to have whole worlds with this much attention to detail but I just ignored it thinking that the beta is just a very small slice.
Nope. My fears were correct. The beta is about 20% of the game and that brought my hype levels back down to almost zero. I tried the PVP and didn't enjoy it but was enjoying the single player and was looking forward to the much bigger planets in the final release. In a week I went from "not buying" to "day one" back to "eh, maybe on sale."
One thing is for sure. This whole game, from start to finish, has had the poorest messaging, communication and marketing I've seen in quite some time from a game. From Bungie never telling us honestly what kind of game it is (is it like Borderlands? WoW? CoD? Is it an open world? Is it an MMO? What?!) to not showing or telling about the Xbox One version and what's included with it, to now not even being honest about the amount of content.But then again Bungie was owned by Microsoft so they have experience with fucked up messaging and PR
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The beta isn't 20% of the game though, that's just speculative especially considering that it added a fairly small amount to the alpha which was 10% as noted by a bungie dev. I agreeto some extent about the messaging tho. But think about it this way, how could they explain it? It is a game designed to be a pretty ambitious effort as far as genre blending goes. You can really only sell a vision and provide examples for so much. The beta has people who have logged well over 20 hours, Destiny isn't a game that benefits from elevator pitch. If they call it an MMO, people will wonder why they're isn't more mmo scale. If they bill it solely as an FPS, people might come to it expecting a solely new-gen halo. They're messaging has to be vague to give Destiny a better chance of discovery and unjaded perception.It's exactly why the Beta did so much for the game with a lot of people, because a string of stage demos wouldn't quite do it.