Twilight Gap
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oh damn. it actually happened.
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Destiny celebrates the best Holiday season - Festival of the Lost
- Thread starter Kor of Memory
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Flying Toaster
Member
The missions, the dances, the extra map. This is pretty cool. And you can do it almost all without paying...
Just the bad ass dances.
Haters gonna hate. Bungie can have my money.
Just the bad ass dances.
Haters gonna hate. Bungie can have my money.
Snkfanatic
Banned
This is awesome. Hope they keep doing events like this for the holidays.
Kor of Memory
Member
Hard to say at this point.
Bungie might just have a thing for Halloween since it's the only holiday that was celebrated in-game during year 1.
Robdraggoo
Member
But i was trying to avoid playing destiny this week due to burnout
Bungie.....they know
BUNGIE!!!
Bungie.....they know
BUNGIE!!!
Nah. As much as folks complained about Destiny 1.0, it was still a successful game. ARR was special because they revived an MMO that was a complete failure on just about every level, and turned it into a successful subscription based game.
Anyway, nice they are adding some fun holiday events this time around. Will have to pop on and mess around with it when I get home.
But now I'm totally expecting to unwrap Christmas present engrams, under a giant tree in the event / Iron Banner space.
You have until november 9th to buy the emotes. Only available during the festival.
Kor of Memory
Member
New map video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk-AWVaWoWs
The map can show up in Rift, so it's a symmetrical/near-symmetrical map.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk-AWVaWoWs
The map can show up in Rift, so it's a symmetrical/near-symmetrical map.
Probably going to be the trials map
Looks nice, but also seems very similar in terms of size/sightlines/playstyle to the ones we got in TTK, which is a bit disappointing.
I guess I should wait until actually playing it though.
Wait, the festival lasts until the 9th? Any source? If so, that's awesome.
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
Well, if I'm gonna spend some money on Destiny I can't go wrong with a Thriller dance emote.
Kor of Memory
Member
Just more chances at gift bags.
Rare helmets will go away after the festival, but legendary ones are yours to keep. It's basically a collect them all scenario.
DLC? You mean the cosmetics no one really needs?
Yeah. $7 cosmetics in a already expensive game? WTF?
I love it when GAF members use the word "Disgusting". The hyperbole is always real.
Nah blurd. Optional cosmetic purchases which pay for the development of a seasonal event that I can play for free isn't "Disgusting". Don't be daft.
Don't be foolish - it's this sort of (completely optional) disgusting anti-consumer practice that is the cancer that is the gaming industry today.
It's serious business.
Don't buy it then? You lose literally nothing by not buying it
Its as if they are cosmetic items with next to no effect on the game, meaning you don't need to have them. Noone is making you buy them
Kor of Memory
Member
Well...
I mean you already have to wait for Jan 1st for the Red Bull quest to become open to the public. >.>
That's not the point, Carl. The point is... that... they would sell cosmetic optional stuff... for... uh... real money!!! And I only get a 301 ghost from my HM Oryx kill! Fuckers!!!
Selling cosmetic items so they can add quests in for free = Disgusting
Selling full DLC packs like TKK = Disgusting
Makes sense doesn't it?
Path of Exile, a completely F2P game, charges less for their dance animations. That's a game that was crowdfunded, and the entire project was reliant on optional, unnecessary, completely cosmetic items that no one has to buy.
Destiny is a full retail game with multiple paid expansions already, created by a publisher with deep pockets that doesn't need to gouge already-paying customers for optional cosmetics to release 'seasonal events'.
I don't understand how anyone can defend publishers doing this.
EDIT - Evidently, the only response to criticism of a fan favorite is snark and dismissal. Cool community.
This Halloween event is like the least objectionable thing Destiny has done this year.
It is serious business, I bet they make a bunch of money off it. That sentence needed more hyperbole though
InsaneTiger
Member
And you don't have to buy it either! And it's not gameplay affecting! Awesome right?
Selling cosmetic items so they can add quests in for free = Disgusting
Selling full DLC packs like TKK = Disgusting
Makes sense doesn't it?
Frankly I find your post disgusting too.
This whole town is disgusting.
I like stuff like this, but it really highlights how badly
-we need one (or more!) Vanity slots of some kind
-we need to be able to equip multiple emotes
There's a lot of masks, and I'm already hurting for vault space. Combined with the fact they don't have stats kinda hurts any initiative I have to try to collect them all. Even getting the specific ones you might want at legendary rarity might be tricky since you can't even spend silver for specific ones; too early to tell yet though, and they had the decency to have this event run for a good while which I appreciate.
Thriller at $7 is probably too pricey for me. It's super awesome and one of the ones everyone wanted once they announced emotes, but I was already unhappy they priced the two most requested emotes at the highest tier ($5, more than the free silver they gave everyone COINCIDENTALLY), and this is $2 more than that already? It's fully cosmetic so no one should feel pressured to buy it or anything, but I'm worried we're already on a slippery slope of emote pricing. Not gonna lie though, main reason I probably won't buy it is we desperately need to be able to assign any emote to the three emote slots. It's the main reason I haven't put any real money into emotes as-is.
9/10
Removing the word "disgusting" from your original post would have probably eliminated most/all of the snarky replies.
-we need one (or more!) Vanity slots of some kind
-we need to be able to equip multiple emotes
There's a lot of masks, and I'm already hurting for vault space. Combined with the fact they don't have stats kinda hurts any initiative I have to try to collect them all. Even getting the specific ones you might want at legendary rarity might be tricky since you can't even spend silver for specific ones; too early to tell yet though, and they had the decency to have this event run for a good while which I appreciate.
Thriller at $7 is probably too pricey for me. It's super awesome and one of the ones everyone wanted once they announced emotes, but I was already unhappy they priced the two most requested emotes at the highest tier ($5, more than the free silver they gave everyone COINCIDENTALLY), and this is $2 more than that already? It's fully cosmetic so no one should feel pressured to buy it or anything, but I'm worried we're already on a slippery slope of emote pricing. Not gonna lie though, main reason I probably won't buy it is we desperately need to be able to assign any emote to the three emote slots. It's the main reason I haven't put any real money into emotes as-is.
9/10
Removing the word "disgusting" from your original post would have probably eliminated most/all of the snarky replies.
I was just being sarcastic based on how this stuff usually goes when it comes to Destiny. I actually think this stuff is really cool. Can't wait to get home and get me some masks!
Yo I almost spit out my drink
Did you see your posts?
"Jesus. The cost of these DLC are F2P costs. Disgusting."
Is that criticism? No, that's called shit posting.
Your subsequent post where you compare it to the costs of similar items in other games? That's a good post, and I appreciate the point you brought up. I very much agree with you that $7 is too much for one dance move, even if it is optional. It's especially obnoxious when you consider the fact that Bungie is selling these emotes to fund future content, and we have no idea what "future content" we are funding. I'll still buy the emote because it's awesome, but I agree with your sentiment regarding the pricing (even if it's optional - being optional doesn't mean that it's above criticism).
