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Kotaku: Future Destiny Content to be free, supplemented by micro-transactions
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Gipsy Danger
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It wasn't launched twice in a year. It was a base game, then three expansions. Is WoW launching every two years?
Good question!
Yes, I have been over that already. But I still don't like microtransactions for items that should be obtainable in game being suddenly announced for a game that has launched twice in one year, with paid DLC up until this point. Sorry, I don't see the value in that. But apparently many people do and they know this all too well.
DrROBschiz
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Most likely
Which is still cool. I actually expect quite a few remixes of year 1 and 2 content going forward
There is some much to play with. Im optimistic that it will remain compelling until Destiny 2 hits
Well, they even said that they consider this a relaunch of sorts. So it kind of did. Especially for those of us who bought the core game and then turned around and bought The Legendary Edition as well.
Gipsy Danger
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That was your choice. The game didn't launch twice in a year, even if you consider both to be launches then the game launched and then a year later it launched again. That's not twice in a year. These are cosmetic microtransactions that are being used to subsidize content that would otherwise cost money. What is the problem? Would you rather be forced to pay for the content and split the userbase?
The game managed to hook me way before TDB/HOW/TTK , and those have made it infinitely better, so I think the next year will be pretty good since they have been making steady improvements. I am really digging the Nightstalker class so far.
Why should emotes be obtainable in game? A purely cosmetic expression that doesn't affect gameplay should be available to everyone even though bungie is leveraging this money to help all players of their game? It's like you want to handicap the progression of the game for your own sense of entitlement. I'm also curious to know what you mean about "launched twice in a year" as it make no sense at all and by that metric there are a number of titles with dlc in the industry you should consider "relaunches" yet I'm sure you don't because "lol destiny".
qa_engineer
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Yes, they clearly state that its for cosmetic items only. However, one can't help but assume that this new store front is a test bed for future additions such as engrams, ammo synths, strange coins, three of coins, motes of light, moldering shards etc.
Remember Bungie and Activision are for profit businesses and not our friends. I will give them the benefit of the doubt but don't be surprised if this messaging changes should the store front do well.
edit: If they stay true to their word and keep it to cosmetic items then more power to Activision and Bungie, because as others have mentioned it will lessen the fragmentation within the community with each content release periods. Fingers crossed
The problem is that microtransactions never have our best interest in mind. And I also don't have confidence that this free content will be worth a damn, but I am glad you think so. Enjoy.
Kor of Memory
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Sure, it could be. But why get riled up over what might or might not happen.
I could get riled up at the possibility that Back to the Future is going to get a remake next year because studios seem to love cashing in on that 80s early 90s nostalgia, but I don't.
If/when it does happen, then say something about it. Seems silly to go off on something that may or may not happen.
Gipsy Danger
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Literally everyone kicking up a fuss about this based entirely on their own speculation. If they do turn these microtransactions to shit and start charging for engrams then you can flip out. As of right now it doesn't affect the game in any way at all.
There's no evidence to support your "bad feelings"
It's just "lol Bungie and Activison are evil"
GlamFM
Banned
Absolutely. This is why I think now is a good time to tell us exactly what the plans for Destiny are going forward.
Last year we had the season pass so we kind of had an idea, no we only know that "free" stuff is coming.
DrROBschiz
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Bleh
TTK was big enough to justify its cost. Even if they added nothing from here until Destiny 2... we still got a complete and compelling "sequel" to Vanilla Destiny
Im thankful that they plan on supporting it with small content going forward
Psychoward
Banned
Haha, conveniently implemented after they already had 2 paid expansions under their belt. Surely though the free dlc will be of great content and value and not lame small additions!
DeviantBoi
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The only question I want Bungie to answer is: Are we getting a new raid?
qa_engineer
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Your use of quotes makes no sense. It's not a bad feeling, its an assumption made based on common business practices and nowhere did I say Bungie and Activision are evil; I simply said they are for profit businesses. But thanks for spinning an opinion into a Destiny bashing attempt.
DrROBschiz
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Irrelevant
I would say the community is much more excited at the prospect of Current Gen Destiny 2 and is currently really happy with the content Delivery of TTK
And having the end of life content for Destiny 1 be free? Who cares if its little stuff
Mr Fahrenheit
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Assuming they keep to the promise of putting out free content then it sounds great. Basically inching closer to Warframe's style which is what they should be doing because they're basically the same game but Warframe is structured in a much more friendly way.
Especially considering what they were making you pay for before, I just picked up TTK cause some friends agreed to pay half of it for me and I would have been pissed if I had dropped $20 on each of those "expansions," the Dark Below was literally half a sitting long. If they want to charge then they should make the expansions huge, if they want to keep them the size they've been doing they should be free.
Especially considering what they were making you pay for before, I just picked up TTK cause some friends agreed to pay half of it for me and I would have been pissed if I had dropped $20 on each of those "expansions," the Dark Below was literally half a sitting long. If they want to charge then they should make the expansions huge, if they want to keep them the size they've been doing they should be free.
Ploid 3.0
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The best way to do Free content paid by microtransactions. Add a lot of skins, pets, mount skins (no performance advantage), and other visual things. Maybe character slots too, I don't know how many Destiny is capped at and if it feels restrictive.
3 Character slots, and that would be one thing I'd consider paying a little extra for
That's how basic PR works, they can't just give us the bad news ... It's like magician's trick: "Thanks for all the money boys and girls, as a thank you there will be some FREE STUFF!!! woot!!1 ...and oh, by the way we're introducing microtransactions. "
qa_engineer
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I will say that if they sell a matte black shader or add the option for a weapon shader then I will be first in line. Some of these Crucible weapons are straight booty with the blue and green nerf gun starter pack look.
DrROBschiz
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Possibly...
I dunno though. They might have to make a completely new base if they drop last gen consoles
It might be easier to just build a new game instead of modifying destiny 1
No way to know until they actually talk about it. So far they are only hinting at Destiny 2 with the "till next fall" remarks
Mick Stagger
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Luke Smith on the Planet Destiny podcast said Raids are not promised.
Pretty sure he doesn't want another Croats end raids
Gipsy Danger
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Probably Activision. Everything with their name on it gets people mad.
Edit: Oh wait Diablo is Activision too, lol. Never mind then, I don't know.
qa_engineer
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They better drop next gen consoles and add PC. These loading screens will hopefully be minimized and the the open areas to explore will hopefully open up as well. Maybe our ships will actually serve a purpose outside of acting as a fancy load screen.
Waylon Drums
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This thread is quickly degenerating into
"We like what the cloud is doing now, but we're REALLY PISSED about what the cloud might do in the future."
BenjaminBirdie
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"I've learned I can make life much less pleasant by focusing on what could happen as opposed to what is currently happening, so of course, I think that's the way to go!"
I sure hope that was a typo and you meant last gen consoles.
Accurate, and also sad at the same time
I wonder how recently this decision came about. In TTK they changed a bunch of the formerly cosmetic stuff (ghost shells, class items) to suddenly contribute to stats. That doesn't seem like something you'd do when you're about to open up a cosmetic shop. I guess they might have figured that players would be waaaay more unhappy about this if the coolest cloaks/bonds/marks were paid only.
No mention of paid ships so far, that seems like an obvious one to do as well.
No mention of paid ships so far, that seems like an obvious one to do as well.
You are living in the same fantasyland, as your guessing is based on the same (lack of) information. It's pretty much all speculation at this point outside of Bungie's post on b.net.
DrROBschiz
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Wouldnt the downhill slope of Destiny 1 be the logical course leading into Destiny 2?
Yes this is all speculation but I doubt a major expansion for Destiny 1 is going to be the lead into whatever the fall release is
I'm guessing it's been a while in coming, and had to do with what numerous independant DLC's did to the team and userbase. The upgrade paths to the Taken King were confusing because of the prior two DLCs, they had to do multiple SKU's for those with and without them, and that still left some people who may have bought only one of the prior expansions feeling left out ("I have to buy the whole game again?!" etc.) TTK got everyone who was moving forward with the game on the same content base, and then keeps them there until the next major expansion in a year.
From the standpoint of Bungie's team, I imagine it made life a bit easier as well. They had the TTK team, TDB team, which probably overlapped with HoW, and the live team. That's a lot of fragmentation even for a large studio. It's probably much more efficient to bolster the live team, and have the rest of the studio work on the annual releases.
GlamFM
Banned
Could be though. Something ending with a huge cliffhanger (something like the revelation that the traveler is secretly evil...)
BOOM!
...see you in Destiny 2.
Kor of Memory
Member
What downhill slope?
The opinions of Destiny have done nothing but improve since launch.
And if that happens, I'll complain about it. Until then, I'll live a stress free life by not getting upset about the unknown.
GlamFM
Banned
I think that he means that the game is winding down now where the core team seemingly has moved on to Destiny 2.
Darth Smurf X
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I become a whale the day this emote is available:
The core team moved to Destiny 2 the second Destiny launched last year more than likely.
DrROBschiz
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No no no
I mean that we are seeing the Transition from Destiny 1 into Destiny 2
Just predicting that the content from now until Destiny 2 will not be at the scale we saw from TDB and HoW