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Here’s What’s Next For Bungie and Destiny - MMORPG.com
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Here’s What’s Next For Bungie and Destiny - MMORPG.com
Destiny 2 sees a rebirth of sorts today, with the latest coming to us via a press release detailing New Light, Shadowkeep, and much more.
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I mean, that's P2W, right? That's not just cosmetic stuff. Season pass holders have a major advantage over those that don't.
If you intend on playing the game, you should buy the season pass. If you can't afford the season pass you should stop playing the game and find a better job.
Probably is. But now that it's FTP it doesn't seem as bad as if it was still BTP.
"Free" allows for a certain amount of fleecing of customers as opposed to "buy".
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Ascendant shards i think are new so i don't know what is it for, but for the rest i am only bothered by exotic weapons and armor. While PvP stats are disabled for most game modes, there is still a PvP mode where gear stats impact gameplay. Now I have less reason to play that mode.
I casually save enhancement cores, legendary shards, and other currency by dismantling everything I don't use so i am not that bothered by those.
On the free side of the battle pass there are still some good stuff including exotic weapons, engrams and currency. If they make it exclusive to payers then that would be a problem considering most people did buy the game and all DLC back on BNET.
But it is exclusive to payers, all the second row where most of the best rewards are. I've bought everything for the game up until now so that's exactly where I'm coming from.
It should just be cosmetics only anyway. Fortnite has proven that these battle pass style reward systems work fine with just cosmetics. There was no need for it.
When the masses of strictly free only players and youtuber's realise what's going on, I doubt it's going to go down well. That's some juicy controversy that'll generate a lot of views.
The point is they are adding gameplay benefits to the season pass, and not just being able to get a couple new exotics early like before.
I actually have the season pass, because I've bought Shadowkeep. Still doesn't stop me from recognizing that there's P2W incentives in there.
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Hey who is going to pay for all these free players? Better break out that wallet in Soviet Russia Destiny 2 plays you!!!!!
The game is not F2P now. Only a ...portion of the game is F2P. Same as with GW2 for exemple.
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gear rewards are just meh and my power level is 750? why not just 75000? make sense.
u can play the old campaign talking to Amanda Holliday
Exactly! Kids listen up. It not a big deal. When I was 14 I was paying $30 a month for SWG and DAoC. All I got for that was access to play.
These days you need a manual just to figure out what chunks of the game are carved out and what you have to pay to get it back. There's not even such a thing as an all inclusive sub option since there will still be things that are extra on top of the sub.
Yeah you definitely get much more for your sub these days compared to the DAoC/SWG days /s
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I get that you might get auto-leveled to Powerlevel 750 when FINISHING the Forsaken Campaign! So you can naturally flow into the next Expansion Shadowkeep!
But here comes the kicker in our new Destiny 2 experience! Even new characters get immediately auto-leveled to light level 750! WTF?
So they basically don't want people to experience the Original Campaign and the Forsaken Campaign anymore?
Or how about actually "LEARNING" your class and the game as a "New" player??
This is just totally DUMB beyond belief!!
People have long bashed and trashed ActiVision of being the EVIL entity behind Destiny, but now Bungie's true colors are starting to show!! It was Bungie all along! Greedy fecks.
They just basically killed off the entire Destiny 2 base game and Forsaken expac and just want people to buy Shadowkeep and just play that! /FACEPALM
You still "learn" your class by PLAYING same as before, except now, all build options are open and available to play and learn with. In 2 days of playing I've found a build that works for me in pve and one for pvp, instead of waiting to "unlock" the next trait in the tree with skill points I can now just turn on the build I want and play around. Weapon choice is better now because I can just keep the weapons I enjoy using while occasionally trying out new drops by being able to upgrade my current weapon using higher level weapons I don't want.
So, I think Bungie did very well with Shadowkeep and can't wait to see what's coming next. It's made me excited to play the game and actually get things accomplished on MY time.
So you expect a brand new player starting Destiny 2 now, who gets dropped in the New City. Sees he/she is immediately Light Level 750 and thinks WTF? and then able to figure out he/she has go to the left through some small corridors and find Amanda Holiday to start the original Campaign!
This is perfectly fine for veteran players who already went through all the Campaigns on a single character and create new ALTs and don't want to go through all that again.
But on a brand new account, a player should start on level 1 - Light level 100 (think that was the starting power if I remember correctly) and auto start the original Destiny 2 campaign!
This way they progress naturally through the game, with the right challenges, learn the ropes by slowly unlocking new abilities, powers, etc.
Now they just completely squashed and normalized all the old content to light level 750!
What fun is there to play through two long campaigns without practically any progression whatsoever? They did a poor job balancing the old content to the new light level 750 as well. I am just destroying everything, even (mini) bosses without much thought in the old content now. It's a joke!