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Destiny 2's Monetization Woes: How Much Is Too Much | MMORPG.com
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Destiny 2's Monetization Woes: How Much Is Too Much | MMORPG.com
Kanishka takes a look his favorite game, Destiny 2, and whether to not the monetization model is just too much.
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I'm a MUDder. I play MUDs.
Current: Dragonrealms
Only if you cant control yourself......In the end its the player that says yes or no to buying.
Not at the same experience as when one flat sub rate got you the same complete content as everyone else for a fair price.
Those days are long gone though, developers now try to include as many monetization models as their audience will bear.
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This is true of all Free to Play titles. If you want the full experience of the game you have to shell out cash, and the amount you have to shell out typically far exceeds what you used to shell out with a box price + subscription. There are FPT titles out with a fair model, but they seem to be the exception not the rule.
How did we get here? Because players pushed back on developers decrying the subscription model as a ripoff. Developers said "hold my beer" and came up with the FTP model, or like you mentioned, the "kitchen sink" model where they're going to hit you with everything they can think of. If we had only been happy with the original sub model where you got everything in the game for a fair monthly price we'd still be there, but no, $15/mo was simply too much to pay. We only have ourselves to blame for the current state of monetization.
Thankfully I quit before getting too heavily invested in the game, I can only imagine that most people still stick with this game due to sunk cost fallacy and they are determined to get some kind of enjoyment out of the game for all the money they dumped into it.
I do NOT recommend Destiny 2, despite the fun gunplay, simply because the cost of the game’s many features and functions is absurd. I normally hate PvP, but I’ve played quite a bit of it in D2. So, when I learned that power could be purchased, it was a complete turn-off.
All that said, I tried to go back just before Lightfall and was (as mentioned) bombarded with too many currency systems. Of course, I had waited for everything I wanted to be on sale, but there was just so much that I still spent entirely too much to get back into the swing of things. After a short time, I was bored of the same old top-tier grind and disgusted with the cash-poaching mechanics.
I’m out. I’m done with D2. They need to grow a heart, quick. What they’re doing may be making someone rich, but it also makes them slimy and pathetic - like most other games these days.