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6/24/2015 10:03:40 PM
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Simple Math Tells Me Not To Buy TTK
I've spent over 300hrs on this game, and nearly $100 for the base game and the DLC season pass. A new comer would be able to spend $60 for all of it. That's already a $40 difference, without even mentioning The Taken King. Then they ask us to spend another $40 for just the base DLC pack of The Taken King. So now that's up to an $80 difference. That $80 could get me everything and then some with the Collector's Edition. I know my math sucks, but those numbers just don't sit well with me. It's forceful sexual acts, there's another word for it, but I won't say it here because of forum rules, or at least I'd assume you can't say that four letter word here.
What I'd strongly urge all players to do is to not buy the DLC. I won't be dishing out another $40 for content that I don't even know about that apparently has great value in the eyes of Luke Smith... which don't even get me started on that tool bag.
If Bungie and Activision want to fix this, they'll drop the price on the base DLC for The Taken King to $20, and add in the emotes, shaders and class items you'd get in the collector's edition, plus whatever else they were going to include with it that they haven't even announced yet. Heck, even just dropping the DLC price to $20 alone would keep me in the game. But, because I know none of that will happen, I will be saying goodbye to Destiny.
In my head I see a line graph with Destiny's player base just going down after that Luke Smith interview.
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I think the best way for the game to survive for ten years is to start doing micro transactions like many other mmos do. If they do this right, every player can benefit and bungivision is happy with increased profit. They could charge $20 for the expansions and dlc could and would be free. Many high quality and long lived games have done this. One great example is Minecraft. All the dlc and expansions have been free, yes Minecraft has been evolving since it came out to no cost of the player, but many add one like skin and texture pack have been giving notch enough money to keep the project going for a long time. This is true as well as with mobile gaming. The game I have been playing has been out longer than destiny and is free, had free dlcs, and sadly better pvp patching. So micro transactions is a future for gaming to give devs money at no cost for gamers.
