This is absolutely ridiculous. Say what you will about agreeing or disagreeing with Bungie's practices. The way that they are handling this whole situation? Awful. It blows my mind that the company I love so much is doing things like this.
I've just discovered that Xbox will be paying the same price for DLC as play station and be getting less content. It's one thing to pull that shit with just extra content in the game. But [i]exclusive dlc IN the dlc????[/i] I don't care who you are, playstation, xbox, whoever. You can't tell me that's not a shitty way to treat gamers.
5 or 10 years ago if you told me "Bungies gonna make a game for playstation too and they're gonna go down the same path as every game company and rip gamers off" I'd laugh at you. That's just something....so.....not Bungie-like. You'd have to be a fan of them like me to understand why it's off seeing them do this. It doesn't feel right.
And it's not just this. Advertising some sort of "beta test" and making it 8 days max? 3 to 4 days for Xbox players? I probably won't even be able to play it in that time frame. I'll be on this thing called "summer vacation" and unless it gets cut short then I'm not signing up on the 24th, that's for sure.
I'm not gonna whine or cry about it or link some meaningless begtition. I'm just saying it how it is: crappy business practices. I know everyone does it nowadays but......man. I didn't expect this from Bungie.
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It's hard to tell if Bungie is involved in this gimmicky behavior or if it's all Activision. Does it kind of suck that, as an Xbox owner, my investment in an equally good console and a $60 game doesn't seem to be worth as much as Playstation owner's? Yes. Do I think that I should be "grateful" for shelling out a lot of cash and not getting the entire product upon release? No. However, buying an Xbox and not buying a Playstation is my choice. I am not tethered to a brand and can change or add on whenever I so choose. How childishly this community has reacted is embarrassing and this ultimate form of nerd tribalism has enveloped a community that uses to be a pretty cool thing to be a part of. There is an adult way to have this conversation, and by no means is it being held that way.