The thing is the majority of their audience including these forums are younger players and what I like to call the "mobile gaming generation." They want simple watered down non-complex content and don't care about story driven content or well developed characters. I'd be willing to bet at least 80% of Destiny's playerbase simply just want to get on for a few hours with their friends and shoot aliens in the face and that is all they care about. Mobile games make a TON of money on pretty much the exact same model we see being used in Destiny in terms of the content. This mobile gaming model is going to start spilling over into consoles because the companies have seen how much money there is to be made there by just putting out simple repetitive watered down content. Just the pay walls in Destiny are the DLC releases. There is going to be a huge DLC drop in September (Taken King) and considering it has nearly 3 times the content of the prior two DLCs that dropped for $20, I would assume it is going to cost at least $40-60 as another "add on" to the game. At that point you'll have spent $150ish and still don't have what I would call a full game content wise. We are just lucky Activision still has enough sense to not put microtransactions in Destiny, but I wouldn't be surprised to see it soon as it is in the contract with Bungie that microtransactions are allowed as an add on to the game. I just see so many people calling this one of the best games they've ever played and the only logical conclusion I can draw from that is that the majority of Destiny's playerbase is very young and either hasn't played many games or just doesn't know any better.

This game is not a mmo

Ppl want a full story when the developer told you the game is on a 10 year plan. Get lost!

Since the story is still ongoing.....Its hard to say the story is full of holes. That would be like picking up a book reading 2 chapters and putting it down in disgust because they have not yet explained how the villain showed up at the heroes doorstep. Now hopefully as the game progresses then more and more of the story comes to light but so far the premise of the story and what we have at this point is intriguing. It might come to nothing...it might be pretty epic. Right now its definitely better than any Battlefield or COD game storyline.

I recognize all the different places in the cut scenes from the game. Is there a part in the video that makes you believe there was more?

*smokes* We're all just beta testers, man.

The gameplay experience is definitely a good time, main reason I return to play. However I don't know what this company was thinking when it came to the story. There's no way they couldn't be aware of a butchered non present storyline. There's just no way. On paper it makes no sense and even more so experiencing it. No one is asking for cutscenes at every corner but we would still like to know the who's what's where's when's whys and hows. We're missing the social-emotional element to our characters and the characters in destiny. As it stands everyone is just there to give you an item or experience points. I feel an attachment to the gameplay experience playing with friends however I don't feel in any way that's I'm emotionally invested into any characters. Technically we don't know any of the characters past their name, maybe their faction and class. Our guardian is just mindlessly slaughtering alien species.

This thread is now about movies! What's your favorite?

I can agree with you on most parts but you should probably do a bit of research before throwing out random percentages. I'm quite sure more than 10% of the destiny population plays pvp cause quite frankly once you beat all the end game content and get what you want there's really nothing else to do.

I prefer the grimoire cards to be on the app. When I'm playing the game I want to be playing, in the action, not reading a chunk of text in a menu screen somewhere.