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Discuss all things Destiny.
Edited by Typhoon: 7/24/2015 5:26:20 PM
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Putting things into perspective regarding Destiny and its cost for DLC.

Ok so whenever I see people roaring about DLC and whether it's worth it and how Bungie are a bunch of money hungry snobs, I can't help at think of virtually every other game on market and how they are rolled out. Take Call of Duty for example. You buy the years new version (1 roughly every year for over 10 years now I think) You complete it, then if you have purchased the season pass for $80 CAD, you gain access to usually 4 DLC's that drop at 3 month intervals which include a few extra multiplayer maps and maybe some new weapons and outfits. All this to keep the game entertaining up untill the release of the new Call of Duty. Then you buy the new one and do it all over again and retire the old COD to your shelf or you trade it in. Not to mention that if you do want to play an older copy of COD, online for example, it will most likely have few players(everyone is now playing new one) and the servers are poorly up kept and are full of cheating. For this reason, I can't comprehend why people are feeling so aggressively about this (other than the fact that newcomers receive more rewards and incentive for TTK.) Destiny on the other hand had 2 DLC drops at a fraction of the cost and that kept the game going and still is for many (wasn't big on first DLC but nothing in life always works out exactly as we expect) Now, to keep the game rolling through year 2, we have TTK which looks promising followed by god knows what. All I'm saying is that in relation to the money we've had to fork over versus how long we've been able to play this game and still enjoy it, I think we are definitley getting our money's worth as opposed to revolving door games like COD which have players paying roughly $150 PER YEAR in order to stay active in the franchise. Rockstar games is even worse and any of you that have played GTA Online know the business model they employ for gouging money from players. They release a new car to drive which costs 2.2 million in game dollars. But wait. If you can't afford it, you can purchase a cash card using your own real money. That one car alone in GTA dollars equates to roughly $30. Yes that's right. For a dam car. The fact that Bungie hardly employs these cheap tactics and doesn't deliberately design their games around this model to screw players out if their money is what gives me confidence in games like halo5 and TTK. Those are my thoughts please comment and try to be constructive.

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