Hello all! A follow on from the 'no exotic left behind' thread - we know bungie/Activision couldn't give a Damn about a fan petition, all they care about is the sales and $ numbers. I think a more effective post would be to highlight the money they will stand to lose if they go ahead and make 90% of exotics redundant.
I will start by saying I was a day 1 player who quit shortly before dark below, refusing to pay the ridiculous dlc prices. I recently came back after hearing there would be a legendary edition released with tk which I promptly preordered. I've been playing the last 2 weeks running nightfalls, vogs to get as many exotics to bring with me as possible and can say I was genuinely looking forward to getting the new content. I understood the need to make legendaries redundant but now its emerged that you won't be able to upgrade most yr1 exotics I've lost all interest in the game. All the time people have spent obtaining and levelling this gear has no use after tk is just ridiculous. Such a slap in the face, especially to the players more loyal than me who have bought and played through the dlc to get these exotics.
I've since gone back to amazon to cancel my legendary edition preorder. Will this one cancellation have any effect? Probably not. But if you feel the same, post here and let the bungie/Activision trolls know that their quarterly sales figures are going to suffer! And the destiny defence brigade please feel free to post and attack me, you'll keep the post bumped for longer :)
Peace out guardians, no exotic left behind!
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90%? Bit of an exaggeration.
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So when I was at the University of Iowa, several people, including myself, bought Nerf guns for impromptu battles in the hallways when we had free time. Mostly this was all good, clean fun, except for two of the guys down the hall, my roommate, and I. We all thought, rightfully so, that factory built Nerf guns are bullshit. They’re weak, darts are too -blam!-ing light, the barrels cause too much friction, which makes them inaccurate and slow, and you have to re-cock them after each shot. That’s some -blam!-ing bullshit right there. So we fixed it. We bought new, higher tensile springs. We bought PVC pipe and lubricant. We put BBs in the tips of our darts, and my roommate and even put in a second spring to automatically cock the gun,essentially turning them from bolt action pieces of shit into semi-automatic friendship-ruiners. So when I moved back to Chicago, and into the apartment, I obviously brought my Nerf guns (my roommate gave me his when we moved out), and I obviously attacked my roommates the first opportunity I had. OBVIOUSLY this led to everyone buying Nerf guns and modifying the shit out of them. However, some of us were terrible shots, so certain measures had to be taken to make it possible for them to keep up. Brad practiced in his room every day, Josh built an extended clip for his gun, and Kyle bought the -blam!-ing Vulcan and built a 600 dart belt for it because he decidedaiming is for people who can’t fire 6 darts a second (he modded it for doubled firing speed using a small car battery and replaced mechanics). And then there was Paul. Paul was -blam!-ing terrible. Like almost so bad it couldn’t be for real. He once tried to ambush me coming around a corner from 2 feet away and missed by a good 6-7 inches. He literally could have slapped me and he missed. Whatever moving on. So Paul decides to solve his aim problems in the most Paul way possible: online shopping. He bought 500 foam pellets for a marshmallow gun, two dozen foam discs, and a mother-blam!-ing t-shirt cannon. You see, Paul, much like Kyle, decided aiming was for lames. So he would pour foam pellets into the cannon until it was half full, slip in a disc to keep them from falling out, then shotgun people in the face. I was his first victim and boy let me tell you that shit is terrifying. So Paul became the big dog in the house during Nerf battles, and the rest of us found ourselves unable to compete. So we all escalated in our own insane ways. Eric and I, the former champions, modified our guns to fire faster, Brad added an extended magazine to his gun, Kyle built a harness so that he could shoot his -blam!-ing stupid -blam!-ing bullet-storm piece of shit while moving. Josh booby-trapped various parts of our apartment. Suddenly, we were all better than Paul again, so he decided to step his game up. He started making paper cartridges that would explode open once fired. Suddenly, he could actually fire multiple times a minute, which meant once again, he was at the top. It didn’t help that our reluctance to shoot back out of fear of getting shot was allowing him to take his time, therefore drastically improving his aim. So we stepped up again. I smooth out the cocking mechanism on my guns, improving my firing speed even faster. Eric adds more weight to his darts, making them heavier and faster and much more painful. Kyle buys a bigger battery, newer parts, and he perfects his belts, which increases his firing speed to 12 darts a second. So Paul steps up to take advantage of his improved aim and buys something called a Pucker Chucker which basically is a t-shirt cannon except it shoots foam pucks. This means we can’t just shoot at him from the other side of the apartment anymore, so we all step up again. I modify the rail on top to make aiming easier, Eric modifies his grip to make it more comfortable, Kyle and brad modify their barrels to make them more accurate, and Josh jumps on board the crazy train and builds a goddamn under barrel cherry bomb launcher. And this is where shit starts to spiral out of control. Brad starts making smoke grenades, Kyle solves his weakness against close quarters combat by using his battery to create a cattle prod to keep people back. Eric breaks the head off an old golf club to use the shaft as a weapon, I put pins in the tips of all of my darts, and Paul realizes thatthe Pucker Chucker can also shoot real hockey pucks after he steals my bucket of pucks from my room. So it escalated a couple more steps but I’m going to leave them out partially out of a desire to keep moving forward and partially out of shameanywhoozle when we pull out our final contraptions and modifications that day we shifted from light-hearted fun that was a bit too far to literally combat. Josh had a sword. I don’t know where he got it from. That battle was terrifying. Our normal fights were like an hour, two hours tops, then we would clean up, get together in the living room with some beers, and laugh about what happened. Honestly we should have known this was going to happen because when we did this after our previous fight, the laughter was less “haha remember when I shot Josh in the butthole? Classic.” and more “haha remember when I missed your face with that puck? Next time I won’t miss.” So we somehow get into a battle again and this time things go south quickly which is bound to happen when you have a dude in a speedo swinging a sword around while rolling fireworks down the hall. It was literally chaos. There were fireworks and homemade smoke grenades and Kyle made the electrical current in his cattle prod too strong and it was too close to the muzzle of his Vulcan so every few seconds you would just see a flaming dart wiz past and I built a -blam!-ing flamethrower and I don’t know what the -blam!- is going on so I’m just firing it in the general direction of Josh to keep him the -blam!- away. At some point Brad barricades himself in his room, and so we all run back to our rooms and hide. We do this for three days. THREE DAYS. I missed classes. We all had junk food in our rooms, and private bathrooms, so that’s what we sustained ourselves on for three -blam!-ing days. I, however, try to eat healthy, so I ran out of food almost immediately. After not eating for a day and a half, with food literally less than 50 feet from where I was hiding, I decided that I was willing to risk a trip to the kitchen. So here’s something important about our apartment: I was the only one who knew how to cook. I had tried to teach the others, but all that had accomplished was several kitchen fires. This meant when Eric also ran out of food, he knew the only way to get a meal was to make peace with me. So he had snuck down the hall to my door, intent on asking me for help. I did not know he was there. So when I opened the door and saw a crouching figure in the shadows nearby, I assumed, I think justifiably, that it was the guy who had been swinging a sword at all of us the last time I saw him. So I pulled the trigger on my homemade flamethrower, only to see Eric’s horrified face illuminated by the flames for a split second before they hit his torso. Luckily, I was using a scavenged fuel source (computer screen cleaner), so the flames were weak, but still fire is fire and fire -blam!-ing hurts. So Eric is rolling on the floor with first degree burns on his stomach and chest, and I’m freaking out because Eric is my friend and I just set him on fire, so there is now a lot of screaming coming from the hall. Now, to lighten the mood slightly, here’s a personality test. You hear the sounds of fire, followed shortly by screaming coming from the hall outside your room. What do you do? Do you assume the crazy sword guy has finally snapped and is going to kill you all, so you climb out the window onto the fire escape?Congratulations, you’re Brad. Do you hear the cries of pain and grab a first aid kit before sprinting into the hall to help? Hey! You’re Kyle! Do you hear the flames so you sprint into the kitchen to grab the fire extinguisher? You are Paul. Do you come out into the hall to see what’s going on but also bring your sword just in case you have to stab someone? You are Josh and also mentally unstable please put your sword away. So Kyle comes out and he and I start administering first aid and luckily through a combination of the weakness of my fuel source, how quickly I stopped the flames, and the quickness of our treatments, Eric only gets some first degree burns on his torso. Paul puts out the last of the flames, Josh decides he doesn’t want to stab anyone today, and Brad decides that the lack of screaming is a good thing and he comes inside. I spend the next hour apologizing profusely while cooking everyone dinner, and we decide that hey we should probably have some rules for our Nerf fights to prevent this from ever happening again. So we all eat, we establish rules about modifications and ammunition, and at the end of it all, we grab some beers, head into the living room, and tell Josh he needs to get rid of the sword seriously dude where did you get that from?
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It's just a game. There's a chance that when destiny 2 drops next year we may have to start fresh. There really isn't a reason to be so bent about weapons that are pretty crappy anyways. I would have been happy if they had left all the year ones and just started fresh to make new exotics that might be worth while. If you don't like the direction the game is heading just stop playing. Delete the app or remove the browser from your favorite list, remove all data from your console and just play another game.
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If you find yourself in green fields with the sun on your face do not be be troubled. For you are in Elysium, and you are already dead
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Lol. Another Xbox whiny twerp. Muted, down voted, and reported for offensive statements.
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You see unfortunately this game will be installed in a series of seasons of you will, each season having new weapons and enemies to battle, rather than one complete game right off the bat that gets boring within 3 months. Yes the old exotics become redundant but what if they didn't, and they were just as good as the new ones or even better! Logically speaking, how the -blam!- does that make any sense, think about it. And having a fit about how much things cost when didn't even buy the two dlc's lol.
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Bye Felicia
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TL;DR Title should be named "noone cares that you quit playing or cancelled the pre order"
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Kid go play another game then. All this attentionwhoring is not required.
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Please look up the word "redundant" in the dictionary. You are using it in ways that do not make sense.
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Keep up or get out of the way
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I just wish I could pay them $1000 right now, for all 10 years worth.
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In any game that is meant to be a lasting project new guns come out with higher damage that will out perform old ones , it would be so boring playing the same weapons for an entire decade wouldnt it ? Besides they are still relavent in pvp
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One less shitty person in a great game ty
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Edited by XxnatonxX: 8/22/2015 6:43:31 PMAre people this pathetic, this is all they have to do with their time? Wow, glorious.
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I'm sure the 30 people who commented are just going to put activision out of business aren't they
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Jokes on you for pre-ordering in the first place.
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Just wait till reviews
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I can't cancel what I haven't pre ordered
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I'll just buy destiny year 4, year 7, and then year 10. What's the point of doing it every year when if they follow the same trend I'll be spending a lot less money then if I buy every DLC. I spent 100$ on destiny so far (plus upgraded consoles for it) when I could've waited until September 2015 and only paid 60 for everything. I bought destiny for the PvE/story. I figure by year four they may have their shit together in that department. I'll actually have a decent amount of story to play through from whatever I've missed and a solid amount of PvE activities. Ah we'll see what happens, but I know I'm not going for TTK until the reviews are out. I fell for the hype once, won't happen again.
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The desticles are coming!
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lol skill you haven't even killed crota on hard. You shouldn't be allowed to create posts when you haven't even played the game
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Edited by RAcast: 8/22/2015 7:05:00 PMAh, I see the desticles have cried many tears over your post. Nice work.
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Don't have to cancel since I didn't pre order.
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Wanker