Pay-to-win has come to "Destiny". As part of the Festival of the Lost, players can use silver to purchase Treasures of the Lost. This random package could include items that speed up weapons upgrades and glimmer farming. So, remember when Bungie said silver would only be used for cosmetic items? Well, they aren't.
Micro-transactions are a slippery slope. The community needs to keep Bungie from going down that slope. Make your voices hear. Raise a ruckus. Let the Bungie faithful assail your revulsion of micro-transactions and pay-to-win. Let them see your resolve. Until Bungie relents and goes back to making "Destiny" the game it should be, we hold the line.
Edit: From Reddit [url=https://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/3qax5y/destiny_halloween_event_festival_of_the_lost/]https://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/3qax5y/destiny_halloween_event_festival_of_the_lost/[/url]
These aren't cosmetic items only. They include consumables.
Edit: Keep responding. "STFO, "Never go full . . .", "You're an idot". It's all there already. Every reply bumps this post and keeps the pressure on Bungie to avoid going pay-to-win. And yes, I know some Guardians would love it if "Destiny" went pay-to-win and they could just buy a Gjallarhorn 3.0, but that's not the game I bought.
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Holy shit! Im SO screwed! I cant afford salty engrams to get my primaries upgraded! Oh wait... It takes about 20 seconds to burn a few motes and fully upgrade whatever i want...
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They're for glimmer and leveling up weapons faster....... I burned them after i got them just to clear my inventory. They're worthless.....
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You can get those from filling the candy bags too.
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Someone went full retard
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These consumables go away once festival of the lost goes away. It's not like the mechanic for speeding up upgrades and glimmer farming materials aren't already in the game to begin with
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Oh you mean like the consumables already in the game? Exactly.
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Get more glimmer? Really? You're pissed off about more glimmer? It's a package you can buy, and they didn't want to add more coding, therefore they just gave you more stuff.
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Oh, so I can speed up weapon use. You know, the exact same as the thing that costs 250 glimmer. And speed up glimmer use. Just like those consumables I have 100000000000s of. Not worried. Just ready for the event to be over so my inventory can stop being so bloated with the same item that doesn't stack with the rest.
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Why do you even care lmao, just quit the game then
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Really? Void fizz is the same thing as black wax idols and the same with all the other consumables
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There off little use
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Edited by Tattered_Grace: 10/27/2015 3:59:29 PMYou must not read the shit in red text at the bottom that says it'll go away. And if you are so limited on the real items in game that do the same exact thing then you should go out and do some patrol missions. I myself have nearly 150-200 of each damn glimmer farm item. And another thing the weapon upgrades are cheap as -blam!- from the gunsmith. you must not play the game very much to even look for like 30 seconds at an npcs inventory.
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Yeah because motes of light and the glimmer farm items we already have can't do everything these consumables do.
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Nice rant, but factually incorrect. 2/10.
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Consumables that are ONLY good till November 9th lmao -blam!-ing retards these days can't read lmao
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They are so incredibly limited it's irrelevant, you can get the same stuff from candy which can be obtained like crazy.
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Stfu and just stop playing, you whiny bitch. If people want to pay, let them pay. Who the fu ck are you to tell us otherwise?
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The benefits are so incredibly limited it is in no way pay-to-win. I'm not much of a bungie fan these days and I'm not defending them, I'm just calling you a moron.
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Boo -blam!-ing hoo
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Never go full retard.
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You mean consumables that can be purchased for glimmer from the gunsmith or found repeatedly just by farming a patrol for 5 minutes? Try again.
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Dear OP: I keep getting those -blam!-ing consumables. Every goddamn time I turn in a bag of candy. If you speant as much time playing as you did bitching, you would know that you do not in fact have to pay a dime to get these things. Good day to you, sir or ma'am.
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you can spend up to five dollars for these packages or you can spend 2 minutes get the glimmer and buy a telemetry and use the infinite amount of motes you have. if you are buying these things for the weapon upgrades then you shouldn't be allowed to have money.
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You mean the stuff you can buy at the Gunsmith? Its laughable how many people are whining over this
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So how is having glimmer or upgrading a weapon going to help you win?
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I know right!? If I don't buy any I'll never be able to get more glimmer from hive! Or upgrade my weapons faster! [spoiler]satire[/spoiler]