As an avid fan of Destiny since I first heard about it, someone who has pre-ordered every expansion without thought, and one who has defended questionable development choices made for the game, I'm severely disappointed about how year 2 PS exclusives have been handled coming into year 3. (Note: I hold no allegiance to either console, I own both, just prefer to play Destiny on XB1 due to that being where all of my friends play.)
Destiny has already held the record for the longest timed-exclusive content that I have ever experienced from any game, originally sitting at 1 year. Every other exclusive I can recall has been at a couple months. 6 months would be understandable, 1 year pushes most people to the limit.
Now we have learned, after expecting the same pattern between years 1 and 2, where we received the new content at the launch of TTK, AND the ORIGINAL exclusive time frame announced for the Jade Rabbit, Zen Meteor, the map Sector 618, as well as the year 2 exclusive armor sets that was expected to release for Xbox in Fall 2016 has NOW been pushed back to Fall 2017. When Destiny 2 releases. AND that is not even a solidified time-frame. You left it open to remain exclusive for even longer with the way you have phrased it.
Now I understand the reasons for timed exclusives. Money is money and it makes the Destiny world go round. As an Xbox player I have pushed through the longest timed exclusive timeline in gaming history seeing the light at the end of a 1 year tunnel journey, only to now see that that light was just some dude waving a flashlight in my face telling me, "CONGRATS, you are half-way there." Your heart breaks a little bit. Here I am, dishing out the same money my PS counterparts are, and not receiving the full extent of the content for at least 2 whole years. We don't even know if all our gear will be carried through and or useful in Destiny 2 yet! making those weapons we would finally get, completely useless to us playing Destiny 2.
Now let's look at how this effects PS users as well. These exclusive maps can NEVER be used in Trials map rotations due to the fact that both consoles have to mirror each other for this event. Those weapons? They can never be sold by Xur, you have to pray for RNGeezus to be kind to you in order to receive them. For some players that's fine but for many who can't play a lot (myself included) you may never see these weapons in your hands.
Bungie, you are not only causing HALF of your loyal players to suffer in this ridiculously long timed-exclusive content, but it is effecting EVERY guardian out there negatively, whether that be in a major, or a minor way.
Please, we all beg you, make this game even better for everyone, keep the exclusives to only a year. You can hold Zen Meteor as a PS exclusive until Rise of Iron's April update if you have to.
Yes I know this will probably never be seen by Bungie Executives that can actually do anything about this but I felt this voice needed to be heard by someone. Feel free to tweet this out or share. I know even most PS players out there think 2 years is too long for anyone to wait for content they already paid for.
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So ps got stuff that xbox didn't for two years so stop f**king complaining
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Doing trials carries come stop by the stream https://www.twitch.tv/crotasendraidd/mobile
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Exclusive content, blah blah, tl;dr
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So a one sided map can't be in the trails rotation, Xur can't hand out these amazing guns and a mediocre strike can't be the nightfall. This really isn't a problem for ps players
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Isn't the new tomb raider exclusive Xbox1 for ONE entire year!!! That's the biggest exclusivity outrage I know about!!! I'm generally no fan of this and I feel your pain, but it's not a destiny specific issue....
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My thoughts exactly. Any one arguing against this is, either a jerk, a dim-wit or a troll.
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Well Said, some ps players wont ever get the point what r u trying to say...
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I'm okay with the maps mot being trials maps, but I want that strike to be a nightfall
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Edited by Aulakauss: 8/21/2016 4:44:48 PMA year of exclusivity for something in a game is indeed ridiculous, but at least we get the expansions at the same time. PlayStation fans of the Tomb Raider reboot have had to wait a whole extra year for a sequel that the Xbox already has for that game for no damn reason other than some mooks at Microsoft paid a lot of money to screw them. This 'timed exclusive' shit has gone way too far these days, but sadly the only way to get anything done would be to refuse to purchase things until they quit it and I don't see that happening anytime soon.
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Don't care if Xbox one gets the exclusive content i wish they would do away with the whole damn thing and make everything cross console. Imagine how easy LFG would be for endgame activities. Plus the diversity it would add to the game in general. LFG is not too bad now that was just a positive example.
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What about the strike? I could care less about the other crap, I just want the PS exclusive strike.
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Dude sector 618 is my one of my favorite maps. It makes me so sad that they're missing out on the sweet armor too...
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Not Bungie's decision, now the communication on this is what is bad.
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Oh look they still haven't replied about this topic, what a suprise.
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It does seem a little unfair that we pay the same amount of money and receive less. It's like we're second class citizens or something. If it's just time gated that's one thing, but to pretty much say that we may never receive the strikes and maps the ps4 has is just plain wrong.
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I'm not really worried about the exclusives as an X1 player but Bungie has definitely been shady about the whole situation.
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It seems the only solution to make every party happy is to make new ps exclusive exotics, and unlock the old ones.
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I haven't seen a lot of the streamers or you tubers mentioning it either. Kind of disappointing. I
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Edited by CapnMark: 8/22/2016 4:54:00 PMPlus Xbox ones controller is way better for fps games then the Dual Shock 4. Please don't tell me that the DS4 is amazing for fps. Xbox One controller feels the best for any fps game plus the controller last longer, has longer battery life (15 hours compared to 3 hours on DS4) At least xbox one made a redesign with their controller and it feels great! Meanwhile still with the uncomfortable dual shock 4 controller with slippery triggers. When will Sony ever update their controller? Probably never. Gonna get a lot of hate from Sony pony's but it's gonna be my entertainment for the day.
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Nice post. I'm a PS4 guy. You guys have waited long enough.
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I'm a little confused about all the exclusive stuff because in the ps store it shows this
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Oh......another post about exclusives.......
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I'm on Xbox , but really ? Does it matter ? We got halo from bungie They just got different pixels to put on their character Let the Sony people have their exclusives damn [spoiler]it is a little shady tho [/spoiler]
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Exclusives do not make any sense. I'm not going to buy a PS4 just beacause of the jade rabbit, zen meteor etc.
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When exclusivity hurts sales, publishers will stop offering them. Respawn learned this lesson with Titanfall. Square Enix is about to learn this lesson with Rise of the Tomb Raider. Let Bungie learn this lesson with Destiny.