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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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....