After I made the satirical post joking about it’s time to start a Class Action, but I didn’t think it would have any substance since it was a joke. I then received around 10 messages saying how it is actually possible to win that lawsuit since a large portion of the community paid for everything well before it became F2P and were never reimbursed since they are announcing they are taking the PAID FOR content away.
I’ve now seen multiple review articles talking about how they hope it doesn’t go that far, but they could actually see this happening. Bungie as a company has the right to shut down servers of a game and stop supporting it, keeping the game running but taking away paid for content without any sort of reimbursement apparently has the potential to be described as grand larceny since if 1 person paid for all the content it cost them around $120 and grand larceny is $500 or more. Obviously more then 5 people paid for all the content so that has already been surpassed.
If this was old Bungie I would say “No they don’t deserve this and we all just need to accept they made mistakes”, but this isn’t old Bungie; This is present day Bungie that stole 50,000+ Brightdust over 2 solstice events for useless glows and never touched on why we haven’t been reimbursed for that. This is new Bungie that many former employees say on Glassdoor “Company that offers good benefits and fun employees, but has now pushed too much of a focus to MTX and games as a service, and less on community feedback innovation”.
So I do think the lawsuit may be inevitable and I honestly don’t care if Bungie gets taken to the cleaners.
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this industry practice model needs to stop. it will only get worse. next will be a short term memvership fee which the duration will keep getting shorter.