Destiny Gets Microtransactions

[Paragon Fury]

https://www.bungie.net/7_Introducing-Eververse-Trading-Company/en/News/News?aid=13672

So yep, Destiny is getting microtransactions for things like Emotes and Recolors, etc. I think my Facebook comment on this is enough;

"NOPENOPENOPE.

Microstransactions are bad, period. Probably the only game that has ever done them right is DotA 2, and they just barely got them right.

Stop with this microstransactions and cosmetic bullshit. I gave you $60+$40 fucking dollars already. I want my costumes, my emotes, my skins, my recolors in the fucking game I paid for, not sold by outside source that I have to pay again for.

Maybe I'm just an old man, but I remember when having a cool color scheme, have cool looking armor, when having a cool looking mount was a sign of skill. Of prestige. Of "look at how much of a badass I am".

Not a sign of "I have ton of disposable income and can waste it on cosmetics in a game I already paid for."

 

[Outcast107]

You know..I wouldn't mind MT if there are ways around it and isn't in a bullshit way. Cause I know there are some people who can't play games all day long, and might want to get something real quick. Fine and dandy, but I hate it when I buy a game for 60 bucks and there a part of the game I can't get cause its behind a pay wall and I have to empty more of my money into it.

THAT my friends is bullshit.

If devs want to have MT then make sure there are ways around it to buy your content right from the start. Like how both Garden Warfare and Halo 5 gamemode "Warzone" are doing it. Yeah you don't need to use MT at all, but hey incase you have a dollar to spare then you get something worthwhile.

Ugh...I keep hear more and more about bullshit Bungie has done now and in the past and it just saddening.

 

[DefunctTheory]

I have zero problems with purely cosmetic micro transactions that have no affect on gameplay what so ever. If people with more money then sense want to pay to support a game I like, which in turn will get me free actual gameplay content, then guess what, I'm game. Let's do it.

Also, on a more specific note, lol. Don't have a PS4, not a fan of Bungie, and not a fan of Destiny. So shoop-de-whoop, not my problem!

Now, if Battletech has purchasable DLC skin packs, well... maybe I'll have to necro the thread then. That probably would get me mad, tossing out everything I've said above. Guess that makes me a hypocrite, eh?

 

[DoPo]

I can't say I'm actually surprised. Well, on the other hand, I thought Destiny already had microtransactions, but hey, turns out I was merely not right yet.

 

[Evonisia]

Seems like it's still not a good time for the wallet of a Bungie fan.

Damn near everything I've heard about Destiny since its announcement has rubbed me further and further away.

 

[Maximum Bert]

Not surprised tbh although I am surprised that people still play that garbage. Oh well I didnt need another reason to never touch the game again but they gave me one anyway.

 

[sXeth]

To be fair, people did cry bloody hell that you had to buy collector's edition for the extra emotes, and largely demanded DLC of them.

On the other hand, this could quickly spiral into the Shaders/Emblems/Ships, which have thus far used as rewards of varying degrees for challenges and activities in game, which cheapens the whole reward system thereof.. Also I don't know why they're setting up a (separate) ingame currency system for something that could easily just be thrown up as a cheap DLC pack. Logically, this would indicate you could somehow earn the currency ingame as well, but AAA's been kind of dodgy on that implementation at best.

And yeah, if it starts creeping into actual gameplay, like ETC exclusive Exotics, everyone should abandon ship immediately.

 

[haplo99]

in game currency is used because as humans we think of game money differently than we do actual real money. it's easier to spend 100 wharf dollars on a new skin/emote/whatever than $5.

there are many many studies that show this out. The developers know this, it's one reason they all run to have ingame currency. Destiny been wierd a lil in that most who do have it in from the start. There is also the exchange rate and "packs" of currency you can buy. Generally you'll find that most DLC is either just under, or just over one of the packs. Thats so you'll already be half invested in buying another pack if you already got some burning a hole in your pocket.

basically ingame money is rigged to get more of your money than you'd pay if it was $

 

[R.K. Meades]

Youtubers have been showing off some of the emotes overnight. I can't wait to do the Carlton dance after shooting somebody's face off in Trials of Osiris this weekend. Teabaggers will get the slow clap.

 

[BloatedGuppy]

Isn't Destiny basically the console MMO? I mean, aside from all the MMOs that already came to consoles? Cosmetic micro-transactions are just par for the course.

 

[Arctic Werewolf]

I cannot wait to buy every single emote and spam them all in the Crucible. I just bought this game because the new $60 version with the "expansions" included seemed like a reasonably good value, even for a game that sounds kind of iffy. So far I like the PvP more than I expected and the PvE less then I expected. I am disappointed, but not surprised, that the game is going with micro-transactions. I definitely would have thought twice before buying the game had I known about this. Just another example of the hazards of being a gamer in 2015.

 

[Flammablezeus]

This was so obvious from the inception of the game that I'm surprised that anybody could be surprised. The developers themselves were stating from the beginning that Destiny was going to be barebones, with the actual game being added later in several small installments. They probably tried to phrase it in a way that made it seem like they were adding value instead of subtracting it, but in this day and age any gamer worth their salt can see through this kind of corporate-speak.