10 dead flies all day. (Destiny)

by Kahzgul, Tuesday, June 28, 2016, 18:56 (2857 days ago) @ Korny

I'm not sure how they can argue that the 1 month delay in The Division is somehow comparable to the 1 YEAR delay in Destiny.

Because in Destiny, it's a handful of exclusive content that doesn't alter the game (except when Hawkmoon WAS the entire Meta of 2/3rds of Year One).

In the Division, it's a huge piece of endgame content to the game, and PS4 players are 100% locked out. Would you be okay if The Taken King had been a month-long PS4 exclusive, if it meant no Year 2 exclusive content?

I thought for a while about this, and I think the answer is yes. Waiting another month for a reason to play a game you're presently not playing, and then getting the whole experience is something I'd very much prefer to getting a diminished experience for a year, and then getting the full experience when (a) none of it is really fresh and new anymore and (b) some other diminished experience is being released at the same time.

After that month of exclusivity, both PS4 and Xbox will have the same Division. But after a year of Destiny, Xbone still won't have the same game as PS4 because some new expansion with an equally shitty exclusivity period will be attached.

Another comparison is the price point: If I spend $20 for an expansion of the division in June, that's really the same as spending $20 for that expansion in July. But for Destiny it's spend $40 now and get 90% of it, and then - in a YEAR - you get the last 10%. That's shitty. There's a built in delay to getting what you paid for. Now, if the Division said you had to buy the xpac now and then wait a month after purchasing before you could play it, that would be way shittier, but that's not the case.

To be clear, neither gives me a "good" feeling, I just find the Destiny exclusivity shittier than the division one.