Exp throttling (Destiny)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Monday, November 20, 2017, 10:36 (2356 days ago)

So, it appears Des2ny throttles your exp if you earn too much too fast:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/7adxjf/lets_talk_about_the_xp_cooldown/?st=ja8iydkh&sh=6672cae6

You already know how I feel about this so I will spare you.

The issue is of competence really. For those who don't know, Bungie got a lot of advice from Blizzard, particularly the Diablo 3 team, about how to do loot games. One of the things that was figured out very quickly in WoW, was that people hate to feel punished. WoW used to penalize your exp gain if you played too much. People hated that. So instead, they gave you bonus exp if you haven't played in a while. The goal was the same: keep players from playing too much, but one felt like a reward, the other like a punishment.

So… why do this? It's well known this is a bad idea. Maybe they thought that by hiding it it'd be better…

Why would you even need to throttle exp? What do you get with exp? Bright engrams? And what do bright engrams get you? Things you can buy… ohhhhhhh.