XP in Destiny 2 (Destiny)

by EffortlessFury , Friday, November 24, 2017, 20:24 (2352 days ago) @ Korny

https://www.bungie.net/en/Explore/Detail/News/46494

We’ve seen community discussion around XP gain in Destiny. After reviewing our data, we agree that the system is not performing the way we’d like it to. Today, we’d like to describe what’s going on under the hood, and talk about what you can expect going forward when it comes to earning XP in Destiny 2.

Currently, XP will scale up when playing longer or fixed duration activities like Crucible competitive multiplayer matches and the Leviathan Raid, and XP will scale down when playing activities that can be quickly, repeatedly chained, like grinding Public Events. We are not happy with the results, and we’ve heard the same from the community.

Effective immediately, we are deactivating this system.

As a result, players will see XP earn rates change for all activities across the board, but with all values being displayed consistently in the user interface. Over the course of the next week, we will be watching and reviewing XP game data to ensure that these changes meet our expectations, as well as yours. Any additional updates to this system will be communicated to you via our official channels.

So the spinfoil hat theory was true: Bungie was intentionally throttling exp gains to incentivize real world purchases.

That's a dumb way to look at it. If anything, they were rewarding players who didn't play as long, while looking to balance XP gains across a multitude of systems, with certain game options more exploitable than others.

I can't remember if I submitted my Overwatch comparison, where a similar thing was happening, and the outcry led to Blizzard normalizing XP gains, which kind of screwed over the people who didn't play the game for hours every day.

At the end of the day, though. It was all for cosmetic stuff, so nothing of significance was lost.

This does not look good.

For the tinfoil hat-wearing armchair-dev neckbeards that cry about "slippery slopes", sure, it doesn't look good. For the people who enjoyed getting cosmetic loot without having to grind endlessly, they're at risk of losing their well-rested bonus just because some stupid streamers want more more more.

But it's cosmetics? Cosmetics you can pay to get more of? Why am I being slowed for playing the damn game when I can spend money to bypass the system entirely? I don't give a crap that SP activities are more "exploitable," I'm playing the damn game. There is nothing to be gained by this throttling but increased profits.