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Only the Strike is exclusive (Destiny)

by General Vagueness @, The Vault of Sass, Wednesday, October 29, 2014, 17:03 (3463 days ago) @ Xenos

hmm, that's a little better console-wise then, but it also means there's even less content they're selling, to me or anyone


Just out of curiosity, would I be correct in assuming you have a problem with DLC pricing in general than the pricing of this expansion specifically?

I only bring it up because the Mythic Map Pack for example came with 3 maps for $15. This is $20 for three maps, plus a strike, a raid, and three story missions. As far as pricing for regular DLC this seems reasonable, if not a better value. Now if the problem is you think DLC is usually over priced, that's a whole different issue.

I'm not really familiar with DLC outside of Halo,* and it's hard to compare it to Destiny, so I wasn't trying to, but maybe I still was comparing it on some level.
The multiplayer maps, as I meant to say, have basically no worth to me. I have no control over what maps I play other than excluding some depending on the playlist I pick, and my control over what I play on them is very limited too. I can't even pick one map or another or even veto a map. I have yet to play on several on-disk maps; having more to randomly possibly doesn't do anything for me.
The strike is kind of nice, but there's only one. It's just hard to get excited over one more of something.
The raid is kind of nice, but again there's only one.
The story missions are kind of nice, but there are only three, which compared to how many there are already is actually less of an increase than one more strike (for Xbox players), and they're now confirmed to use a lot of geometry that was already created, and I think it's a given there won't be any new enemies or any big changes in how the game plays. Now that I think about it this strike (or these strikes) and these story missions probably won't come up for weekly and daily heroics or bounties either.
It doesn't seem worth it because it's not that much stuff, and because I'm getting less than other people for the same price (albeit not a lot less), and because it just doesn't appeal to me that much.
* side note: I'm not even that familiar with buying Halo DLC, I didn't get into Halo 2 until all its DLC was free, I Halo 3's paid DLC via ODST, I was given some of the DLC for Reach and Halo 4 for winning contests or just because, and I eventually got all of Halo 4's DLC through the game of the year edition


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