Put it in perspective (Destiny)

by Kermit , Raleigh, NC, Thursday, April 09, 2015, 18:59 (3307 days ago) @ Cody Miller

Imagine you went and bought Halo, but there was a multiplayer map that only unlocked as a random reward when playing multiplayer. You'd be annoyed no? I bought the game, why cant I play on the map?

Imagine you went and bought the Last of Us, but could only make nail bombs after getting instructions off a random drop from an enemy. Wouldn't that suck? The game is set up so that they are important items, and useful to progress. So why would I be locked out?

Imagine you were playing Beyond Two Souls or Heavy Rain or something, and you could only take certain story branches leading to the 'best' ending if a random event occurred during the course of the story. Would you not be bummed or frustrated?

I'd find that interesting. It'd be a lot like life, actually.

What if you couldn't pick up the covenant carbine unless you were granted the ability from an extremely rare drop? Sucks?

I don't know if Hawkmoon is all that.

So why is it normal, and encouraged for Exotic weapons like Hawkmoon, which are fantastically useful and a part of the game, to be locked away behind RNG? I bought the game, why can't I play with all its elements? How is that any different than any of the above scenarios?

Is it that much more useful than other things? Really? I find your analogies to be not quite on point.

Don't tell me that's just how MMOs work, because MMO is an objectively, demonstrably bad genre. Why aren't we past this?

If everyone could have everything whenever they wanted it, it wouldn't be exciting to get anything. That excitement is part of the game design, for better or for worse. I can't help but wonder if you'd care that much about having Hawkmoon if a) it were easier to get or b) you had it.

It's fucking stupid, and I'm really bitter that I can't play with this gun until the fall simply because of random numbers.

Are we sure we can get it in the fall? Do we know that it will go on sale?

Aren't there some items other than the exclusives that haven't gone on sale?

My solution that would be minimally intrusive: if you roll an exotic, don't give out one that is already on the account (or weigh them much more heavily). Check, and give a new drop that the account doesn't have. I don't need 8 No Land Beyonds. Wow, so hard.

Okay. Maybe they could tweak the formula, but the result would be that exotics would be less exotic.

I don't relate to the angst. The game is still fun for you. You have a large number of "useful" weapons.

I don't have many truly good weapons on the PS4, yet I certainly don't have less fun on that platform. I don't have the Suros Regime at all, and I really want it just because I think it's the coolest looking gun in the game (and still a "useful" auto rifle), but if I never get it? Que sera sera. My panties remain unbunched.

Here's perspective: you have more stuff than most of the people who play the game will ever have. You're probably in a small percentile regarding Raid play. Not having this one gun out of all that content makes you feel ripped off. Odd.