Difference in community (Destiny)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Thursday, December 17, 2015, 18:27 (3359 days ago)
edited by Cody Miller, Thursday, December 17, 2015, 18:31

Why was the Halo community considerably more open, fun, and creative than the Destiny community?

Polygon has an article about the ability to buy class boosters. But the part that is relevant:

The new boost is a cause for concern, because it may be evidence that Bungie and publisher Activision have stopped seeing points of superfluous friction in Destiny’s gameplay systems as design flaws and started to see them as opportunities to extract money from players.

I've felt this way since day one, but it is just front and center now. Proof positive are the broken game systems people complain about not actually being fixed, but instead being replaced with something else that has its own (sometimes worse) problems. At first I thought Bungie was just incompetent. But they aren't. It is intentional.

The answer is simply because Halo was a game that gave, not a game that took.

Destiny takes. It also gives, but it takes far too much.