This is not new. We've been talking about this since... (Destiny)

by slycrel , Thursday, December 17, 2015, 20:01 (3359 days ago) @ Cody Miller

...the beginning. I'm pretty sure I could go back and find 2-3 big long posts on game theory and how bungie MMO-ifies FPS's like nobody else has thus far. Destiny is the WoW of FPS's. (Maybe I missed a game somewhere, but I don't think I did, not on that scale) The MMO-ness is built in and very intentional. Micro-transactions are just taking it a step further and monetizing some of this.

There's some a-moral stuff going on. I'm not going to call it abuse or evil... but I am going to call it very intentionally crafted to be addictive. In some ways that's fine. In some ways it's not. Bungie, and to some degree gaming in general, is starting to flirt with more casino-style gaming and less of what we traditionally think of as gaming. For a lot of reasons, but money is a big one.

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Difference in community - Cody Miller, 2015-12-17, 18:27
- Difference in community - MacAddictXIV, 2015-12-17, 18:39
  - Difference in community - cheapLEY, 2015-12-17, 19:19
    - Difference in community - Cody Miller, 2015-12-17, 20:11
      - ^^^ Agreed. - Kahzgul, 2015-12-17, 22:22
      - Difference in community - cheapLEY, 2015-12-17, 23:21
- TIL levelling in an RPG is a design flaw. - Funkmon, 2015-12-17, 19:14
  - TIL levelling in an RPG is a design flaw. - Cody Miller, 2015-12-17, 19:21
  - A treatise on character levels in RPGs - Kahzgul, 2015-12-17, 22:13
    - +9001 - Avateur, 2015-12-17, 22:46
    - A treatise on character levels in RPGs - Cody Miller, 2015-12-17, 23:02
      - A treatise on character levels in RPGs - Kahzgul, 2015-12-17, 23:12
    - On Tutorials . . . - cheapLEY, 2015-12-17, 23:36
    - A treatise on character levels in RPGs - Korny, 2015-12-18, 00:05
    - A treatise on character levels in RPGs - Ragashingo, 2015-12-18, 01:44
- This is not new. We've been talking about this since... - slycrel, 2015-12-17, 20:01
  - ^^^ This. 100% correct. - Kahzgul, 2015-12-17, 22:14
- There are differences, but the community is strong. *IMG* - Leviathan, 2015-12-17, 20:11
  - There are differences, but the community is strong. *IMG* - Cody Miller, 2015-12-17, 20:15
    - There are differences, but the community is strong. *IMG* - Leviathan, 2015-12-17, 20:36
    - I don't like it as much either. - Funkmon, 2015-12-17, 21:19
      - Good post. - cheapLEY, 2015-12-17, 23:19
- Destiny: The Taking King. ;-) - dogcow, 2015-12-17, 20:17
- Difference in community - CruelLEGACEY, 2015-12-19, 14:14

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