I'm actually a bit surprised (Destiny)

by cheapLEY , Tuesday, March 22, 2016, 00:16 (3410 days ago) @ marmot 1333

I'm inclined to agree with him in this case, though, although with a slight twist.

The whole point of the weekly reset is an attempt to prevent the game's economies from spiraling out of complete control.

Imagine a scenario where there are people who absolutely would run 18 raids per week and those that don't run any or just run one. The former groups would be swimming in whatever reward the raids gave, while the second set of people would have basically nothing in comparison.

Regardless of how you feel about it, this would make handling difficulty, cost, and "fairness" very lopsided and almost impossible to bring back in line without some kind of hard reset.

Clearly online economies are hard and they're doing the best they can. Keeping currencies in line is the reason new currencies are introduced in each expansion.

How so? Someone that picked up the game last week and just hit level 40 and did the raid sitting at light 285 or whatever is in the same position as the hypothetical person in your situation that only ran the raid once, while current high level players are the folks that would run the raid multiple times a week. But that's not "unfair." I'm not necessarily against the weekly reset and limiting drops, but I'm not convinced that fairness or balance really plays a significant role in the actual reason for it. While I can't back it up, I think Cody is closer to the truth. I'm not bitter about it or anything, I just think it's probably true.