Toe over the P2W line (Destiny)

by electricpirate , Wednesday, March 30, 2016, 20:03 (3254 days ago) @ General Vagueness

Something I notcied on the update page,

Both Chroma and Taken-themed gear can be found in Sterling Treasures. Three Sterling Treasures can be obtained each week by visiting the Postmaster after each weekly reset, successfully completing one Level 41 Prison of Elders activity, and completing one match in the featured Weekly Crucible Playlist.

Additional Sterling Treasures can also be purchased via Tess Everis in the Eververse Trading Company stores.

Chroma is obv. fine, that's a cosmetic. But the taken theme weapons means.... paying real money for weapon drops. So yea.

I actually have a fairly nuanced view of P2W, F2P and such (as my current addiction to Clash Royale connects) but if you are a "NO P2W stuff." In a sense, I wouldn't even by that bothered by it. But I am very bothered by the "NO NEVER GONNA DO P2W!" then slowly sneaking it in.

There is no such thing, either it's in or it's not. Assuming this is basically regular gear (and it's hard to have armor that isn't just regular gear), it's not in. If you think it's to make it less of a shock when it is in, that's fine, but they're taking an awfully long time if that's their plan.

I don't think there's some kind of insidious plan here, but it feels a little little bits of limit testing. Hence the idea of sticking a toe over the line and watching the community react.

There are lots of different levels of Pay 2 win; and I base on the relative effectiveness of paying real money to get ahead. Something like clash of clans, where high level of play requires thousands of dollars in investment is one extreme, where as buying legendary armor at light level 3 is the other. It's still "Pay some money to conceivably buy some power" but the possible utility of that power is extremely low, given how meh armor perks are in Destiny.