Are you sure?? (Destiny)

by Kermit , Raleigh, NC, Thursday, March 31, 2016, 20:40 (3395 days ago) @ CruelLEGACEY

Some people would rather put money instead of time into a game. I can understand that.

I can't understand this. The whole point of a leisure activity is to spend your time doing it. So putting time into a game is really the ONLY thing that makes sense.

You love the raids. You hated the grind to get "raid-ready." In September of last year, if you could have paid $50 and been given a boost to be raid-ready from day one (instead of spending $40 and then the majority of that week grinding to get as close to 290 light as possible so you could run the raid blind right away -- which by your, and your groups', admission had you kind of burned out by the time the raid opened up), you wouldn't ponder that for at least a moment?

Even if you can tell me with a straight face that your 'integrity' would prevent you from spending a little extra money to "skip" part of the game you don't enjoy as much -- can you honestly say you don't understand how people would be willing to put a little extra money into a game in lieu of some of their time?!?

The part where these kinds of questions get tricky for me is when it comes to doing things a 2nd, 3rd, or 4th time through. I loved the experience of jumping into TTK with my hunter, playing through the story, completing all the side quests, and doing all the end game activities. I would never have wanted to skip any of it (except maybe the Hadium flake farming or the material farming for the exotic sword, but I digress ;p)

Where the temptation sneaks in for me is with my other characters. Playing TTK once was fantastic, doing it 3 times felt a fair bit more like a chore. Yes, it was completely my choice to get 3 characters all the way through, but that's "the rub". I like to have 3 different characters to play my favorite activities with... and the only way to do that is to drag 3 characters all the way through the entire game.

And that's just on PS4... I'm embarrassed to say that I've actually wished I could just throw down $30 or $40 and instantly buy a fully-leveled Xbox character. I keep poking away with my Xbox Hunter, but it takes so damn long to level all the way up from scratch. I managed to go from the very start of the game all the way to killing Oryx (in the story mission, not the raid) without even completing a single subclass on my character.

The slow-motion subclass leveling is the only thing that keeps me from deleting a character and playing the game from scratch. I'd love to have the full game experience now that it's all been questified. My "youngest" character is my PS4 titan. Despite having played through all the mainline story missions in the game, she doesn't even have a blessings bubble yet, despite being ready for KF hard mode in every other respect.