Toe over the P2W line (Destiny)

by General Vagueness , The Vault of Sass, Friday, April 01, 2016, 15:39 (3252 days ago) @ electricpirate

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.

yeah, there are...

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.

... and for the armor this is not that at all

All of the gear you can buy seems to have normal perks other than the chromas and it has 3 defense.

The only way you can gain an advantage this way is to dump enough money in to get the exact perk set you want, but in my experience no one cares about non-exotic non-raid armor perks other than ammo storage and weapon reloading, and maybe elemental armor/resistances and a small handful of others, and everyone that cares should already have all those things by now.

I didn't see before you mentioned the weapons. I watched the stream archive yesterday and read comments on it the day it happened and I don't remember seeing anything about weapons in these treasure things. Can you source that?