How's that new model working out? (Destiny)

by cheapLEY , Thursday, May 19, 2016, 22:03 (3203 days ago) @ CruelLEGACEY

We can finally do something to personalize our guardian's appearance with this new Chroma system! Cool!!! But... I can only use Chroma by burning a consumable... and that consumable can only be earned through RNG based rewards packages... and I can only apply the color of Chroma that the armor lets me... and if I want a different color, I need to spend glimmer on a reroll that often results in getting the exact same color I just scrapped... and when I finally do get the color I want and activate it, I can't change it without scrapping the consumable I just used and going through the whole process again? ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME?!

These (^^^) are the kinds of design decisions that I now have absolutely zero patience for. And Destiny is FULL of them. Everywhere I look, I see arbitrary systems that have been added to the game for no reason other than to make things take longer than they should. I see light levels and stats that offer nothing other than a greater chance of being disappointed by the gear that drops at the end of an activity. I see weapon perks that are so useless, they only serve to increase the rarity of drops that are actually fun and usable.

I'm right there with you. It's almost disgraceful, honestly. Say what you will, but adding RNG and microtransaction elements to how I color my armor is just stupid and about as anti-player as you can get. And to make it burn up a consumable to change the color of something? Seriously? It damn near makes me angry. It's like the game is begging me not to play it, and it's getting exactly what it wants until the fall expansion, probably.

I enjoyed playing with you finally a few weeks ago. I anticipated finally playing a lot more with the PS4 folks. But the thought of playing grinding through more Destiny just turns me off so much right now.

There's too many other games right now anyway, so it's fine, but if Destiny 2 follows the same formula as Destiny, I'm not sure how invested I'll be. Time will tell.