For reference (Destiny)

by SIX min WHISTLE , Michigan, Thursday, August 18, 2016, 14:27 (3019 days ago) @ Claude Errera

I thought I was okay with the exclusive stuff; it was annoying, but what's a year, really? But now it's 2 years, and not really 2 years, but AT LEAST 2 years. And even though it's not a lot of stuff, we have last year's exclusive stuff to judge by - 12 months was enough to seriously reduce the relevance of the exclusive guns (mostly because the online team had had several passes at adjusting them), 24 months will be even worse. Will I ever use the Jade Rabbit? If not, would I be less offended if they were more honest, and took out the word 'timed'?

Personally I think a full year is WAY too long for this kind of exclusive. At most I'd probably understand 3 months, but I've always thought a year is ridiculous. Especially with the way Destiny is updated. It's even worse when it seems like it's totally contradictory to Bungie's philosophy of the game having a certain "feel" to it for any given period of time.

I can't think of any other games that have such a long timed-exclusive. Activision itself only has a 30 day delay on CoD DLC, though yearly releases probably have a lot to do with that. I think The Division also has a 1 month delay, as do many other games. It's this kind of stuff that makes me want to stop supporting Bungie, I haven't bought an Activision game in years, since before last console generation. This nonsense is obviously going to remain at least through this generation, and more than likely onto the next since only the final game in the 10 years would likely release on it.

I have to assume that this is Activision's doing, but Bungie allowed themselves to be put into this position when they choose to go with them as their publisher. Out of the possibly viable options I think either Ubisoft or Square Enix may have been better, but only they really know.