Just to play Devil's (Cody's?) Advocate (Gaming)

by Kermit , Raleigh, NC, Wednesday, August 24, 2016, 22:09 (3013 days ago) @ someotherguy

1. Id take any claim that the game was balanced entirely without microtransactions in mind with a bug heap of salt. Just about everyone says this now and I dont believe any of them. They didn't put them in there with the intention of you not using them now did they?

(I like Cody's avocado better). Well, depends on when they went in and who wanted them in. The marketing and business folks may have wanted it, but the real game makers didn't, so the latter could've ignored the inclusion and designed the game as if they weren't used.

2. Any feature in a game that needs to be excused with "Well you don't need it, and in fact you wont lose out at all by ignoring it. Actually you'll get an experience truer to our original vision if you don't use it" (as so many devs claim) hardly seems like a worthwhile feature in the first place.

And that's probably their argument to the internal business folks, too, but moneys.

Yeah, it's not worthwhile, and wasn't designed to be worthwhile. Much the same could be said about most of the Destiny playstation exclusives, but Bungie can't say that.