Bungie: "How many times can we make X happen in a row?" (Destiny)

by Kahzgul, Thursday, December 21, 2017, 20:19 (2472 days ago) @ INSANEdrive

Procedure Do_Something (event)
Set event.new (rand)
While event.last == event.new
Set event.new (rand)
End

Seriously. Everything in Destiny needs these five lines of pseudocode. Probably a real coder to be even more efficient with it and do it in just three lines, and maybe put an error checker in there so if you get the same result 100 times in a row, fine, use that result.

Anyway, my point is that, for a game which prides itself on variety of activities, the number of times I've done the same strike two or three times in a row, or fought pvp on the same map (while in the same lobby) two, three, four, even *five* times in a row, or gotten the exact same drop from an engram several times in a row, well, it's all really really really really really too many times.

Point of fact: Most people who claim to want "random" things actually want "varied" things. True randomness is not as fun as variety.