Why the Eververse hate? (Destiny)

by MacAddictXIV , Seattle WA, Thursday, January 04, 2018, 06:18 (2597 days ago) @ narcogen

I think it's more to do with the way those microtransactions are presented, e.g. The Dawning, which is a huge event that exists pretty much entirely to advertise new MTX to the end user.

Wait... what Dawning are you talking about? I've done pretty much everything the dawning has to offer and I've never gotten the feeling like I'm be paraded to Eververse.

...I'm not sure how you can say that. I'm not sure how anyone could say that.

I say that because what does the dawning have to do with Eververse? I'm honestly curious, because the entirety of the dawning has been mostly spent with Ikora or off on a planet.

The entire end-game level up mechanism has been hijacked into a promotional opportunity for Eververse.

When you earn enough XP for a level, you used to either ding, or get a mote, an in-game currency that could be exchanged either for in-game items or other in-game currency, in a system that was entirely separate from the isolated Eververse economy, that had its own currency and its own items.

Now, every level ding is an engram that requires going to Eververse to decode, reminding everyone that Eververse exists, and there is stuff you can only get there. And if you don't get it by luck, well you can pay to increase your chances (loot boxes).

I understand the coupling of Eververse and an in-game vendor is seen as a step in the wrong directions and MT creep. I get that. To me personally, I have never had a problem with MT's. I'm sure there are others that do. I just think that there is a lot of people saying that Eververse is 100% evil incarnate on Destiny 2. I for one have never touched MT's and use Eververse like every other single vendor in D2 because without the MT's she is identical to every other vendor. I also have never had a problem with the compulsion to acquire every item and thus I haven't felt the need to spend money to get the items I don't have.

Illuminated engrams are basically just free loot boxes.

If you are going that route then you might as well say that every engram is a free loot box. And if you have that mentality then you need to get out of Destiny.

I guess it all depends on willpower. To me, the debate right now is that MT's have gone from a stand alone booth anyone can visit to a booth that has been coupled with an in-game vendor that people visit on a regular basis. I don't care that I visit her more because the other difference is that I can actually purchase the stuff she is selling now with in-game currency and not money.