Vending machines (Destiny)

by narcogen , Andover, Massachusetts, Thursday, January 04, 2018, 15:34 (2355 days ago) @ Claude Errera

I guess I get the discomfort with being able to buy a chance to get something that gives you some kind of buff, but otherwise I can't relate. Do the people bothered by this live in a city? When they walk past shop windows and see things that they COULD BUY (if they chose to), is that traumatic for them?

No, and this is in no way analogous, which I think you know.

What it is analogous to is having a homeowners' association vote to mandatorily place a vending machine in your living room after you've paid for the house.

That might be a slight exaggeration, Narc.

How about the vending machine is installed in your condo lobby, in prominent view, after you bought in? That seems closer to what we're faced with here. I don't live in the tower, I don't relax in the tower, I spend the vast majority of my time in other places and visit the tower when I need to get stuff.

I'm not mapping the real world space of my apartment to the Tower because they're analogous.

I'm mapping my house to the Tower because like my house, I bought Destiny at what is currently considered full price. And yet someone else has a storefront in it.

If they want Destiny to be a freemium game, hey, that's fine. If they want a storefront in their full price game, I think that's also OK.

What's not OK is making sure everybody has to walk by that storefront in the ordinary run of play.

And a vending machine in my apartment lobby I would also not be OK with-- not unless the homeowner'ss association is getting a cut of it.