Opinions (Destiny)

by Korny , Dalton, Ga. US. Earth, Sol System, Monday, October 08, 2018, 10:17 (2215 days ago) @ MacAddictXIV

I appreciate the Heroic Adventures, and Wanted Targets were fun enough the first couple of days, but where are the Whisper-tier events that we were promised?

I'd call The Broken Throne quest a Whisper-tier event. It has all makings of the Whisper quest. It was unexpected. It is not always available. It takes place in a surprisingly large and varied play space. It has several combat and traversal challenges. It has that feeling of being almost impossible that will melt away to being totally doable in time. And, it ultimately rewards you with an Exotic weapon.

The issue that I have with that one is that it’s only available to people who have Forsaken, so it feels like prepackaged content, which I guess should be fine, but I was hoping for more universal events.

Honestly, I don't know how anyone can expect to be getting more content with a base game that is a year old now? I mean, the game is on 3 expansions now. You can't expect a company to be giving you free content at this point. If you are still just playing the base game then you should be comfortable with what you are playing.

I mean, you don't need the DLCs to run the Whisper quest. Sure, you get wrecked by Impossible enemies, but it was available to base game owners two DLCs in. Precedent is there.

Yes, including the entire D2 community would be cool but, that's like saying that Apple or Microsoft should keep making cool stuff for 3-4 OS's back. No, you gotta make cool content for current software.

P.S. I know that isn't a direct relation but I hope you get my point. I know someone will argue it so I'm just saying it now :D

Funny thing is that Apple's iOS 12 that just launched in the past month was specifically for their older products (all the way back to the iPhone 5s, which came out in 2013(!).
So yeh...

So yeah, Destiny 2 is not Free to Play (though it is adopting a F2P release model with the Annual Pass), but if you remember the backlash that Bungie was hit by when they started trying to lock people out of content like they did in D1, and how hard they backpedaled, they need the people playing the base game. They need the Eververse sales and the healthy population. And just because the people buying the DLCs are content, it doesn't mean that they shouldn't be giving the entire base reasons to log back in (how else are they going to encourage seasonal event sales?)

I mean, look at the fact that the base game was free on PS+. The tracked players on DT jumped from around 8.5m to 11.9m and now you see countless level 1-20s everywhere, and I've seen a bunch of level 30s on Mars, and yet there were only 1.8m total players tracked yesterday. How long until those 1-20 folks just run out of neat things to look forward to? How many of those have splurged at Eververse, or will once Festival of the Lost drops? Will they still be around come Dawning?