Opinions (Destiny)

by MacAddictXIV , Seattle WA, Monday, October 08, 2018, 10:28 (2308 days ago) @ Korny
edited by MacAddictXIV, Monday, October 08, 2018, 10:33

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?

That all makes sense, however a whisper quest isn't going to fix that. If you compare the amount of content and time spent doing it in the DLC's vs the whisper type quests + seasonal events there is a very large gap. Adding a couple more whisper type quests is not going to keep a player base going until D3. I say D3 because apparently these people don't want to buy DLC's. It would be awesome if Bungie gave D2 players cool whisper type quests, but they have to think of the people who are actually giving them money first.