A big difference between PlayStation and Xbox... (Destiny)

by CruelLEGACEY , Toronto, Sunday, October 28, 2018, 12:09 (2294 days ago) @ vtf73

I’ve been reading this thread, and thinking about how it relates back to my own experiences with Foresaken. I play exclusively on Xbox these days (I played D1 primarily on the PS4, and started D2 there. Switched to Xbox right around CoO).

About 90% of my Destiny playtime is spent solo. I play A LOT lately, and I stay very much on top of the latest discoveries via Reddit and YouTube. So I’ve had a pretty good “leveling up” routine going over the past 6-7 weeks. Much of this I could also do on the PS4, save for 1 big difference; the Xbox LFG app. While I spend most of my time playing solo, I do make frequent use of the LFG app, and the specific activities that LFG has allowed me to do have been a big part of my Forsaken experience. Most of my Nightfalls, including plenty of high score runs and several “lets grind for X weapon” sessions (got my Warden’s Law and Masterworked Mindbender’s Ambition that way). My first complete run through the Shatered Throne dungeon, and parts of the Wish-Ender quest. The 6-man strike to get my Malfeasance. Several Ascendant Challenges before I was able to comfortably solo them all. Some Blind Well runs back when everyone was underlevelled to the point where you NEEDED 9 players to beat tier 2.

When I add all of this up, it’s a substantial portion of the road that lead to getting my characters up to 600 faster than I thought possible. And I’ve had a lot of fun with all of these experiences.

Now, there are plenty of LFG options out there. But the thing I like about the Xbox version is that it will run in the background while I’m playing. I don’t need to be checking/interacting with a separate device and a separate UI. I search for the activity that I want to do, reply to a bunch of posts, and then go back to playing while I wait for an invitation to come through. Sometimes the invite comes instantly, sometimes it doesn’t come at all, but either way I’m not sitting staring at a website. I’m playing the game, doing other activities.

Of everything that Sony and Microsoft boast about in the “console wars”, the LFG app integration on Xbox is, for me, by far the biggest difference between the 2 platforms, and a huge feather in Microsoft’s cap. I would be very hard pressed to switch back to Destiny on PlayStation now.

Sony... get on that LFG integration!