Destiny's sales are weak; more Microtransactions on the way. (Destiny)

by Korny , Dalton, Ga. US. Earth, Sol System, Thursday, November 08, 2018, 20:38 (2276 days ago) @ cheapLEY
edited by Korny, Thursday, November 08, 2018, 20:44

If they ramp up the production pipeline and support Destiny as well as DE supports Warframe, this would be the best thing that could happen for Destiny.

Honestly, I'd simply love if we could see a single instance of ambition from Bungie's end, one of the curveballs that I've long touted. Everything is safe, and when they approach an instance of inspired content, it's timed, and always goes away for a year, before coming back barely better than before.

And when I say ambition, let's look at a single aspect of today's content drop for Warframe, Fortuna. In it, one of the things that they added were hoverboards. Neat enough, they're a new thing that had no equivalent as far as a ground vehicles go.

But also, the hoverboards can do all sorts of tricks, with more on the way. Neat enough, it adds flavor.

But also, there's also a new faction that is dedicated to hoverboarding as a sport to subvert the oppressive rule on the planet, and which has all sorts of challenges and unique rewards to help you upgrade, tweak, and customize your own board, complete with decals and such, so the more you use the board, and the better you get at doing tricks, you are constantly earning rep and rewards. Neat!

But also, they also made it so that their previous open-world expansion, Plains of Eidolon, fully supports the Hoverboard, and will be implementing several of the new improvements found in Fortuna.

But also, they've said that they're planning to let you make your own courses in your clan dojo, so you can recreate your favorite Skate 3 map segment with clan leaderboards.

And the Hoverboards aren't even a major focus of this expansion. They're just one single addition. But even there is ambition in what they've given us, and what they plan for it moving forward.

Bungie did add something unique in Destiny: A murder mystery! And, well...

I just want to see a spark of the Bungie that gave us Theater, and Forge, and File Share, and Firefight, and Forge World, and the tools to make Grifball, and Trees of Life.
And barring that, if they don't want to be ambitious and take risks, at least they could flesh out their existing ideas, because thing like Spider's Wanted bounties have so much potential, and they're just... Boring.