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

by Korny , Dalton, Ga. US. Earth, Sol System, Thursday, November 08, 2018, 21:38 (2283 days ago) @ cheapLEY

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.

It all sounds neat, but this highlights my one real gripe with Warframe. The structure of the game is just so disjointed.

Oddly enough, I personally see that as a strength. Fishing, mining, skating, hunting, photography, squad-based ship combat, underwater/space combat, Lacrosse, Base-building... None of these things in a game about being a horde-slaughtering space ninja have a unified system or consistent purpose, but they add variety, and aren't necessarily forced on the player. I mean, Sparrow Racing is so detached from the rest of Destiny, but look at how fun that was. And if you didn't have fun with it, you weren't suffering for not doing it.

You talk about being able to use the hoverboard in the old open world space like it's some extra, above-and-beyond step. And maybe it is, in terms of how that game is actually built, but I wouldn't expect anything less from a modern video game.

I mean, before today, there were zero ground vehicles in the game at all, and I feel like the old "the way our engine works, it wouldn't be possible to retroactively blah blah" excuse helps devs coast on avoiding extra work (I mean, before PoE, the game was exclusively a corridor shooter), but they are doing the equivalent of adding Escalation Protocol to the EDZ, in terms of new mechanics applying to old content (terrible example, But there's hardly anything new mechanic-wise in Destiny that wasn't there at launch, so nothing exclusive to newer stuff).

In any case, I'm looking forward to getting back to Warframe soon.

Like I've said before, take your time. The longer the better. But do please do it on PS4. Besides the existing Twitch rewards, they're doing Twitch drops for some hard-to-get stuff if you watch any Partnered/official stream in the next week... Claim them now ;)