State of the Eververse (Destiny)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Thursday, October 17, 2019, 13:08 (1652 days ago) @ Claude Errera
edited by Cody Miller, Thursday, October 17, 2019, 13:12

If they stopped selling Eververse stuff for Bright Dust altogether, would that make the system less or more scummy?

Yes. That would be a huge improvement, both in terms of impact on the game design, and sense of fairness towards players.

I sort of feel like the people arguing that the current system is predatory DO feel like the system would be fairer if the Bright Dust economy simply vanished... which seems insane to me, since it's basically just free stuff.

It's not free. The bright dust economy is based on making you grind for it. The design of the game is changed around this. If bright dust were easy to earn, nobody would pay for items with money. You pay for it by having a game that wastes more of your time, which you can't avoid by just ignoring the microtransactions.

If it's free stuff you want… you could just as easily argue that it would be trivial to simply include these items in the game in the first place with no store… You pay 60 bucks and you get everything. Like how it used to be.

The fact that you are seeing bright dust items as 'free' means the system is working as intended.