Quests / Missions (Destiny)

by Ragashingo , Official DBO Cryptarch, Sunday, March 23, 2014, 14:36 (3897 days ago) @ Claude Errera

I'm totally with you on this - I'd love to see stuff that can be missed if you're not paying attention (because then NOT missing it is worth more).

The biggest problem I see (and I have no clue how Bungie - or any other company, for that matter - is actually handling it) is that there's a conflict between wanting to give the player cool options like this and being able to justify to whoever's paying for development the work involved in putting in content that might not be seen by a significant fraction of the playerbase. (I know where YOU come down on that conflict, Cody - but it ain't your money, at least not during the development phase. ;) )

But that seems like an outdated assumption, or at least one that is being rapidly outdated. 20 something years ago I had to have my dad call the Sega of America's pay per minute hotline to get the cheat codes to Sonic the Hedgehog 2. (Which I memorized so well back then that I still know two of the three important ones!)

Ten years ago cheat codes were trivial to find on the internet and even the most complex, hard to reproduce easter eggs (like the Halo 2 IWBYD skull) were being shared by the people who had capture cards or were willing to point a camera at a TV screen. Now, with everybody's computers and video game consoles recording video of their actions all the time, the expenses of making a how to video have also vanished and with any vaguely interesting thing spreading over Twitter and Youtube how does the calculus of a feature not being seen even compute anymore?