Thank you for being reasonable. (Destiny)

by Blue_Blazer_NZ, Wellington, New Zealand, Monday, July 07, 2014, 15:48 (3575 days ago) @ Ragashingo

Timed-exclusive content has existed for a while now, while the price of games on each platform have remained about the same. Caveat emptor. If this content weren't effective in influencing buying decisions, it wouldn't exist. Bungie is the business of making games. Those games have to sell for them to continue to do this. This is one way games are sold. Wail on Bungie all you want, but this is the business they're in.

But the game would sell either way, wouldn't it? Is anybody actually buying Destiny because of a red stripped scooter? Certainly nobody bought a PS4 for the Alpha, because they didn't know to do so. I love the neat collector's content coming with Destiny. It looks awesome. To me, that's a worthy thing for developers to make to try to attract sales. Someone pays more, they get more. That's cool. What I don't like is paying the same and getting less.

Yeah, it's just a video game. Sure, it might just be an ugly pain scheme (I've had that happen to me before... ugly DLC content that I kinda wished I DIDN'T get) but being left out does matter to people. I don't think that should just be dismissed.

Agree here too - I'm all for limited editions etc, but missing out on content simply because you happened to invested into the "wrong" platform several months ago is pretty frustrating. I'm on the PS4, yet I feel pretty crappy that my Xbox brethren won't be able to experience the same content as me for a certain amount of time. It makes it awkward and lame if I jump on community forums to discuss war stories that some players simply cannot relate to yet because the logo on the box next to their TV is different to mine.

What else bugs me is that we know next to nothing about the nature of the content in question, which could be shoulder pads, insignias, or guns that are no better than any gun included in every version sold and yet so many are screaming like somebody took their blankie. They don't even know what the blankie looks like.

But isn't that a problem in itself? We're being asked to decide where to spend money without even being given details on what we are or aren't buying. Just simple things like how long the timed exclusives last is still in question.

As I said; I'm a PS4 guy, but I have to agree with you on this. It sucks that the Xbox guys are not only missing out on some exclusive gear, but they are left not know what it is or even exactly how long the exclusivity lasts. Hell, even as a PS4 guy, I don't even know what the DLC bonus gear is. Some up-front info would be useful when we're deciding to invest into this franchise on a specific platform.