So I guess I won't be joining DBO *Beta thoughts* (Destiny)

by kapowaz, Friday, July 25, 2014, 09:13 (3569 days ago) @ Cody Miller

The atmosphere is also ruined by fuck-twats that bounce around the tower and run circle around you or sprint to every place. So immersion breaking!

Looks like there's no way around it then. I will sprint from place to place because I want the busy work out of the way as quickly as possible. I'm sorry but I'm not wasting my time by slow walking.

I think what needs to be done is allow all shopping and bounty selection to be done from a menu in orbit, but still have the tower available to travel to if you really want.

It's one of those things where the idea is nice, but in practice just gets in the way.

In MMOs, cities are a place for everyone to convene, regardless of why. They're a place to socialise, to trade, to plan your next activity and a place to show off your hard-earned trinkets. Unfortunately Bungie has made a couple of mistakes here:

1. You can't be social in the tower; you may not even see your friends unless they're in the same fire team, but there's no way of chatting idly, so it's a lifeless place. The reason people dance is because it's one of the very few ways you can express yourself (unless waving counts).
2. You can't organise your next activity from The Tower, you have to go orbit to do this, and so I imagine a lot of people spend their downtime in a part of the game that has literally zero social interaction.
3. There is no trade (although that could be a good thing, it's hard to say what impact it might have if trade between players were possible).

The more I think about it, the more convinced I am that Bungie completely messed up by including Orbit as a staging area for gameplay. It should have all been from The Tower. I suspect the reason is they spent ages building art assets for the ships (including timed exclusives and presumably real-money purchased vanity ships later on) and weren't willing to cut it.