Want vs Need (Destiny)

by marmot 1333 , Thursday, July 31, 2014, 11:02 (3768 days ago) @ kapowaz

But going back to this concept of want vs need, I find that a spurious argument, given that we're talking about an entertainment medium. Ultimately everything is a ‘want’ from that perspective, to some degree.

Fair enough. I was thinking of 'needs' as some of the top bullet points I made: what type of game is it? What system do I need to have to play it?

I was thinking of 'wants' as anything kind of beyond that: Story stuff, enemy stuff, MP stuff, progression information stuff.

I most definitely support your exposition, extrapolation, and inquisitiveness.

When it comes to information releases, Bungie has had long-scale game plan in mind, even since the game got leaked early. I'm sure there was a spreadsheet or a whiteboard somewhere with weeks-till-launch and what information got released when. They have definitely been drip-feeding us information for a long time now, slowly, slowly, but surely.

For me the Beta was incredibly exciting: this game that I had read about, thought about, for over a year: I was finally playing it, with my own two paws!