"It's their game" is a viewpoint I completely stand against. (Destiny)

by kidtsunami , Atlanta, GA, Wednesday, October 22, 2014, 05:53 (3923 days ago) @ Cody Miller

I agree that I stand against arguing that 'it's their game' for an even simpler reason, which is that this forum exists for us to talk about the game, which includes what we like and don't like. Who the game BELONGS to is irrelevant, it doesn't invalidate anyone's opinion. Just like the George Lucas example, Bungie clearly has the prerogative to make any changes they want, but we're also entitled to dislike those changes.

I think it's different because you actively engage with a game more than other media. The original trilogy is still out there in the form of fine grain separation masters (which rumor has it Disney is going to make available). The original Destiny is not still out there. You can't just not update and play the old one. If you liked sword flying in Halo 2 (if you were a speedrunner for example), you could simply not apply the patch and continue on.

Because a game is something you interact with, the utility is now different. It'd be like Stanley taking away people's hammers and giving them new ones because they don't like what you are doing with them.

It's not, because those hammers are physical objects and we're talking about a digital product sold as a constantly evolving world. I guess the way we can fix your analogy is if Stanley said ahead of time they would replace everyone's hammers as they continue to iterate on their hammer design and then they would take away hammers and replace them as they promised, and people started freaking out and getting angry in spite of Stanley's original intentions.