Broken?? Try World of Tanks (Destiny)

by Durandal, Wednesday, October 29, 2014, 08:29 (3916 days ago) @ car15

Your criteria for "broken" don't make sense to me. If you want a game designed to force you to play more of the same thing and pay money for it you obviously need to look at World of Tanks.
Now there was a broken game, and I speak from experience as I had unlocked most of the Russian, German and US trees before I quit.

The game had a few maps, and three game types. Each player had a tank, and could upgrade and equip parts of it. Each upgrade needed 4-5 hours of grinding in game to earn, plus in game currency to buy. After about mid level the upgrades cost more then what you earned unlocking them, forcing longer play time or using real money to buy in game currency. All tanks had real money purchasable shells, that were a consumable, that gave them the firepower 3-4 levels above where they topped out. These shells were basically mandatory in any clan match. Upon death with end game tanks you needed to spend massive amounts of in game currency to repair them in order to use them again.

After about a year, they changed the clan matches so if your tank was destroyed you could not use it till the next day. Often a single clan match would cause the loss of 50% of the tanks on your team in a win, and 100% in a loss. So for multiple matches you needed multiple end tier tanks, each of which required several months of solid grinding or 100$ USD to unlock.

Now with all the above, the Devs constantly fiddled with the internal balance,and some tanks were hung out to dry while others were shifted, removed, repurposed or replaced. Players were sometimes compensated, and other times not. These changes would make a tank go from OP to worthless in a single patch.

In contrast Destiny lets me level a faction to maximum in about three weeks of causal play.

All Destiny needs is a better story in game and some non raid 6 player heavy vehicle game types.