BWU (Destiny)

by General Vagueness , The Vault of Sass, Friday, December 05, 2014, 16:46 (3881 days ago) @ Ragashingo

Let's see, this doesn't address the issue of whether or not you need a commendation for every legendary weapon or piece of armor you buy, and if so, what they were smoking when they decided on that, and there's nothing about bringing the reforging mechanic to a wider audience (did the Game Informer thing talk about those?), but it confirms people who don't have the DLC can buy high-level gear from Eris, and it says the Iron Banner will be back really soon, so it's the good with the questionable.

i'm guessing that people were getting marks too quick and were dismantling weapons for energy. this slows that down considerably, which makes you have to grind more, which means you will have to play more, which means Activision is happy more.

As usual, I fail to see how that works. Destiny doesn't have a subscription fee. It doesn't display ads on old signs scattered about Humanity's lost cities. It doesn't have micro-transactions that players are encouraged to buy to speed up getting better weapons or armor. The only way Bungie and Activision make more money is if we the players are happy enough to buy DLC or future games. Until then, each player is an active drain of resources (the servers don't power and oversee themselves!) and each unhappy player put off by the grind is both a lost future sale and a chance for word of mouth to decrease other future sales.

So why do you think they have grind and have been increasing the amount of grind? I mean, I know you have fun just playing the game, I do too, but they could make stuff unlock faster without it being an issue, but they chose to make most things take a long time, and they've made a lot of changes that make things take even longer to unlock, so they have some form of grind in mind.