This DLC policy is absurd and violates business ethics. (Destiny)

by Slothboy, Friday, December 12, 2014, 11:24 (3871 days ago) @ Jironimo

I've played many games... Many MANY games, where the existence of an expansion does not detract from the pre-existing experience in the core game. Even as far back as Starcraft you could play on battlenet with or without the expansions to the game. The system was smart enough way back then to simply allow you to pick your games based on the content you had. No Broodwar? Ok. you just play with other people that don't have it, or even people who DO have it but choose to play the vanilla version on MP.

But destiny is an MMO you say? I'd argue that Destiny is really no more an MMO than Dark Souls. Dark Souls has DLC that is NOT required to continue to play the exact same game you bought. I had a patch that made the DLC content visible to me and I could play with or against others that had that new gear but I just could't get it myself. The new areas were there but I couldn't go in without the DLC. What Destiny has done would be similar to if Dark Souls just decided that every so often you wouldn't be able to summon or invade other players for a week unless you had the DLC. That's just stupid. When an expansion negatively impacts the available content to previous game owners then it isn't really an expansion, it's a required upgrade.

I'm not particularly enraged that I can't play the weekly stuff right now. I intend to eventually pick up the DLC. But it really is crappy to pull back access based on ownership of "optional" content. They've added enough other new stuff via Eris bounties and new gear and other experiences that somewhat make up for it in my opinion, but I really have to wonder about the core company attitude at Bungie these days. This seems more like the kind of dick move you'd expect from a company like EA. But when most of the core personalities and key players of a company have been fired or quit, then you I guess you can't be too surprised when the company changes who they are and what is important to them.