A step even further (Destiny)

by Claude Errera , Monday, March 09, 2015, 21:29 (3784 days ago) @ Cody Miller

Add in a non-random way to acquire any of the weapons and armor, and I've just improved upon one of Destiny's biggest failings. I don't give two shits if people don't play for 3 hours per day anymore because they don't have to grind. That's the entire point.

Give a man a free lunch and he'll figure out a way
To steal more than he can eat 'cause he doesn't have to pay

(Lyrics belong to the Rainmakers, but the basic idea is much older - whether it's true for you or not, it's true for the majority of us. Give us weapons and armor that don't need work to be their best, and we won't value them. You call it grinding, I call it pride through investment.)

I ENJOY watching a weapon improve from the time I get it to the time it's encircled by a yellow border. I don't consider the process a grind - I consider it a labor of love. Or at least like. (It's a digital representation of an object, not a real object, after all.)