>Implying exclusivity was unfair... (Destiny)

by Revenant1988 , How do I forum?, Thursday, May 07, 2015, 11:49 (3733 days ago) @ Ragashingo

Ultimately it's all subjective, but I don't think that the exclusive content has been unfair. Unfair would have been hitting you with no warning upon release. Announcing the existence of Exclusive content over a year before release to give players time to pick and choose consoles was extremely fair. HAVING exclusive content is not about fairness, it's about business, and anything beyond that is the responsibility of the player.

Take, for example, Rise of the Tomb Raider. It has timed exclusivity for the Xbox. This was announced well before the game released, so while I am bummed that I won't get to enjoy it until it comes out on PS4, I accept that that's just the way business is run over at Squeenix, and so can choose to:

• Buy it for Xbone (yeah, no).
  
• Wait until it releases on PS4 (after reviews have been around a while, at a possibly lower price, and maybe with DLC).
  
• Simply not buy the game, or buy it used to prevent Squeenix getting my money if I don't approve of their practices.

All fair options.

Destiny was much the same way, except Bungie told us of exclusive content before the current consoles even came out, so there's that...

...and telling someone that you've made a deal to screw them ahead of time makes it right?

How, exactly, is it screwing them? Please be as specific as possible.

Unfair is you paying whatever you paid for your copy of Destiny and getting exclusives with >every new content release and me playing the same amount or more (since I bought the Ghost >Edition) and getting less content.

While it is frustrating, and I do sympathize, it's not unfair, in the slightest. As has been pointed out, consumers had plenty of notice to make a choice on which console they wanted to play the game on. Everything was laid out up front, and it was declared VERY early on that the Playstation offered the "definitive" Destiny experience.

Unfair would have been NOT disclosing the timed exclusives, and then finding out about it after the game had launched and you had purchased.Nothing was withheld from you without your knowledge.

You can say that you don't like it (I don't, and I have a PS4) but you can't argue it's unfair.

The better solution to tell Activision and Bungie that you don't like how they are doing exclusive content, would have been to not buy it, period. Instead, you sent the OPPOSITE message because you bought the Ghost Edition.

But you don't see people mad that you have the Ghost and they don't do you?
Or what about me, for having the white PS4? Shouldn't I be mad that I didn't get a Ghost edition with my console?

No.

You attitude to it, that you'll speak up a year later if you don't get even more value added >to your exclusives, is kinda disgusting. Pick a side. Either be against timed exclusives or be for them.

I don't....wat?

I don't mind actual exclusives. I'm fine with Halo being an Xbox exclusive. I'm fine with Mario being a Nintendo exclusive.

So he has to choose a side, but you don't?
This is where you stop making sense to me.

You're mad about timed exclusives (which are temporary, so that should actually EASE the pain) but not about true exclusives? Timed exclusives seem like the lesser of two evils to me. Everyone gets the same content. One group has to wait, based on their console choice, that they had almost a year to decide upon in advanced.

When the content is superfluous in that it doesn't affect the campaign or multiplayer of the game, who cares?

Tomb Raider being on the Xbox first is even ok as long as the PlayStation people get the same content when it is released for them.

THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT DESTINY IS. So why is it OK for the whole game of Tomb Raider to be a timed exclusive, but not for a handful of missions in Destiny?

You cannot have your cake and eat it too.

Either all of it is acceptable, or none of it is.

But preorder bonuses and retailer exclusives and platform exclusive content needs to die in a fire.

Again, there you go again. Sometimes it's Ok and sometimes it isn't?

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I used to like pre-orders, when they actually meant something. When the product you were getting had more than a 'chance' of being good, when you trusted the developer, and it was pretty much in the bag. That was many years ago, when pre-orders gave you something tangible, to hold, to own. A statue, or steelbook, or behind the scenes concept art stuff.

Not digital content. Not something that is only valuable as long as the server is online.

So in that sense, I could agree with you.

But I'm not a completionist anymore.

South Park said it best: "You know what you get when you pre-order? A big dick in your mouth."