>Implying exclusivity was unfair... (Destiny)

by Ragashingo , Official DBO Cryptarch, Thursday, May 07, 2015, 14:50 (3733 days ago) @ Revenant1988

Responding point by point will just have me making the same argument five or six times in a row, I tried it, it wasn't pretty, so let me just respond in one go:

You are equating complete platform exclusivity, Halo being Xbox only, The Last of Us being Playstation only, with something like Destiny that is multiplatform, that asks players to pay the same amount regardless of platform, but holds back some content for one platform for "at least" so long. These two things are not the same. Microsoft did not take Playstation users money and give them only a part of Halo 4. Sony (Naughty Dog?) did not take my money and only give me a part of The Last of Us.

By contrast, Bungie and Activision offered Destiny across four platforms... but if I bought it on the Xbox platform I both got and am, as of The House of Wolves, still getting less content no matter what I paid vs those on the Playstation platforms. And, as of right now, I don't know for sure when that timed exclusivity will end or really if it will ever end!

You're running around in circles trying to make me look foolish, but my argument is consistent.

If I pay the same amount for a game as someone else I want to get the same amount of content.

If a game isn't available on my platform, at any price, then so be it. I'd love to play The Last of Us, for instance, but have not played one single second of it and probably never will because it is highly unlikely to come out for my 360 or my future Xbone. I'm ok with that and being ok with that has little or nothing to do with me hating the timed exclusives that are currently marring Destiny.

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.

Even Destiny's preorder meant something, to me at least. I got a cool physical representation of my in game Ghost. I like taking it places and taking fun pictures with it like the one below that I took when LizardSquad had knocked Xbox Live off the internet. Was it worth the extra $60 I paid for it? Nah.... except maybe... because it makes me smile to have it. I am generally against preorders. Better to wait and get the same thing for cheaper. But, if someone offers something unique I am also willing to reward them with a preorder and a larger purchase because I like encouraging cool things.

("Give me a minute...")