>Implying exclusivity was unfair... (Destiny)

by MacAddictXIV , Seattle WA, Thursday, May 07, 2015, 15:15 (3733 days ago) @ CruelLEGACEY

I think Korny is just taking more of a "realist's" approach... I tend to see it the same way.

Yes, I'm sure we can all agree that console exclusive content sucks, and ultimately serves everyone but the player/consumer. No argument there.

I'm glad we at least both agree on this.

But I (and Korny, I believe) choose to look at it this way:

* These deals are going to happen.

* We, the consumers, were told about console exclusive content before these consoles had even been released. We all had the same opportunity to make our purchasing decisions based on the info at hand.

* Knowledge of Destiny's playstation-exclusive content gets thrown on the pile of pluses and minuses that we all tally up in our heads when we're deciding which new console to purchase.

At no point would I ever say that having console exclusive content doesn't suck, but again... we all had plenty of time to make our decisions based on all factors. Is it fair? No. But at some point, every single Xbox One owner decided that the Destiny exclusive content wasn't important enough to them to sway them to the other console. That's a decision all of us early adopters consciously made. So I have a tough time getting too worked up about it.

So I think I speak for some of us when I say that that there was indeed a "decision" but that the factors were so skewed in the direction of XBox that is wasn't even really a decision. The prevalent story I've heard is that people couldn't afford to buy a playstation. So when a person is faced with this "decision" what it feels like is there is content that we don't get to play because we didn't have a choice.

I personally could have got a Playstation, but I have never owned any generation of playstation and I don't plan to. I don't like their controllers, I like Xbox controllers. I could have bought a playstation and suffered through it to play the content, but that would have made Destiny less enjoyable. Was it a decision for me? No. Not in the least bit.

But I get penalized for playing a game I like on a console I enjoy playing on.

And on the flip side: Consider all the Bungie fans who bought Playstation 4s specifically for Destiny, who don't even have some of the exclusive content yet. Most players don't have Hawkmoon or Monty Carlo,

At least they have the chance to get the weapons now. That doesn't suck, that's called playing Destiny.

and the Dying Mind strike hardly ever gets played to completion in matchmaking. That ALSO sucks.

So does the fact that people get disconnected from PvP, but what does that have to do with content? This has to do with devotion to completing the strike.

I understand that people on Xbox will eventually get the content. But that doesn't account for the other piece of content that playstation users received: to play the alpha a full week before anyone on Xbox side.

And this is something that really bothered me when it happened. To have to listen to people who got to play the game that I had been waiting to play, get to play it a week in advance? That is not something that can be given to later on.