I get what he's saying (Destiny)

by General Vagueness , The Vault of Sass, Tuesday, June 23, 2015, 01:17 (3444 days ago) @ yakaman

And on top of that, Bungie is tossing in the original game and first two expansions for FREE!
There, now you aren't paying for something you already have.

Except that most hardcore players already have that stuff. Further, many here forked out good money already for Collector's editions or whatever.

They already have stuff given away for free? Well good thing it's free and they can just throw it in the trash.

My point here is that you can't give value to any that was purchased previously. Because their precedent is to make previous DLC free to anyone (i.e. Dark Below became free with release of HoW), then we can assume those would be free anyway. One can't make the claim 'but they're getting the full game too'.

They didn't give everyone The Dark Below. I didn't buy any DLC and I'm still locked out of all of the content except Eris's bounties, the public things like the Eyes of Crota, and the multiplayer maps. The only thing they made free recently was the multiplayer maps.

This doesn't pass the smell test. It's business, and if they can get people to pay again, that's fine. But it's sketchy.

Out of curiosity, what would you be willing to pay for that list of collectors edition things? Less than $40 I take it, so maybe $30? $20? Here is that list again to remind you

• Collector's Edition SteelBook™ Case
  
• Modified Treasure Island Book with intro Letter from Cayde-6
  
• Cayde-6's Personal Notes and Illustrations
  
• Collection of Relics and Artifacts
  
• Strange Coin Replica
  
• Three Class Specific Emotes
  
• Three Armor Shaders
  
• Three Exotic Class Items with XP Bonuses

So here we are. The only thing above I care about...and I mean the only thing, are the dance emotes. The only way to get them is to pay $40. Even better (worse?) I only roll 1 character, so it's $40 for 1 dance emote. Now you say, if it's not worth it to you, don't buy it! Which is fine, but I am of the opinion that the dance emotes are what will matter to most people - which is specifically why they were placed behind the $40 paywall. And now we slide into sketchy territory. So, to be clear: to me, specifically, it stinks.

EDIT: missed this the first go-round. I'd like to pay $5 for the dance emote.

Is there an issue here? I don't know; it will largely depend on how each person feels about the game.

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Holy shit, did I just spend 10 minutes of my life writing a post about dance emotes?

You should see the chat I'm in, I've been arguing for like 40 minutes how Bungie and Activision are not greedy assholes who are doing something clearly wrong by not offering a version with swag and without the other expansions and the base game.