Twenty Dollars. (Destiny)

by narcogen , Andover, Massachusetts, Tuesday, June 23, 2015, 02:06 (3681 days ago) @ Avateur

I refuse to believe that Taken King is somehow worth $40 alone, yet somehow the other two DLCs and the base game total to $20 in the overall $60 equation. Sorry dude.

This is, however, exactly the case. The value in the original game and the two DLCs is not necessarily inherent; it's the time you had to play them (and level up and get gear) that people who buy the whole package with the launch of TTK don't get, not to mention all the legacy gear that the game doesn't drop any more (old vanguard and faction weapons, etc).

What it seems people want is something probably nobody on the other side wants-- which is a version with all the physical swag, and the new expansion, but not the old stuff. The value of that, though, as you've just mentioned, is $20. So at most that's all you'd save, and retailers would have to stock two collector's edition with only a $20 difference between them.

Easier to just throw in the old stuff and call it a freebie, especially given that you need them to play TTK anyway.

This is also only going to keep happening. Or do you think Destiny 2 players will be unable to access all the patrol areas in Destiny 1? Do we think Destiny 2 will feature an entirely separate method of advancing characters from level 1 to level 20, without any of the story content from Destiny 1? Or do we think that all Destiny players will be broken down to level 1 again?