Twenty Dollars. (Destiny)

by Avateur , Tuesday, June 23, 2015, 02:26 (3681 days ago) @ narcogen
edited by Avateur, Tuesday, June 23, 2015, 02:43

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?

Thanks for the well thought out reply. I prefer response like these to the obvious ones of "don't buy it then" like I hadn't already figured that out. It's like discussing things on principle or value is not allowed or something. Well, unless of course it involves swag. Then everyone goes crazy.

I suppose my overall issue is with the price of Taken King itself. I'm not convinced that Dark Below or House of Wolves were worth $20 each (or $35 in the bundle). I get that we're potentially talking hours played, but I wouldn't be surprised if Activision was primarily looking at pricing based on amount of content. I'm not really expecting it to be worth 2/3 the price of the original version of Destiny, you know? Essentially, Destiny 2 will launch, I assume that will be $60, yet somehow this thing is worth 2/3 of that brand new price for a game that may offer an insane amount of content (assuming it kicks last gen away). I feel like this is similar to ODST, which also had a ridiculously inflated price at launch, was justified by fans (along with the "don't buy it then" crowd), but the fact of the matter is, it wasn't worth the actual price in relation to, say, Halo 3 itself.

But we've been there and done that, right? What I like about your post here is you got me thinking with regards to Destiny 2. You bring up a really good point there, and you're probably spot on. My only real argument is that there's the potential for a situation that one saw in Mass Effect. You may be able to transfer your character and things over, but who knows if the level system will stay the same (so as to allow new characters to experience all of the new stuff and places. For all we know, these old locations from Destiny 1 will be gone. Maybe all of a sudden we're hanging out in Old Chicago primarily for whatever reason, or the dark side of the Moon, to name a few random examples).

But you are probably right as far as how this is going to keep happening. Their DLC and overall pricing structure appears to be set, even if I don't think the cost is right or necessarily fair. I think Activision knows that, and I think they know that new people are going to buy it anyway, and current people who enjoy Destiny will suck it up and deal with the $40 price point regardless since they enjoy the game. But yo, thanks for discussing without obvious ultimatums.