Twenty Dollars. (Destiny)

by Avateur , Tuesday, June 23, 2015, 03:50 (3681 days ago) @ Xenos

I was not trying to be rude, it just seems like you still plan on buying it even after seeing the pricing structure for the previous year of Destiny. If you really don't think what you already played isn't worth the price you already paid, I'm not really sure what the issue is, pass on the rest of the content. It seems that from plenty of places (not just here, but Reddit, or Bungie.net) that the vast majority of people think that the price of Destiny and the original season pass was worth it. $40 is expensive for an expansion, but even if it was only twice the content of TDB or HoW it would fit into the already established pricing scheme, and from the original slide about the expansion they have planned it looks like the amount of content is going to be closer to 3-4x the amount of content in either of the other expansions, so where is the discrepancy in pricing?

Many surely felt that the pricing structure was worth it. I'm not talking about the personal worth part of this. I'm talking about the Bungie/Activision pricing point of this. From the word go here at DBO and places like Reddit, Bungie.net, IGN, etc., there have been plenty of debates about how people feel like they bought a game that wasn't complete, or not what it was marketed to be. Even as the DLC came out, people were wondering why they felt like a lot of it should have been in at launch, or like it wasn't enough. That's the subjectivity, sure.

The $20 price point was set by Activision outright before the game even came out. Who knew what type of content or how much would be included. Unfortunately, people will pre-order and buy and give their money away with no guarantees in this day and age. And the corporations continue to do this stuff because the consumers are all too willing to just hand away their money. It sucks on both ends.

So, while the pricing scheme itself has already been established, I'm questioning whether the scheme was proper to begin with. I'm also questioning whether the new $40 price point for the next expansion makes sense in relation to both the base game, or the expected $60 future price point of Destiny 2 (especially in the event that Destiny 2 blows away content expectations in relation to everything that came before by virtue of dropping last-gen consoles). This is all speculative, but based on the actual video game market pricing system, I don't think there's any reason to suspect that Destiny 2 won't be $60. I can't help but feel like they should be pricing Taken King below $40 at this point considering what's already come out and what will come in the future. Too much disparity, I think.