Depreciation (Destiny)

by Ragashingo , Official DBO Cryptarch, Friday, June 26, 2015, 00:23 (3441 days ago) @ Avateur

The thing that you are perhaps not considering is that these items were originally going to be fairly exclusive thanks to them being part of a higher priced Collectors Edition. Even after splitting them off from that Collectors Edition, Bungie is keeping them priced high not because the price represents the amount of work that went into making three emotes, shaders, and class items, but because it represents a form of exclusivity via pricing. In that way the $20 price vs The Taken King's mere $40 can make at least a bit more sense.

For the most part, I think that was addressed here.

These threads here at DBO aren't unique to DBO (though they do appear more rational). We saw this blow up regarding content and price over Luke's interview and the collector's edition, and now there are threads blowing up over this new $20 price in relation to other price points. While you may be relatively correct regarding why it has the $20 price point (on top of how it fits in with the current pricing scheme mentioned in the other thread), it still appears completely outrageous to plenty of people (for the reasons I was pointing out when doing a price comparison).

I guess I kinda gotta shrug at those people at this point then. Bungie has issued an apology, decoupled the special items from rebuying previous content, and effectively dropped the price to buy TTK + these special items by $20. If people want to complain about something I'd suggest they ponder why a Digital only Collectors Edition is the same price as a physical version that comes with books and maps and whatever else.