Thoughts on RNG going forward (Destiny)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Thursday, July 09, 2015, 17:43 (3662 days ago) @ Xenos
edited by Cody Miller, Thursday, July 09, 2015, 17:56

Just thinking about it more, I think I'd be shocked if they took away guaranteed ways to get items and replaced it with even generous RNG. A huge complaint since day one has been how prevalent RNG is in Destiny, and with how good they have been at paying attention to community complaints I think it would seem a huge step backwards to everyone if they got rid of vendors completely. I'm still expecting there to BE RNG in the game, but I think they are going to try and bring it in line with how they mentioned they expected RNG to feel when the game was released: as a bonus. If they leave RNG the way it is, but add dedicated ways to get weapons and gear in The Taken King I think that would make a lot of us in the community very happy.

No RNG would just in general be better for the game. It would make balance issues much easier, since you know what players would have access to in a much more certain way.

But understand that people in online games are stupid. People like Datto say 'exotics should be rare'. If he was the only person in the world playing Destiny, and couldn't get a gun because it hasn't dropped, I'm sure he'd change his tune. The real reason is because he knows he plays more than other people, and he wants to have stuff other people don't have. He directly talks about the feeling of having something rare. That means it's motivated by status. If you make it so that you can get stuff both from RNG, and from a quest line, while that would be better for the game, I guarantee you people like him would complain since they'd have nothing to be proud about.

I can just imagine it:

"I did this epic quest line that was really hard, and this joker scrub just got it in a crucible drop!"

You have to consider this in an online game. The solution is to remove RNG entirely, and make ALL gear obtainable through specific actions. There might not be any prestige left, but that's something we can do without anyway. I'd rather everybody focus on just playing the game and not showing off.