^^^ This ^^^ (Destiny)

by CruelLEGACEY , Toronto, Wednesday, July 22, 2015, 17:48 (3511 days ago) @ Cody Miller

Do you think the people buying the cosmetic stuff would appreciate 'picking up the tab for me'? Everyone should just pay one price and get everything.

We did that when Destiny shipped... We're talking about getting more added on top of that. In this theoretical example, the people who pay some money (which funds the development of a new raid) are absolutely happy. They got the cosmetic item they paid for. If the cosmetic item didn't matter to them, they wouldn't buy it.

The interchangeability of content available through microtransactions though, will always ensure a less mature, and less valuable experience. The very fact that it's optional means it is not tightly integrated into the fabric of the game!

You're talking about the content being sold through micro transactions. I'm talking about the content that can be added because of funding through micro transactions. Did you read my OP? How are new maps, new characters, new weapons, new objectives, and updates to existing maps "not tightly integrated into the fabric of the game"?

Because it is added after the fact, instead of being built into the whole of the game since the beginning. Unless the content they deliver is equivalent to a huge expansion pack, it will suffer the same problems.

I think you're making an argument that might apply to some areas of some games, but can't be applied as a blanket statement. How do new maps in a multiplayer game suffer from some kind of disconnect? If you logged in to Destiny tomorrow and found a new class of personal transport for sale at the vendor, how is that failing to fit in with the rest of the game? And then a week later we noticed a new type of public event while out on patrol. Then a week after that it was snowing in Old Russia. Then a week after that... you get my point :)

The only answer I have is that some types of "content" have more of an effect on the experience than others.

Absolutely agree. I do think there is still room for bulk content packs, like what The Taken King is shaping up to be. I just think there is a need, in a game like Destiny, for a more frequent level of change. Think back to the week before HoW shipped. Patrol mode was exciting for a few days there, as we all played the new Wolf events. But a week later, they're old news and we're right back where we were before the DLC launched: waiting for something new again.