No I'm not. (Destiny)

by narcogen , Andover, Massachusetts, Thursday, September 03, 2015, 09:28 (3467 days ago) @ Cody Miller

Good grief. It's like you want a game all for yourself. You want a gate that offers nothing to anyone but yourself or like-minded individuals, and that only admits you and like-minded individuals, and you want most of the game to be behind that gate.

You're actually making a bad assumption. That final gate could be at say, level 20 in the original game. Explain how creating the final gate there would create the situation you describe. Remember when Bungie said the game would start at level 20? What I proposed would have 1-20 be where you build your guardian, and then beyond where you use that guardian to tackle the rest of the game. Hardly exclusionary.

I'm not making a bad assumption, I am parsing your sentences.

You wrote:

The highest tier gate though, should offer you nothing, and once you reach that tier, you should not have to worry about progression at all; just your skill and the skill of your fireteam.

In other words, the final gate offers nothing except operating as a test of skill, gated purely by skill. Currently Bungie employs a number of gates, but a lot of them, typical of MMO type designs, are gated by perserverence, participation, random drops, etc, as well as skill.

The current raids, for instance, do NOT function as above. In order to do so, they would have no drops.

Further, the highest tier gate should not progress you at all; you should already be the max upon entering. In short, it should be completely about the experience and offer no gear at all, as well as have the most content.

Again, the raids do not this this description. Although they (mostly) do not give XP and glimmer they do offer gear (raid gear) or drops that are redeemable for gear (armor cores). So what you are proposing is either a removal of drops from the raids and prison, or else the creation of a new area of content for which the raids operate as gates. Furthermore, you want this to be the most content-rich portion of the game!

I completely stand by my interpretation of your statements: You want the game to have a new gate. You want it to offer no rewards except for those who think as you do (that a test of skill is the important part of the experience, and at the endgame, this is to the exclusion of all else-- no advancement or drops). You want this to be the most content-rich portion of the game, which means you want MORE of the content to be locked behind a gate that emphasizes skill more than any other portion of the game, and offers no rewards except the knowledge of a challenge beaten.

F that in the ear, seriously.