Wiping away the past (Destiny)

by General Vagueness , The Vault of Sass, Thursday, September 10, 2015, 21:53 (3459 days ago) @ Ragashingo

Why is this so hard to understand?

Just because you don't have access to Destiny 1.0 doesn't mean nobody does. It probably, almost certainly, exists within Bungie's walls. Kinda like original versions of Star Wars are only immediately watchable by a select few.

Did you miss the part where he said it's bad precisely because it's in the same situation as Star Wars?

And we aren't likely to forget where we came from in terms of Destiny since collectively we have terabytes upon terabytes of videos, play throughs, time lapses, podcasts, previews, reviews, postmortems, forum posts, and Wikipedia edits.

That's not the point.

Sure it would be a neat novelty if some game museum had playable versions of Destiny 1.0, 1.1, 1.2...etc available to the public.

It shouldn't have to be a novelty or a museum piece, it's only been a year.

Maybe that will even happen one day. But that Destiny has changed, evolved, and by and large improved is a much greater strength than it is any kind of weakness.

That, again, is not the point.

Like Leviathan said, your ideas and philosophy are interesting and perhaps even correct in the abstract, but are impractical for even such solid things like historical stone statues, much less gaming software that was made to be and meant to be ever changing.

Bungie said from early on that Destiny would be a changing thing, this is true, but they didn't say they would permanently remove content-- the first time I'm aware of that coming up is the lead-up to House of Wolves when they said the blades of Crota were being removed.

That brings me to what the point actually is. The point is that a work of art, and all versions or editions of it that are made public, should be preserved and made available forever. This is an ideal, and it's one that often doesn't play nice with practicality, but that doesn't mean people won't or shouldn't keep pursuing it.