Am I the only one who's actually happy about this? (Destiny)

by CruelLEGACEY , Toronto, Monday, October 05, 2015, 22:23 (3432 days ago) @ Cody Miller

As long as this stuff is 100% optional, 100% cosmetic, then what's the harm?

The harm is that now instead of focusing on big, fun, tightly integrated game changing releases like The Taken King, the focus will be on free story missions that will not hit a critical mass to be interesting. There is a bigger picture.

Did paying $20 per DLC yield big, fun, tightly integrated game changing releases last year? I'd say no, for the most part. TDB and HoW were mostly "more of the same". It took a full year to create TTK. These free missions and quests are going to fill the gap between now and the next major content release, be it another major expansion or Destiny 2. The big difference this time around is that the quality of TTK's missions is much higher on average. I'd be just fine with "more of the same", as long as the new quests are as good as TTK's missions.

You can actually have it both ways; small frequent updates to keep things interesting, and once per year a major landmark expansion/sequel that really moves things forward.