What is with you people?! (Destiny)

by CruelLEGACEY , Toronto, Tuesday, October 06, 2015, 00:23 (3432 days ago) @ Cody Miller

I guess my question for you is: Do you consider TDB and HoW "substantial"? Personally, I don't. In a hypothetical world (all any of us are talking about are hypotheticals at this point), I would prefer a situation where we get a steady tricky of good, free content up until the next major paid release (let's assume that comes 1 year from now).

That's the thing though. I agree that they weren't substantial. TTK is the standard now for substantial. TTK was priced much higher, because substantial content requires more effort. It took a long time to develop. So how are they going to keep that standard with the money they get from this? They can't. Therefore, we will be getting more TDB instead of more TTK. Trickling content never produces the critical mass necessary to really make it worthwhile.

I agree that any free content we get won't match TTK in terms of quantity, but there's no reason they couldn't match the quality of the missions. If we get a new quest every 4-6 weeks, and each quest has 2 or 3 new, fun, well designed missions, I'll be perfectly happy. It's important to remember that this smaller content is not happening instead of major releases. The next "big thing" is already in development by another team. We're talking about the ways Bungie will add new stuff for us to do in the meantime. Micro transactions can fund a new team that otherwise would not exist.
For the most part, TDB and HoW were "more of Destiny year 1". If we see TTK as evidence that Bungie has stepped up their mission design game, then it is fare to expect these free missions to be "more of Destiny year 2, and we get it for free".

At the end of the day, it's too early to praise this move or complain about it: it all rests on the quality of the content.

I would prefer that over the year 1 model of waiting up to 6 months with nothing new, paying $20 and getting a small batch of new content that is mixed quality at best. You?

I would rather pay 40 or more dollars every six months to get something on the level of TTK.

I doubt anyone here would disagree with that, but it's equally safe to say Bungie can't crank out TTK-level expansions in only 6 months.