Festival of the Lost

Looks like it’s maybe a Halloween event?

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Is this real? Can anyone sign in and confirm?

https://twitter.com/InvigorateINV/status/658690760448024576

Mod: Confirmed: Moved into other thread.

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You beat me to it ;p

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Ok, after seeing the screenshots people are posting on Twitter, this looks very cool. I'd hoped Destiny would include silly little events like this all along. Fun stuff :)

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can't wait to get on tonight

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PSA: You don’t have to purchase a Treasures of the Lost from Tess - Eva gives one to you for free.

The Tower has some new Decorations (and music!) for Festival of the Lost!

Even the Cryptarch is getting in on the festivities!

And Eva has a quest for us:

Also, Tess has a couple of new dances and a new emote:

Zombie Dance (700s):

Monster Dance (500s):

Boo! (300s):

She also sells extras of the Treasures of the Lost that Eva gave us in case you want to try a different mask:

Anyway, that’s just a sampling. Definitely hop in this week if you can and check it out. :)

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...Like the projection on the Traveler, the howls and screams in the background, and if you wait long enough, a creepy Halloween theme will play while you're exploring.

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That's pretty much the only popular request that's been missing from the new emotes and now we have it. Bravo, Bongo!

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Be sure to have several Consumable, Material, and Helmet inventory slots open before talking to Eva.
If you normally have your helmet off in public spaces (like I do), you’ll want to turn it on for the week. :)
It is not necessary to purchase anything from Tess to complete Eva’s quests (although you can collect items/masks faster that way).
Eris is a riot.
Rare (blue) masks expire at the end of the Festival, but Legendary (purple) ones apparently do not. You can upgrade a Rare to Legendary with the Glue material from Eva’s gift.
You have to wear a mask to collect candy for the “Empty Candy Satchel”

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that was the thought, but it was never wrote in stone anywhere. And then Trials got cancelled. I played it a few times last night, would be an interesting Trials of Osiris map for sure.

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Happy Festival of the Lost everyone. Go get some of that sweet sweet candy.

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Guardians get TRAVELER-brand dental insurance.

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sweeeeeet can

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They are very funny.

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Eva says, “Boo! Hahahaha” as well as several others. :)

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I was going to play Halo this week!

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I was going to play Halo this week!

LOL I was actually gonna take the next two days off from gaming altogether....I hope this event sticks around all week.

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https://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/3qb3ol/how_to_farm_all_masks_no_silver/

just run siege of the warmind over and over and over to fill up your satchels

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Xûr!

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Just did a public warsat with a rando, and when he activated his super it was like watching the headless horse man electrocute the towns people.

Nice.

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I thought the headless horseman threw jack-o-lanterns...

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Eris' is elaborate!

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I'm not wearing one of those masks out trick or treating with the kidlet, but I've gotta show em off. He's old enough to go alone anyway.

I think I'm going to go with engram.

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Holiday event, quest, and Crucible map?

#kornywasright.

This is just the beginning. I'm paying for some Silver, that's for sure...

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You can now pay real money to get Glimmer and Telemetry items. Really adorable gummy telemetry items shaped and coloured like engrams.

I mean, why would you, but you can.

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You can now pay real money to get Glimmer and Telemetry items. Really adorable gummy telemetry items shaped and coloured like engrams.

I mean, why would you, but you can.

Things that you can easily obtain through normal play. Except in this instance, you are gifted a free Crucible map forever.
I see no issue...

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The Cathedral of Dusk was already found BEFORE microtransactions, your point is invalid! As far as the festival, with the amount of things in this event, it would be far fetched to say that this was not finished BEFORE microtransactions. I think what we are looking at here is Bungie doing a cool thing without the help of microtransactions. Good job Bungie! I'm am sure that the income will help somehow, but this event was more than likely finished before the income from microtransactions

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The Cathedral of Dusk was already found BEFORE microtransactions, your point is invalid! As far as the festival, with the amount of things in this event, it would be far fetched to say that this was not finished BEFORE microtransactions. I think what we are looking at here is Bungie doing a cool thing without the help of microtransactions. Good job Bungie! I'm am sure that the income will help somehow, but this event was more than likely finished before the income from microtransactions

While this event was likely "finished" before actual income from microtransactions was seen at Bungie, it's not a stretch to say that microtransactions were the planned method of ROI for it.

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The Cathedral of Dusk was already found BEFORE microtransactions, your point is invalid! As far as the festival, with the amount of things in this event, it would be far fetched to say that this was not finished BEFORE microtransactions. I think what we are looking at here is Bungie doing a cool thing without the help of microtransactions. Good job Bungie! I'm am sure that the income will help somehow, but this event was more than likely finished before the income from microtransactions

While this event was likely "finished" before actual income from microtransactions was seen at Bungie, it's not a stretch to say that microtransactions were the planned method of ROI for it.

Like I said, it's just the beginning of a post-Microtransaction Destiny. Of course they didn't whip up a new map and event in a matter of days, but the ROI is definitely the Microtrans. I wish they would tell us how many Zombie Dances were sold on day 1. Sammy and I got $20 of Silver for them, and have already gotten our Money's worth.,,

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I agree and that probably was the point. I just like yanking Kornys chain sometimes. His initial post sounded like he was trying to say if it werent for microtransactions we would not have this. Potentially they could have made zero dollars off of microtransactions and we would have still received this gift. Either way its a nice thing.

I hope microtransactions can make things happen more often~!

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We were in all likelihood getting this regardless of how well Eververse has done. The next one will be thanks to that Thriller money though.

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We were in all likelihood getting this regardless of how well Eververse has done. The next one will be thanks to that Thriller money though.

Has anyone had that the thought that Luke was thinking beyond the Collector's Edition emotes when he used the phrase "throw money at the screen"?

I think this has been planned for a while.

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Has anyone had that the thought that Luke was thinking beyond the Collector's Edition emotes when he used the phrase "throw money at the screen"?

That's the first thing I thought when I found out about Eververse.

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Many things in life are finished before you pay for them. Your criticism is silly.

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Would probably be hard to catch if you havent played with me before =P

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Can it drop from Candy bags? Or is it literally only available from the packages that cost silver?

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Can it drop from Candy bags? Or is it literally only available from the packages that cost silver?

Yeah, it drops from the bags Eva gives you, and also from dismantling Legendary masks.

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Cool, just the usual reddit misinformation then.

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Yeah, it drops from the bags Eva gives you, and also from dismantling Legendary masks.

I don't think that it does unless it counts as "Random Festival Candy". You get one from your first bag along with the guaranteed Legendary, but no on I've talked to has gotten any more. Eva's bags don't say glue is possible. Unless someone has proof otherwise it looks like you get two max for free.

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. . . how much Silver was purchased today.

I threw down ten bucks. I would have sooner, but there wasn't much that I wanted enough. That Thriller, though!

Seriously, this is such a fun little event. I would love to see more random silly stuff like this in Destiny!

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Stupid Thriller. Yeah, I threw down some monies for it (and perhaps some others I've been eyeing).

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Engrams have been sold out since the day after they went up for sale. Now they are gone from the store?
Many other items are still Sold Out.

Were the engrams made from un-safe poisonous foam or did someone's dog swallow one whole? Why the take down?

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Maybe they're still on backorder for the initial orders. I hope they come back because they will make great stocking stuffers at Christmas.

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Maybe they're still on backorder for the initial orders. I hope they come back because they will make great stocking stuffers at Christmas.

Bad idea dude. That moment when Christmas gets ruined because someone gets nothing but Common and Rare engrams instead of Legendary or Exotic. You know who else did that to their kids? Hitler.

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I know a Bungie employee who got hers yesterday.

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I really hope not. My biggest complaint about the Bungie store is lack of supply, so I hope they wouldn't do something like that on purpose.

I also don't believe that's the case, but who knows?

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They went ahead and shipped my hoodie and had to hold off on shipping my engrams because their supplier shorted them. As a thank you, they refunded my shipping costs. Guessing a ton of these were ordered.

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yeah, believe it or not most companies like Bungie have their fun stuffs like this custom made on very narrow margins, so they intentionally order numbers that they're fairly certain to sell out of so that it doesn't become a losing proposition.

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Big surprise, your baseless conspiracy theory was wrong. Engrams are back. :)

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What else would you expect from him magically reappearing and posting? :P

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...and they're sold out again. Maybe he was right. :p

P.S. Nice to see your post title wasn't referring to me... this time...

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Implying that my post titles tend to refer to you...? Implying you've quit DBO at some point (maybe you have and I didn't know it?)? I've never thought of you as a troll, either. You're implying implications, and I do not know what they are!

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You're basically guaranteed to fill a completely empty bag by the end of a strike.

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Seemed like I had a full bag ever game. 'Course I was also kickin' ass... for some reason. Like single handedly turning around a game of Rift complete with a The Best Around. They didn't expect a Defender to outfox them, I don't think. :)

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Seemed like I had a full bag ever game. 'Course I was also kickin' ass... for some reason. Like single handedly turning around a game of Rift complete with a The Best Around. They didn't expect a Defender to outfox them, I don't think. :)

Yeah, I've heard that's a good way. I just suck at Crucible and only enjoy it in short bursts.

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I've been refilling mine in just three respawns with Exclusion zone. Are you sure you didn't forget to put on your mask?

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I love every single thing about this festival.

I love how the tower looks right now, it's so beautiful with the candles everywhere and everything all purple. I am having fun with the candy bounties and all the masks on everyone and the monster dances.

I still want to see a giant group of guardians all synchronized to Thriller in the tower just dancing.

I love that Bungie decided to do something like this again, I can only hope we have a Christmas Week in the tower as well!!

I want to see snow falling and Christmas trees and garland everywhere, and more twinkly lights, and stockings and presents from the tower reps, and Cayde in a santa suit and Shax in reindeer antlers.

Hoping that there are more surprises on the way soon.

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I think I've found a way to abuse the matchmaking sustem for the Tower. I've found if I go in with someone (as Fireteam Leader), leave them there then come back on my own, I'll often come straight back into the same instance, but in a separate Fireteam.

We'd only need it to work twice to get a full 16 in the Tower. Honestly, the hardest part would be synchronising across 2 party chats.

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Would it working taking a partial fire team in, leaving the fireteam while everyone is still in the tower so your team is open, and then having another partial team join you there, so on and so forth?

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I'm thinking you take one person in, then leave them there. Then you take another in, and if it's the right tower, you leave them there too. Then you go in by yourself until you end up in the same tower again.

At that point you've got three people all in the same instance but separate fireteams. Have each invite 5 friends and fill the Tower with DBO.

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alternatively, you could have one person start the dance, let it run through an entire cycle, then other people start the dance on the next cycle.

Unless you are wanting a vid of everyone starting at the same time, you could just keep restarting your dance until you are in sync.

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The only thing that could have made this better is if candy exploded from enemies you kill like the Grunt Birthday Party skull.

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The guy in front looks like a Halloween Statue of Liberty

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I'm really having fun with this silly Festival. I barely played last night but I got some funny masks and I'm gonna try (RNG-willing) to grind enough glue to keep all of them. I'm even tempted to be a hypocrit and buy the Thriller emote. I really love Halloween (moreso than any other holiday) and this is just wonderful, silly fun.

There's just one problem I'm having - The Skull Mask. According to reddit, there's no rare version of this mask. That means you can only get it from Legendary packages. Which cost silver.

Now, fair's fair, it's only a cosmetic item. It stands to reason that you could use Silver to buy a purely cosmetic item during an event. I can't argue with that.

The problem is that it's random. Which means you could buy dozens of packages with your silver and still not get it. Already on reddit there's people who've spent upwards of $30 and not received it. In theory you could buy hundreds of dollars of silver and not get it.

Obviously the event isn't over yet, and maybe there's a way to get it from a mission or time-gated quest. But if not... not cool Bungie. Very, very not cool.

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It's like all of the other masks, it has no stats or anything, so it is literally cosmetic.

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Well yeah, like I said - it's cosmetic. The issue isnt paying for cosmetic items. I'm not keen on microtransactions, but if you want to buy a hat you should be able to buy a hat.

The problem is paying for a chance at cosmetic items. Welcome to the casino.

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Well yeah, like I said - it's cosmetic. The issue isnt paying for cosmetic items. I'm not keen on microtransactions, but if you want to buy a hat you should be able to buy a hat.

The problem is paying for a chance at cosmetic items. Welcome to the casino.

I feel like if someone spends their money on that, it serves them right. I still fully agree with you that if someone wants to blow their cash on a hat that doesn't exist, then sure, whatever. But to pay for the potential chance to maybe sorta RNG your way to it? Well that's just stupid and consumer-hostile on Bungie's part, and just as stupid if someone pays for the attempt. In my opinion.

I can't tell what's worse, spending money on Bungie's microtransactions, or Halo 5. I can't wait for Fallout 4 for a nice change of pace. :D

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Well yeah, like I said - it's cosmetic. The issue isnt paying for cosmetic items. I'm not keen on microtransactions, but if you want to buy a hat you should be able to buy a hat.

The problem is paying for a chance at cosmetic items. Welcome to the casino.

I feel like if someone spends their money on that, it serves them right. I still fully agree with you that if someone wants to blow their cash on a hat that doesn't exist, then sure, whatever. But to pay for the potential chance to maybe sorta RNG your way to it? Well that's just stupid and consumer-hostile on Bungie's part, and just as stupid if someone pays for the attempt. In my opinion.

I can't tell what's worse, spending money on Bungie's microtransactions, or Halo 5. I can't wait for Fallout 4 for a nice change of pace. :D

hmm, Bungie set up a whole forum for Eververse help, did anyone ask about the mask there?

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To an extent I get meh, as you can choose not to let it affect you.

But for those people who do buy into it, they're absolutely being suckered. I know some people would say "let the idiots pay", but it's still taking advantage of idiots. I'm sure I'll enjoy my free content they've paid for, but it doesn't sit well. This is exactly the kind of thing I was worried about.

As slycrel said - Microtransactions are bad for collectors and while those kinds of people have bigger problems than a skull hat, this is taking advantage of exactly that kind of person. RNG cosmetics are fine. Paid cosmetics as a shortcut are fine. Paid cosmetics as exclusives are fine. But when you get to paid RNG you start turning your skinner box into a slot machine.

Of course, there may be another way to get it and people spending silly money are quite possibly just impatient. We'll have to wait and see. Until then I'm going to run around in this Speaker mask being unhelpful.

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I can't disagree with that. If it's true, that is pretty shitty. Paying for Destiny's notoriously awful RNG is just cruel.

What evidence does reddit have to support the skull only dropping from the packages, though? Not being snarky, just genuinely asking.

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I can't even find the thread now, though there is another similar one on the second page. If nothing else no one has disproven it, though that's hardly the same as proof.

Being reddit, a pinch of salt may be required (and you can probably find some in there).

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Someone told me you can get Legendary masks from Rare packs. Is this true? I couldn't confirm with the person at the time because they were borderline oncomprehensible.

If so, the whole thing about there not being a rare version of the skull could be moot.

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Someone told me you can get Legendary masks from Rare packs. Is this true? I couldn't confirm with the person at the time because they were borderline oncomprehensible.

If so, the whole thing about there not being a rare version of the skull could be moot.

I don't actually know the answer to that. I assumed that it was possible for Legendary masks to drop, but I've never had one drop. Granted, I've only opened like four. Who knows?

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From everything I've seen, you can get legendary masks from the very first bag Eva gives you. The people who got the skull for free got then there. Other than that it's been rare masks from the bags.

If you look at Bungie's news post, they say you can collect all 16 masks, but only show 15. The two missing are the Traveler (which I have from a bag) and the skull.

I've seen multiple posts on Reddit of people spending $20 or more and not getting it. I guess Luke was right about people throwing money at their screens. I would love to have the skull, but there's no way I'm spending real money on it.

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I've seen multiple posts on Reddit of people spending $20 or more and not getting it. I guess Luke was right about people throwing money at their screens. I would love to have the skull, but there's no way I'm spending real money on it.

Spending real money for the CHANCE to get it. Definitely a big no thanks.

Also, people can rage all they want about microtransactions, but the numbers speak for themselves (and I would love to see actual figures!). I bet Bungie is raking in the money from this. As long as people spend like that, it's not going to go away.

For the record, I'm not trying to start that debate again at all, but I just think it's interesting.

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Im loving the meat of this festival. Halloween is my ansolute favourite holiday, even though us Brits don't do it half as well as 'murrca. If this is what the micro will bring, and they stay the way they were, bring it on.

But this Skull business has me a little concerned.

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Off topic, but since we're talking 'Murica, here's a cool video from a very 'Murican event I was at a couple of weeks ago. From the drone view I'm just past halfway down the firing line, about 20 yards from the minigun.

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Also there were a few times where blobs of fire would break off in a violet color and my head went "Look, an engram!"

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That's actually in Kentucky.

I wouldn't advise running after those engrams. There was a guy launching flares out on the range during the day. It was fun watching the tracers turn and focus on that flare as it bounced along.

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But this Skull business has me a little concerned.

I get where you're coming from. Maybe I'm naive, but I don't really see it as intentional that one mask would only be available from buying packs that have a chance to give you one.

For one, seriously, that's a ridiculous thing to spend money on. And I guess I am naive because it appears many people are doing so, but that's the dumbest thing I've heard. I could see spending a buck or two, if it was just that skull for sale, but there's no way I'm spending money for a dice roll for getting one. People that do that blow my mind.

What do I know, though? Maybe it is entirely intentional and devious, and people spending twenty or thirty bucks to get the stupid thing is exactly what they wanted. I was just sort of hoping it was some sort of misstep or accident and that it should be obtainable the same way all other masks are.

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The people behind this aren't stupid. They have to realise that this rare, two-week-only item is only available through RNG. Whether or not they're going Whale hunting is another matter, but they have to be aware of the possibility that they could do well from them.

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The people behind this aren't stupid. They have to realise that this rare, two-week-only item is only available through RNG. Whether or not they're going Whale hunting is another matter, but they have to be aware of the possibility that they could do well from them.

Yeah, it makes sense, I guess I was just pinning my hopes on it being some sort of oversight and accident, because it feels pretty scummy otherwise.

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You have too much faith in people, I think. Both the idiots spending $40 on a hat and the people selling the hat.

I'm gonna hold any real judgement until the update. Maybe something will be mentioned, or maybe there'll be some other way to get it. But at least for now it doesn't look awesome.

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You have too much faith in people, I think. Both the idiots spending $40 on a hat and the people selling the hat.

I couldn't argue with that. It does make life a whole lot easier to deal with when I can just close my eyes to large swaths of it and pretend everything is great. (:

I'm gonna hold any real judgement until the update. Maybe something will be mentioned, or maybe there'll be some other way to get it. But at least for now it doesn't look awesome.

I don't see this as a deal-breaker either way, but I hope it's not an indicator of what these microtransactions end up looking like.

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But this Skull business has me a little concerned.

I get where you're coming from. Maybe I'm naive, but I don't really see it as intentional that one mask would only be available from buying packs that have a chance to give you one.

For one, seriously, that's a ridiculous thing to spend money on. And I guess I am naive because it appears many people are doing so, but that's the dumbest thing I've heard. I could see spending a buck or two, if it was just that skull for sale, but there's no way I'm spending money for a dice roll for getting one. People that do that blow my mind.

What do I know, though? Maybe is entirely intentional and devious and people spending twenty or thirty bucks to get the stupid thing is exactly what they wanted.

It's the exact same thing as gambling except you don't get atmosphere of a casino. There are a lot of gamblers out there...

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Microsoft creates Microsoft Points. Sells them in bundles. Sells items at just the right amount that you'll always have lingering points left over, so you end up buying more. Online community and journalists rail against the great big capitalistic satan. MS caves, switches to real currency.

Bungie creates silver, even gives you a little for free. Sells them in bundles of 500, 1000, 2000. Sells at odd numbers (700, 500, 300) so that you have some left over. Community rejoices, because.....THRILLER!!

;)

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But I think most people's biggest problem was the conversion rate. $1.00 got you 80 points, so the math was always a bit difficult for some folks. And the stuff they sold was always multiples of like 50, right? I can't remember. But you're right in that you would have a few points left over if that was the case.

At least $1.00 equals 100 silver, so the math lines up. Also, you get 1100 Silver if you spend 10 bucks and 2300 Silver if you spend 20 bucks, so you could potentially spend it all and have none left over.

I'm hoping we see more stuff like this though, so I'll always have use for a bit of Silver.

It's ridiculous how some have responded to this, though. $20 was just over the top expensive and a rip off for The Dark Below or House of Wolves, apparently, but throw out some seven dollar emotes and people shit themselves and can't spend money fast enough . . .

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They're not obviously that different, but the extra 80 points is a dollar layer pissed people off. It might have been less annoying if everything in the store was in multiples of 400 points and cost less.

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They're not obviously that different, but the extra 80 points is a dollar layer pissed people off. It might have been less annoying if everything in the store was in multiples of 400 points and cost less.

I'm sure having an excess so you want to get a little more to buy something was part of the reason it was like that, but the stated reason, which I think was at least a big factor, was so they could have a unified currency across all their markets and adjust the real money price for different currencies and for inflation.

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They're not obviously that different, but the extra 80 points is a dollar layer pissed people off. It might have been less annoying if everything in the store was in multiples of 400 points and cost less.

I'm sure having an excess so you want to get a little more to buy something was part of the reason it was like that, but the stated reason, which I think was at least a big factor, was so they could have a unified currency across all their markets and adjust the real money price for different currencies and for inflation.

I think it was about 90/10.

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It's ridiculous how some have responded to this, though. $20 was just over the top expensive and a rip off for The Dark Below or House of Wolves, apparently, but throw out some seven dollar emotes and people shit themselves and can't spend money fast enough . . .

This is the scary part about micro-transactions. It's sticker shock vs non-sticker shock. a few bucks here and there doesn't break the budget. But unplanned, $20 is enough to make you think twice.

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If they released the next expansion for 2000 glimmer, I'd be like "Oh shit, that's cheap," and buy it.

If they released the next expansion for $20, I'd have to give it a second thought, then still buy it immediately.

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I've seen multiple posts on Reddit of people spending $20 or more and not getting it. I guess Luke was right about people throwing money at their screens.

This right here is what worries me. Absolutely no one benefits from purchaseable RNG except the dev/publisher. Best case scenario you get it first try, at which point you might as well have just bought it. Worst case, you spend a bunch of money and get nothing to show for it.

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Only if you're after a specific item. That said, I understand the "nothing to show for it " feeling having spent roughly $60,000,000,000 trying to unlock the sword wielding female N-7 infiltrator in Mass Effect 3...

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True, but knowing that the others are all obtainable in-game, that means the only one actually worth paying for is the Skull.

Even if you wanted to use the packages as a shortcut, say If you really wanted Xur, that would only slightly increase the payout chance. Honestly the only way for the packages to be a good deal is if you don't care what you get, or if you're just after the glue.

Edit: which is of course totally possible, if you just want to wear a fun mask. But this conversation isn't really about those players.

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Only if you're after a specific item. That said, I understand the "nothing to show for it " feeling having spent roughly $60,000,000,000 trying to unlock the sword wielding female N-7 infiltrator in Mass Effect 3...

The N7 Shadow was definitely in my top 5 favorite. Sorry you couldn't get her.

The skull is entirely cosmetic, though. Zero reason to spend so much for looks, but if they want to, they can't very well blame Bungie for it, especially if it might be possible to get it another way.

In fact, the masks have a negative effect. They have a Light Value of 0, which can drop your light level by ~30 when you wear them, so they're definitely not something you'd wear all the time.

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. . . so they're definitely not something you'd wear all the time.

WATCH ME!

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You can definitely blame Bungie for the method of obtaining it though.

I know Bungie can do no wrong, but you can't look at a random, paid reward package tied to a limited edition collectible in a game that just recently added collectible cosmetics and is currently running an entire event based on them and think "looks fine to me".

And don't tell me "they know its random when they buy it". Advertising a bad product doesn't make the product any better, it just makes the people who buy it idiots. Yes, the people are stupid for buying it, but it's Bungie who've set it up this way to take money from idiots (intentionally or otherwise).

[Im starting to sound like the fun police now. I dont think Bungie is necessarily being exploitative, but the sales model itself is, whether they wanted it to be or not]

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Pff, I got her. Like the next week. From a free random drop. And in the mean time I solved my rocket / medpack supply problems for the next year or so. :p

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I can't disagree with that. If it's true, that is pretty shitty. Paying for Destiny's notoriously awful RNG is just cruel.

We already did in order to play Destiny in the first place. (I agree that this prospect is bad but I think it's funny that you said it like that.)

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I can't disagree with that. If it's true, that is pretty shitty. Paying for Destiny's notoriously awful RNG is just cruel.

We already did in order to play Destiny in the first place. (I agree that this prospect is bad but I think it's funny that you said it like that.)

Heh, you're right on that account. I didn't even realize. (:

OR DID I?

I didn't.

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Using your console's account settings.

But yeah, you can't "lock" the silver you already bought, which is a concern.

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His account isn't set up with a credit card, so I'm not worried about that part.

I am worried about him wanting to spend his small amount of personal money on micro-transactions that won't mean much the next day. -I- get to be the bad guy by saying no at that point. :/

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Yeah, that's just part of the challenge of being a good parent, though. The world is going to tell him to BUY STUFF, you keep him from buying stuff, he grows up and [hopefully] realizes he can still enjoy life without buying all the stuff.

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His account isn't set up with a credit card, so I'm not worried about that part.

I am worried about him wanting to spend his small amount of personal money on micro-transactions that won't mean much the next day. -I- get to be the bad guy by saying no at that point. :/

Or you can let him learn a lesson... but the REAL question then is, WILL HE learn the lesson or just be blissfully unaware of his unwise use of his hard earned money?

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Mine is 8 years old and I have to do this all the time. I just make him work it off. That chimney isn't going to sweep itself.

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My nephew did something unthinkable with his Kindle fire, apparently. My parents didn't tell me what it was, but the Kindle was taken away, and he has been grounded from the internet for 6 months now.

I ASSUME he went and spent $2000 on micro transactions on his stupid games. Of course my parents are stupid for not disabling that. They should have made him work it off.

I never liked that my parents didn't trust me with things, but if I ever hand a kid something that is linked to ANY account I have ANYWHERE, that thing is getting locked the down like Fort Knox.

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Ugh! That sucks! Glad I only spent part of my night trying to earn the "rare" version of this mask.

The only emote I wanted was "slow clap" and now this.

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