"I haven't touched Halo 5 and Destiny is to blame" (Destiny)

by marmot 1333 , Thursday, October 29, 2015, 18:38 (3408 days ago) @ Cody Miller

I completely understand what you're saying and where you're coming from.

But surely some of the Halo games (especially Halo 3) could "phone home" and deliver usage information to Bungie. Bungie then would have some idea of how much and how often people played these games. Maybe your anecdotal evidence doesn't hold true for a vast majority of the population.

I'm sure Jason Jones has spent a lot of time thinking about Halo and Destiny, probably more than even the superfans here. He probably also has access to a lot of usage data that we don't.

For some reason, based off the information he had, he thought the best thing to do for future games was to add hooks to get people to play back through the content.

I can't say I blame him--creating new playspaces is hard and costly; giving people a reason to play back through them gives more content per dollar. As Destiny has grown over time, I've found the re-use of spaces to be less bothersome, more natural, more interesting.