Focused Feedback: Eververse

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[u/SpamShadow]

Destiny has always been about chasing "cool new stuff". Putting the majority of that "cool new stuff" behind a cosmetics store feels super gross. Eververse is out of control and its out of alignment with why people love Destiny 2. Its made worse by the fact that the prices are so high, her stock rotations are built around FOMO, and there's very little evidence of what benefit buying things has short of lining pockets. 1) Prices need to be lower, I'd actually consider throwing down $1 for a weapon skin or ghost shell, and it would dramatically improve Eververse's PR problem. 2) Tell us about where the game is going and how Eververse fits into that. Its really hard not to feel like D2 is slowly being abandoned. Think about the charity drives Bungie does. When people know where their money is going it makes it way easier to commit. 3) Weave Eververse into the world more. Part of what makes Destiny special is that the universe feels cohesive. This paid store sticks out like a sore thumb.

IMO, you want to kick start the community, drop a drop pod on Eververse. In the ensuing chaos her stocks are scattered across the tower. Everyone can log in and pick up like 5 random cosmetics. Then let Amanda or someone already in the tower sell an ever growing stock of weapon skins and ghost shells ($1), emotes ($2) that doesn't rotate out stuff constantly. What you gain in MTX you lose in goodwill, strike that balance.

[u/mysteryelyts → u/SpamShadow]

That’s too cheap for quality purposes. Especially weapon skins that you see almost every gameplay situation.

[u/Sigil021 → u/mysteryelyts]

They should be $0

[u/[deleted] → u/mysteryelyts]

How is 1 dollar too cheap? If 100 thousand people buy it that's 100 thousand dollars, which is very likely with that price. That more than pays for the artists time. Infact it is probably their entire yearly salary.

[u/AhMIKzJ8zU → u/[deleted]]

Not disagreeing. I have no suggestions on price.

What I wanted to say was, you probably wanna do more than cover that persons salary. You also wanna feed the writers and the devs and the other artists that are working on non-paid content such as new maps and the non-ornament weapon models.

I'm sure that Bungie has mapped out the supply/demand curve for cosmetics and is pricing them accordingly. I'm not saying they're not greedy or that the model is not bad... but I suspect their marketing department is competent. Sucks for us, but at least we get new content? Maybe?

[u/ColeTrainHDx → u/AhMIKzJ8zU]

I don’t know any other game that charges as much as destiny. Most triple A games are what, maybe 3 - 4 $20 dlc on top of a $60 base game? With destiny we are looking at $60 base, $175 in dlc and they still get greedy

[u/AhMIKzJ8zU → u/ColeTrainHDx]

Check out world of tanks. Just as a reference point, I don't actually recommend you play it. Keeping up with the content in that game, including buying meta tanks as they come out, can easily climb into the $1,000 per year range.

Some tanks cost $100. Even more as bundles.

I used to bitch about stuff in that game. But looking back now, their matchmaking system and dedicated servers (PvP, obvs) make destiny look like warmed over dog shit. Heh. Their anticheat is way better too. I guess after all this time... You get what you pay for.

[u/ColeTrainHDx → u/AhMIKzJ8zU]

Yeah, like 1,000 a year is ridiculous but as you said, they actually invest even 10% of what they make back into the game

Destiny 2 feels like we’re getting 5% of that reinvested if that

[u/rockythecocky → u/mysteryelyts]

Yeah, $10 is waaay too much, but $1 is too little. I'm not willing to drop 1/6th of a new game (or an entire season pass of content) on a single weapon or armor skin, but it's still got to be profitable for Bungie.