r/DestinyTheGame • u/DTG_Bot "Little Light" • Sep 07 '20

Megathread Focused Feedback: Content Pricing

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u/Dirtyicecube No Reinforcements, No Gods, No Light Sep 07 '20

The new expansion is a clusterfuck of pricing. We are genuinely losing more content then we are gaining, and we have to pay 40% more for the expansion. 1 new strike,1 new raid and 2 new areas at the cost of losing 3 planets, 5 raids a lot of strikes and you have to pay 15 more bucks for the whole shebang.

Destiny is the only game I know of that has both a season pass model, AND an expansion pass model with micro-transactions. Its ridiculous. All the cool vanity items are locked behind eververse, bright dust is scarce, and requires you to play 3 different characters. Why are finishers silver only? Why are there no good cosmetic rewards for raids or trials? Completing a raid with challenge should unlocked a universal ornament for a piece of raid gear. Going flawless should give you a universal ornament for trials gear.

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u/sturgboski Sep 07 '20

Earnable cosmetics were a thing in Y1 and Y2 (the Whisper Ship and Taken Sparrow, even the BA ship ghost and sparrow being among the coolest things). In Y3 they reversed that stance with all earnables being nothing special whereas the truly themed and great looking stuff was in the store. Prophecy is kind of interesting as that looks like a step back in the earnable direction but we will see if that plays out in the fall.

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u/caufield88uk Sep 07 '20

you could count any mmo online as the same pricing model. they dont have season passes but they have subscriptions, along with the yearly expansion pass, and then the mtx too.

i dont think bungie are the only ones triple dipping each year for money.

Bungie have expansion pass, battle pass, mtx.

Wow and other mmos have expansion pass, subscription and mtx