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Edited by Wasted Hobbit: 7/3/2014 8:57:24 PM
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An open letter to Bungie (and its fanbase) regarding Destiny and the future of consoles

I have been blind and missed out on how to send Bungie any feedback from the open Alpha so I will put the letter here and hope that it gains enught attention so that the developers can see it and for the community to discuss. First off you need a better forum system than this if you are going to launch such a big "mmo" like game, this is just like a chaotic shared twitter account. Take a page from Blizzard's World Of Warcraft, that game has a good forum structure. Second we need a better way to communicate in hubs and on the fly so you can get the more "mmo" feel with people talking everywhere and it's easier that way to get new friends, because right now getting to know other players is kinda hard when everyone is silent and contacting people is rather inconvenient. Then you have the issue with the framrate. If people actually read up on the issue from a trusted source they know that a higher framerate results in more opportunities for the eye and brain to respond and react to what happens on the screen making you more responsive and making the game feel more smooth. If I remember correctly the optimal framerate is somewhere around 280fps but that aint very realistic is it. 60fps has long been the golden standard for games since it is generally a good compromise but since last generation it has truly been dropped for a 30fps standard and i find it troubling. Want to know more about the Fps issue watch the youtube video i linked. But I am not here too discuss 30 vs 60 fps but to bring us all a solution to the problem so all partys can be happy. This is something that has been done for tripple A titles in the past and has been proven to work and should be even easier on todays pc hardware in consoles. That is to bring a real "options" menu in to mordern games. It has been done in games like Final Fantasy XIV for the Playstation 4 in a bit of a crude way where you can change the graphical fidelity of the game to increase and decrease the fps after your own liking like on PC! It aint hard to make options for graphics in current gen, it was more of a hassle in last gen with cell processors and such. It is easier to create a good range of options on the consoles where all current gen machines from that manufacturer have the same hardware, but on pc where the sky is the limit and the mariana trench is the starting point when it comes to hardware differences. Pc must have the options to have it run on all the different kinds of rigs and setups but they have all the choices even tho it is harder to do so in certant ways than consoles, So I ask why not for consoles? It is really a question about choices, have it your way as they say, but why not for consoles? Why is are we not allowed the same kind of treatment as the pc community, why cant we choose for ourselves? Are you afraid we will break the game? Do developers not trust us console players enught to make that decision ourselves? Why cant i choose the FPS and FOV on my console games like my pc? You have to remember that the question about what framrate it should be in or what FOV shall be used is only a technical question and has nothing to do with aesthetics and never will, lines like "movie experience" and such is just bullcrap they are shoveling down our throats. I am not attacking Bungie in any way, just criticizing the whole console market as a whole and I just want to help. I want you Bungie to listen to my plea that can shape the future of all console gameing to something better, you have the money, skill and tech know-how to make this come true, I know for a fact that it is easier to create options for a console than it is for a pc and to have the options for consoles as well will only make it a healthier market where you can truly have it your way. I want you Bungie to set the benchmark for the future of console gaming, I know you can do it since you have set console benchmarks before. I do not expect you to have this feature finished before the game,s launch but I would love it as a patch in the future. Having options will also make the competetive scene in the game better since they can have the game run like they need it too when they compete. I have written all of this for the benefit for us all, to have a better experiense, for every individual to decide on their own if they want higher graphical fidelity or higher framerate or what FOV they want based on what type of screen you are using. Im hoping you guys can see past my half-assed English and have read something you like, make your voice heard and thanks for your time. TL;DR We need an options menu so we can decide the framerate and such thing ourselves.

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  • Besides the forums being fine and destiny repeated being called not an mmo by bungie, the human eye can only recognize 24fps (aka what all movies are filmed at) the only reason for 30-60 is to account for lag. so that if you lag it's barely if at all noticeable because you're eyes can't process lag resulting in a subtraction of 20 frames out of the 60. which is why people prefer 60. The 30 frames when playing the alpha was extremely smooth though so I don't see 30 as a problem.

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