Although its speculation it touches base on a truth in games that's becoming a terrible terrible practice, one of which could kill main stream gaming at its core. What I mean by this is game companies will be spending millions to try and bring block buster hits and ultimately flop which hurts the gamers themselves more than the companies. Reason being prices will increase on games. More games will lock content behind pay walls and quality will be lacking. Game developers are in an opportune time in selling and developing their products given the fact gaming has become much more mainstream and the fact they can showcase their games with ease thanks to social media outlets. With this though comes a lot unnecessary advertising and hyping. Developers are spending more and more to out do themselves. They are selling ownership rights to money power hungry publishers to fund the games. This has been met with very unhappy individuals within the Dev company and we are seeing top veteran names leaving companies or being forced out. To this point we see games like Destiny, for one, and other games like Star Wars The Old Republic being hyped to the point there were already big communities behind the games even prior to release. Much of the players so infatuated and blinded to the possible truth the game's reputation of being the "best game ever" is a fallacy. Sure I for one fell victim of this practice with hopes of enjoying hours of gameplay within a game universe unmatched and being awed but, it was met with uncertainty and disappointment. To the point where in some parts, major and minor, I wasn't sure if I was even experiencing a finished product. Or if the developers even bothered testing out facets of the game at all. Sparing you specifics and details in a nutshell very noticeable parts of some of these games just feel completely broken... especially given the promises made. But the hype and potential "lies" aside I feel a lot of the steps taken in games to have DLC or planned micro transactions is purely a financial safety net to ensure any oversight in development or doubt of future success with the ip is met with a maid ready to milk that cow till its dead. To me, at times, its seems developers aren't even interested in playing their own games and they throw together things in haste without passion and heart. Yes its a business and yes you have to make money but look at the past. Halo was barely advertised even back then. Given that though the gameplay and level design were rock solid. It was new and innovative to a point and it was almost the dawn of a new era for console gaming as a whole. I want to know what happened to developers from points like that to now. I swear none of you have any confidence in your product you over hype your games just to make out okay on box sales before the bad news hits....that your game is crap. If not as a whole then where it truley matters. Your fans. Blatant and utter disrespect for a gamer's playing experience when you cant even ship your game with a cohesive story line that makes sense at all or even explains what the -blam!- is goin on. Who am I playing what am I playing. What the hell is a traveler let alone who or what is the darkness. -blam!- grimore cards or whatever. It does nothing for me except piss me off more you couldn't be bothered to incorporate it into gameplay. I feel like devs look at players as complete fckheads that cant tell right from left at times. We dont need you to hand hold us through something but at least try to tell a story given the fact you're in the entertainment business. And yeah this is an rpg so it needs something of a story.. As it stands now Destiny has got so much that makes zero sense. The darkness hates the traveler and its light but they fight each other more? Somewhere along the lines of hashing all this content and enemies out you had to of had something. Either you cut parts out completely for who knows what reasons or you ran into budgeting issues or whatever the reason. If it was money, then why the hell did you feel the need to waste loads of money and as much ad time and promotion as you did. You guys had millions sold on your rep alone, not to mention its next gen. I had the morons in gamestop foaming at the mouth behind the counter when I asked about release dates and pre-order rewards. They wouldn't shut up about how awesome it was going to be. Beta. Beta was a waste it seems. I hate what the gaming industry now calls beta testing. Its not testing. Its a fcking demo. No changes get made and you showcase something only to being even more sad saps into your clutches. Figure your shit out. Do yourselves a favor but more for your fans and just admit you messed up along the way. Implement things back into the game for free. If you want more money which is what it seems to have come down to you will gain so much more fans and people will be willing to pay for future installments if you fix the game now on your dime. It would be like going to see a movie and having to pay another 10$ to see the climax of the plot. One more thing to bring to light and then im done. The worst part about the new content are your claims you know what the fans want from this game and you're listening. Because it hasn't happened. Stop boasting about this not relevant to the game's problems and issues. Stop releasing content done in a hurry. You need to stress test it and make sure fans arent being charged for lackluster features and content. As it stands some new skins and 10 minutes of dialogue is a joke with the dark below. The raid is so bugged and laughable given how quick people found work arounds and cheese strats.