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Edited by Cloudy Knight: 6/20/2014 1:38:06 PM
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First off, I'm an Xbox player so my view of this is certainly biased, but here's my two cents on the situation. Yes, Bungie should fully support the Play Station consoles. Yes they should make sure their relationship with the Play Station Community is secure, but will giving exclusive access of the Alpha, an early Beta, and gear to the Play Station players make that bond stronger? Absolutely. But you know what would have made the Play Station community love Bungie the same way the Xbox community has? Just making a good game for EVERYONE to play. I don't think PS4 players would turn away from the game just because people on Xbox played the Alpha at the same time, started the beta at the same time, or got the same pre-order gear. There are a few things I can understand though. The Alpha exclusivity could be purely because they want to slowly introduce players to test server strength (an apparently growing problem with recent game releases); same thing for early beta access. However, the one thing I don't quite understand is the secrecy behind the Xbox Beta date. As most gamers know, the word "soon" can indicate a wide variety of time frames. I don't mind the waiting; in fact I think I enjoy that the most, but id like to know how long I'm waiting. Right now I have the 17th marked on my calendar, but I know that when that day comes around I will not get to take in the magnificent view of the city that rests below the Traveler, or challenge hordes of Fallen amongst the rusted wreckage littered throughout Old Russia. In the meantime I'll be watching live streams of Play Station players yet again starting their beautiful journey as Guardians of the last city, and every streamer will say "I know this game looks good, but you really can't truly understand and enjoy Destiny until you get hands on yourself!". I mean is to too much to ask that your Xbox fans get [i]something[/i]? Even an approximate date for the Xbox Beta would suffice. I know the game will role around eventually and we'll all begin our journey to become Legend, but I'm concerned that because of Bungie's deal with Play Station, this exclusiveness is only the beginning. I'd like to hope that eventually everyone will be on the same page with DLC release dates, but that seems unlikely. I get it, the fact that Bungie has to focus on the Play station community for several reasons, but could you at least give the Xbox fans something, anything, to show that you love us just as much as we love you? Anyway, that's how I feel, and I'd bargain to say that most Xbox players feel the same way.
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  • Xbox beta comes out july 21st there is no secret agenda or date its the 21st ps is the 17th

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  • Do you have a link for a source? On their official page it just says "soon after on Xbox one and Xbox 360

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  • Deej even said the 21st in an interview the other day i forget with who tho.

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  • But off hand i dont have a link

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  • Honestly if u wanted to find out the date u would i guarantee xbox gets it the 21st thats a promise

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  • I only read the first part of it cause i was in a rush i just wanted to say that i absolutely agree. If they just made a great game(which they did!) i would have played it in fact i felt kinda bad for my friends who didnt have a ps4, i even had a little playthrough party at my house so they could at least get a taste. Thats the thing about great games, you dont want to hide them, you dont want to exclude them from your friends or even random people you meet, you want them to play it so they can understand why you think it is so great.

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  • Sad truth is that exclusives are becoming normal for the gaming industry. It is now all about who can make us just a little more money by paying for the exclusives first/only on our console. CoD is a great example of this. Unfortunately the only thing you could do to protest this is to not play the game and no one wants to miss out on good games. I honestly believe that even if the Destiny exclusives were only for PS4 users or vice versa, that neither side would choose not to play just because there console did not get exclusive content. I am with you that exclusive content should be for everyone or maybe both consoles get different exclusives that are of equal value. In conclusion after playing the alpha I think that no matter what all will enjoy Destiny no matter what platform you play on.

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  • So what would you say to all the CoD and Battlefield players on PS? Or perhaps how respawn entertainment and playstation owners got screwed out of titanfall, which was never supposed to be exclusive.

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  • Yes I agree totally that having DLC early on one console is just ridiculous. Its very frustrating. Either the game is exclusive or it isn't, anything in between is just a tease to the console getting shafted. At least Halo was completely exclusive, so you either got an Xbox or said "Halo really isn't a selling point for me, I'm sticking with the Play Station because there's plenty of Play Station exclusives that I enjoy" (And to be honest Halo has been the only exclusive for Xbox that I have ever cared about). And in reality, in the scheme of life, this is as small as problems get; but shouldn't small problems be easily resolved? Maybe. Bungie has been at this a long time: they're no fools when it comes to making and selling videogames, so I'm not worried about it all that much. In the end I'll be satisfied by the product and exclusives wont even matter because I'm on Xbox anyways.

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  • Edited by TreyO1780: 6/20/2014 5:03:33 PM
    not trying to be rude but sony actually denied a playstation version of titanfall very early in development, the only thing they would give respawn was a PS vita version of the game. It even originally was supposed to just be a PC game, they then reached out to console companies and sony denied them early access to PS4 development which led them to no titanfall for PS players. the next titanfall will be for all systems

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