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10/30/2014 3:36:19 PM
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On the topic of exclusives

I love Destiny for so many reasons, and it has become one of my all time favorite games. I bought the digital deluxe edition (due to all the ghost editions selling out before I could get one) on faith because I have been a huge fan of Bungie as a company. Having played all of the Halo games, except 4, I had come to know Bungie as an incredible company who cares about their fans. (I didn't pay Halo 4 specifically because of the schism between Microsoft and Bungie and because I felt Halo wasn't right without them behind it.) But shortly after release, I found out that simply because I was a loyal fan of Bungie, from the wrong console, I had payed for a game that I wouldn't be able to experience all of until some time next year. I was of course a little upset by that but I enjoyed the game to such a degree as to be able to look past that. Now I've found out that with the release of the dark below, the Playstation will have yet Another exclusive strike (for the same price of course) putting the numbers at a full 1/4th of the strike content of the game being denied xbox players, in adition to the other exclusive content the Playstation has. And before anyone cries "oh it's just a timed exclusive get over it" I would like to remind you that it is a timed exclusive with no announced timeline, just "at least fall 2015" placing xbox players at least 6 months behind. AND that xbox players are still paying full price for less content. I have never seen any other timed exclusive be such a middle finger to fans. Firstly, I've havn't seen a timed exclusive that was more than 3 weeks (although I'm sure it's happened.) Secondly, that was always in the form of a release date for content Not, as is the case here, in the form of refusing players content they have already payed for. I also want to make it clear that I am not upset that there are exclusives, I understand the reasoning behind them, and although I would still be disappointed I would not feel so cheated as I do now. What I am talking about is making content that players have already payed for exclusive to one console or the other. I find that to be a shitty business practice, and I think that for these reasons I am justified in feeling cheated by Bungie with these exclusives. And because of this I no longer have any desire to play Destiny. I realize that this has little relevance to Bungie's bottom line, being that I am just one player. One player who has already payed for this content, but I know I'm not alone in feeling this way and I would like to think that Bungie is still a company that cares for their fans more than their profits, or their grudge with Microsoft. And I hope they read this and realize the disservice they are performing. These console wars need to end because the losers here are not Microsoft or Sony, it's the fans.

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  • Jesus dude, put paragraphs in your post. Make it readable. TL;DR

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  • They clearly stated that there would be exclusives only for Playstation way back at E3 2013. So you had time to decide what system to buy there. They then divulged the info about there being day one exclusives and exclusives in both expansions, again only for Playstation. So yeah I don't see the problem, at that point it was obvious as a huge Bungie fan what system to own and buy, I bought both. My Ps4 for all the multiplatform 3rd party games because Sony is locking down exclusive content all over the place, like in Destiny and GTAV (Next gen version this November), and the Xbone exclusives like Master chief collection and sunset overdrive. So yeah...

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