[quote]Curious what everyone thinks of this idea, particularly those that don't play much anymore. Would this make you want to log back in and play and would this make you feel like your being here year one meant something?[/quote]No, while your ideas are very well though out and communicated, I think it leaves too much open for a "cheap cop-out" for Bungie.
The whole issue for me is one of their mantra that they kept feeding to us like a bad audio bit-loop.[quote]We want every weapon and piece of armor to have a story. We want someone to look at your Guardian and just by looking at your weapons and armor, be able to tell where you've been and what you've fought through. We want you to build your own Legend, and we believe that your weapons are an important part of that.[/quote]
Which with TTK is becoming one of the greatest lies ever told.
How/why?
Because they're taking those very weapons and armors away from us. Arbitrarily. With no recompense or option left open to player choice.
IS Bungie afraid that if we are allowed to upgrade our Y1 weapons, that no one will buy their new gear coming with TTK? Is that the fear? It must be, because it's one of the five arguments that the Destiny hardcore-fan uses like another bad audio-loop to defend Bungie's decision.
[b]Destiny is not an MMO.[/b]
I emphasized that statement to set up my next statement.
While Destiny is not an MMO, they're taking many of their ideas from MMO's and MMO-ish elements, but only using a half-ass lazy method if implementing them; like the fear that if we are allowed to upgrade our Y1 weapons, we won't buy TTK weapons.
The idea is intrinsically flawed simply based off of the update history of the world's most popular MMO's.
Just looking at those updates, 90% of which fully allowed upgrading of older gear; never has there been a mass-refusal to buy a new DLC's equipment simply because they can upgrade their older gear. Never.
Not even once.
Yet, this seems to be the overriding thought and fear of Bungie. Hence the blanket-nerf of every weapon in the game that isn't an HMG, and the refusal to allow Y1 weapons to be upgraded. They're instituting an arbitrary and premeditated system to rip the equipment you love away from you, so that they can give you whatever piece of shit gear they design. They don't even have to try for quality any more.
When you have nothing, even the worst weapon might look good. Or at least, serviceable.
So no, I don't believe that your idea will work, no matter how well thought out it may be. As you stated in your third point, gamers are fleeing this game in a population drop that is one of the largest/fastest I've ever seen in 30+ years of Gaming.
Your idea would be a short-lived band-aid at most, but one that will become useless once TTK drops and the full truth of what the people at Bungie are doing becomes apparent.
They are arbitrarily forcing us to play the game in one, Bungie-designed way.
They originally marketed us freedom, exploration, variety, and customization. A full year later, every single one of those marketing points that we were sold the game on has been proved a complete lie.
So, why would I ever start playing Destiny again? I can not build my "Legend" in the manner I choose. I cannot freely roam "if you see it, we want you to go there. That's all real geometry, real terrain". I only have a very limited selection of weaponry that is actually viable at end-game level activities. There's a similarly small variety of armors/shaders to use, so every class ends up looking exactly the same; which is the exact opposite of variety.
So, Bungie; why should I play Destiny? What incentive do you have up your sleeve that would ever make anyone want to come back?
Like so many other questions that have been asked on these forums, I expect to get Bungie's most common answer.
Silence.
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Try FFXIV.
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I have it on my PS4. It's quite nice, but I can't really get too into it until I can open up a slot from one of my other MMO's. That said, I need to give GW2 a break. Starting to get a bit burnt on it. I've played it pretty hardcore since it launched, it might be time for a break from that one...
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Some good stuff here. Nice job.
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Thank you.
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Edited by L E G E N D9602: 8/11/2015 1:59:21 AMRememeber half - 90% of the game is hunting for loot. If you have nothing to hunt for, you really have no reason to play. This is a loot game man. Pure and simple. For players that have everything, they have no reason to play. Regardless how many strikes/raids/missions. If all thats dropping is the same shit as before.