Preemptive bitching? This is some next-level shit right here!

Wtf lol. Forum crybabies: WE WANT NEW CONTENT, I PLAYED 145 HOURS AND FINISHED THE GAME IN A WEEK! Bungie: Ok, heres some info on the big update due out only 3 short months after game release, which we worked endlessly on since release to appease you whiney babies who think games should never end. Forum crybabies: ITS NOT GOOD ENOUGH, I WANT SOMETHING DIFFERENT, I WONT BUY IT CAUSE ITS NOT WHAT I WOULD HAVE MADE! Theres no winning with you losers, lol

This post is so ignorant. It's like you're saying there is only one way to write a story, and since Destiny doesn't follow your idea of what a story structure should be, it's bad. Destiny's overall story is not just about the enemies, it's about the Guardians and their triumphs. It's about the fact that they are having to deal with all of these different crises at the same time and emerge triumphant against all odds. Each main story is meant to be separate. Manageable little epic short stories that can stand on their own (mostly). However, each new story that comes up doesn't completely end the story/stories that came before it. Every new DLC includes side missions and quests that tie up loose ends from established story lines and set up for new ones. Each enemy faction is a separate entity, so it makes sense that they're going to do things at their own paces. The Vex aren't going to go "Oh, the Cabal have a storyline going on? Guess we should back off." No, they're going to go "Hey they just got demolished by the Cabal. Now would be a good time to attack them." This leads to the story having to shift its main focus, but again, they don't end the previous story completely. I guarantee you there will be more about the Cabal Emperor in the future. It might not be some grand major storyline right now, but most likely it will be in the future.

Except that this threat is [b]light-years[/b] away and will take a very long time to arrive. At the same time, the other races have their own desires that they wish to fulfill. Also, as stated in the trailer, you have to travel back in time to stop the Vex, which means that this literally takes a second out of the present day by the time you are done and our Guardian will be back to punch this major threat in the teeth. Ease off the anchovies, bud. You definitely got salt-drunk.

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It’s episodic. You have a fallen chapter > vex chapter > hive chapter > Cabal chapter > fallen > vex > hive > Cabal > etc until they converge at the end.

Yep. Because when you are fighting a universal war with multiple enemies and fronts, it's best to only fight and worry about ONE of them. The rest won't plan or attack in the meantime, that wouldn't be nice. Step back and look at the bigger picture before you bitch about something so stupid.

The way the games launch and now expansion release have progressed feels like an intentional and very cold, calculated business decision on Bungie's part. This post is a long bit of rambling, sorry, but if you skip to the fourth-from-last paragraph you'll get a tl;dr version of one of my main points. Anyways, no, the problem with the DLC is that Bungie is effectively being paid twice to deliver one product, and that's assuming the expansion fixes all (or at least most) of the issues in the game. It's going to be a sad day when more publishers realize they can intentionally release a title SIGNIFICANTLY lacking in content and then charge another $20 to $30 three months later to deliver what shouldn't have been missing in the first place. When the expansion is out, try to remember to do this; when you're playing the game, ask yourself "would I have been shocked at how great the game is and how much there is to do if it launched in this state, or would I have thought it was simply the expected level of quality for an AAA release on PC and this generation's consoles?" If once you've installed the expansion you can genuinely say the game feels like a well done title that has MORE than you'd expect from a base game (since it's game + expansion at this point) then fine, it's justified. If, however, you get the expansion and it simply feels the way the game should have off the bat in terms of content, design choices, and gameplay (or, even more likely, that it's STILL lacking in these categories) then we simply got duped. Again. So yeah, I hate to be the pessimist -- I spent a long time sticking with the game even though I was bored with nothing to do VERY early on, I didn't make any threads complaining or bashing Bungie (I did reply to quite a few, but didn't start my own for quite a while) -- but at this point it feels like Bungie is being rewarded for their negligence. They were able to sell us an effectively unfinished product that was not as expected for the standard, full retail price, and now they're selling us an expansion that will most likely just give us what should have been there in the first place. Can you imagine a game from Kickstarter being released and missing a third of the content backers (realistically and legitimately) expected based on prior releases and communications? Then imagine if the developer charged them another 20% to download an update that added content originally meant to be included with the game; it would be absurd. It's one thing if launch content is gutted for whatever reason to be later released as DLC if the launch title is at (or at least close to) 100% without it, but it's unacceptable otherwise. Another problem is that it feels like they are INTENTIONALLY ignoring the issues we have BECAUSE they want expansion sales. Think about it; most dedicated players bought the season pass, and most people that are burnt out already are at that point because they played a ton; they're still likely to try the expansion. Why fix anything now when you can leave the problems, automatically flagging the expansion as the "finally fixed!!" version of the game? The hardcore are much more likely to buy (or have already bought!) the DLC regardless, and as such aren't as much of a priority; it's why they can afford to do this, because the very casual players are the ones they really need to convince to buy the expansion, and they most likely won't have a clue or see it for what it is. What a formula they've developed: Leave out launch content so you can push it as DLC, then ignore problems experienced by tons of people so the expansion can be the solution and, as such, appear to deliver just that much more awesomeness. This all feels very, very calculated. I really hope I'm wrong, but I just can't help feeling that I'm paying Bungie twice for content I should have had on day one... and that I'll be lucky if the expansion even delivers on that. Again, I HOPE I'm wrong. I want it to be great, I want everything to be fixed, this is just how I feel and what I'm predicting after watching Bungie handle (ie do nothing) this travesty. I bought the $100 digital deluxe edition with the season pass so it's not like I have a choice regarding getting it or not anyways. For the first time, though, I'm starting to think that preordering DLCs and the concept of season passes may not be a good thing anymore. While they were originally a nice way to get a discount and encourage the developer by showing them people are interested, companies like Activision are starting to make me believe that they've become a metric for how much they can get away with NOT doing. If you see that 60% of your primary audience has already paid for your DLC, maybe it's easier to neglect and throw less time and money towards a release now that there's a guaranteed level of sales that have literally already taken place; they have the money for it before they've even finished it. That doesn't feel like a great incentive for quality anymore, to me at least. I have a totally different opinion when it comes to some other developers, especially smaller companies and indie devs, and will continue to support them with preorders whenever I like a title... but in cases like this I'm starting to wonder if it's doing more harm than good. Sorry for any typos or errors, writing this on my phone.

The Calus story isn’t even the main plot. The main plot is the Traveler and it’s battle against the Darkness. They’ve always done this, main story in vanilla, and DLC for important side stories.

Actually in a lot of the adventures on nessus, it refers to the cabal attempting to tap into the vex networks and the vex fighting back. Also in the data cache adventure it references a "user" in the system named Osiris. I would go as far as to say that Osiris knows what the cabal have been trying to tap into, and is being summoned to help fight against the cabal, however in order to get Osiris' full help we would need to thwart some vex invasion. Looking into the future, the second dlc has the warmind symbol which we also know the cabal and hive have been attempting to tap into for some time now. There are a lot of connections to be made, and sometimes in order to solve the over arcing issues, a lot of smaller hurdles need to be dealt with to further the outcome.

I see what you're saying, but personally I've always viewed Destiny as an episodic series. Rather than one incredibly long plotline, the tale of our guardian is told by different events that occur along the way. There was that time we woke up in an unfamiliar world and had to kill some Vex for reasons unclear. Then there was that time we killed a hive god, only to have his father launch a massive invasion of our solar system in search of vengeance. There was the time we killed the Kel of Kels and put the fallen back in their place, only to have them re-awaken a techno-virus out of shear desperation to survive. And then there was the time we lost our light and had to kill a would-be Cabal god. Again this is just me personally, but I prefer this style of episodic stories all weaved together in a larger universe as opposed to one very long, drawn out story focusing on just one or two things.

It's not a waste of potential. Calus is testing us. Have you ever thought that between the test and whenever he needs us, something might happen with another faction Such as oh, I don't know, a lead on a guardian lost to the vex? That would definitely take priority over sitting on your ass in the tower waiting for Calus to call