Three separate DLCs. Each with equivalent content to either The Dark Below or House of Wolves from Destiny 1... distributed between 3-month intervals for 30$. That was and still is a great deal.
With each of the DLCs having an [i]absolute minimum[/i] of 15 hours of enjoyment, (without even factoring in replay-ability) it's a great deal.
Please try to change my mind, and I'll try my best to change yours.
EDIT1: Thank you for all of your passionate responses.
The main 2 points I've been seeing throughout this post are:
❏ I didn't like Season of the Drifter, therefore 20$ would've been fitting.
❏ No strikes/crucible maps/planets, therefore not worth it at all.
To the first point, that is truly the meaning of value being subjective. Albeit you and I might've not liked Season of the Drifter, that doesn't necessarily mean it wasn't worth 10$. However, there is a point to be made that you shouldn't be [i]forced[/i] into buying one season's worth of content just to play another.
It might've been better as 10$ individual installments, I could agree with that.
To the second point- however. It wasn't advertised that you would receive any of those things. You knew [i]exactly[/i] what you'd be getting upon buying it. Hence why I linked the advertisement above.
If you'd like to make the argument that explorable space or # of maps determine the value of a DLC- We'll refer back to the House of Wolves DLC.
For 20$ USD it had-
[spoiler]❏ 3 Crucible Maps
❏ 1 Strike
❏ New Social Space
❏ Trials of Osiris
❏ Prison of Elders
❏ 12 Exotics
❏ 9 New Legendary Gearsets[/spoiler]
Now let's compare this to 2/3 of the Seasons in the Season Pass:
Season of the Drifter and the Black Armory
[spoiler]❏ 2 New Gambit Maps
❏ 4 Black Armory Forges
❏ New Raid (Scourge of the Past)
❏ Gambit Prime
❏ The Reckoning
❏ 6 Pinnacle Weapons
❏ 9 New Legendary Gearsets
❏ 14 Exotics[/spoiler]
Now you can determine which one has more worth to you, but objectively the Annual Pass has more content than any of Destiny's predecessors in the 10-30$ range. Comparing CoO, Warmind, TDB would go even worse.
The comparison above doesn't even take into consideration the Menagerie which on it's own adds another--
[spoiler] ❏ 6 New Gearsets
❏ New Raid (Crown of Sorrow)
❏ New Court of Oryx/PoE/EP-esk activity, the Menagerie
❏ 6-7 New Exotics
❏ 3 More Pinnacle Weapons
[/spoiler]
I understand some of you might value a new social space over a raid, but objectively a social space is easier to design than the entire layout for a raid in addition to a unique boss with lots of other unique mechanics as well.
I most likely won't be responding as frequently as before, as I'm seeing a lot of repetitive arguments. But thank you for commenting on here at all. I'm glad you all as a community have a passion to see this game thrive.
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"*Insert Season Here* was awful." with no follow-up or explanation is not a good argument! That is defined as an insult, and you are clearly NOT looking for a discussion.
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Glad I waited and paid $15 for the Annual Pass. Running forges kinda' sucks and Gambit just ain't my thing. I'm glad I saved $20 off the $35 price and played other games instead. I'm also glad that the next seasonal passes will be sold for $10 each. For example, if Bungie sells a Season of the 4v4 Sweatfest, I can skip it and save $10.
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I would say it's worth the $15 it's priced at right now
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I only see negative comments, but it's got a much higher percentage for positives. Sounds about right.
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If you asked me during season of the drifter I would say that it wasn't worth it (I dislike gambit). But in opulence there are some nice pve additions that changed my mind, the chalice is a nice way to farm items and the raid is pretty good.
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From Scotland it's worth it but I would appreciate them converting UK pounds to usd instead of paying a little extra for the same content
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7 AntwortenIn the UK we paid 30 quid, or 38 dollars. Was not worth that for sure. The fact the next DLC is gonna cost as much as some full games just shows how greedy bungo are
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11 AntwortenThey did not really add much content. I stopped playing right after Foresaken and picked up the season pass for $15. Thought what the hell. Anyway, I am playing all the same shit I was playing before I stopped. All the new content is behind level caps or six man fire teams. I will correct myself, for the average solo player they added 1 DLC worth of stuff. If you play all the time and enjoy grinding just to get into a raid group they added a decent chunk!
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It was worth the 30$ and i didnt even play have the content because i play pvp
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1 Antworten[quote]Each with equivalent content to either The Dark Below or House of Wolves from Destiny 1[/quote] -Only adding a new activity or two -No New story missions -No new Strikes -No new crucible maps -Only 2 of the DLC's had "raid lairs" which featured incomplete weapon selections (PoE even had a full set of gear and secondary weapons that had elements connected to them for quality sake). -One DLC just used the same adventures with new dialogue -Very few new exotics were added -No reset for vendors like TDB or HoW -No new Social Spaces added like with HoW -Nothing like Trials of Osiris added with HoW (which again had it's own complete gear set to begin with, and second set of (Adept) weapons.) -Forges are glorified, multi-phase public events. So you paid $30 for something that maybe had 2-4 hours of actual content in total before forcing you to grind the same thing over and over again (And sometimes forcing you to do that jsut to play the content you payed for, forges being a heavy example of this). These are more like paid updates that would have been free for any other game at the most being worth $5 a piece if that, and I am being generous with that. Coming from Borderlands 2 where you could get 4 DLC's for $30 and each one adding tons of new story, quests, weapons of various tiers (some of which are still useful to this day), raid bosses, and much more, this, quite frankly, is unacceptable. Hell they recently released a free DLC for Borderlands 2 players that ties into the next game which has just as much content as the previous DLC's. But what really takes the cake here is the fact that a lot of their work each season went into their cash shop, especially in season of opulence.
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I can’t really say either way as I didn’t trust Bungie enough (at that point in time) to buy the Annual Pass. They’d burnt a lot of good Will with me leading up to the Annual Pass launch so I opted out on principle. But to answer the OP it could well be worth $30. At the very least it was more content to play. I still don’t feel like I’m missing out on much but not playing it as it gave me the opportunity to play other games for awhile....and besides....when the next DLC drops (which I will buy this time) I’m almost certain the new toys will be bigger, better and stronger than the gear from the Annual Pass. Every new content drop seems to follow the same formula by making as many weapons and armour as irrelevant as possible from previous installations.
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6 AntwortenAnnual/season pass was by far the worst garbage out out by Bungie! Are you kidding me!? It was a year long pile of trash with unimaginative, repetitive, boring recycled content! I mean really dude!!! This dude is clueless...... mind boggling how blind and ignorant people are that play this game that have literally no concept of the game nor what constitutes good/new content! Yeah man, have fun with your recycled trash missions and overused reparative recycled quests with recycled bounties.... geezzusss....
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1 AntwortenAs a solo player who likes a good campaign there is nothing worth paying for. "New" content is just more tunnels with a deep-voiced boss waiting in a locked room. Weapons are reskins. Any good gear gets nerfed to please the PvP crowd. Horde modes are boring. The rest is just grinding for cores, etc. Can't speak and can't modify my character's appearance. I'm just third guy from the left, a hireling of Spider who has to take Drifter's crap. Not fun.
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1 AntwortenI actually haven't really played any of them but im curious what people think we're the best parts cause I'm kinda overwhelmed with stuff to do
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I agree it was worth it but I can’t call season of the drifter dlc.Everything about it aside from exotics and eververse was terrible and reckoning is dead.
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I got it for €15 with the PSN sale about two months ago. Best money I've spent in a while.
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If you say so. I haven’t played since the end of Black Armory season— I burned out on Gambit so badly that the mere idea of the Drifter being the season’s theme made me call it quits. Even so, I guess the Annual Pass beats a poke in the eye with a stick.
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I didn’t need to read anything you said. $30 for 3 seasons (even though Season of the Outlaw was terrible) is not a bad price.
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1 AntwortenGot it cheaper £23 pounds.
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Not worth it... nothing expanded on the existing game, just redskins and horde modes. You are not missing anything if you don't buy it there for it has no value.
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8 AntwortenSimple answer, nope not worth it. There is nothing overyly interesting in them. All 3 DLCs focused on the same activity type...the only activity type. Escalation, blind well, forges, gambit, menagerie are all basically the samething. I look through the weapons and all I see is meh. Same old stuff. Only real exception would be the demolitionist perk in Prime & menagerie. Armour for hunter is shit. Very underwhelming annual pass. Boring too
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I'd say worth it. I disliked season of the drifter bc there was no raid so less endgame and it focused waaaaay to much on Gambit but it was still ok. Season of the forge had one of my favorite raids to run for fun, decent amount of other content. Seasons of opulence is solid too. Plenty of weapons, good raid, menagerie, better farming ability, etc. All in all the season pass gets a B+ bc no new strikes or pvp maps were added and the iron banner and vender inventory didn't change.
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1 AntwortenKreis You make some valid points and i agree that eververse must be removed from this game but, Whether we wanted it or not, we've stepped into a war with the Cabal on Mars. So let's get to taking out their command, one by one. Valus Ta'aurc. From what I can gather, he commands the Siege Dancers from an Imperial Land Tank just outside of Rubicon. He's well protected, but with the right team, we can punch through those defenses, take this beast out, and break their grip on Freehold
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12 AntwortenBlack Armoury was terrible, Joker's Wild's only interesting content was the lore. Penumbra has been the only DLC with any substance and I'm not totally sure that's worth the price. Ideally, I want a return to the expansion model. Warmind was fantastic and if they could drop content like that then I'd be happy. All in all, I might be giving up after Shadowkeep.
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No, it was not worth it to me. I’m stopped playing after season of the drifter came out. It was fun for about a week or so. Got tired of the grind pretty fast. I have no interest in playing again or giving bungie another dime until some things are fixed/handled. Enhancement cores being the main one, for me anyways. Just remove them.
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i would pay 30 just for last word thorn beloved and austringer lol
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2 Antwortenbetter than the bullshit with CoO and warmind those should be for free on steam with how little effort was put into them compared to these 3