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10/4/2014 8:42:52 PM
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That's Shady Bungie
So here's how I feel about the recent loot changes my dear Bungie.
1. You upgraded ascendant materials to legendary. Why? Because yes. Makes no sense.
2. You increased the chance to get legendaries a from engrams. Yay, but..
3. Those legendaries are are usually ascendant materials now. Go figure...
4. You were sneaky and decreased the drop rate for legendary engrams and completely pulled them from public events and crypt-arch ranks.
Basically what has happened is you increased the chance to get a legendary item from an engram and took away the actual engrams. AND! Even if we get a legendary item, it is far more likely to be ascendant materials since you so conveniently promoted them.
That's very shady. Gear was the only "endgame" you had and you just made it more difficult to acquire the gear.
Kudos....
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55 RepliesEdited by end: 10/5/2014 7:16:14 PMIt's called a market correction. Go look it up, I'll wait... ...Back? Great! So when a currency becomes devalued (In this case engrams and upgrade materials) you can deal with this inflation by reducing the currency in circulation. This is what's happened and the outcry here is not due to a problem but rather the previous glut of currency people had taken as normal. The LootCave(TM), multi-character S-Coin buying, Queen loot farming, etc destabilized the Destiny economy and Bungie has stepped in and added some regulation to bring currency values more in line with their intended ranges (Blue being relatively common, Purple being more rare and requiring faction standing with occasional drops along the way and Exotics being hyper rare and the result of end-game content and difficult multi-part bounties). The same goes for upgrade materials. If you don't like the current economy consider if thats a result of the previous norm (considered broken by the developers and most players) or an actual lack of utility. You can buy a full set of purples. You can buy an exotic for left and right sides. You only need end-game materials for the last few upgrade slots so you should be LL 26-27 before that's a roadblock. Seems fine to me. The early investors in the unregulated economy made out like bandits (which is what they are), it wasn't tenable and I'm glad the frontier days of Destiny are over. Cheers!
