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Edited by sgtmuffin: 2/13/2016 8:40:26 PM
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Free does not equal Value

To all these people trashing everyone who complains about the new content claiming "it's free you have no right to complain" Destiny is not a free to play game. There has been nothing but "free to play" content for the last couple months and the foreseeable future. To make my point clear, there are lots of free to play games that aren't [b]worth[/b] your [b]time[/b] Destiny is falling into this trap, we have a game we like but is becoming diluted with free to play crap without actually being free to play. There is, however, worthwhile free content. Look at a game like heroes of the storm. Whether you like it or not, their new maps (which are completely free) and new heroes (which can be earned or bought) is pretty game changing significant content. That's just one example. The sparrow racing was one thing, but this is crap on a whole other level. It being free doesn't justify it's value to players. If you like it that's your opinion, if you don't that's also your opinion and your all entitled to it. But Bungie has no real ground to disregard this complaint from its community. Final note: there is also a difference between a company trying to make money and making outright bad decisions. For example they start selling multiple emotes, then only let you equip one. Players want it, players will buy more, everybody wins... This is just bad decision making and ultimately could ruin the company. Edit: two big responses have come up that I would like to address. 1. "It's free, if you don't like it go play something else" You have a favourite restaurant. It has great food for a reasonable price. You go there all the time, and the business thrives. One day the restaurant changes it's menu to one item, crackers for free. You and other customers start to complain, wanting the old menu back. The business responds "if you don't like it, go somewhere else." So you do, the restaurant goes out of business. We're you in the right to complain? 2. "I've played for x hours, which makes it have more value, because more hours per dollar," Time does not equal value either. A movie costs $20 for 2 hours. However, you can watch a movie 1000 times, so you get an hour of entertainment for 2 cents. Worth it right? They could charge $200 and justify it. I go to my job and spend 8 hours a day there, yet they pay me for it....
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  • I look at it this way. I love X restaurant. I love dining in at this place. Before I used to get everything to include utensils and napkins and sauce or spice packets for free. Then one day X restaurant started charging $x for napkins. I don't care. I don't need their napkins. I'll just go to the bathroom if things get too messy. Then one day they also start charging for sauce or spice packets. Well that sucks but if need be, I can always bring my own syrup (get reference?). Anyway it alters my dining experience a lot, but I'll put up with it because I like their food. Then one day they start charging for the use of their utensils. At this point I start getting pissed off. I either have to bring my own, eat like a caveman or start ordering out. I bring my own utensils for a while but it's a real hassle. So I order to go. But the food doesn't taste as good. I have to deal with a lot of styrofoam and now my experience is just ruined. I stop going to this restaurant. I see destiny and many many other games becoming this with Microtransactions. It's odd or weird at first but no real concern. Then I'm eating food at home out of a styrofoam container. Forget about the fact that destiny and a whole lot of other AAA games are cutting up their content too. So one day I get a steak. Next day I get veggies. And next day I get potato.

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