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#feedback

Edited by Lt Diet Pepsi: 7/26/2015 11:36:13 AM
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Taken King Value POV (seeking a mature attitude from this forum)

I think the complaint is not so much about their ability to afford the Taken King, and more on their own value to DLC in general. Forgetting that Bungie has charged people plenty of bucks for maps. Maps. Some believe that DLC is content that was ripped from the game they already bought. Or content in the game, but just locked behind a pay gate. There are others that think a few bucks here and there is okay, but only under a certain amount. Because no matter what, additional content pales in comparison to the original content. They are of the hipster variety. I don't think the "critics" or haters have fully grasped what is coming in The Taken King. For them they believe they are still owed something for buying Destiny in the first place. Just look at Lost Sols and all his posts. He believes Bungie owes him explanations for past DLC content becoming Nightly/Weeklies before he purchased the DLC. That he deserves matchmaking because it's demanded here all the time. Would anyone give into the demands of a psyche ward. It's more sane there than here. Also owed is an explanation from Deej about everything. None of these people want a conversation with Bungie. They want to interrogate them like they're Jack Bauer. It's very childish. You could ask them to keep it simple and sometimes they will acknowledge. But they won't do it. Give these raving lunatics the simple challenge of making an honest and clear request in the form of feedback, and you get Bungie [b]needs[/b] to do this and that and this as well. I think it is already more than obvious to every avid fan of Destiny that something drastically changed to Destiny 7 months before launch. Videos of Destiny in 2013 have a much different approach to what we have today. The composer was booted and the lead writer left due most likely to creative differences with someone at Bungie/Activision. As open and transparent as things are these days, some people expected an explanation. No business in their right mind would do that. Especially with a subject that involves a ten year plan. And no professional would divulge such secrets either. Yet still people believe Bungie ought to spill. In my personal opinion, I hate that they made no effort to show or tell things would be different from the 2013 hype to the 2014. But I just as much understand why they wouldn't do that for the sake of not derailing Destiny even by the slightest. I can only hold out hope that what we were shown in the early days may still reprise itself in the game series soon. That is what I am hoping for with the Taken King. Downside is, whatever terrible thing about it will be overcome by the new super abilities, thus paving the way to continued play into the sequel. Where the trend may continue. As you may learn from most fans who never even knew these boards existed, most people don't care. If they don't like what they bought, they simply don't keep playing it. Without a word or even a whimper, they move on. There are those who have owned the game for months, even since launch, that have yet to go beyond the main story missions. Yet they had fun, and will probably get the sequel. Never mind the DLC. If none of this got to you I'll simply say this: entitlement is among your worst traits. What you think you're owed, you are not. What ideas you think Bungie should use, they don't have to. Feedback is awesome in that way. They aren't marching orders. I'm really glad that nothing said here is taken as gospel from the community at large. I've seen some cool ideas mentioned here. Few of which are acknowledged in general. I'd say for most forum boards 66% is discontent, 33% very content, with 1% being pure gold. Bungie's feedback forum is like 85% discontent, 14% content, and 1% pure gold. That said, simple feedback: 1) Would like to see more vault space for some of that new gear in Taken King. I'd be stoked for just 8 more slots for gear as example. 2) Clan integration [b]IN THE GAME[/b]. 3) Skolas checkpoint? I get this could be a philosophical difference, but this has ruined weekends for my friends. 4) IB helmets? They are rarely in Lord Saladin's inventory. Makes me want to steal the gear right off his own head. 5) Shout out from Deej or Bungie in the comments. Cozmo would be cool too. Just because. 6) Accept my challenge to a Nerf war. Anywhere in Bellevue if parking is free or validated. Just say when, and probably wear. Must be Nerf. Not Busbee or other Nerf knockoffs.

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  • The reason I am discontent with TTK is that I got roughly 7 hours of story out of the original campaign. Not bad... CoD campaigns are only 4 hours on their hardest difficulty, and Battlefield trails with a 3 1/2 hour campaign. But those games have amazing, and balanced, PvP. Thats what I like to stick around for, so that its new every time. Now, Bungie has the crucible, which is cool. I enjoy the crucible. But so many people cheat, and the servers are so bad, its almost not worth it. Its like they partnered with Playstation just so they can use their free servers and charge paying customers to play on them. But the real reason I am discontent is that when TDB was released, we got approximately 4 hours of original content. I don't count waiting around Skywatch for Urzog as content. Nothing new for PvP. At least in other games they release new better weapons or gamemodes. We got worse weapons that replaced vanilla gear, and a couple new maps in a custom playlist. Then HoW came out, and the same thing. A 5 hour campaign, at least this had a story though, and a couple hours on PoE. But this introduced ToO. I like ToO, even with all the garbage in it. But its not enough to keep me around. Now they want 40 dollars for TTK. It seems reasonable, they said it compares to the original game contentwise, but when looking at TTK and some of the other games being released, it just doesn't compare. Destiny got a free pass on launch. The other games coming out were just as bad, and so people decided to give a new franchise a try. It looked amazing from the trailers, and its made by Bungie. But then we got another day of gaming courtesy of Activision all for a mere $59.99. Now that they have real competition, they really are making it look like they dropped the ball again. I feel discontent because I was marketed an RPG, and I got call of duty with space magic. I was marketed an open world where if you can see it you can go there, skyrim style, and I got a linear shooter. I was teased with immersive multiplayer PvE and I got LFG. This game has just been one disappointment after another, not because I believed the hype, not because I built it up to be something it wasn't, but because I watched the ViDocs, and believed that since they are showing me pieces of the game, telling me about the game, interviewing creators of the game and having them tell me what to expect from the game, I believed them. I suppose its my fault, but now I can say the old line, Fool me once Bungie, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. But I assure you, there will not be a third time. If TTK does not live up to its current hype, which is borderline impossible, then I'm off to the next thing, and Destiny can become the Medal of Honor of the next gen consoles.

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