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8/8/2014 9:13:32 PM
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Paying real money for glimmer.
Now, the game seems to be shaping up rather well. But there's one thing that needs to be considered. Time. Time is something lots of players do not have. Many players work or have other obligations.
So there's a really easy solution that would work without imbalance in the game: the ability to pay real money to get glimmer. This way players could instead focus on playing the game instead of farming like the rest of players and wasting their time. You can't buy gear with real money so you're still at the mercy of loot drops, allowing there to be no real imbalance between players.
Example:
Bob spends 100 quid on glimmer.
Bill spends his time farming that glimmer for free.
No big deal in a game mostly focused on cooperation and strictly balanced PvP sans Iron banner.
What could possibly go wrong? People already pay over ten times the price for Ghost Editions. There's no difference here except how much you love the game and value your time. Being options, this should fit perfectly into everyone's opinions.
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If this happens then it will just become a pay to win game. Nobody wants that. Shut the front door and get out.
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Don't plan on playing a game like destiny if you won't invest time. If you do you can't complain. You bought access to this game when you purchased it, not everything in it. That you should earn like everyone else. It's not a free to play (pay to win) game. You add this to the game and it would only hurt it.
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haha... ha..
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I say, no. Why? Diablo 3.
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Absolutely not.
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hell no
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Edited by Hot Juicy Pie: 8/10/2014 5:51:27 AMAll the stuff in the ghost edition is cosmetic, it doesn't effect game balance. Giving people the ability to buy ingame currencies which can then be used to buy actual gear will turn this into a pay to win game.
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What is this Gun Gale Online ;)
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Negative ghost rider
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I thought about that too and after thinking about it I hope they dont do that cuz i sink alot of money in ultimate team on madden and nba live and if i have the option to buy glimmer i will probably buy it so i vote no for the sake of my pockets
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Oh -blam!- yeah. While we're at it, why not let us pay real money for engrams, emblems, sparrows, ships and kdr?
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Solution: pay someone to farm glimmer on your character. That's the closest thing you'll get.
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If you would pay to get something, what are you earning? The game is built around "You shaping your destiny through your experiences." What the hell are you experiencing by buying your glimmer and maybe other things? Nothing! Your only "Experience" is the experience of losing money to something you get absolutely free in game, if you don't have time to play then you obviously don't need whatever your hoping to buy. ~l3lues
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Micro transactions ruin games. It takes the fun out of shaping your character and cheapens the game overall. I mean I was making 10 thousand glimmer an hour during the beta, so why would that be difficult for anybody else? If you can't devote an hour for glimmer, you shouldn't play the game.
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I left DCUO that game is like an Arcade game, you need money. Even beyond the subscription people are just spending and spending. There is no fun left.
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Edited by CHIRAQ: 8/10/2014 12:57:04 PMThumbs down. Just because ppl have work doesn't make it fair to buy your way through the game like [i]Clash Of Clans[/i]. Some mmo's can be pay to win but what's the fun in that. If you don't have [i][u]time[/u][/i] then make some. Micro dlc is one thing (map packs, guns, extra missions season pass etc.), but going up to some guy and getting 100k glimmer for 100$, right when you hit max lvl (to get all the best guns) is straight up bullshit. Plus this is still an fps mainly. Take pride in earning
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Edited by VEXrobotics: 8/10/2014 1:01:35 PM-blam!- this idea. I hate pay to win games! Some people can't afford the time or the money so this makes it completely unfair!
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If you don't have the time to get good, that's your own fault and you should fall behind the "no lifers" that's how it is in every game. There doesn't need to be this at all. Gold selling is bannable in every game under the sun.
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Edited by Eternity: 8/10/2014 1:11:34 PMHell no. Real money utterly destroyed Diablo 3. I never want to see a loot driven game that involves real money again. If you don't have time to farm for hours on end (not that glimmer is hard to get anyway), too bad. Destiny has been my most anticipated game for a long while, even before I knew what it was (just knowing it was Bungie's next project was enough). Having said that, I would immediately stop playing and never look back if Bungie introduced real money microtransactions. Have never looked back to Blizzard after D3 - I even skipped HotS, and I used to love SC.
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Nopenope nope. Let's look at any standard market of commerce and the system that surrounds it. The ability to even purchase others glimmer for their time forms a shady boundary between the link between earned play experience and simply paying to skip the point of a game such as destiny. Buying glimmer in general is out of the question, the ability to buy more in any number whenever you'd like would absolutely destroy any semblance of a challenge curve and progression system. Trouble collecting motes of light? No worries you can spend money to buy glimmer and supplement any work you'd otherwise have to do. Simply put, if you can't put the time in, you won't have the time to forge those game experiences and this won't be able to "earn" the loot glimmer and other rare commerce items grant. Which is clearly in place for a reason.
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Edited by dirteshot: 8/10/2014 1:25:05 PMI was really just hoping this was a troll post but your tags don't say if it is or not... A trade system had to be in place for this to happen... No trading! No glimmer selling... Nothing like that period... Still hoping this is a troll...
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For the love of all things good in the world NO Micro transactions!!!!!
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Edited by xDefilement: 8/10/2014 1:30:10 PM[u][b]KEEP MICROTRANSACTIONS OUT OF DESTINY. THEY RUIN VIDEO GAMES.[/b][/u]
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7 RepliesNo man this is a game not a trashy pay-to-win crap
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Mircotransactions in general are a bad thing however being able to purchase the currency is not that bad. Think about it you can't really purchase any super powerful gear with it. Yes you could rank the cryptarch guy rep really quickly but thats nothing special. With a limit on how much or how often you can purchase glimmer would help that to. It also eliminates gold sellers as why would people go to gold farmer if they can get it from the firm, as bungie are looking into the economics of destiny with intention to indroduce a trade system sometime after launch.
