Stick to your guns as anyone should. For me I think it's fun to have a mask like the blue skull and its the first silver I have bought. The legendary mask takes my Titan from a 302 to a 272 so its really for fun only. The candy and glue and whatever is a small thing for the event. After Halloween it will not impact the game in any way so IMHO its OK.
I have two choices for the real Halloween. I can make my son a Halloween costume for free or buy him one. Still going trick or treating either way. I bought my destiny costume and after Halloween its nothing but good memories. I think that is the point of the festival, and I am having a blast and so is my son. We buy games to have fun.
Everyone should do what they feel is right. I feel like not worring about what Bungie might do or how this or that could lead into a bad thing. It's a game and that's way too much thought.
It's a game. I have been saying this to my team. " Please stop sweating the quests and bounties and just shoot things. Let's get back to having fun. Period. "
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I appreciate your view as well. I certainly didn't share mine in any attempt to change it, or anyone else's. In fact, our positions are not that far apart. I play games for fun and don't get caught up in loot-centric play. (For example, all the concern over Nightfall rewards. A 310 exotic drop would be great, but I wasn't upset to get a 290-something ghost last night because the reason I ran the thing was because two-manning it with my buddy is fun. I'll probably run it a few more times this week with others because it is fun.) (Tangent too long? Sorry. I think in analogies a lot.) Back on task: this Festival is a load of fun. I was essentially about to tip Bungie twenty bucks for such a fun little diversion. 2000 silver would just collect dust like the 200k+ worth of glimmer-consumables in my vault, because I personally have no interest in buying the treat bags. (The Zombie Dance is hilarious, and the 300 bonus silver and the 400 introductory silver would go to that.) But those treat bags are for sale, for real money, and they contain boosts. Boosts I personally don't want. Boosts I wish I could get rid of faster (from the Levante bags) because they don't benefit me and they clutter up my inventory. Boosts that might theoretically have only the slightest bit of worth to Kinderguardians in the first, what, two hours of play time? But Bungie drew a line and said the Eververse would not sell items that affect gameplay, and then immediately blurred it. They blurred it by forcing garbage boosts on you if you wanted to buy the cosmetic items, and that is a very minor smudge to be sure. I want Bungie to make money on this game and keep it going. I want to give them my money. But selling boosts isn't the way I want to see this go, and I decided to withhold that twenty dollar tip I was going to give them and provide them with the feedback as to why. I want this game to be fun for me, fun for you. I want us to go shoot some aliens with silly masks on. And I am doing it this week, just like you. Sorry this is rambling and not really building up to a point. I am swiping this stuff out on my phone, not typing it up and editing it, running it by sample readers and all that. Your response started me thinking and I am just sharing the thoughts for whoever is interested in this discussion.