I think FotL was disappointing overall. I got a ghost mask, though, so I'm not that mad. After I open my last free treasure, Ghost Ghost will be mine! [spoiler]The spookiest (and luckiest) seven you will ever meet[/spoiler]

Anyone who tries to explain it away as harmless optional content is wrong. They don't put microtransactions in the game as 'truly' optional. They're designed to be manipulative. They're designed to make you feel like you're missing out on something. They're designed to make you feel jealous when you see other people with cool new gear that's weighted towards paying. That's directly impacting the experience of the person who wants to play the game they paid $100s of dollars for. I don't mind this kind of junk in free to play games, and I don't mind microtransactions in games where the DLC is free. But seeing it in full price, paid games is gross. Do you want to pay $100s for a game, only to feel like you're not getting a full experience? Nope. It's Bungie trying to have it every way they can.

I do agree that it's not really much of an event. I wouldn't call going back and playing already played content but with a mask on an "event".

This is really becoming absurd. Did anyone really believe Festival of the the Lost was going to be another Rise of Iron on the heels of Rise of Iron? This '' Babe of the woods routine '' needs to stop. Most of you have been playing this game for over two years. This is well covered territory. Acting surprised, and disappointed, and miffed, over something that occurs in every single gaming title to date, not to mention this one, is truly ridiculous. And while I can agree these items are a little overpriced, I am still realistic enough to understand this is a business. Some businesses the community respects and supports through their loyalty and their wallets, some they don't. They don't run around crying about the places of business that do not receive their money, or their prices, or their practices. Enough is enough. If you don't like what they are doing, LEAVE THE FORUMS, REMOVE THE GAME FROM YOUR COLLECTION, STOP GIVING BUNGIE YOUR MONEY, AND MOVE ON TO OTHER TITLES YOU FEEL WILL PROVIDE A MORE SOUND INVESTMENT FROM YOUR TIME AND MONEY. They have Orchestras to pay, artists, programmers, etc, etc, etc. This is one of the ways they pay employees, it's one of the ways they keep the game running. What do you think keeps this game running, good intentions? The bottom line always speaks the loudest in business, always. Yeah ok, maybe they could be a little more transparent about things like this, but do they really? Did anyone really think this would be anything other then a tongue and cheek celebration of Halloween? What were you expecting, a Halloween raid? No, it's like going to a haunted house right? You don't get in for free, you pay whatever and you get to participate. Same thing here. Start using the old noggins. Apply some context to what's going on. Honestly, does Bungie really need to come out and say most of FOTL will require money? Or are we all experienced enough as gamers to understand something as obvious as this? I would like to think it's the latter. As for the argument against micros in general. stop, stop, stop, stop it. All of you, all of us, have contributed to this. Through one gaming title or another. We have fueled the machine. We have made the demand, now publishers are providing the supply. We spoke loud and clear with our wallets through various other titles that we wanted microtransactions. We had a chance to say no, and we did not. Get off your holy soapboxes and start taking some of the responsibility for this. Blaming them for something anyone of us would do if we ran our own business when customers clearly decided they wanted certain things, is moronic. You need to make your own choices. These posts are not going to change anything if the next game you buy, along with it, you also support their micros because you think that particular game is hot shit. It works both ways. Stop being hypocritical. No more of these posts. Enough is enough. You wanted it, now own it. One last thing about the rng component. None of you have any standing there either, if you gave them the money. It says plain as day, POSSIBLE. If you keep spending and spending to try and get one item from a lever pull so to speak....How can I make this clear, THAT IS ENTIRELY YOUR FAULT. Bungie is in no way liable for your lack of self control. Starting to get the picture yet? It's called '' Accountability ''

If it was buy what you see for $3-$5 and not be RNG I think more people would spend money and bungie would look better to players. As is, it's using psychology to get people to hope for an item and spend dumb amounts of cash. This leaves quite a few guardians upset. Even the ones spending large amounts of cash.

You need to change your headline to FOTL [u]IS[/u] the biggest bullshit cash grab in destiny history

Pretty much. No real rewards for doing quests just like last year so i just declined all the quests. A HUGE waste of time.

What's hilarious is, in a big F U to players that can't or won't buy Silver, Bungie included a shader this festival named 'Sea of Tears'... for free.

yes, it was, deej's thai hooker fund was dwindling and he used his last dildo, he needed a recharge.

The fact that shit "expires" is -blam!-ing stupid. Take the broom sparrow for example. A free tidbit of content (you know, because of all the money generated by Eververse) that they had to go out of their way to design and code into the game and then they're gonna turn around and take it back out?!?! They're literally getting rid of content already in the game, not to mention it's the ONE sparrow that isn't a blatant reskin of the SAME SHIT THEY'VE BEEN GIVING US.

My name is byf made a video on this, it's very passive but gets the point across.

Byf's festival of the lost video perfectly sums up the reasons why it was a major disappointment and failure.