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Edited by Poisonous: 7/14/2014 8:42:39 AM
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Why the regular Xbox player shouldn't care about exclusive DLC

First off, I'm an xbox player. I always have been. Both the xbox and playstation communities have a part of them that is frowned upon. Those are the people who whine and complain about any exclusivity that anyone else gets. Now coming from me, the gamer who has received timed content from games like CoD, etc. (I can't think of any others as I am mostly a pc player now) can tell you that no matter what content it was, it only lasted a week max. Any preorder content, or any form of content like it. And I cannot stand xbox players complaining about how the playstation players get exclusive content, because we all know those two guns and three sets of armor are going to be worthless in a week prior to the release because ever player will have it. On a side note, I also hate seeing xbox players complain about bungie not liking their xbox fan base. That's ridiculous. Sorry for any grammatical issues or spelling issues. It is about 5am and I'm typing on a tiny iPhone keyboard. I just wanted to share my thoughts with the bungie community! Welcome all! Playstation and Xbox players alike!
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  • I truly can not understand why some Xbox players are so upset. Well, I understand why, but I don't really think they have much of any reasoning behind it. You're still getting all the content, and the beta, they're just timed exclusive to Playstation platforms. It's independently developed content that Sony paid for in order to market the PS4. You're still getting the same game and all the base content that was originally intended for the game, not to mention that you'll still get the Playstation exclusive content later on anyway. I guess being on the other end of that stick this time sucks, doesn't it? Microsoft has been paying loads of cash for timed exclusive content for years (probably more than they spent on actual exclusives, but that's another story). Sony does it with Destiny and now Xbox players are throwing fits that Bungie has [i]"forgotten their roots"[/i] and is [i]"neglecting their fans."[/i] They haven't and they're not, they have fans on Playstation too you know. If I owned a PS3 [b]and[/b] an X360, can I not be both a Playstation fan and a Halo fan (and therefore a Bungie fan)? Personally, I think timed exclusive anything is a stupid idea regardless of who does it, but that's not the point. The point is some people are way overreacting to something that isn't even a problem. When Xbox was getting the deals, Xbox players had nothing to say. When Playstation gets a deal, now its unfair. You want to be given more than Playstation players or you want to receive exactly the same as Playstation players, but if you're given less, you throw a fit. [b][u]Again, I'm generalizing. Not all Xbox players are like this so please don't take this personally.[/u][/b] Oh and lets not forget, the GTA IV DLC was exclusive to the Xbox 360 for a year. GTA had become what it was up to that point as a Playstation franchise, but the Xbox 360 version is getting the timed exclusive content? Outrageous. No, wait, its just business. You have to deal with it (or get the other console). I chose to just wait the year out for the GTA IV DLC. And hey, the additional content really wasn't really anything special anyway. Activision spent approximately $500 million to fund the development of Destiny. Avtivision (and Bungie) has every right to do whatever they feel they need to do to make that money back and then some. If they feel that promoting one console over the other will help them then that's what they're going to do. And lets not forget, in Japan, Destiny will only be available on Playstation consoles. If they gave Xbox special treatment, it would not help them in Japan. And not just Japan. Playstation tends to outsell Xbox in other countries. Really, Bungie is being smart with what they're doing. Sure this situation sucks if you're an Xbox player, but its business and you just happen to be getting the short end of the stick with Destiny. Welcome to the club Xbox, welcome. We Playstation players are used to it. Trust me, it'll be OK. Once 9/9 comes around, no one will care about any of this. We'll be too busy playing this great game. Sorry for the long read. Went on a bit of a rant there and I didn't intend to.

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