This is a really confusing one for me personally. I understand you probably want to keep players engaged until right before the final shape, but I really don’t think this is the answer. The only weapon people are particularly excited about that’ll be available week 1 is Recluse and you haven’t even told us which weapons will be releasing week by week. Not only that, but one of those weapons will only give us 2 WEEKS for the limited time ornament. According to you all these are very very rare, so I’m a little confused why you’d time gate this? This is such a strange choice coming off the back of what seemed like a really good stream yesterday, and honestly it feels like a decision that probably should have been mentioned yesterday too, but you all didn’t because damage control live on stream is harder than damage control while you’re all just in the office / working. Whose decision even was this? Who thought: “Yeah let’s force these players to wait until what is essentially right before the final shape for them to be able to get several of these weapons.”? Weird choice Bungie, and honestly I hope this gets enough backlash that whoever thought this was a good idea changes their mind before they realize it’s going to hurt and not help, because currently Bungie seems like it could use the help.
Edit: About 20 minutes ago Bungie has changed the way this all will end up working, and everything will now be available by April 30th. I'm personally much happier with this, and while it isn't everything at once, with the idea that new content will also drop in the second half I think this is a good resolution.
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Its funny how much emotional value people add to this tiny limited addition to the game. I mean, grow up. Its just a game.
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They killed most of my hype... I mean I'll play it but it feels so shitty.
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release all guns —> playerbase spikes, everyone gets what they want in a week, playerbase falls and people complain bc of lack of content release guns thru drip —> people complain they wont get their guns instantly, however playerbase will not spike then fall all at once, instead it will have a steadily increase for a short time with tiny spikes and falls each week you see why they did what they did (the complaining happens either way)
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68 days left of the season ….Bungie is throwing everything they have got to fill the void and to see what sticks . They have to draw it out….there’s no new story content, season and missions . This is it for now .
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You would think they'd learn from the past about player burnout right before a major release
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I don’t understand why they need to drip feed us guns that we already had and they took away. It would make more sense if they were brand new weapons.
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I guess people don't understand so i will open your heads. So lets say u want just hammerhead, but that is the final weapon to release. So u have to wait 6 weeks to get the weeapon u only wanted u get me right? Some peps only want 1or 2 guns and that's it, so if there gun they want is time gated they basically have to wait for no reason. I understand spreading out is okay but with final shape around the corner we can't be doing repeats(but i'm not surpried anymore).
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Quest throttling is the problem think about it. They throttle the quest kills.
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It's gonna be funny when these weapons release only to get immediately clapped and overshadowed by auto rifles in pvp.
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The only weapon people are excited about is recluse ... ??? Did you forget about funnelweb ?? It is the exact same gun .. No , it is all about the hammerhead and the mountaintop my guy . That will bring back life into destiny 2 .
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Is there a list of what’s on and what’s time gated?
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My guess is they haven't finished the coding and quests for the remaining weapons so they're giving themselves time to do it Which is even more embarrassing, if you know you're not gonna deliver some pn schedule — don't -blam!- include it!!
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Too often they manage to shoot themselves in the foot. If only they would ask themselves: would any player want this random restriction? No. No one wants this. So don’t do it. 🤷♂️