Why are people not more insulted by the fact that, despite so many things needing fixing, the developers put even a small amount of time and effort to make the dumb purple ball in the tower responsive to touch & gave it different physics that would be "more interesting?"
The purple ball.
In the tower.
Please also note that this brought a fix to issues with the Atheon raid that have lingered since [b]September of its release.[/b] We had a raid wiping issue that took half a year to fix, but they developers still had time to make the purple ball glow when you kick it. (Edit: this paragraph is causing confusion and it is my fault. I do not think the people who fix the raid also do environmental changes in the tower. I am suggesting Bungie lead dev ops badly mismanage time).
Now, I'm all for aesthetic fixes--- but why not put that effort towards more varieties of raid armor, or a greater amount of unlockable shaders, or even a pointless mini game of some type? Why put the effort into making a joke item more bedazzled than actually gloat about it like it was an achievement in your update?
Apologies for being a bit cranky today, but the purple ball is actually an allegory for why Destiny is just an addicting game and not an amazing game.
Edit: to clarify since I'm writing this again and again, my problem isn't content outside of bug fixes: I'm ok with the jukebox! My problem is that Bungie had this silly purple ball and people just kicked it off the tower to pass the time... And Bungie had graphic artists, programmers and QA work on updating it to 2.0. These color and physics changes are completely pointless, regardless if it was only a day or two of work. It brings nothing. And yet it was paraded in the weekly update half as a joke and half as a serious achievement. No one is going to forgo a Crucible match to play with the ball longer cause it glows. It's the same as if it didn't. If they have their priorities out of whack here, I openly wonder why it takes them so long to patch major issues.
Edit 2: a lot if you are thinking this may have been some interns personal project he pitched to the lead dev ops who liked it and put it in. God bless your optimism :)
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DeeJ played with ball yesterday during the Twitch feed.
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That poor intern. He had one job and got so much hate for it. Bet he came to work all excited. "Yeah buddy. Gonna put my work in a AAA title that sold a Buncha copies!" Community: hate hate hate rabble rabble rabble. Intern: But I just wanted to do something cool. *quits Bungie falls down spiral of despair* Now don't you feel bad?
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How Dare You Take Negatively About The Purple Ball!!!!
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3 RisposteALL HAIL THE PURPLE BALL (/*~*)/ O
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Because. Sheep.
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5 Risposte*Ahem.*
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I love the purple ball... Had a fun game of keepy uppy with some random guardians while I was waiting for my friends to join me for nightfall... These silly little touches are nice and welcome. You don't assign everyone in the dev team to work on bug fixes, there are teams responsible for all different aspects working concurrently on different things... You don't tell the guys working on the social spaces to stop what they are doing until the raid team gets their issues sorted. Thank God you didn't live in the age of gaming when the disc or cart you had was it and if it was broken or buggy, tough luck, nobody was gonna be even attempting to fix it
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1 RispondiIt's like a mini traveler
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1 RispondiThe purple ball will be the main antagonist in destiny two.
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But it's so pretty
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Purrrrrrrrplllllllllle
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Don't ever insult our lord and savior Purpalis Ballis
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Right? Purple ball was already op. Soccer ball needed the buff. I dont know what they were thinking either!
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ALL HAIL THE PURPLE BALL!! Perma-ban this man who DARE speak of the great purple ball with hatred in his heart. I say we send this guardian to the gallows for his blasphemy!
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3 RisposteDo you have time to talk about our lord and savior the Purple Ball?
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1 RispondiYou have to admit, it's an incredibly good distraction for directing people away from all the negatives in the game (cough, cough, story, bad PvP maps, etc.). The purple ball is like the equivalent of car keys being jingled in front of the face of the Destiny community. (btw... The purple sphere is a lier. All hail the mighty football, now and forever.)
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Shut your whore mouth. Purpy is one of the best parts of the game
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You gotta be a hating ass dude to hate on a ball!
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1 RispondiBecause it was done tongue in cheek. Stop crying about the raids. You probably have everything from them already, was it really so tough??
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I luv it da purrple balll!!
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Ladies and gentlemen here we have somebody with no sense of humor. Please remember to not take pictures because it will frighten him into complaining about no raid.
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5 RisposteI just am amazed anyone is mad about this. It's an Easter egg, meant for fun, which is what destiny and video games in general are about, so if players think it'll make the game more fun then it's doing its job
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All hail the mighty purple ball
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It's a different team... do you know anything about game dev... you have anesthetics and code. And obviously many more departments. But I'll be damned if a team that cannot solve glitches did something different that was in their capabilities. God bless your ignorance.
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Lazy developers.
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2 RisposteYeah, I wanted them to fix the soccer ball.