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Modificato da njl4515:
4/21/2015 2:52:00 AM
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Why are people not more insulted by the giant purple ball?
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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#Destiny
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Ball is life
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4 RisposteIf people are excited about the purple ball it sums up everything about destiny and the people who say this is a good game
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2 RisposteModificato da jmferris: 4/22/2015 1:42:40 AMSimply put, stop and think that the ball may not have been introduced with the set purpose of someone saying "let's put a new ball in there". It could just have easily been something from their sandbox that they were testing, in relation to the physics engine, and just brought it over because it was there. Perfectly conceivable that if they were going to change or test something related to in-game physics, that it would be applied on a limited basis, and in a sandboxed environment. Then, they put it there because it is done, and partially because the community showed that they will play with such things when they are in the Tower. It has become a running joke, in a way - and is considerably more entertaining than standing somewhere and dancing, in my opinion. That is a much more likely scenario than this being someone's pet project, or a conscious effort driven by the backlog.
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10 RisposteDon't you know how the development team works? They have a team for raids, a team for crucible, a team for classes and subclasses... And so on. They probably had the trainees or interns work on a small project and hence the purple ball 2.0 was born
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It just how stupid and sad people are how people are a bunch of sheep to corporations
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We respect the purple ball more than the traveler #allhailthepurple
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It was a joke. They know things need to be addressed. Don't look into it too much. One of the dev team probably did it on their lunch break.
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Because when I come back to the tower from patrol, crucible, nightfall, etc., I like to relax and practice my free kicks using that bit of wall between postmaster and "only special order" girl.
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Bro, do you even praise the purple ball?
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I'd nobody read my post explaining the purple balls significance?
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Hail the ball
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It is a perfect metaphor IMHO about Bungie as a whole.
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The reason we didn't get more vault space was because there wasn't enough memory. The ball is in the same segment as the vault.
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2 RisposteI still haven't seen a purple ball.. I seen a soccer ball that I been kicking around..
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Purple ball needs nerf
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You forgot #satire
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Wow u fgt big fgt
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Bungie is a large company and not everyone works on the same thing. And they shouldn't have to.
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It isn't a big purple ball. It is the Saints Row "Melee Dildo" reworked by incompetent programmers trolling us about our Seasons Pass cash that bought them all new Priuses(as they lack the intestinal fortitude to break 25 MPH)..... It needs to have the spooky loot cave voice saying "Deez Nuts" when it glows.
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Purple ball is love, purple ball is life
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Modificato da Trooper8059: 4/21/2015 3:50:34 AMIn other news, EA is actually releasing free DLC for Star Wars Battlefront!
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I want my damn black hammer fixed so it don't have that stupid green bar!
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The Ball is life, brah.
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6 RisposteThe purple ball is hitler. Xur and the Cryptarch are his spies. And bungie is a 1984 compè and Deej is a phone.
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3 RisposteI love the ball. I spent around 45 minutes chasing it around
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God forbid Bungie have fun aye
