Luke Smith said it feels bad to have to dismantle Eververse items for dust, turns out that was wrong. It feels bad dismantling your 3rd exotic ship in a row for a couple of shards, then looking at the 6000 dust ornaments for Halloween and wonder how many 10 dust bounties you need to do in a week to afford all the spooky stuff.
They can find the time and resources to refresh Eververse every season with 50-100 items, but can't spare the manpower to give Shaxx a new armour set and a few weapons. They can take cosmetics from activities that need more loot and stick it behind a silver paywall without batting an eyelid (seriously, how many exotic ships/sparrows etc look like they should come from a raid or Nightfalll?). They can take what is clearly raid armour and stick it in the season pass as ornaments (just compare the Phenotype Plasticity set to the GoS weapons, they have the matching look), whilst letting the premier activity rewards be reskinned Eververse gear from 2 years ago. They say they want to focus on new activities, but can't bring themselves to update year 1 weapons (and some y1 armour that drops almost never) to increase the loot pool. It feels pretty crappy to still be picking up Ten Paces off the floor, or getting another Crooked Fang from a Nightfall after a damn year! They can find the time to add Eververse to the director, but can't let us grab bounties from orbit.
Iron Banner had a new armour set, but no new weapons, not even a new seasonal emblem. Bungie clearly prioritises the parts of the game that pay the best. That may seem like good business, but if your game suffers as a result, you'll end up earning less $$$ when your pissed off fans leave you.
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Not the same employees from D1 to D2. Eververse is also now designed for catch up mechanics mostly. It offers: 1) pay to win service for new players who want to reach PL950 very fast. 2) pay to look good service to anyone liking finishers 3) pay to shine service for the ornaments 4) play to get slapped service with no loots from nostalgic engrams. And guess what? It’s ok to me, unlike all the broken aspect of the game, the artifact, eviction of solar doctrines, monochromatic (read most boring ever) gameplay of void doctrines with divinity and izanagi. I feel like all these Eververse debates are just scams and jokes by fake employee profiles or not smart people who are standing in the poop trying to sit down.
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If he said that, he was seriously lying through his teeth. They knew the only way to get people to spend cash was to take away any reasonable means to grind for it instead. I'm sitting on an old horde of dust from dismantling everything right before the expansion, but it won't last forever. Especially not when a skeleton suit costs 6,000. I decided to buy the tombstone emote when it sells for dust and let everything else slip by this event.