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5/28/2020 8:53:08 AM
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Content Drought vs Seasonal Content: What Do You Prefer?
Just curious what people personally prefer. Content droughts between decent yearly releases, or a constant stream of content that isn't quite as good. Both methods have seen a lot of criticism by the community but I think content droughts got a little less flak.
Personally, I'd much prefer to come back for a few months each year to play a decent expansion that has a lot of work put into it and develops the plot, and then take a break until the next expansion. I don't mind content droughts at all.
But I know some people do want a steady stream of content, so let me know! What do you prefer?
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If it leads to better quality content at the big fall dlc, then I prefer the drought. But it’s hard to qualify this seeing as we can only have option at a time and can’t compare them side by side.
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Edited by !!!!dA_B3ASTLY_b3ar!!!!: 5/30/2020 10:01:46 PMI chose that I’d prefer content drought over seasonal content. Here’s why: 1) seasons are already a drought 2) Bungie designs seasons, especially in y3, to be so barebones and then stretch it out an entire season to make it seem like it’s a whole seasons worth of content 3) seasons bring more problems than they have solved them 4) boring bounty grind fest 5) no vendors are ever updated seasonally besides emblems and shaders 5) despite its y4 fix, eververse provided more than the entire seasons did Whereas with actual expansions, we got: 1) vendor refreshes 2) a story with missions 3) nothing feeling purposely dragged out for the sake of calling it a season 4) progress at your own pace 5) new strikes 6) more meaningful things than any season could provide
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1 ReplyWithout a doubt the people who a picking content drought were the same people complaining about the content drought
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i preferred getting complete games, then wait some time (while playing other games) and get a complete sequel later , this worked fine and kept me busy i dislike the idea there is timegated , soon to come etc. content, i may not even be around as long to experience what i paid for as a matter of that, complete games of the past were much better than fragmented games of today now i buy much less games than i did before, because im tired of all those schemes , also the "modern" games seem to ask too much of my free time and money without really providing anything in return (pointless inflated grind is no incentive for me to play, paywalling game content as DLC/microtrasnactions either)
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6 RepliesWell considering we havent had a decent content drop since forsaken might as well say content drought, because thats we have had for almost 2 years
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I'd rather have a content drought every year and get a great DLC than have shitty content all year.
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I'd rather have a content drought. Knowing that I'd get a decent DLC, I wouldnt mind waiting extra for it, instead of getting garbage 3 month seasons
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10 RepliesYo wtf?! This poll just proves the forums are pure trolls. They’d rather have no content over new content???
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I would rather have the drought because being drip fed an ill though out half ass season is only making the game worse. plus, d2 is chore simulator 2020 with all the stupid bounties we have to do for every activity in the game. and don't even get me started on exotics, they used to be exciting drops, now they are meh.
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I prefer having a reason to go back and play every week. Having loot worth going for rather than given to me easily. In Destiny year 1 it took me 4months to collect all exotics and that’s me playing before house of wolves while using 3 characters. I was fine playing the same content over and over again. I had a reason to do it. The raids were fun. The loot was random but that gave it excitement. Even the nightfalls with random burns made it enjoyable
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Unpopular opinion: I had more fun in D1 Y2 than the whole of Y1. Found myself playing more and weekly in its drought. This season model is garbage. Take it out and go back to: year dlc > dlc 1 > dlc 2 > year dlc. Good stuff, non drip fed, quality time and effort.
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3 RepliesEveryone who says content drought is kidding themselves. If you don’t like the seasonal content, take you 9 month break and let the rest of us enjoy the game. I rather have very little content than no content at all.
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1 ReplyThis seasonal model feels like a year long content drought.
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I'd go with the drought, 'cause I don't feel like there's much of a difference at this point. Most of the seasons have felt boring and lifeless, and the story telling is poor.
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Drought. Gives players a chance to play other things, without missing out on stuff. Plus I like my content thick and meaty.
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I honestly think D1 Y1 had the best model, but it can be refined. The Dark Below added a smaller raid, and came out real soon after launch, literally in December, so just 3 months after release. House of Wolves came out WAY later in May of 2015 It focused on PVP. I think they should use this as a baseline. Focus 1 season or expansion on PVE, and make it come out around the end of winter. Then focus the next on PVP and make it come out the beginning of summer. This would put the cycle as fall expansion, end of winter season, beginning of summer season, next fall expansion. Having a smaller campaign and raid would be the focus of the PVE, in addition to adding a few strikes and stuff. PVP would get new maps and new loot and whatever meta changes it needs. Both seaons can add a bit to both modes, but each one would have a focus. If not this, then I prefer TTK, where we just had no content, but the fall expansion was huge. I think I only stopped TTK after being satisified with finishing up KF challenges, sometme around February. Then I came back for whatever the event is they always hold before a fall expansion. They could also just bring back sparrow racing as a mix up of things.
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The drought’ll do, tho people were still around regardless of the scenarios. We have holiday events on top of regular content, there’s a global pandemic and really, what goes on after a month or 2 now? I’ve got quite a few things that are timegated already. Speaking of that, it’s about the same amount to complete this “content” as it would in an original release
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1 ReplyEdited by RussellMania: 5/29/2020 3:56:14 AMThe thing is... The seasonal model isn’t a “constant stream of content” like you said... It’s very little content spread out over 3 months. Normally 1 thing every few weeks. AND it’s lower quality. With the DLC model, we at least got a couple of weeks of solid content before the drought started.
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Seasonal content, but not the kind we have now. The season pass was AMAZING, probably destiny 2 at it's best.
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People are going to criticize either. If you go through and add up every single weapon/armor you can acquire and every activity... I’m fairly certain you will see that seasonal gives more total content. Whether you like that content is subjective as it is with all content. Looking from Bungie’s perspective that last year (armory,drifter,opulence) was too ambitious and burned them out... this year was less ambitious (so far...) but has had horrible pacing during the seasons (except maybe dawn). I’m pretty sure Bungie learned their lesson with artificial FOMO that dropping seasonal content caused and was very poorly received (I feel bad for the folks that missed out on Sundial and season of dawn stuff) based on their descriptions for next year so far. My goals moving forward as far as seasonal content is concerned (if I were Bungie) would be... 1) pacing of content in a season needs to be improved 2) increase the ambition a little to include a couple of strikes OR another dungeon type activity during the year.
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I liked Year 1 of D1. It kept me engaged for most of the year. Rise of Iron and TTK only kept me engaged for 3-4 months total of the year. D2Y1 kept me going most of the year. D2Y2 I took Season of the Drifter off and played the rest. D2Y3 I played all of Undying with no breaks, played Season of Dawn, but took off most of the last 4 weeks, and this Season has kept me engaged the whole Season. I have to say I prefer Seasonal Content. The quality of the “content drought” expansions does tend to be better, but doesn’t keep me engaged throughout the year compared to Seasons. The only time I feel like it would be necessary for a Rise of Iron type expansion is the year before a new Destiny comes out. The content drought does give me the opportunity to play other games though, which is also a good thing. That’s just my experience from the past 5-6 years of Destiny.
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1 ReplyI miss Vicarious and High Moon
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1 ReplyAt this point I wish they would separate PvP and PvE into two different games and have a dedicated team for both. That way they could balance weapons for PvP without effecting PvE weapons.
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Even though this season was bad, Funny story: Remember that Centurion Oryx took right after you landed on the Dreadnaught, then the Centurion and the taken Ogre tried to stop you from killing the King? Heh... didn't work. So the Centurion's bond brothers are pretty angry they lost their commander. They're leading a team to blow up the Dreadnaught's core. Core goes... most of the system goes with it. You're going to make sure that doesn't happen.
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I’d choose show us the new IP you’re really working on and just bury the dead horse that you finally managed to kill off this season.
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Id want a middle ground. The seasonal content obviously isn't working anymore. I think it was alright last year, but this year its proven to be more of detriment to the game. Problem is, we don't want another d1 TTK or RoI incident again where we get 1 release in September and have almost nothing else for the rest of the year until the next big release. That was very boring a few months after their releases and caused me and many others to take long breaks from the game. I think the best thing they could do, would be to have their usual big release in Fall, and then a small to mid sized dlc release sometime around March. This will ensure we have stuff to do at different points in the year and we can do them at our own pace instead of being drip fed. Plus they would be actual content releases instead of this boring, repetitive, seasonal activity garbage. They could even still throw in the little events like dawning and festival of the lost. I think that would be the best course of action for sure.
