There's a heavy emphasis on multiplayer and cooperative team missions, but you can also just enjoy the game by yourself, as long as you're connected to the Internet. It's one of these games where if your connection is down or PlayStation Network goes down or something, you've got to then go play your Sega Genesis. Enjoy games that DON'T need to be connected to the Internet to work, like M.U.S.H.A., Herzog Zwei, or Revenge of Shinobi. So basically, no matter how much you pay for Destiny, you're just renting it, because at any point they can just shut it down and force you to buy the next one. Ah, the future of video games. It doesn't even matter if your game console works in ten years, because the games won't. So hang onto that Atari, kids. It'll serve you well.
How much of the content is locked behind $40-$60 "seasons"/expansions though? Maybe it's merely a failure of their marketing, but I always got the impression that if I wanted to play everything I'd be shilling out over $100/year.
If you want to play new content (beyond a teaser/first mission) the day it launches, that requires buying the expansion, but similar to the halo days the expansions get added to the base game after 3 years, so right now, for $0, you could play through two expansions worth of content, give or take. Campaigns, raids, pvp, non-raid group content, etc.
That’s not to defend to the monetization scheme or their live service model. It’s a big part of what drove me away from the game (actively played/paid for maybe 3 of the game’s 10 years)
if I wanted to play everything I'd be shilling out over $100/year.
Like most MMOs, yeah. The sick part is their MTX on top/nickel and diming the expansions into more things to buy (seasons, dungeons, cosmetics as mtx, etc)
But none of this really matters. What did you think of the OP?
Why are you guys so upset that the people who write stories might use words you don’t recognize? Done purely to fluff things up in spite of empty content - sure that can be lame, but a writer using a single Latin word in an otherwise interesting short parable is somehow a bridge too far, requiring squelching of the conversation (+3, -3)? Nuts lmoa
Of course, I was using the general “youse guises”. Considering the other options served up today though I don’t really see the grounds for complaint lol
A little googlin tells me this is lore text from fucking Destiny. Leaving obscure phrasing was probably trying to make it sound even more philosowank.
Ishtar Collective — Destiny Lore by subject
https://www.destinypedia.com/Ishtar_Collective
https://old.reddit.com/r/DestinyLore/comments/1dcfuc2/comment/l7y393m/
Destiny?
The glorified rental?
It’s actually free to play, angry-guy
How much of the content is locked behind $40-$60 "seasons"/expansions though? Maybe it's merely a failure of their marketing, but I always got the impression that if I wanted to play everything I'd be shilling out over $100/year.
If you want to play new content (beyond a teaser/first mission) the day it launches, that requires buying the expansion, but similar to the halo days the expansions get added to the base game after 3 years, so right now, for $0, you could play through two expansions worth of content, give or take. Campaigns, raids, pvp, non-raid group content, etc.
That’s not to defend to the monetization scheme or their live service model. It’s a big part of what drove me away from the game (actively played/paid for maybe 3 of the game’s 10 years)
Like most MMOs, yeah. The sick part is their MTX on top/nickel and diming the expansions into more things to buy (seasons, dungeons, cosmetics as mtx, etc)
But none of this really matters. What did you think of the OP?
Why are you guys so upset that the people who write stories might use words you don’t recognize? Done purely to fluff things up in spite of empty content - sure that can be lame, but a writer using a single Latin word in an otherwise interesting short parable is somehow a bridge too far, requiring squelching of the conversation (+3, -3)? Nuts lmoa
I'm not upset. My swearing was just expressing amusement that the text game from a shooter game. Hey +3,-3 is better than 0,-3 eh.
Of course, I was using the general “youse guises”. Considering the other options served up today though I don’t really see the grounds for complaint lol
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