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?
It's lacking context, but the ideas that a person in suffering will seek a purpose for that suffering, and that absent personal knowledge, a person will listen to someone else for an answer rather than seeking that answer themselves, but none of this is revelatory. It's simply using flowery language in order to dress up things we all (presumably) already know.
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?
It's lacking context, but the ideas that a person in suffering will seek a purpose for that suffering, and that absent personal knowledge, a person will listen to someone else for an answer rather than seeking that answer themselves, but none of this is revelatory. It's simply using flowery language in order to dress up things we all (presumably) already know.