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Destiny launched with a massively underwhelming story, in-fact, many fans are a little surprised that Bungie released something that felt so half-baked. However, the developer is insisting that it did not cut out content in order to sell as DLC prior to release.
This comes after gamers discovered bugs within Destiny that allowed that allowed access to certain DLC-only areas, additionally, some players discovered a list of placeholder names in the game that detailed upcoming DLC content. These bugs caused Destiny owners to suspect that Bungie had skimped on the content in order to sell it later on.
Things only got worse after Bungie revealed the price for its first DLC, which is due to set gamers back a hefty £19.99/$19.99, despite the fact that it doesn't include a whole lot of content. In an effort to calm suspicions, Bungie President, Harold Ryan, told Eurogamer that it didn't cut finished content from the game.
“Eris and her story were built over the last three months, long after the game was done. For example for The Dark Below, that included the activities and the bosses and all of the polish of it.”
The Bungie President then went on to claim that it shipped parts of DLC on the disk to cut down on file sizes for later downloads:
“There's a bunch of shared-world content we've shipped on the disc specifically to limit download sizes for people. Both inside the US and all over the world, how much you download on your local home internet connection can be a problem, and even how much storage space it takes up on your console.”
“So we share a lot of assets across all the activities in the game. When people get into areas that aren't unlocked right now, they're seeing pieces we built and shipped ahead of time, but they're by no means the finished experiences or even the finished content.”
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KitGuru Says: Bungie failed to deliver with Destiny, it is certainly not in a position to ask for £20 per DLC pack, especially if it doesn't contain much extra content or fix the story in some way. Personally, I'd expect an entirely new planet for that kind of money. Bungie and Activision could do with going back to the drawing board on its future business model.
There is one fatal flaw in this argument. In most online fps games, a $10 dlc will get you three new multiplayer maps. Here, for $20, you get your three new multiplayer maps, 3 new story missions, 1-2 new strikes depending on your platform, and a completely new raid, which will come with an increased light cap, and cool, awesome new gear. This expansion is much more expensive that current console dlc, but the content more than justifies it and I’m super excited for it
This article highlights what’s really wrong with video games these days. Its not the games that are the problem, its the spoiled brats with single digit IQ’s who play them that are the issue. They assign a bullshit value to things that has no basis in fact. Even with DLC, video games offer more base content, and are more affordable, than any time in the history of video games.
Going by the actual cost to the consumer, where you adjust prices of older games for inflation, video games that you could complete in an afternoon were twice as expensive, or more, than current video games and all of their DLC.
This topic has been discussed numerous times, but all the ignorant kiddies want to ignore the facts and continue to demand more and more content be given to them for no charge. A NES game in 1990 sold for $50, which equal $89 today. What ever limited content was on that cartridge was all you could ever get. No bug fixes, no free updates, no paid DLC. If you wanted more for that game it came as a stand alone sequel title for another $50 ($89) dollars.
Compare that to Destiny. $60 for the base game, and now $20 for the DLC. That is still $9 less expensive than NES games that you could beat in an afternoon. So for anyone who wants to bitch about a lack of content in games, I suggest you stop being a whiny, greedy, little bitch and be happy with what you get.
http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/10/15/the-real-cost-of-gaming-inflation-time-and-purchasing-power
I looked up the expansion on PSN Store and it’s actually 2 expansion packs which to me seems fair for the £35 they’re asking for it, IMO. So I agree with you completely on this 🙂
I enjoy destiny’s gameplay, but I have a hard time believing that the people who did the story for Halo 4 looked at the story for Destiny and decided “that’ll do just fine”. I don’t know if I’ll pick up the dlc.. I mean.. I cant see it being worth it unless you are really into the crucible.
Tbh, this game is just a victim of its own hype. This was portrayed as the future franchise that we were all going to be playing for the next 10 years but theres nothing iconic or even remotely distinctive about the game.
Kill aliens and shut up, I guess…
The NES games had a story, furthermore Bungie made promises which fueled the hype, but delivered much less, nothing more than a dungeon based MMO FPS game, no open world like they made many people believe. Also, you basically just kill enemies and get to a boss, always going through the same maps, every time. You know, this can be boring to someone, if not everyone. Players just want diversity, originality and, more than everything, a story. Destiny lacks those three things.
ho ho ho ! if the president said it then it must be true !!
I have complete faith in Bungie.
PSYCH, obviously they’re like everyone else and I wasnt expecting anything else. They knew that they would piss off gamers so bad that everyone on PC would download it instead of buying it.
” I suggest you stop being a whiny, greedy, little bitch and be happy with what you get.” – Is that what you say to the Palestinians?
Think the real problem was with the overall hype this game created. They made it out to change the gaming industry forever. I was stupid to expect anything more than what they could handle. I was also stupid to originally expect free DLC’s… Another thing I’m stupid for believing is that today technology could ever make such a game I was dreaming of. You could say I was very disappointed, but really I was just stupid enough to get hyped about a game I’ve never played. Considering they created Halo, you could say the bar of expectation was raised considerably. My bad Bungie, my bad. Won’t happen again.
nobody cares about Bungie, main game + all 3 DLC is simply put too small for being a video game,
their RGN is total shit
they nerfed weapons and re-arranged stats on weapons which highlights the RGN problem even more,