I tried getting into Destiny a couple months ago. There is no hook for new players. It’s like watching a later season of some over the top, corny, convoluted show without ever getting to watch the previous episodes. The level design is just silly. Towns aren’t towns, they are mazes with a bunch static, talking props haphazardly sprinkled about. Every time I came back to the game it’d play some cinematic I don’t understand and throw me into some place I have never been with no instruction on how to get back. I did not play for long and won’t play again.
I think the worst part about this starter pack is that, not only is it mostly useless garbage, new players (who this targets) have no idea this is mostly useless garbage. They surely don’t even know you can only equip one of these weapons at a time, let alone that they are far from meta.
D2 is just the absolute most miserable experience for new players and Bungie consistently makes it worse. It’s baffling. Meanwhile, they try to milk their veteran players more and more every season by offering more for money, less for free, and making the game more of a grind.
The best part about Destiny 2 is it has personally put me on a hard line against any kind of live service game for the foreseeable future.
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Every time I read stuff like this I appreciate my indie games collection even more <3
They really want to lean into their villain and out of touch era.
It’s called short term planning and profit maximization of a game on life support. Gamigo has been doing this since 2010.
Destiny 2 has been one of the biggest wastes of my money ever. Every time I put money into it they drop a DLC shortly after, so I just gave up. I liked it at first, but man it just didn’t hold up at all. Warframe on the other hand has dope ass exciting things to do every time I log on and I have a ton of fun and have never had to spend any real money because the platinum trading system is solid and you can earn a good amount just playing the game.
Maybe it gets better once you’ve grinded a hundred hours but Warframe is clunky in comparison and every bit as confusing to a new player.
Not sure when you last played it, but they’ve revamped the new player stuff a lot to make the transition much better. I never had a big issue with how it was personally but I think it’s gotten way better about introducing new players to how the game works. Definitely not at all the case that you need a hundred hours to get into it, that’s just ridiculous hyperbole in my opinion. I think it may take a few hours of play to start getting into the habits and finding cool mods and stuff to experiment with, but definitely not a hundred hours of grinding. If you haven’t in a long time, try it out, it’s really great.
This game has been dead since beyond light. To actually get all the content it’s somewhere like $300 or more. I think if they went on a standard MMO fee of $15 a month instead of the $15 every 4 months and an expansion every year or two it’d be a lot more reasonable for new players
I would never play it if it was subscription based. Fuck subscription based games.
I mean i wouldn’t either, but now it’s definitely worse than a subscribtion base. Now you pay for the expansion, dungeons keys, raids, battlepass…
Final fantasy 14?
I was so deep into destiny 2, because it’s just fun to play and mess around. I don’t even care for the story much, so the bad lightfall story doesn’t bother me. But still, the game felt really empty to me after that. It’s like something died, and i went from playing pretty much daily to uninstalling it from one day to another.
The biggest problem with this game is the price and how fucking complicated it is. I started playing with friends and we all had no idea what we were doing, so i bought the forsaken and beyond light bundle because it was cheap, my friend bought the 30 year anniversary bundle and my other friend just free to played it. There was nothing for us to do, except for like 2 dungeons, that we didn’t understand. Wanna hop online and go on some high octane patrols? Yeah, me neitherThe lore was something that kept me interested for so long, but when they said that the awoken have a well over a million year long society and Mara Sov is 14 million years old is when I lost interest. I got to see the Ahamkara and that was a good send off for me
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