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Bungie's New Reward System Ties In-Game Activities to All Sorts of Destiny 2 Goodies - MMORPG.com
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Bungie's New Reward System Ties In-Game Activities to All Sorts of Destiny 2 Goodies - MMORPG.com
With the launch of Destiny 2: Forsaken, Bungie also announced it's new "Bungie Rewards" program that allows players to complete in-game tasks to earn real world and in-game items. The first offer challenges players to work through the Forsaken campaign by the end of September in order to receive a digital download of the Forsaken soundtrack, over 110 minutes of music.
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Don't be that guy. Things that every game does, like preorder bonuses, are much worse than this. This is extra free rewards for people who were already going to play it anyway.
Incentives to play are much better than incentives to pay.
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Did they fix all that stuff that ppl were hating prior?
Its really difficult for me to believe that this is the same Bungie that did the great Halo games of the past. But then people and companies change, and not always for the better.
The complaints have never been about the gameplay, it's more about the way it's been released. It could have easily been another expansion to Destiny 1 but instead they made it separate and stand alone, made everyone pay a premium price tag again and made everyone start their characters again.. and threw all the old content into the void. Which was pretty crazy for a game that's well known for being low on content.
It's not that it has been handled badly, as if they did it by mistake. This is their business plan. They have a number of people sat in a room looking at purchase and user data and they determine that doing it this way will make more money, regardless of whether or not it hurts the game in the long run and pisses people off.
But... if you've got the money to burn and want to buy the ultimate package that includes everything then you'll probably have a lot of fun with it. Just expect to be really let down when they release Destiny 3 and it's practically the same game again with the best stuff from Destiny 2 striped away so you have to pay for it again later and costs about $100.
When you think about it a DLC is just a series of quests anyways. Would the next step be to charge for special quests which guaranteed special items?
"We all do the best we can based on life experience, point of view, and our ability to believe in ourselves." - Naropa "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." SR Covey
Feels very "Bait and Switch" with this sudden unannounced change in the Infusion system.
All infusions require Master Cores now. It has become a ridiculous grind, where even notorious Asian games are getting a run for their money.
It's now practically impossible to use your favorite collected armor and weapons anymore, unless you are a no-life 24/7 player that had a couple thousand shards stored in their inventory.
Whoever thought this was a good change at Bungie should be instantly fired! One of the worst changes they have ever done to their Destiny games.
https://www.bungie.net/en/Forums/Post/248349294?sort=0&page=0
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Next! The Ace of Spades gun from Cayde. A pre-order bonus item (ornament). A PVE story item and what does Bungie do yet again? Pull a ridiculous PVP quest step requirement in it!
Yet another bait and switch prank by Bungie. They are so stone headed and arrogant over there, that they keep finding ways to screw over people who hate PVP!
Fine that there are PVP exclusive exotics. Perfectly fine! But a PVE story exotic, part of pre-order bonus and locking it behind a ridiculous PVP quest step is huge Facepalm!
https://www.bungie.net/en/Forums/Post/248360387?sort=0&page=0
Sometimes you really wonder if they run a funded "Psychology research" project at Destiny to see how far they can mentally push gamers. /facepalm
I expect there to be one soon once the expansion launch hype has died down.
You are a real fanboy. The game was never fine, it was universally blasted from the get go plagued with issues and bungie has been constantly bungling over and over trying to address. The core physics of the game play FEEL GREAT, the world looks GREAT, the actual gameplay?? epic garbage of thinly veiled hamster wheel treadmills. None of which are fun beyond your first pass through the content. Many very poorly designed systems, terrible itemization, scaling etc... game is nothing but a beautiful over priced shell.