A Lament Concerning ‘Live Service’
I recently started playing Halo 3 again and the game is exactly the same today as it was when I last played in 2008. I played Destiny and Destiny 2 after each launch and did not participate in much of the DLC. I think that it is unfortunate that I could never go back to what I remember and loved about Destiny. Sure, OG Destiny is probably stuck in time, but in a state I wouldn’t recognize. I know that this is what we get in a live service game, but being able to go back to halo after 13 years and it still be the same game is something we inherently lose with Destiny. Sad.
Posted Feb 6, 2021, 3:48 PM UTC
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Well the other option was paying $60 getting year Destiny in a bubble. Then paying $60 for just TTK and none of vanilla d1. Then $60 for just ROI so on and so forth
I think, for me, I would be okay with that. Probably an unpopular opinion but it’s just that. Something about DLC just doesn’t work for me; I don’t buy it for any games really. Perhaps I’m an old fossil lmao.
Well remember Bungie is a company that needs to make money. People not giving them money to go back to a game they made 13 years ago doesn’t keep people employed.
At the end of the day the company needs to do what keeps their lights on, and now they r self published so they don’t have the funding of Microsoft or Activsion giving them money as the develop a game.
Not to mention the price of games ($60) hasn’t increased in like 10 years while production costs have sky rocketed
My point was that I would rather a new game over DLC. I take no issue with spending more money, I just prefer to finish a game and not play it forever by having to continually come back to it for every major update or DLC. Also the fact that I feel as though I can never go back and play it again because the game has changed so much from its original release.
Many people would have issues with spending $100 or more on games, it’s a sticker shock. It’s much easier to sell the game in bites of $10/100 then it is to charge $100, immediately drop support for a game meaning bugs and issues wouldn’t get fixed, and then making a new game for you to restart all your progress up again 5 years later