figadapaura
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What a choke.
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Destiny |OT24| Dances with Wolves
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What a choke.
Do you all remember that originally Destiny was supposed to be released in the summer of 2014?
That means we would be getting The Taken King, or Expansion 1 right now.
I have good news for you X-Frame. That dream you had... it was real.
Destiny did launch in summer of 2014.
We ARE getting The Taken King soon.
Haha! Mine too! Wiped Safari clean. Had to open all my tabs again. :-/
This happened to me to the other day. A few of us without horns went in and wiped 7-8 times on the Cabal boss. Finally beat him after an hour or more. Awful. Tried again with a full team of horns and it took maybe 90 seconds and the boss was down. Outrageously easy.
StalkerUKCG
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Luke Smith doesn't come off so great in this interview.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...-king-director-defends-40-expansion-price-tag
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...-king-director-defends-40-expansion-price-tag
EroticSushi
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td;lr Suck it up and rebuy everything again.
Damn you for being technically correct, haha.
So I lied and meant Spring of 2014. I could have sworn the original release date was early June.
Either Big plays or Big pants, you are ToO Funny. lol.
Haha, yeah, had to skip that last page as quick as possible after crashing once...
Wow those quotes are a far cry from his 1up Yours glory days. Sad really.
That is hilarious. Good looooord that interviewer is upset.
MrS
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All we've have from day 1 is smarm and asshole comments from Destiny's PR team. It's pathetic. This DLC will be the last straw for many.
It was actually meant to be released in 2013 IIRC but that didn't happen. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
Just been reading this, what a tit.
What a shame too, because I never buy CEs of games and I'd have loved to buy this one but I'm not about to rebuy content to get some digital extras.
figadapaura
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Tbf to him, the prices and stuff aren't up to him so he probably is tired of answering questions about it.
To answer the original post, pre-edit; I have a weird sense of humor. The dude is clearly super upset about those emotes which is just funny to me personally.
As to your current post; gamers tend to get upset about stuff, reasonable or not, a lot. Sometimes deej doesn't do the best job at handling it, but bungie has a history of making real changes in the game that matter, which is more important to me.
MrS
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Q: What I'm saying is that fan frustration is not because they don't understand the proposition. It comes regardless of how cool the exclusive content is. The frustration - and mine as a fan - is that the method of acquiring it requires me to re-buy content I bought a year ago.
A: "[Long pause] It's about value. The player's assessment of the value of the content."
It's happened. They've finally begun to believe their own bullshit.
Yeah, I edited it because I'm not angry at you, just at what Bungie are doing with the game. It's crazy to me that they are demanding the price of the game again for 1/4 of the content. It's absurd.
Phaethon0017
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Wow. If I was looking for a reason to cut all ties with Bungie, I would have found it in that interview. I guess Luke Smith is trying to make Deej's non-answers look good.
I get it, and at the end of the day I won't lose any sleep over it, but the question remains:
Why offer these 'incentives' for new customers and not your current customers?
To me, it is no different than how the cable companies operate (at least here in the US): "Oh sorry, we can't offer you that deal, it is for new customers only."
WTF is that? If it wasn't for your current customers, you wouldn't be able to fund the new content. Why leave them hanging?
Kor of Memory
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I think the interviewer was insistent on asking Luke stuff he doesn't know about. Luke designs raids, not pricing plans. It seems like Luke was going to give the interviewer a ballpark of the amount of content, and then the interviewer just couldn't get past the pricing. So Luke started to screw with him, while being honest at the same time.
So they are honestly charging £40 for tTK in UK thats $63 !!! lol Thank god i get my stuff from US Psn.
Sketch_Turntable
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As I said the other day, people are silly to hate on Deej when he's just the messenger. Whether it's Deej or Luke or Urk or the goddamn master chief himself, we'll always be upset to hear answers we don't like. And Bungie gives us those more often than not. So the hate on Deej is totally misplaced since he's just communicating the company's decisions, which he has zero control over.
I think the CE would have been an attractive package without exclusive in game cosmetics. The physical package is a great deal that didn't require the little finger up launch player's ass of locking emotes behind it.
On a practical level, this is insignificant and beyond petty. An emote and shader qualify as less than useless. But it's the principle that I find troubling.
Whatever. Everyone is a dick sometimes, this is just one such moment for our friends at Bungie.
I think the CE would have been an attractive package without exclusive in game cosmetics. The physical package is a great deal that didn't require the little finger up launch player's ass of locking emotes behind it.
On a practical level, this is insignificant and beyond petty. An emote and shader qualify as less than useless. But it's the principle that I find troubling.
Whatever. Everyone is a dick sometimes, this is just one such moment for our friends at Bungie.
"If I fired up a video right now and showed you the emotes you would throw money at the screen." - Luke Smith
Luke Smithis always joking around from what I have watched of him. And he doesn't make up the pricing rules.
figadapaura
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Dedicated fans will give them more money. They don't really care how most other fans feel about it.
Anyone else want to run/sherpa us through HM tonight?
Still need 3.
V1ctIm, what is your experience with HM?
Because, like the cable companies, they've already got us and are looking to get more. "Customer loyalty" is a myth; deals exist to entice new customers.
If anything this shows that Bungie (and/or Activision) is indeed paying attention. All of the unnecessary collector's editions and preorder incentives that gamers have chased over the years have not gone unnoticed.
Strangelove77
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That Luke Smith dude sounded like a real pos shit in this interview. Kind of hate him now.
silver.tongue
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You guys really are considering buy everthing back because of 3 unique emotes and 3 unique class items?
I mean... why?
I mean... why?
JetBlackPanda
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Eh, what is he supposed to do? he is a dev not a PR guy, on top of that its probably Activision controlling that stuff.
does it suck? yes.. but fuck me im getting the CE so I guess im part of the problem. Ghost Edition owner here too.
Don't tell me what to do with my money.
BenjaminBirdie
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I thought he was pretty honest about his side and the gamers' side.
He wants emotes for everyone. He said it. Do you think it's his decision to hold them back?
Sounded like classic Luke, god bless him.
Dedicated fans will give them more money. They don't really care how most other fans feel about it.
GIF made me LOL.
I just don't want to believe that they don't care, I guess.
I disagree to an extent. With cable, yes I'm 'locked in' because it is a pretty common staple of a household. Yes, that is changing, but not yet.
I guess we just hope for better with companies that make GAMES. They are supposed to be fun and rewarding. We shouldn't feel like we are being treated like cable customers.
figadapaura
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They need incentives for the digital CE. Ridiculous price considering what you get with the physical version.
This and the fact that there is not a digital equivalent to the Legendary Edition are bigger pricing crimes to me.
Yeah I don't see how you can perceive Luke so negatively without also noticing how the interviewer would not let a relatively insignificant detail about their upcoming release go. Surely there are more hard-hitting questions he could have badgered Luke about?
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