Bungie Addresses Destiny Microtransaction Concerns

My tear gathering season has started early… such a delicious taste...

As a Destiny fan, if Bungie extends this micro-transactions to things that actually affect gameplay..such as buffs to get an exotic (similar to the three of coins) or getting a better drop rate for anything, I will put Destiny down. I am not about playing games that are P2W. Cosmetic stuff is one thing, but giving some one an advantage over me simply because they used real money....? Nope, I'll pass.

Almost 10 yrs ago Bethesda tried to charge $2.50 for horse armor. Gamers lost their minds ( rightly so, btw). Today Bungie wants to charge $5.00 for "The Carlton", and gamers shrug and say "Ok", while others gleefully rush to their piggy banks. Conditioning is great isn't it? Bungie thinks so.

Get good at grinding

Microtransactions are like stage 4 cancer. They keep spreading ruining everything in sight

The real question is why would anyone believe them?

Microtransactions in a paid game are despicable.

Bungie might not, but Activision is a different story.

Lets put this in perspective. Go to the movies? Spend 15-20 dollars for an 1:45 pos? Ok, that's one session of Destiny.

we should have been given ALL those items being sold for free. can't wait for the next line-up of new games to release.

Microtransactions need to be kept out of full retail priced games. Especially if they already have overpriced dlc

Their mistake was not calling them REQ packs.

;)

**** off bungie

If folk want to pay for emotes, then they will. If they don't, then they won't. I think there would be a major problem if , say 2 million gamers paid for the highest tier of Silver coins. That would show Bungie that people will pay for whatever and that might open the game up to micro transactions that could impact on better firearms or Armour, but for the time being I'm sure this won't happen. Destiny as both a game and a community is just nowhere near big enough or deep enough to be turned into a pay and play.. I personally used the silver that everyone got for free to buy 2 emotes and that is where it ends for me.

Microtransactions need to die in every video game, its is cancer.

Free DLC and all I have to put up with are optional microtransactions? That may get me back into Destiny. The hardcore players can pick up my tab

They aren't selling bundles of silver just to use on emotes. This is just to ease people into the idea of it. Scumgie and Wacktivision at it again

oww god so many sad people are going to go on this article and spout nonsense like a kid claiming all sorts of rubbish about how all sorts of manner of things will be pay-walled, there bloody emotes, nobody actually cares, if they did paywall anything it will be non game impacting things which again nobody actaully cares about.

I can see them expanding the microtransactions to shaders and emblems.

Since these do not impact gameplay (it can be argued that shaders do, simply because of "blending in" with environments) they can be sold for silver. I, for one, would buy a shader or two. Probably wouldn't buy an emblem, though.

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:P Watched too much Arby and the chief.