https://kotaku.com/bungie-blocks-xbox-and-pc-destiny-players-from-equippin-1833924083
That Destiny exclusive deal has been such a mess since D1 really.
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Bungie blocks Xbox And PC Destiny players from equipping PS4-exclusive weapon after accidentally allowing them to buy it
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https://kotaku.com/bungie-blocks-xbox-and-pc-destiny-players-from-equippin-1833924083
That Destiny exclusive deal has been such a mess since D1 really.
The deal was done under Activision. The existing exclusivity contract didn't magically go away after they sold Destiny because Sony is also part of it.
If they make a new Sony exclusivity deal for Destiny 3, that'll be Bungie's fault then.
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Lol. The deal Activision made is obviously still in effect, but I doubt Bungie will ever agree to something like this with their future projects.
If it was anywhere close to half you wouldn't see this. But it's not. Check the EU sales threads for both Destiny 1/2 and you'll see why Bungie/Activision protect Sony's marketing investment with such Zeal.
You probably wouldn't believe me if I told you that the casual market often mistake Destiny for a PS4 exclusive... I'm not saying it's right. But I am insisting it's just business.
Damn, we can't even blame the evil, evil publisher for this one.
Help me out here - who are we gonna make responsible for Bungie fuck ups going forward?
Help me out here - who are we gonna make responsible for Bungie fuck ups going forward?
I guess we will see even more exclusivity deals in the future. That means marketing, bundles, DLC exclusivity, timed exclusivity and perhaps even new deals.
They were part of the reason 360 was so successful last gen and are part of the reason why PS4 is successful this gen.
They were part of the reason 360 was so successful last gen and are part of the reason why PS4 is successful this gen.
Even more bad PR from the game that keeps on giving :)
I don't know which former titan of the industry is more of a fuck up this gen Bungie or Bethesda. It's like they can't get out of their own way. It's amazing in a way how they stay in the news cycle for all the wrong reasons.
I don't know which former titan of the industry is more of a fuck up this gen Bungie or Bethesda. It's like they can't get out of their own way. It's amazing in a way how they stay in the news cycle for all the wrong reasons.
Contract is contract.
Don't know why some of you seem surprised. Sure it was a fuck up to let Xur sell that item in the first place but mistakes happen. That comes with shitty exclusive items for a version.
Ingame money back and be done with it.
No outrage needed.
Don't know why some of you seem surprised. Sure it was a fuck up to let Xur sell that item in the first place but mistakes happen. That comes with shitty exclusive items for a version.
Ingame money back and be done with it.
No outrage needed.
But Destiny isn't a f2p game so what does this have to do with anything?
These deals effectively mean: pay the same money everyone else does, but get less content for it (or be able to play said content at a later stage, in Destiny's case A LOT later) just because you bought the "wrong console", a decision that was taken by who gave the publisher a bigger moneybag prior to the advertisement campaigns. I've said with Call Of Duty, I'll say it with Destiny: shitty deals like this are not more likely to make me rush out and buy the "correct" console, they are much more likely to draw me away from the game altogether. See how I barely care about the new gamemode in Black Ops IIII: I would have played it on the hype alone had it came out immediately on Xbox One too, but since they had us wait an extra week my hype died now, and now I'm not even sure I'll bother. I ain't buying a PS4 or Destiny for it because you're crippling my system of choice's version, I'm skipping the game altogether. Hopefully more and more people will do this and put an end to these ridiculous deals.
The game has a F2P MTX model though: time-gated progression system, microtransactions up the ass, timers to wait out, grinding galore. Except Activision and Bungie except you to shell out hundreds of dollars during the game's life cycle between the day 1 version of the game, the DLCs, the expansion packs and then some, only to be able to keep up with non-cosmetic content drops, which are, unsurprisingly, also paid. So after you spend like 200 hundred dollars you can still experience the lovely grind, spending dozens or hundreds of hours on content you paid for hoping that the game rolls the dice well come the lootdrops. I mean, all this having platform-specific content is just the icing on the cake. I can live with something like Rocket League, where every platform gets their own exclusive items - you aren't getting less on any version, you're getting slightly different cosmetics on like 0.1% of the overall content. Totally not a big deal. In Destiny's case, alternative versions of the game cost the same, but only the PS4 one is feature-complete, the others are mandated to be castrated. Ain't that great.
Sony paid for an exclusive item and they don't want said exclusive item to be available to other platforms. Seems pretty straightforward.
I'm ready for these marketing deals with exclusive content to be over with.
I'm ready for these marketing deals with exclusive content to be over with.
They have a contract to oblige, can't blame them. Fully expect this exclusivity BS to end once this ends though.
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Its just one in long line of mistakes are stupid stuff that happened because of the exclusive deal.
The worst one was that D1 players on Xbox finally got D1 stuff from Rise of Iron on september 20 2017. Two weeks after D2 released.
Overall the exclusive deal hasnt been great for anybody player wise. As PS4 exclusive strikes or maps couldnt be used as a nightfall or Trials map because it wasnt on the other platform. Limiting the PS4 players also.
The title of the thread is incredibly disingenuous. They "bought" it with in game currency made by deleting old weapons and armor you don't use. No real money is involved, at all.
People are hating in this thread for the sake of hating. It slipped through on a fuck up, they don't want to be hit by Sony for breach of contract so they have to disable it.
Bungie, but just because they left Activision, there is still the bullshit with Sony until September.
Notice how we haven't gotten any new Strikes or Crucible maps? If they introduced them they would have to cater to Sony and make them exclusive. We have not had any Sony exclusives since Forsaken. No more special treatment. It's done.
In general, it's just a 100% anti-consumer move that brings no advantage to any player. Those on PS4 could not get the exclusive content as weeklies because they have feature parity in that between the platforms. In 2019 it's not that big of an issue, but obviously the less people play that specific content, the less likely you find guides, impressions, chats about said content as opposed to any Destiny player having access to it. If you're on PC or Xbox One, you are paying the same amount of money to get a game with less content than the PS4 version. If you don't own a gaming system and are contemplating which one to get to play Destiny 2, they are effectively pushing you towards PS4 with this deal, when you may prefer going to PC or Xbox One for other reasons. There are literally no upsides for any gamer, considering it's content that's in the game files for all versions (as shown by this Xur mess) that was ready to be launched, but for a stupid contract they had to limit it to one platform only.
I´d welcome that.
Done with Destiny 2, but I sincerely hope Destiny 3 is something I will want to come back to.
It absolutely doesn't when the entire meaning of f2p is FREE TO PLAY. At this point, Destiny 2 players are about £150 in. Quite far from free.