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Bungie is looking for Designers to create "player progression behind lootboxes"
- Thread starter Ragona
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That they're looking for a senior progression designer (gross) sounds like someone got axed/demoted from the existing team thanks to the PR mess they're in now.
The best part is that they're not looking to better themselves, but looking how to better sell their manipulative/exploitative shit.
gg bungie you were one of the good guys once
The best part is that they're not looking to better themselves, but looking how to better sell their manipulative/exploitative shit.
gg bungie you were one of the good guys once
It's a 3 year cycle. The call update/expansion in 2018 will probably change a few things. Expect to see it then.
The first parties have a bit of an advantage. An individual title's P/L can be abstracted to 'enriching' the platform, which generates sales, which generates royalties. It's not as clear cut as the third party market.
However, take TLoU2, it's selling ten million regardless, and it will no doubt have MP with awful mtx elements.
They'll all do it as and when they feel they can.
They're really doubling down on that Eververse bullshit aren't they... They're not the only ones at fault though, thank the players spending hundreds on Silver for a stupid neon emote or loading screen decoration.
lol I don't even know how to respond to this.
Translation: have skills at fucking people over. I hope this continued fiasco causes players to drop the game en masse.
And they have the perfect patent for this.
With Destiny 2 locking previously accessible features behind their dlc, the outright lie with the XP you obtain and now this I'm think I'm done with Bungie as a company entirely. (Note: I haven't played Destiny outside of the beta but I enjoyed playing that and I loved Bungie's work with the Halo series).
With Destiny 2 locking previously accessible features behind their dlc, the outright lie with the XP you obtain and now this I'm think I'm done with Bungie as a company entirely. (Note: I haven't played Destiny outside of the beta but I enjoyed playing that and I loved Bungie's work with the Halo series).
They really want to make us feel "a sense of pride and accomplishment". Such caring developers.
That is really what I don't understand.
They already ask for the game and expansions... why focus on microtransations and lootboxes? If the updates and expansion were free I can understand but we are paying every three months.
Said that... if you are paying for something you need to get exactly what you want and not a random lootbox.
They already ask for the game and expansions... why focus on microtransations and lootboxes? If the updates and expansion were free I can understand but we are paying every three months.
Said that... if you are paying for something you need to get exactly what you want and not a random lootbox.
I played D2 like crazy at launch and had a ton of fun but nah fam. i'm just gonna wait for the shitty DLC expansions to go on sale or something but we seriously need someone to do something about lootboxes and greedy asshole developers.
Haha. That part reads like something from one of those old 'Big Tobacco' memos.
At not point in the gaming industry's history was this ever the case.
Corporations are required by law to grow and make as much profit as possible. Games like Destiny already reach the maximum audience that they're going to get (realistically speaking), So if you can't sell more copies, the next move is to maximize the amount of money you make per customer, they've already done DLC, now they're moving onto microtransactions and lootboxes.
Next step is probably subscriptions and in game ads. My suggestion is to buy games from publishers who's business model still revolves around growing their audience instead of maximizing profit per customer. Like Bethesda or Square Enix for example.
It only stops when we as consumers stop buying those games that implement overly aggressive monetization strategies like tying progression to lootboxes. Every time someone buys CoD they get proven right and see no need to change course.
I wonder what the thought process is here. You would think devs would be avoiding this stuff like the plague with the BFII backlash and the threat of government regulation.
I bet you that for all the noise made over BF2, EA is still gonna make buttloads over microtransactions.
It's sad that you have look at game purchases and think, are they trying to screw me, is the game a forced grind, pushing paid loot boxes, lacking in fun mechanics and content because they want to sell loot boxes.
On the bright side I have more money for other games and note to devs and publishers, I'll go where this crap isn't if your game is good.
On the bright side I have more money for other games and note to devs and publishers, I'll go where this crap isn't if your game is good.
Destiny 2 is a $60 game that requires you to spend $20 three months after launch (one and a half, if you're on PC) to not be locked out content you already paid for, with the vast majority of its endgame loot hunt hidden behind loot boxes (that only gives you three months to collect what you want before they swap it out -- in the hope that you then spend money before each "season" ends -- unlike Overwatch, where you at least don't have to worry about losing non-holiday event content).
How they can see the above description and be okay with that is beyond me.
How they can see the above description and be okay with that is beyond me.
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HOLY SHIT, I Just returned to WoW after Destiny 2 as well LOL
It's almost slowly and surely we will all have a switch in the future...............
Fucking Bungies leadership sucks ass if this is what they want after the games already out.
HOLY SHIT, I Just returned to WoW after Destiny 2 as well LOL
It's almost slowly and surely we will all have a switch in the future...............
Fucking Bungies leadership sucks ass if this is what they want after the games already out.
haha I was even thinking about going back to WoW after a 4 year break! Either way ActivisionBlizzard gets our money.
Ya'll are playing the wrong games. If you really think this, you're not paying attention. Don't let the handful of shitty games and shitty practices generalize the entire industry.
I don't doubt it. You just would think... maybe hold off for a little while. Like there's an honest threat of government regulation on the table, and the industry is going to double down?
They still haven't even justified the existence of the current microtransactions. What the fuck?
There are games out there with regular free content updates that just hit their largest number of players, where it isn't about the grind, but about how much fun the game is to play and the new ways to play each dlc brings.
If a game isn't fun, stop playing.
If a game isn't fun, stop playing.
I mean, by percentage the Switch certainly has the lock on quality single-player games.
But more seriously, I think pointing out that the Switch has had an absolutely absurd launch year by any metric is fair and especially relevant given that Nintendo has, as of the short release date of the console, not given into the GaaS mentality. Or do you think that idea is completely without merit? The antagonistic and cynical counter-response to the people suggesting the Switch is just as rooted in console war mentality as the - assuming they were made in bad faith - original posts.
They didn't even do their Halloween event they had done for the past two years. Because it was two months after launch? I would hope they have enough support to handle a small event two months after launch. Because the PC launch was a week or so prior? I mean, that shouldn't matter either since they decided to lock PC players out of content if they didn't buy the expansion only a month and a half later.
what a patent!
people continue compaining about poor quality multiplayer, and hope, while in the back offices of the companies shit like this runs the show..
lets pay them some more, people. let's hurt them by throwing them some more of our money. it seems as "gamers", thats the only thing we know how to do...
I disagree with the brush your painting across every AAA game, Witcher 3 had no micro-transactions at all. I'm sure there are others.
Either way, I knew this DLC was going to be bad and feature more Ctrl+C Ctrl+V enemies. I decided to call it a day and trade my in my copy of Destiny 2. I had a load of fun with it but the game is too casual and I had nothing to play for after collecting everything so quickly.