Destiny 2’s New Seasonal Bundles Aren’t Earning Bungie Any Good Will

The ultimate season of Future 2 is right here, and it’s being overshadowed by one more big advertising and marketing blunder on Bungie’s half. So, collectively, let’s uncover how Future 2’s new seasonal bundles aren’t incomes Bungie any good will.

Not way back, Bungie laid off around 8% of their workforce, together with the legendary composer Michael Salvatori. The information shocked the gaming trade and put a nasty style into a lot of Future 2’s present and would-be gamers. From that time on, Bungie wanted to win us, the gamers, again—to earn our belief once more the place it’s been damaged many instances earlier than.

Quick ahead to the launch of Season of the Wish and two new bundles made their strategy to the Steam retailer. One bundle instantly angered the Future 2 neighborhood and gaming world as an entire. Dubbed The Future 2 Starter Pack, for 15 {dollars} you’d get an Unique ghost shell, Unique ship, Unique sparrow, 125,000 Glimmer, Enhancement Cores, Prisms, and an Enhancement Shard.

Worst of all, nevertheless, was the three Unique weapons that Bungie put into this pack. The three weapons had been a stable mixture of Main, Secondary, and Heavy weapons that included the Traveller’s Chosen Unique Sidearm, Ruinous Effigy Unique Hint Rifle, and Sleeper Stimulant Unique Fusion Rifle. Whereas these Unique weapons aren’t notably meta (in the meanwhile), this can be a rather more egregious type of paying for energy that Bungie has solely flirted with by way of expansion preorder Exotic weapons.

However past the paying to win, the largest difficulty right here is that Bungie was charging a whopping $15 {dollars} for simple entry to weapons you may get in sport. As a result of for $15 a brand new participant can, and rightfully ought to, purchase a few the sport’s earlier expansions to pad out the content material they’ll grind for and get entry to. For instance, throughout a sale, a brand new participant may at the moment choose up the Past Mild and Witch Queen expansions for not rather more than what the starter pack is asking for.

However no, Bungie put short-term income forward of long-term progress by making an attempt to nickel and dime but once more. It’s like they nonetheless haven’t discovered that over-monetizing can and can push new and previous gamers away out of your sport. I read an article earlier right now that stated Future 2 is changing into increasingly more like Diablo Immortal, and I wished to weep at how true that felt. If Bungie had made the starter pack free, then there would have been reward—that’s what Bungie needs to focus on.

After which you will have the painfully pointless Season of the Want Silver Bundle that mainly sells you the $15 Silver pack and provides a forgettable Legendary Emote to it. How is that an attractive bundle? You get the identical quantity of Silver between each packs, when bundles may stand to be much more attractive and well worth the cash.

What makes these packs really feel quite disingenuous is how they describe the quantity of Silver they provide. The common Silver pack says you get 1,500 Silver plus a 200 Bonus, whereas this new bundle says you get 1,000 Silver plus a 700 Bonus! That leads me to imagine they worded it like that to make gamers suppose they’re getting a greater deal and that feels so soiled. It’s that sort of observe that makes me care even much less about new content material when the upper ups at Bungie haven’t appeared to be taught something from their errors this far into improvement.

Concerning the writer

Ali Taha

Whether or not its new releases, or a brand new Future 2 season, Ali will flex his gaming and freelancer abilities to cowl them extensively. He began off writing options for Recreation Rant however discovered a greater dwelling right here on Twinfinite. Whereas Ali waits for the subsequent Monster Hunter title, he enjoys publishing his development fantasy novels as an indie writer.