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brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• _pete_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Destiny was supposed to be their “forever” game, the problem is that after 2 dozen expansions:

  1. New players are extremely intimidated about joining
  2. Old players dislike losing the content they’ve paid for when it’s vaulted
  3. Long term players will eventually get bored of playing the same thing they’ve been playing for years

  Live service games just won’t last forever like they want them to.

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  • brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Precisely.

    Developing one MMO forever is not a great strategy, and I’d argue they aren’t executing it like the Warframe devs (which is its direct competitor I guess).

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  • DragonOracleIX@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’m fine with content being vaulted to make room for new content. What I have an issue with is when the new content isn’t even half of the quality of what they removed. I quit playing shortly after menagerie was removed for exactly that reason.

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    • BrowseMan@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I exited with a “lol no” when I saw the state of lightfall. So glad I did.

      It’s still a shame for the devs. Quite talented people, it’s once again a case of major management fuck and devs paying the bill…

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      • ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Quite talented people, it’s once again a case of major management fuck up and devs paying the bill…

        Workers pay the price for mistakes made by the C-Suite.

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  • Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    not to mention their response to accounts hacked is “lol get fucked” they /might/ give to access but they refuse to do any rollbacks or anything even if it isn’t you’re fault. Shitty company with shitty practices. Was destined to fail eventually.

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    • Astronauticaldb@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      They do have a pretty sound reasoning for that though. Recoveries (which are services where someone better at the game than you logs into your account to play on your behalf) are a big thing in games like D2, and are also against their ToS. The tl;dr is that if you give your account information to someone and they play your game, and just so happen to cheat, that’s your fault for giving your information away.

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      • Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        yea im not talking that though, it’s bad buisness sense to not assist your customer with recovering their account in terms of a break in. That customer is no longer going to spend money or even play your game anymore. I know of a few people who won’t touch Destiny anymore, one of them was a past ambassador of the game due to the shitty security setup of destiny’s third party integration allowing someone to hijack the account and then destroy it.

        It takes almost no effort to just roll the account back and anything that was related to it, it’s all logged as they have to do so for the inventory system to properly work with the market. But they would rather just hope that the player will spend money again on shit, and that’s not including the time limited shit you can’t get back. Complete disregard to your user base is a huge turnoff for me.

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