| ganoncrotch said:
While in other mmos say WoW for example it would be possible for you to enter lvl 60 raids or pvp with vanilla version of the game, it simply isn't possible to really gather up 40 other people who haven't gotten any expansions and to go and do vanilla raiding content as it was in the original game, either people will have gotten item drops from beyond the first expansion with far greater stats or are just players who aren't willing to commit an extra 20 euros to play the game and as such are definitely incapable of doing vanila raids. Not sure if you get what I mean, but the tl:dr of it is that content could be left open, but really it can't be accessed still as it was in the original version of WoW. How expensive is the taken king even? 20-40euros? for effectively a years worth of new content, is that really so expensive when the next Fifa is coming out which can cost almost double that and wont offer a full year of content? |
Sorry, but it is still not the same thing. If i can or can't put 20 people together is my problem, but i can still try it. And while players with expansions are bound to not have interest in old raid gear, you can still get them to do the content at least once, as most of people don't manage to do raids at its level cap.
Not to mention that blizzard actually adds a ton of things that even those who don't buy the expansions can enjoy, like the pokemon rip-off in game. Losing access to content is NOT normal.
Lastly, saying TTK has one year of worth content is pushing it a little don't you think? And would still be no excuse to locking old content behind it. The problem is not if TTK worths its price or not, but if it is ok to take from the $100 content people already had. Content that was never advertised as temporary or subscription based, which is the opposite of WoW or any other MMORPG, that by default let you know your access depends of a monthly fee.
If Bungie want to create a subscription based game it is ok, as long as they warn people BEFORE the game or content is bought.
