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Forums - Gaming - Bungie Apologizes for Taken King Controversy (CE Items to be Sold Separate)

ethomaz on 25 June 2015
dharh said:
This is just about the last thing I'll say about this but:

The Dark Below = $20
New weapons, armor, and gear
2 more light levels
3 new story missions
1 new strike
1 new raid
3 new crucible maps
1 relic weapon

House of Wolves = $20
New weapons, armor, and gear
2 more light levels
1 new hub
5 new story missions
1 new strike
3 new crucible maps
1 new relic weapon
Prison of Elders: Arena co-op with normal and hard mode
Trials of Osiris crucible mode

The Taken King = $40 (some of below is a guess)
More character levels, the speculation is that the base level will now be 30
New weapons, armor, and gear
Unknown max light level, right now we can get 14 light levels which gets us to 34, will that remain so we reach 44 or will we get even more, some are guessing we will get 20 so we can reach 50
1 or more story missions
1 or more new strikes
1 new raid
1 or more new crucible maps
1 new relic weapon

Seems to me that $40 is almost the correct price for what we are getting compared to what we have gotten in the past, though I would have preferred TTK be $30. Which to me would make releasing a Veteran Collectors Edition with all those physical goodies for $50 palatable. But right now if I'm a vet player I would have to spend $80. That just does not make sense to me to spend that much.

TKK is about half of what you get in Destiny vanilla.

3 sub-classes
~10  story missions
~3 strikes (1 PS exclusive)
1 raid
~5 crucible maps (1 PS exclusive)

I think $30 could be the right price but $40 is fine.



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LudicrousSpeed on 25 June 2015

Half of what you get in the base game is like a $15 DLC, not a $40 grand "expansion" LOL.



sabvre42 on 25 June 2015
LudicrousSpeed said:
Half of what you get in the base game is like a $15 DLC, not a $40 grand "expansion" LOL.


The problem that you and pretty much everyone else in this thread fail to realize - this game has NO subscription.

MMOs have a $12-15 a month fee ON TOP of expansions (WoW, FFXIV). Those that don't either have a Cash Item store and or an optional subscription (DCUO, TESO) or simply a cash item store (Warframe, Neverwinter, etc).

Destiny is stuck in this limbo state of Not an MMO - But also still an MMO.

Over the course of the year -- they nickel and dimed us for a grand total of $30 (collectors edition) / $35 (expansion pass) or $40 (individual). Thats $2.50/2.92/3.33 a month. Whether or not you agree with the amount of content in vanilla -- the upkeep cost was a fraction of what a traditional MMO would have been.

The expansion is being priced at a traditional expansion cost of $40. See: Every Wow Expansion, Every Starcraft 2 Expansion, Diablo 3 X1, FFXIV Expansion, etc.

They NEVER should have called the last 2 DLCs as expansions... they were miniscule DLCs. This one is truly an expansion in terms of the game. We are even getting new planets (Looks like Jupiter and Saturns Moons).

Thats said -- $30 would be more fair to those of us that paid already. I may not buy it either.



LudicrousSpeed on 25 June 2015

I stopped reading at MMO.

Destiny is not an MMO, is nothing close to an MMO, will never be close to an MMO.