Bungie Locks Players Without Expansion Out of Destiny 2 Endgame Activities
Not only will you be missing out on new content introduced in Curse of Osiris, some of the things you had in the base game are no longer within reach.
Curse of Osiris is upon us as Bungie ups the ante with the latest
Kotaku reports that the introduction of Curse of Osiris comes with the raised requirements for the Prestige version of the raid and Nightfall Strike. Originally, they carried a minimum of 300. Now, you must be 330. The problem is, without Curse of Osiris, you're capped at 305 (with mods). The Heroic Strike playlist isn't locked because of power
The original Destiny had similarly egregious practices when it came to expansions, but this shows that Bungie has committed to the format despite the concerns raised before. Locking off entirely new content in an expansion makes perfect sense, but putting old content behind a gate is questionable. With major devs in the industry under a microscope already, the game may not get a pass as easily as it did before. What say you all? Hit Chatty and let us know your thoughts. Our Destiny 2 Complete Strategy Guide is available for all planning to stick around!
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replyCharles Singletary posted a new article, Bungie Locks Players Without Expansion Out of Endgame Activities
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Seconded. Why didn't they just add another tier instead of locking people out?
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As I understand it the raid and Nightfall Strike the article mentions are vanilla content. They had a hard mode version which used to be playable by level capped players in vanilla, now they are only playable by level cap players with the expansion. It's like if Blizzard scaled every dungeon to the new level cap every time an expansion hit, and got rid of the old versions.
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The DLC is 20 if you buy just it, or 30 for season pass for it and a 2nd DLC.
This DLC includes
Higher levels to gain
New crucible maps
2 new strikes
New campaign
New social space
New weapons and armor
New Raid Lair - This is an all new encounter to the raid location that has new content, new encounters and new bosses it just starts in the same place as the current raid-
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they did the same thing with Destiny 1; was only slightly a big deal at the time. they’re only locked out of the hard mode content, which was updated for the new expansion to provide new rewards included in that expansion.
but yes they’ve also been locked out of all hard mode content and rewards they previously had access to. it is kind of bullshit. they should create a vanilla hard mode.
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^^^ what sigpro said.
I actually need to correct myself on my previous comment a bit, I think. in the previous games the raids were only fully updated for higher levels at the end of its run, after years of the community asking for it. I’m foggy on if they raised the hard mode light level each time.
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How to segregate your player user base 101. Holding players hostage from content will drive them away faster than you can fucking blink.
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I'm sad I bought this game.
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Ditto, though mostly because for $60 there just isn't that much there in the vanilla game, and I'm sure as fuck not going to pay $20-34 more for more content that should've been in vanilla.
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Yes, people that pay for the game and are unhappy with it should not have an opinion. Screw those ungrateful assholes.
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Things like this are why I viewed it as an $80 game instead of a $60 game.
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I wish they would just charge way more for the base game or make it a sub model and not fuck the game over in the name of the micro transaction/DLC model.
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They did though. It was $80 and you got everything up until next year.
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Wow, this article totally misses the part where doing the Prestige activities are pointless when you are max level anyway. You could argue that you are missing out on some cosmetic shit in the Raid that you should be able to get, but the consensus is that it is useless and getting a team together for any Prestige has basically been impossible because nobody wants to do it.
So basically as usual with anything related to Destiny, lets all jump on the latest bandwagon the community wants to cry about.
Everyone is free to bitch about whatever they want, but I also am free to call this shit storm out for what it is, a complete non-starter.
Destiny has always been about playing with your friends, and whenever a new expansion comes out, if you want to play with your friends who bought it, you gotta pay up, or you just move on. This model is not news, it is par for the course.-
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It isn't the article itself that is the problem, it is news and that is just the way things are. For some people they actually do need to know this is how this game works, and that Bungie is continuing their stance on using DLC in place of a subscription model.
So the problem I have is more about the way that controversy spreads when it comes to gaming (and in general) that seems to pretty much wearing on me these days. I generally don't have a problem with calling out game devs for not doing better, but it has gotten pretty out of hand lately. Gaming communities are just so damn hostile towards devs these days. But if I am honest, that has been a trend for a long time, it just seems to spread so quickly these days.
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I checked out /r/destinythegame after I picked up the game on sale. I never played the first past the first few missions and thought I'd look for some tips there.
Fuck that, what a toxic goddamned place. I can't imagine getting that angry about a game.
I've just been playing at my own pace. I read Wadmassi's Destiny threads everyday. I'm up to about 250 now. Still having fun!
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if it's useless why lock it behind DLC?
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Based on the power differential you would get one- or two-shot by the lowest level enemies in the game making it impossible to complete the 330 Prestige activities. It's arguably less confusing to limit access to activities based on owning the expansion than trying to explain to players how power levels work. Think of the nonsense requirements iOS apps had in the past to be sure that the hardware was new/powerful enough to run newer apps.
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Glad I passed on this game. ShackHype almost got me.
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