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Penny Arcade - Comic - Destination
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Penny Arcade - Comic - Destination
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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A shame about Destiny 2 as well. I stopped playing well before the first DLC came out. When it became very apparent that it was only worth playing the game once a week when they did the reset.
"I would never abandon you, Tofy..." is what I would say if you hadn't ran off to the Playstation 4. *cough*
That Harry Potter shit is straight up evil. Like, mustache twirlingly evil.
That's fair.
Despite Bungie's issues, it's reaching to classify what they've done with Destiny 2 as being the remotely the same as Harry Potter: Hogwarts'.
The Harry Potter game is a free game driven by an energy/time mechanic. As a mobile/casual game, the time mechanic really only hurts people who want to mainline it. Energy mechanics are meant to exploit impatience by enforcing play rationing. The clash between the mechanic and gameplay—I vaguely recall a gameplay tweet where a person didn't have enough energy to say "I'm tired" or whatever—is pretty pronounced. But anyway, comparing Destiny 2 and Harry Potter: Hogwarts is like comparing apples and oranges.
It's usually with MMO's , I buy a month to play with some friends, friends get ahead of me and then it's just me trying to catch up grinding alone and then they quit playing.
The Hogwarts game is especially vile because it forces you to wait to continue playing for free... but not TOO long or you just lose all your progress. So you're essentially on a leash to the game, constantly being taunted with the demand to wait some more... or give them some money.
Meanwhile, Destiny 2 deliberately slowed down your ability to earn the microtransactions for free through gameplay and made the XP bars lie about what was happening to hide that it was doing that. And then they acted shocked when they got caught out doing that. It's some pathetic shit, but nowhere near in the same category.
Not because I was annoyed with the slow progression that people complain about or because I was angry about something but... All three of my characters were max level and max power, so it just felt like I had nothing left to do. I guess I could go collect exotics but I don't really feel the need to.
But the biggest thing people get mad about is how much progression is "artificially slowed down" which... just absolutely does not line up with my experience of the game at all. I'm not trying to brag or anything this is a point of genuine confusion whenever I see people complain about Destiny 2.
Progression with the Eververse engrams, it has nothing to do with getting to level 20.