Destiny 2's new $15 "Starter Pack" is a bunch of junk that feels it came from a shitty mobile game

[John Elden Ring]

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Imagine the Destiny 2 community's relief when Bungie quietly released a new "Destiny 2 Starter Pack" that only costs $15. Finally, a straightforward and affordable way to jump into a notoriously hard-to-start MMO! Now imagine the community's disappointment upon realizing it's a bunch of junk that only makes the game's position even worse.

Players spotted the starter pack on Steam following the recent launch of the Season of the Wish, which has taken Destiny 2 back to its Forsaken era with the Ahamkara of the Last Wish raid (and for an extended stay now that The Final Shape has been delayed).

The pack comes with three Exotics: the Traveler's Chosen sidearm, Ruinous Effigy trace rifle, and Sleeper Simulant linear fusion rifle. You'll also get a cosmetic-only Sparrow hoverbike and space ship, plus an Exotic Ghost shell that offers the most marginal of benefits over readily available non-Exotic shells. (I'm also swimming in Exotic shells, for the record.) Finally, you get 125,000 Glimmer, 50 Enhancement Cores, five Enhancement Prisms, and one Ascendant Shard for upgrading your gear.

For a variety of reasons, none of this stuff is worth much at all. You can fairly easily unlock all of these old Exotics in-game via the Lost Lights monument, and none of them are great or essential to begin with. Traveler's Chosen loses to other ability-refunding Exotics in the best builds, Ruinous Effigy has been nerfed so hard that it's worthless in any difficult content, and Sleeper Simulant is quite weak without the catalyst that you'll need to unlock through gameplay anyway (and at best a niche pick even with the catalyst).

This is the kind of thing that nobody should buy. It's not even pay-to-win; the power bump this grants you is infinitesimal. It's pay-to-get-nothing-of-value. Nobody would consider buying it unless they've got more money than they know what to do with or they have no idea how the game works. All of these Exotics are easily unlocked for free, and I can get three times as many materials in an hour.

 

[Jivesh1995]

Pathetic. And these are the clowns Sony want leading their MP push

 

[8BiTw0LF]

Bungie got greedy in 2017, after they lost their Activision bonus - and they never backtracked..

 

[Yurinka]

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What a dumb article.

The game is F2P, so obviously it has paid DLC because they have to pay the salaries of tthe people who work on its updates and mainenantance plus also the servers.

And well, like any DLC it's optional, nobody forces you to buy it.

Some entry level players may be insterested on it because it would be good for them, or may not know how to unlock it or don't have the patience to do it, or maybe they just think it looks cool and want to get it now. And well obviously newbies don't know what is the most optimal way to unlock stuff and which weapons are the best ones. And in their entry level, they don't need the best weapons in the game. Let's remember this is a STARTER PACK.

Because, oh surprise! You are not the center of the world and not all players are like you and don't have the same tastes or needs than you. Not all players are high level player who spend hundreds or thousands of hours in the game during years. Some of them are low level players who are starting to play or they suck in the game, and their needs aren't the same, so there are things (in this case weapons or dlcs) designed for different types of players.

On top of that, to have a DLC as early unlock is better than to keep only behind a paywall. And not being pay-to-win is better than pay-to-win.

 

[Gods&Monsters]

What's the difference between that and like...every other game? Fortnite and COD cash shop will make your head spin with so much random stuff.

The hate for Bungie is really getting ridiculous.

 

[Vertigo]

Enough of a backlash for this item bundle to get delisted.