Is there still content to do in the base game?

[Sparko]

Hey there guardians,

I purchased and played this back on release with the base game (before coming to steam) when I got the news that a lot of the content in the base game was being sunsetted I dropped this game as fast as I could because honestly shame on the devs for quoting BS like game size and blah blah blah for sun setting ♥♥♥♥ I paid for in the first place!!! (when the likes of stuff like COD Warzone exist)

Anyways I digress, is there still content to be done in the base game is this still worth while even if it's only to fool around and chill?

[AllergicToBrainRot]

There is but they vaulted alot of content to tune down the game size and room for the next major DLC (lightfall) which comes out next year. No one really pays attention to the old content. Get shadowkeep, beyond light and the witch queen deluxe edition. Season 18 is about to end on the 6th.

[Sparko]

See this is why I dropped this damn game... I paid $120 for it and the expansions plus something else I don't even remember what and they have been milking $40 - $60 "expansions" while removing everything that was previously paid for... garbage it was a phenomenal game when it came out... too bad. Thank you

[AllergicToBrainRot]

I feel ya. They said they promise not to vault content ever again. I honestly want to quit because of forced pvp quests and horrible exotic catalyst quest

[Pharaoh]

IMO the game in it's current state is an entirely new game at this point from what it once was 5 years ago. Even little things within the game, not just the actual story and so on and so forth.

It's constantly evolving as it should to avoid stagnancy. Most games are just one and done. You play, you get to the end you're done. There is no real "end" to Destiny 2 now is there? Instead, it just evolves.

I mean some games will just come out as an entire new purchase as a sequel or prequel. Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2, etc. Destiny and Destiny 2 are separate but instead of making a 3 and 4 and so on, they just keep evolving the main title. Maybe they should utilize the other approach and have Destiny 3, and 4 and so on? How would that resonate with players?

I mean, I just don't even think about the old stuff anymore. Even though it's shady that it was removed, and yes we paid for it all. I have over so many hundreds of games in my library and most of them i have never played or played once and they're done. I wouldn't be hurt if a lot of them would just disappear either because it's silly to have games from 15 years ago that some don't even work. lol Same thing with so much old content in an ongoing existing game. Like Dreaming City, hate it. Wish it would have been vaulted too. Oh well. (Get it? Well...)

Anyway.

[Pharaoh]

Originally posted by FEAR:

I feel ya. They said they promise not to vault content ever again. I honestly want to quit because of forced pvp quests and horrible exotic catalyst quest

I do cringe at having to do PVP just to compete with my ocd of completionism.

[Bad_Marduk]

they should cycle content back in from time to time. like bring back io and remove nessus or EDZ for a season. frankly id love to go back to new pacific again, opr finish my warmind sets.

[Mez Koo]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2691498745
There is a free festival event "The Dawning" coming this month, its nothing really big but you play the game, you get ingredients to make cookies to give to npcs for unique weapons so its something extra so do while you're fooling around in rest of the free content.

[Nakos]

It's a live service game that uses a Seasonal Model. Those change over time.

You can complain about the format all you like, but it's a fairly standard offering these days. If you don't care for it, your best bet is not to give Bungie any money, and instead patronize games that don't use that model.

You don't buy software. Period.

You purchase an access license. 99% of all software works this way. Both online and off. The presenting company (Bungie in this case) retains all ownership and retains the rights to sunset support at any time. In the business world, support gets sunsetted all the time. Software is a low permanence medium.

Now, obviously, it's NOT in any company's best interest to sunset support willy-nilly, or even constantly. No company sunsets stuff lightly.

But there still comes a time when the financial trade-off favors sunsetting. For ALL software. The release of Beyond Light was that point for the Year One content. The (in-house) Developer tools needed to maintain that stuff were obsolete. The process of carrying that older content forward would have taken years, and cost money that none of us would have liked having passed on to us.

If you want the details on that, those can be found here: https://www.bungie.net/en/Explore/Detail/News/49189

No one LIKES the fact that they removed older content. But part of the cost of buying into Destiny 2 is realizing and accepting that sometimes older content may be sacrificed in exchange for newer content.

If you're not comfortable with that, then don't spend any money on Destiny 2.

[Skeleton]

I don't recommend buying into it as it is now. New content sucks, the new Raids suck, the story has probably become one of the worst in the AAA scenes. Destiny is pretty much dead in the water these days.

[667]

Actually, if you read most of the licensing agreements, you don't own any rights to the software. Yes there are exceptions. BUT, possession being 9/10s and all... for physical media at least. Not quite the same for online games.

[Mez Koo]

Originally posted by Skeleton™:

I don't recommend buying into it as it is now. New content sucks, the new Raids suck, the story has probably become one of the worst in the AAA scenes. Destiny is pretty much dead in the water these days.

The community constantly flip flops, next week it'll be the greatest season, best dungeon ever, the best state the game has ever been in and people will be excited for Lightfall again and then it'll be back in the pits again as the season ends and we wait a month for the next one.

[667]

I started last year. As a pretty new player, I have been enjoying it a lot. I have bought Shafowkeep and Witchqueen + 4 seasons. I feel like I have gotten good value. That being said, I think it sucks to remove content. Especially, stuff that sets up the lore. I have checked out Youtube to catch up on references to things removed. I can see returning players being bitter. I get that there are tech barriers to deal with. I don't know how it compares to release, but there is still a lot to do and it feels fun. The 3.0 changes were pretty cool for the most part. I hope to someday play the original content.

[Nakos]

Originally posted by Kazuma:

Hmm strange then I guess I dont own any of the hundreds of other cd roms floppy disks game cartridges or other random media I’ve got around my house oh wait yes I do we BUY access to content not RENT access to content the game i on our computers taking up our memory and our disk space. If it was just a launcher that granted us access to said game on their computers then you and your rant would of been right.

You own the CDs, yes.

You do NOT own the software on them.

Go ahead, check your EULAs. I'll wait.

[Delta]

Originally posted by Skeleton™:

I don't recommend buying into it as it is now. New content sucks, the new Raids suck, the story has probably become one of the worst in the AAA scenes. Destiny is pretty much dead in the water these days.

This is not only your opinion but it is one that the majority of the Destiny community does not agree with.