• jordanlund@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    It’s better than what Bungie did with Destiny 2… just gutted 1/2 the content from the game, including all the story missions and the first several paid expansions.

    They wanted to attract new players with a smaller download size, but the new players come in and go “WTF is going on?”

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      Whoa, wtf? How did I miss that drama, haha holy shit. I definitely remember downloading it a few years ago and being aghast at its absurd size (think it was around 120GB? which nowadays that’s pretty par for the course because fuck optimization). But gutting half your content just to save space… have they not heard of compression? Like what the hell were they thinking haha

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        They didn’t just remove story missions and quests and things, they removed entire PLANETS from the game. It was crazy!

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      That’s the most baffling MMO decision I’ve seen, tbh. WoW has plenty of issues but at least they aren’t just deleting the continent of Northrend to save on install space or anything

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        Bungie’s problem is they don’t really want to make a story based looter shooter, they want a free to play PvP gacha engine.

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          I would’ve been fine with that if that’s how they launched it. It wasn’t. I stopped when they sunset a bunch of shit the first time in the first game. I figured the second would be more of the same, but sunsetting entire DLCs is nuts.