Cant wait for next week's article about "How cutting content out of the game and making it paid dlc is great for gamers"

Micro transactions are fine if they are just cosmetic, when they aren't that's when the problems start.

HAHAHA! I'm with ya man. Eff microtransactions, Eff JL from Film Watch and Eff Destiny

Well technically it would be putting money back into the developer's pocket and that in turn making the game more of success. They can then put that money into maintaining servers, other maps and maybe other types of free downloadable content.

Edit:
Well we can all just hope can we?

"cocaine, hookers and dark rooms for EVERYONE"

Now that is a very merry Christmas!

I enjoy playing Destiny....but in no way would I ever think microtransactions in any game are remotely close to being a good idea. How is this a good idea? The game is fine, this will just make the game unbalanced and make those really rare and powerful weapons that you have to put work in to actually get easier. Nope, just like Halo 5 and MGSV there is no point to them adding in Microtransactions in anyway shape or form.

Maybe one day you'll wake up and realise people are just enjoying a great game they very much enjoy. No one is forcing you to like it, so stop trying to tell people to not like it.

Have you ever considered that destiny players ALSO play those games from "better hard working dev teams"??
Personally I just bought tearaway and uc is out Friday, dq heroes on Tuesday, halo at the end of the month and bloodborne in November. That's quite a lot of supporting other devs from my perspective but guess what, I'm also playing destiny ;)

When did I defend bungie?? I said people like playing destiny. You should learn to read :)

Lol a lot of assumptions there xD
You're very angry about what strangers do with their money :/
I'll have you know ttk was thestablished first time I expanded destiny, intact first time I expanded anything and I don't buy microtransactions. I never buy anything from EA. Seriously man, chill. Not good for your health to be so angry over something as silly is this xD
I think people buying cod and assassins creed every year is bad for the industry but I don't go on about it. I just stopped playing those games and got on with my life instead of attacking fanbases.

Why, can't you see, they're throwing money at their monitors.

Microsoft bought all of Zenimax Media for 7 billion, while Sony paid 4 billion for Bungie. I think Microsoft got the better deal due to acquiring Fallout, ElderScrolls and Doom.

@anast
Should've thought that one out buddy, lol.

Yea, but they're still 100 times more wealthy than Sony. I would say it worked out well.

Plus turning down Marvel too. Spiderman is only exclusive to Playstation because of that

More in the 1.000 million now.

Honestly, with that kind of track record, you can't convince me Spencer hasn't eaten it from the back in the name of self preservation. Probably unwashed...and at least twice.

That aside, my interpretation of everything here is Xbox has been mismanaged a bit too much and Nadella came down from his throne. The way it is now, I don't believe for a minute the multiplatform move was Spencer's idea. I don't even think the acquisitions was Spencer's work. At this point, I reckon he's got as much power in his role as Hunter Biden at a Ukrainian energy company.

You can never tell how things will turn out if he had said yes to those games. Xbox already has access to some great IPs, however, they hardly do anything with them or fail to deliver. It's also possible their presentation wasn't good at the time, and they made sure the next presentation was better.

I believe that part of being successful is releasing things in the right place at the right time.

Many major corporations have a story similar to passing on successful business ideas. Let us look at Sony Pictures for example. Back when Marvel went bankrupt, they had the opportunity to buy the entire Marvel for only $25 Million but turned them down. An unnamed big shot at Sony reportedly claimed that “nobody gives a shit about any of the other Marvel characters,”. They ended up taking Spiderman for $10 Million instead.

https://www.avclub.com/sony...

Fast forward to today, we can see what the Marvel brand has done for Disney. Is it possible the same success would have been possible had Sony acquired those IPs. We can't say that for sure and it is possible most of those IPs that are successful today may not have been used.