So we all know 1.6 info is out for us to look at and either be happy about it or not happy about it. I am not happy about it really. When you look at what you got for your seasons pass and game cost, That is what I got with vanilla Destiny for just the game cost.
The Division is basically vanilla Destiny minus a REAL raid or large end game PVE experience and minus a PROPER PVP experience. The DZ is not everyone's cup of tea but its kind of a cool PVPVE experience. Basically the whole game including DLCs are just one actual game and should have been delivered as one game with a couple of game modes.
Massive has basically ripped off every player that bought this game. Whether you actually bought the DLCs, Seasons pass or just the Vanilla game they have not even provided a complete product for any of those users.
They, (Hamish) openly said in an early SOTG "no nerfs only buffs", Yannick tweeted there would be NO MICROTRANSACTIONS at all. The dev team cannot even produce a patch without issues immediately after its release and I'm not talking about bugs, I'm talking about delta errors and mike errors and disconnections and lag, and not being able to log in at all.
When you get past that they can't actually fix anything properly (one is none, heal delay and ballistic shield to name a few). They cannot figure out how to balance anything properly, they cannot figure out how to either give all players access to the PTS or provide PTS on all platforms, and they cannot stop any cheating on their game. I cannot wait to hear about all the cheating in The Last Stand game mode.
Massive, you should be thinking about some method of reconciling with your user base because right now you just look like complete sh!t.
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With today's press release... I'm officially disappointed in the DLC package.
Tired of having the DZ and its broken as hell "PvP" (not PvP *really*. More just straight out PK) shoved down our throats. 1.6 is the final "You will PvP and you will like it!" straw. Claiming "Tons of PvE content is coming!" and then locking that content behind the PvP zones? Real nice there. Huge middle finger to the PvE players. The two Red Storm chuckleheads (Senor "I only PvP in groups of 4" and mr. "PVP RULES!" dudebro)should have been the hint that players like myself are no longer welcome here.
So so disappointed. At this point I will never touch another game that Massive have any involvement with, no matter how good it looks.
They started to claw things back with 1.4 but right back to their old crappy ways!
Like Arafys said when you've devs like the 'PvP rules' guy, who I think I'm right in thinking was the same douchbag that stated 'I like to be a real ******* in the DZ. I pretend to be friendly then shoot when they least expect it', what should we expect.
Bring on Mass Effect.
Let's show our feelings by boycotting all future games from Massive. Reap what you sow!
Very disappointed and honestly after today I'm even more so in the mindset of if I knew then what I know now I would have avoided this game like the black death and Hugo your right the "PvP RULEZ" dud is the same one who said he likes to go in the DZ and be a total ******-canoe.What really annoys me most is how they keep insisting that this is PVP, I've been gaming since my 5th Birthday when I got a brand new Commodore Amiga 500 back in 1987 back before your internet was considered "fast" if you had a 56.6k dialup modem and it took you 3 minutes to loadup your inbox of your email account and loading A.I.M(AOL Instant Messenger) was a task unto itself.
I've played so many games of all genres over the years everything thing from Crimson Skies,Starlancer,Wing Commander1-4,Freelancer all the Call Of Duty games,Road Rash,Chase HQ,Jaguar XJ220,SWIV,Thunderblade,Golden Axe.The list goes on and on and on,so I think I have a fair idea of what a PvP game is and this DZ sure as hell isn't one,The whole PvEPvE is just one hot steaming pile of (insert word here) and don't get me started on Survival or this Cash Shop they have now put in.
I'm sure Massive will find some mindless sheep who'll keep ploughing more money into this trainwreck in progress but rest assured Massive you won't be getting another cent from me if you continue down this path,there will come a point where I'll just move on to something else and no amount of emails or podcasts or press releases begging me to come back and "give you another chance" will change my mind at that point.
All of this season pass content feels hollow and the same as any paid update, they could have just taken incursions and made it a DLC instead and made survival a free update and people wouldn't even question it, this is how bland all content has been, since all of these expansion make you go around in circles to go nowhere? investigate an agent seeling weapons to rikers in the undergroud? goes nowhere. Go recover a vaccine and fight misterious hunters? also not explained. bunch of rogues that are fighting eachother in the DZ? it's the proper PVP mode that this game has been lacking since Day 1 and it's paid. i can't believe how bad this game is and has been nothing more of false hope "we will get more content in the next patch, i'm sure" from the community also makes me sad
im just not sure if Massive can actually fix this mess. I think the community is too salty now and that with each patch they seem to really add fuel to the fire and even more bugs. They just cannot keep up with the bugs, they might fix 10 or 20 but they create even more then they fix. This is the case with each patch so far.
With each PTS they try to reinvent this game and so far the best of all of them was the 1.4 patch. Then they went completely against that patch not a month or so later and brought out 1.5 that just ruined the karma credit that they built up with 1.4.
Someone at Massive needs to give their head a shake or maybe its time to lose a few of the dead weights there and get some fresh blood in to maybe fix this game.