>There have always been questions about how earning Bright Engram XP works in Destiny 2, the bar that fills up after you hit the max level of 20, and are able to earn the Engrams sold in the Eververse store for free. For a while the big question was whether or not there was a per-level XP cap or if it just kept increasing forever (I still don’t know the answer to this), but more recently, a new question has been a bit more pressing.
>Turns out, the answer is yes. A number of redditors did exhaustive tests to prove this, showing that enormous piles of XP would result in only tiny increases of the XP bar, and things only seemed to normalize when you would wait longer in between activities before earning more XP. But that makes little sense, as you would imagine that if you earn (X) XP that your XP bar would increase by (X) XP. That is not what was happening, as repeated tests showed the faster you earned XP, the less you would receive for the same activities/kills. Ultimately, one tester concluded that this added up to 1.5 lost Bright Engrams every three hours.
>This is yet another artificial cap that Bungie has put into Destiny 2 like chests or environmental materials failing to give out any items if you farm them too quickly. While those lock-outs are hated enough by the community, literally giving people less XP than they’ve earned is something else entirely, and a big problem when the thing players are trying to earn using that system is the exact thing Bungie is selling as the game’s only form of microtransaction. And their explanatory statement really does come across like “we’re sorry we got caught doing this,” though I have reached out to them to clarify.
it seems a week can't go by without some controversy from a western dev/publisher. is there any way to save them from themselves?
How do we save the western video game industry?
DUDE CHICKENS LMAO
Why would you want to save them? Just let them crash and burn. Something will rise out of the ashes and thankfully, it won't be ye old publishers.
By supporting eastern video games.
shit game anyway
>This is yet another artificial cap that Bungie has put into Destiny 2 like chests or environmental materials failing to give out any items if you farm them too quickly.
>making chests give out fucking NOTHING in a loot 'n' shoot
Are these people retarded? That's that most limpdick idea I've ever heard.
There's actually a weekly quest to find 5 special chests with high tier loot in them. You can finish it in about 10 minutes, which is too quick for the cap and will cause the last 2 chests to have absolutely nothing in them. You have to stop playing halfway through the quest if you actually want the loot. It's beyond retarded.
this
why save it?
> people say "vote with your wallet"
> I've never played a single Destiny game and I haven't played an EA game in nearly a decade
> things continue to get worse
I guess this doesn't affect me as much as I thought.
WHITO PIGGU GO HOME
The "vote with your wallet" meme only works in an environment where whales don't exist, so it's no surprise why so many people are upset about a lot of things recently. Tl;dr: Normalfags ruin gaming, again.
People could ostensibly starve them out and make it clear that their shit practices are why, but given how many people buy their games just because other people are makes that unlikely. Let the devs and the players willing to put up with them devour each other and just find better shit to play.
You can't. Ever since Nintendo found out it was more profitable to find dumber customers than it was to make games when they launched the Wii all major studios followed suit. You arent the target audience for this shit.
>like chests or environmental materials failing to give out any items if you farm them too quickly.
you've got to be fucking kidding me
>saving western gaming
fuck dat shit
It really is this. Buying more complete and polished games without any money-leeching will cause western developers and publishers to copy them, if it is where the most money goes. But that's asking way too much from the average consumer, because those games don't have the immense marketing budgets of western AAA.
>t. only started playing video games last gen
Underage maybe? Or just hopping the bandwagon? Casual audiences existed in huge numbers on Playstation and PS2, those people buying yearly western sports and shooters are the same demographic. Not grandmas playing Wii bowling.
>people are spending their own money on cosmetic items in games that i wouldn't have bought anyway and i don't like it!!!!
fucking plebbit
>more Jewish than Warframe, a fucking F2p game
Honestly impressed. Kind of surprised I'm only hearing about the "denying you treats if you're too fast" thing now, kind of seems like a big deal for a grindy game
WHITO PIGGU GO HOME
The design is primarily to stop exploitation. They design the game around a certain loop, and expect players won't exceed that. When they do, they believe them to be doing something against the loop, like loading an environment again to respawn a chest near an exit, by going in and out quickly. Sort of like how fighting games have diminished damage for longer combos or repeated attacks.
It's a smart system really, and balances the game in 90% of situations. Personally, I only play for a few hours a week anyway, so it always feels to me like I'm pulling in tons of stuff and XP. It's just when people get good at doing the loop, they can beat Bungie's expectations in normal play, which leads to negative prominent stuff like here:
Can the new Yakuza come to PC? I'd like to buy it.
It goes to show that you need to watchdog the fuck out of this industry or they'd try even more himey tactics. Get ready for the damage control articles shitting on consumers once again.
I don't think people have an issue with the mechanic itself. but combined with microtransactions it creates an imbalance
is there a reason they dont just make the weekly quest take longer to complete?
HUWAITO PIGGU GO HOMU
I'm going to act smug when the crates work themselves into Jap games. Japan already loves mobile games even more than westerners.
By jap games but do not buy costume DLC.
For me, I've barely played, and I feel like I've gotten tons of cosmetics, and none of the cosmetics are highlighted or glorified like they are in TF2 or Overwatch, or even games like Call of Duty or Counter-Strike.
They're totally useless and low priority, that people end up having shitloads of leftover Bright Dust, which is an in-game currency that let's you buy the cosmetic items directly.
This is honestly such a non-issue in this particular case. Out of the context of the game, the headline just makes for a good story, especially with everything else going on. I wish people would get this incensed about Net Neutrality.
>no mugi
Buy a japanese console you plebian
Leni is a miracle of the universe
What if I buy Japanese computer parts
There was literally nothing wrong with this part.
You couldn't even find a good eastern game to put in your pic.
hey I’m a black man and can you tards stop putting your cuckold fantasies on me and my negro peoples
Whito piggu go home
Why are you trying to turn people into transniggas.
It's just chests that are located in pre-defined locations throughout a particular area. You're supposed to look for them yourself, but the locations are the same for everyone, so people can just go right to them. I mean, they even put them on the map for you when you activate the quest, so even without the guides you can figure it out easily.
They'd have to randomize it for everyone, and they'd have to make it so that you didn't have to buy into the quests to activate them, making it so that you can get the chests without having them on your map, which should in theory make the hunt longer, but with the benefit of the
player saving money.
Just nuke sanfran
it doesn't matter. a single whales us enough to fuck everyone over. I don't feel sorry for people that do this kind of shit, like that guy who bought maybe thousands of dollars in credits for Battlefront 2 just to get the store closed and his credits locked.
That fucker who made the comic, why didnt he go the extra mile and just added the action
>writing a tl;dr for one sentence
>Bloodborne
>Japan makes better "Western games" than the West does
What did they mean by this? WHITO PIGGU GO HOME
Pic related is on every Yakuza game
Is there more?
Every day my hopes and expectations down rocket
By hoping that people start to buy Japanese games more. They're more consumer focused than western games so it's in our interest to support them. Western devs are choked by their publishers to squeeze as much money out of consumers as possible. It's a shitty situation.
By playing real games.
The system is already falling apart. The whole AAA Mega Blockbuster concept for every single game was showing signs of slowing down and no longer being a reliable source of huge profit margins just around the same time lootboxes started to show up. But already those systems are starting to fall under harsh scrutiny and even if they hadn't it was a pay system that can't be sustained for too long as even the normies would start to notice how they were getting fleeced. So just keep supporting complete games and ignoring shit that's filled to the brim with microtransactions.
except western developers make better games in almost every genre except fighting and after injustice 2 we are getting close
>make mmo game
>make game that poopsocking autists play
>dont let them poopsock
>surprised when people get mad
is bungie retarded
>how do we
>we
Not your army faggot.s
Can anyone explain why people voice their opinions like they're facts? Is this a lower IQ thing? Are they just lazy? What's the deal here? A bait thing? See this guy
In all fairness, you sound just as retarded when you respond with nothing abut a series of rhetorical questions.
Are you new to Sup Forums? Jesus, you fags are getting so fucking buttblasted every time people say something bad about japon, be that anime, manga, vn or games in general, you completely forget what kind of people inhabit this board. Fuck off.
>talk shitz about anime and japan related things
>is surprised that people are upset when he talks badly about said topics on a website that was created for talking about anime
Sounding a bit buttblasted yourself, user
I'm not surprised, I actually expect that reaction. I will never get the same reaction from most of Sup Forums, or especially /jp/, they will just ignore stuff like this. But on Sup Forums? Oh fucking boy, I will be at least bombarded with 15 (You)s featuring smug anime girls.
I'm bored, but not in a passive agressive way. I'm just saying what I think instead of asking rhetorical questions trying to imply that the guy in question has bad opinions.
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Anime ruined this place.
>like chests or environmental materials failing to give out any items if you farm them too quickly
So THAT is what's happeneing, I thought the game was just buggy sometimes.
Fucking Bungie.
>Oh fucking boy, I will be at least bombarded with 15 (You)s featuring smug anime girls.
Why bother bringing it up if you already know the response you're going to get. It's Sup Forums, right? Does anyone come here expecting most conversation to be constructive and civil? In fact, anyone posting here is literally wasting their time. If you're bored, you should focus on short term goals or play video games. Watch anime or whatever /jp/ people do.
This. I already done my part. Bought Stormblood instead of Legion, bought Nier Automata instead of Destiny, bought Zelda breath of the wild instead of Battlefront 2.
>Western
Literally just X.B.O.X. and valve's joke of a hearthstone ripoff
>Eastern
Nintendo and Sony, both doing a good job staying in business.
>trying to imply that the guy in question has bad opinions.
Uh, actually I was being pretty straight. I think it's stupid for people to state their opinions as fact. Not that his opinion is "good" or "bad," as if that's even worth debating.
This, I did my part and preordered Monster Hunter World.
Stop buying their shit. That's it. They'll continue to abuse their consumers as long as their consumers continue to take it on the chin.
I haven't bought their shit in years.
Sounds like the problem is with everyone else.
its a fact, all the higher rated games in almost every genre are western made, the highest selling ones too
epin comedic relief robbot mayne xddd
such funny, good writing :DDD
It's almost as if when we had our major consumer revolution we should have focused on shitty business practices instead of making Milo Yionaansjfpolis our figurehead and spent all out time crying about Ghostbusters. Almost.
I'm always surprised by how a bunch of gullible morons think people like Milo Y, Richard Spencer, Paul Watson, or Alex Jones seriously care about any kind of "cause" and aren't just a bunch of desperate click-baiting whores. You see them in every skin color, religion, gender, and ideology but it's still easy to trick people into supporting a lie.
Can you think for yourself or do you really think Skyrim is a timeless masterpiece?
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this place was born for anime
>stormblood
lmao
He almost certainly knows that, user. He's just seeking (you)s.
When i redeemed all my rockstar for blue engrams, I only got rewards from the first 8 or so, and clicking the others would consume them but not give me anything. It's no big loss since blues are shit, but I fully believe this
I'll never not be angry with how it all went down. That was the last legitimate chance at changing the industry without involving the government, and it gets co-opted by a gay opportunist and his proto-altright followers.
Now I don't know what the fuck is going to happen. It's fucked.
better than legion, you can't prove me wrong.
lmaooooo
I haven't bought any AAA games in 10 years.
Voting with your wallet means you aren't contributing to the bullshit
bright engrams are shit anyway
lose some weight
>supporting a cinematic experience
Take your movie game else Yoko.
Why would you want to?
But is there more?
disgusting mother fucker
>xp gains in a linear progression game
That's only half true. While most of the money comes from whales, they still want people to show off their items to so if there's no playerbase then the whales won't whale (outside of the handful of super fanboys). That's why the whole "I'll buy the game but not any mircotransactions" doesn't work since you'll still contributing to a playerbase for the people who will buy them.
You deserve to be milked if you're dumb enough to buy destiny 2.
>the joke
>your head
shut up you KEK hehehe PRAISE KEK hehehe I agree and it fucking sucks but what do you expect when you weaponize underage autism?
alex jones is legit bonkers though
That pic of 2Bkaze is poorly drawn.
Disgusting shit art and Japanese are as jewish as the rest of them or even more you little weeb, i like Japanese games too but FEH? F:GO? or any and all the gacha shit that started this shit show? you're sacred cow is the same, idiot.
>mobile games
lmao
man, you take new pics everyday
and to think i've seen your penis
Exclusively play Japanese games.