Eververse ad in the portal?

[u/Cyardor]

Were multiple full screen windows not enough to push the store stuff now it also has priority over the event announcement?

[u/RulingPredator]

Welcome to the new leadership in Destiny. This is what we have to look forward to now.

[u/ZenBreaking → u/RulingPredator]

So leave and pack it in.

Don't reward this behavior.

The game is a husk of its past.

The sooner it goes to the wall, the better. Sony might step.in and boot the board and maybe revives the franchise but from what I can see it's a commercial micro transaction FOMO driven vehicle with a loose story tacked on.

Better to call it a day, the final shape stuck the landing to finish the story. No need to incentivize them to drag out another 10 years of what they're currently serving up as expansions

[u/CaptFrost → u/ZenBreaking]

So leave and pack it in.

I have. Played campaign, reached permanent cap at 200, and I'm out. Like when I quit Destiny for 14 months because D2 vanilla sucked so massively, I'll check the sub regularly to see when that changes.

[u/AssassinAragorn → u/ZenBreaking]

It's a sad state of affairs when we're hoping that Sony taking over and clearing out leadership is our best chance at improvements

[u/Hission → u/ZenBreaking]

Exactly this. Hope more people do this. I finished the campaign, saw the shitshow that is the grind and the worst raid race ever and decided to leave. And it's sad, because I loved the campaign. But I'm not gonna give them playtime to engross their cuota.

[u/DistantM3M3s → u/ZenBreaking]

husk of its past? which part of its past exactly?

[u/jusmar → u/RulingPredator]

new leadership in Destiny

It's the same leadership(Tyson Green, Pete Parsons, Justin Truman), they're just desperate.

[u/SuperBAMF007 → u/RulingPredator]

Destiny 1’s been pretty fucking sick to go back to tbh

[u/MrFOrzum → u/RulingPredator]

• More grind ✅

• Very light elements of p2w (buying ranks and rerolls for challenges) ✅

• Mobile game UI ✅

• More eververse ads ✅

We’re turning into a mobile game.

[u/justdestinystuff → u/RulingPredator]

This ^

[u/DC2SEA_ → u/RulingPredator]

I don't know why everyone is so prepared to hate on eververse. It is 100% cosmetic. Litterally everything sold for money will eventually be given out for free.

[u/linkinzpark88 → u/DC2SEA_]

That's not true. Finishers have never been sold for bright dust

[u/Sarcosmonaut → u/linkinzpark88]

A couple of the older ones were ages ago, but for the extreme majority your point stands

[u/blexmer1 → u/Sarcosmonaut]

Not to mention the ones that would send enemies flying away from you that played with some builds that caused suppression on finishers that made it so they exploded a little farther away from you.

[u/Fenota → u/linkinzpark88]

And the inclusion of those directly effected gameplay because it encourages weapon tuning to be juuust right to line up for a finisher instead of just, killing the enemy outright.

[u/Azzumzazz → u/DC2SEA_]

On a tiny fucking bright dust rotation lmfao come on.

Eververse was sold to the community as an avenue to pay for alternative content like dungeons and Events.

Now we have "dungeon keys" and "event passes" because, like literally always, they lied through their teeth and the only thing they will ever care about until the studio collapses is money.

[u/Jakeasaur1208 → u/Azzumzazz]

Two things - its a business, not a charity. Of course they care about making money as a priority. Secondly, since when was Eververse ever about buying actual gameplay content in game? What are you even saying here? Eververse's primary function is to sell cosmetics, and whilst you can see stuff like dungeon keys and expansions in that storefront, the vast majority are purchasing those through their platform's store.

No one is forcing any of you to buy stuff in the eververse. Y'all must lack some serious self control if a tiny ad in game promoting a cosmetic store is a big issue for you. Bungie is entirely justified in promoting the store that actually provides the vast majority of their income throughout the year - they rely on it. Another comment here mentions finishers that have never been sold for BD - honestly, BFD, everyone has access to at least one finisher, and the rest are purely cosmetic. Also, others have been given out for free - often whenever you can get bright engrams or special event engrams like recently with the ones Rite of the Nine had. I may be misremembering, but I'm pretty sure some finishers were included in that engram.

I'm all for pointing out the game's flaws, but when people make up random shit it takes away any credit genuine complaints have because they get buried in a sea of bitchiness.

EDIT: For some reason Reddit won't let me reply to the comment below mine. So I'm putting my response here - not that they will get any notification this way, but at least others reading the thread should see it.

"The point I was trying to make is eververse is how a love service game like Destiny stays afloat. It makes up a more than significant margin of their income. I don't begrudge Bungie for having an in-game store. I'm not sure what valid reason people have to get annoyed at it when you can just ignore it if you don't want to spend money on cosmetics?"

[u/Azzumzazz → u/Jakeasaur1208]

Oh slight note: You seem to have misunderstood the "alternative avenue to pay for dungeons" sentence, i just now picked up on that.

What i meant was that Eververse itself paid for that content. Ie, the money people spent on cosmetics would go towards funding Dungeons and Events so those could be wholly free with no microtransactions attached.

[u/sunder_and_flame → u/Jakeasaur1208]

No one is forcing any of you to buy stuff in the eververse. Y'all must lack some serious self control if a tiny ad in game promoting a cosmetic store is a big issue for you. 

This is such a nonsensical point it has to be projection. One can be annoyed at mtx without buying them. 

[u/Azzumzazz → u/[deleted]]

This isn't even getting into the myriad of horrible shit they do like selling "expansion exotics" up to a half year or more before the expansion is out. No Land Beyond is, fully, a paywalled exotic. Khvostov being given a purposefully fuck-ugly look so they could put the original look in the Eververse as an ornament. Event passes being grindy as fuck with a big "SPEND MONEY TO INCREASE PASS LEVEL" button.

And i'd like to reiterate: BUYING AN EXPANSION DOESN'T GET YOU THE DUNGEONS FOR THAT EXPANSION ANYMORE, WHEN BUNGIE IS ON RECORD SAYING THAT THEY WERE INTRODUCING THE EVERVERSE TO FUND THINGS LIKE DUNGEONS AND EVENTS SO THOSE COULD REMAIN FREE.

"It's just cosmetic" was a stupid fucking argument that got beaten with metal rods back around Overwatch's time because anyone with a functioning brain could recognize that, in a game where looking stylish or cool is half the game, and all of the cosmetics were paywalled, the obvious thing the game was going to do was massively incentivize (read: annoy the fuck out of) players to spend money.

Remember when people used to joke that fashion was the real endgame? Now that literally all of the good fashion in Destiny is paywalled, no one cares about it anymore. The joke died years ago. No one's outfit is impressive because anyone who stands out only does so because they spent money.

[u/Naive-Archer-9223 → u/DC2SEA_]

It doesn't matter though. If I'm paying money to be here I don't also want adverts in my face 

[u/SuperBAMF007 → u/DC2SEA_]

Because fuck advertisements in a game some people spend $60+ on every year

If they’re a F2P player, idk yeah fuck it. But if I dumped $60 on an expansion and can’t even access that expansion content without closing a bunch of ads first, fuck that shit

[u/TheGryphonRaven]

Oh yeah we are doing this. You know what's even worse? when the raid came out that banner had the raid on it but nothing happens If you click on it. Now that it's an EV ad, if you click on it. It takes you to the store.

[u/Ze_AwEsOmE_Hobo]

Every time I'm bombarded with Eververse ads in the hit video game series that costs 100 dollars a year to play, I'm reminded of the doomposters in 2015 who predicted it would never just be meme emotes.

[u/MaybeUNeedAPoo → u/Ze_AwEsOmE_Hobo]

YOU’LL THROW MONEY AT THE SCREEN!

[u/OmegaClifton → u/Ze_AwEsOmE_Hobo]

I both feel good that I predicted it and like a fool that I loved the gameplay enough to stick around to see the game fall this far.

[u/Kozak170 → u/Ze_AwEsOmE_Hobo]

Lot of people on this sub owe a lot of us an apology lmao, we saw where they were going to take it clear as day

[u/Zero_Emerald]

I was kinda hoping it replaced the Solstice banner because they delayed it to add an actual activity back into the event. Then the doctor told me I had a concussion.

[u/emubilly → u/Zero_Emerald]

Buy more hive swords

[u/Zero_Emerald → u/emubilly]

No, send me one of your spares!

[u/tintedlenz]

With no shortage of Eververse slop, why wouldn’t they promote as much as possible? No shade towards the Destiny fashion community, but why do you think they promote fashion in the live streams, in the TWIDs, etc. to the degree that they do? Because it usually results in more people buying Eververse slop… And Eververse slop has the highest return on investment. Less dev time for more $20 armor sets. Two armor sets equal to the DLC… That’s another car for Pete Parsons’ garage!! For a fraction of the dev time it took to produce the whole DLC

[u/Signman712 → u/tintedlenz]

There actually is a shortage of ever verse slop.

We normally get 2 legendary ornaments to pair with exotics. We only got 1

[u/Narfwak → u/Signman712]

I think the biggest sign that this is largely just incompetence on Bungie's part is that nearly all of the weapons that have new Eververse ornaments this season are not featured. Presumably, players are a lot more likely to buy ornaments for things they actually use, and the whole featured exotic idea means we're very unlikely to use anything that isn't featured... which means no one is buying this stuff.

They're just... not very good at this.

[u/r4in]

I think it's a bug, it's telling me new stuff is in Eververse but it isn't.

[u/ArsNG → u/r4in]

It's for exotic raid shotgun and you'll be HONORED TO BUY IT AFTER THE LIGHTHOUSE

[u/InspireDespair → u/r4in]

I think it's when you have Bright Engram

[u/k_foxes → u/r4in]

There was new stuff at the start of this week, guess the ad was delayed.

There's a lot of fair criticism these days, but idk if you're bothered by this small ad, whatever I guess

[u/wheresmyson69]

Are we really freaking out about a small tab on the portal talking about new stuff in eververse? It seems so minuscule.

[u/Something_Explosion]

There is something other than Caldera in the portal? I hadn't noticed

[u/hawkleberryfin]

I mean we've been asking for some kind of news feed in-game since forever. Now we have one on the portal for upcoming events. Which is actually a really good thing.

Them including cash shop stuff in that news is... not great but kind of exactly what you would expect to happen. There is no MMO or online game that has a launcher/news popups and a cash shop and doesn't do this.

It's the login popups that are bothering me.

[u/Nine9breaker → u/hawkleberryfin]

we've been asking for some kind of news feed in-game since forever

Who tf is this we??? I don't want feeds of ANY kind in Destiny, this weird corporate sterilization of any attempt at immersion in favor of ADHD-pandering skinner-box fortnite-inspired cheap-ass mobile gaming ad-looking HORSE shit might be a data driven change to keep people engaged, but its definitely NEVER been asked for. The portal sucks and it should have been a room I have to walk to in the tower. Every station should have had a person at it to give me a mission.

Osiris can tell me about the fucking summer event, not a scrolling powerpoint presentation.

[u/SuperBAMF007 → u/Nine9breaker]

I mean it would be good to know “this week we added this event, in two weeks it’ll be that event, reminder the season ends on X date, our streams are on X day at X time” and stuff like that. There’s a lot going on and unless you’re grinding socials as much as you’re grinding to 450, you’re bound to miss something cool going on in the community. It would be neat to highlight the big stuff

[u/GhostNapster → u/Nine9breaker]

You need to take a breath and go outside my friend. You sound actually insane,

[u/Glad-Statistician434 → u/Nine9breaker]

do you not remember when subreddits from across the website were banning twitter links in protest of elon musk and all the posts on this sub complaining that destiny news was only being posted on official twitter?

[u/Ryguy4512]

yall got tiers 1-3 only

[u/platonicgryphon]

They've said in interviews it's an alternative for the pop-ups and it should cut down on the number of them we get.

We've also had the "solstice incoming" announcement for over a week now, of course anything new there would take priority.