Future 2’s New Seasonal Bundles Aren’t Incomes Bungie Any Good Will

The ultimate season of Future 2 is right here, and it’s being overshadowed by one more enormous advertising blunder on Bungie’s half. So, collectively, let’s uncover how Future 2’s new seasonal bundles aren’t incomes Bungie any good will.

Not way back, Bungie laid off round 8% of their workforce, together with the legendary composer Michael Salvatori. The information shocked the gaming trade and put a nasty style into a lot of Future 2’s present and would-be gamers. From that time on, Bungie wanted to win us, the gamers, again—to earn our belief once more the place it’s been damaged many occasions earlier than.

Quick ahead to the launch of Season of the Want and two new bundles made their technique to the Steam retailer. One bundle instantly angered the Future 2 group and gaming world as a complete. Dubbed The Future 2 Starter Pack, for 15 {dollars} you’ll get an Unique ghost shell, Unique ship, Unique sparrow, 125,000 Glimmer, Enhancement Cores, Prisms, and an Enhancement Shard.

Worst of all, nonetheless, was the three Unique weapons that Bungie put into this pack. The three weapons had been a stable mixture of Major, Secondary, and Heavy weapons that included the Traveller’s Chosen Unique Sidearm, Ruinous Effigy Unique Hint Rifle, and Sleeper Stimulant Unique Fusion Rifle. Whereas these Unique weapons aren’t notably meta (in the mean time), this can be a rather more egregious type of paying for energy that Bungie has solely flirted with by way of enlargement preorder Unique weapons.

However past the paying to win, the most important concern right here is that Bungie was charging a whopping $15 {dollars} for simple entry to weapons you may get in recreation. As a result of for $15 a brand new participant can, and rightfully ought to, purchase a few the sport’s earlier expansions to pad out the content material they’ll grind for and get entry to. For instance, throughout a sale, a brand new participant might presently decide up the Past Mild and Witch Queen expansions for not rather more than what the starter pack is asking for.

However no, Bungie put short-term income forward of long-term progress by making an attempt to nickel and dime but once more. It’s like they nonetheless haven’t realized that over-monetizing can and can push new and previous gamers away out of your recreation. I learn an article earlier at the moment that stated Future 2 is turning into increasingly more like Diablo Immortal, and I wished to weep at how true that felt. If Bungie had made the starter pack free, then there would have been reward—that’s what Bungie must give attention to.

After which you might have the painfully pointless Season of the Want Silver Bundle that mainly sells you the $15 Silver pack and provides a forgettable Legendary Emote to it. How is that an attractive bundle? You get the identical quantity of Silver between each packs, when bundles might stand to be much more engaging and well worth the cash.

What makes these packs really feel slightly disingenuous is how they describe the quantity of Silver they provide. The common Silver pack says you get 1,500 Silver plus a 200 Bonus, whereas this new bundle says you get 1,000 Silver plus a 700 Bonus! That leads me to consider they worded it like that to make gamers suppose they’re getting a greater deal and that feels so soiled. It’s that sort of apply that makes me care even much less about new content material when the upper ups at Bungie haven’t appeared to be taught something from their errors this far into improvement.

In regards to the writer

Ali Taha

Whether or not its new releases, or a brand new Future 2 season, Ali will flex his gaming and freelancer expertise to cowl them extensively. He began off writing options for Sport Rant however discovered a greater residence right here on Twinfinite. Whereas Ali waits for the following Monster Hunter title, he enjoys publishing his development fantasy novels as an indie writer.