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Destiny is ditching big DLC in year two for more event-based content

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How do you keep a game world alive once you’ve finally launched? As regular players, we’re all too susceptible to the worst of human conditions: Boredom. Once you’ve had your thrill, you’re more than likely going to pack your game up and leave it to gather dust on your shelf. We’re all guilty of this, to the point that Judge Dredd is about to deliver judgement on my ass for neglecting my copy of The Witcher 3.

Destiny might have a solution to the terror of the humdrum. While it had a miss, a hit and a bigger hit with its three expansions, it’s seeing a more consistent fanbase remain behind to play more of the game thanks to the regular events that take place. Xur draws in shoppers every Friday, the Trials of Osiris are a regular weekend activity for dedicated teams and the Iron Banner is still a big hit that many fans wait for in anticipation.

With the Sparrow Racing League now also in effect after the Festival of Light, it looks like an event-based model of Destiny is here to stay, with fewer expansions in the pipeline. “With Taken King, we are moving to a more event-based model–things like Festival of the Lost and Sparrow racing, which is our winter event, and then smaller events such as Iron Banner and Trials of Osiris every weekend,” senior designer Derek Carroll said to Eurogamer.

Rather than doing these giant, monolithic DLC packs, this way everybody who’s an owner of Taken King can enjoy these things.

Destiny’s initial batch of DLC expansions (The Dark Below, House of Wolves and the Taken King) came in a $40 package, but no such seasonal content has been made public yet for the current second year of the game that began in September.

“There’s lots of different reasons as to why–I don’t know how deep I can get into that,” Carroll added.

But basically the live team is charged with maintaining the game and keeping players happy, feeding them new content and surprising them with things they didn’t expect. I think by design the idea is to have these events which are surprises–so we can understand why players on the one hand want to have their lives mapped out for the next year.

The way we’re going is: you can expect new content from the live team in Destiny although we’re not really telegraphing that. Certainly, players can expect new events and new content throughout the next year. We’re taking it one step at a time.

It might also be because Destiny has a notoriously difficult engine to work on, with minor changes taking far too much time to properly implement, according to one Kotaku report from a few months back. This led to an unsustainable DLC schedule. But this event-based model? I can get behind that. It’s actually a far more refreshing way to jump in and out of Destiny, providing quick and consistent bursts of fun for dedicated players such as myself.

Which also describes my disastrous first lap on Mars, which I’ll get into later.

Last Updated: December 9, 2015

55 Comments

  1. Sorry Destiny you will need to do better, spent a huge amount of time in the game and events isn’t what will bring me back to addiction level :).
    Will join a race one night if the raid team is game.

    With Division and Wildlands releasing next year , these events won’t be enough.

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    • Hammersteyn

      December 9, 2015 at 09:31

      That’s why 320 gear. Else most people would probably race once or twice and go back to Fallout or JC3

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      • Ir0nseraph

        December 9, 2015 at 09:32

        Fool me twice shame on me is it.
        When the next paid DLC drops that 320 gear will be as useful as the halloween masks some people collected 🙂

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  2. Hammersteyn

    December 9, 2015 at 09:30

    320 gear by racing around a track?

    http://i.imgur.com/PFS6O4m.gif

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  3. Alien Emperor Trevor

    December 9, 2015 at 09:30

    That’s good thinking by them. Why charge for a $40 DLC pass when you can charge for 6 $10 events.

    Reply

  4. Loftus

    December 9, 2015 at 09:34

    I am still a little bit sceptical if i should board the Destiny hype train. As i gather you rely on online people to raid, kill someone bad in the game. Now in that lies my problem, both of them. 1.) people 2.) random people on the net.

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    • Hammersteyn

      December 9, 2015 at 09:35

      If you can’t do the raid, then it’s pretty pointless IMO.

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      • Jonah Cash

        December 9, 2015 at 13:00

        Bullshit!! Hahahaha, I don’t even Raid bro…

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        • Hammersteyn

          December 9, 2015 at 13:05

          That’s really too bad. Most satisfying part in The Taken King is watching The Taken King taking a ride down to Saturn. Wow I feel like eating a Take Two while listening to Take That

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    • Hammersteyn

      December 9, 2015 at 09:35

      Unless you’re godlike at PVP. Then there’s something there

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      • Ir0nseraph

        December 9, 2015 at 09:35

        O yes it has PvP totally forgot about that.

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      • Loftus

        December 9, 2015 at 09:39

        I took too many sips from the World of Warcraft cup back in the day. Can’t afford that type of time sink again. Even if Big D is selling it sweet as a event based quick jump in and out.

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  5. Captain JJ 4x

    December 9, 2015 at 09:37

    For the interested PC gamers.
    There’s a Killer Bundle on Bundle Stars.
    $5 for all the games below. (ALL OF THEM) It’s nothing like a $40 DLC, but you know…
    Lichdom Battlemage, Alien Carnage / Halloween Harry, Arctic Adventure, Balls of Steel, Bio Menace, Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold, Blake Stone: Planet Strike, Cosmo’s Cosmic Adventure, Crystal Caves, Dark Ages, Death Rally (Classic), Duke Nukem, Duke Nukem 2, Duke Nukem 3D, Duke Nuken: Manhattan Project,
    Hocus Pocus, Major Stryker, Math Rescue, Monster Bash, Monuments of Mars, Mystic Towers, Paganitzu, Pharaoh’s Tomb, Raptor: Call of the Shadows, Realms of Chaos, Rise of the Triad: Dark War, Secret Agent, Shadow Warrior (Classic), Stargunner, Terminal Velocity, Wacky Wheels, Word Rescue, Xenophage: Alien Bloodsport, Monstrum, GemCraft: Chasing Shadows, Battle VS Chess, CrossCode, Super 3D Noah’s Ark, Flying Tigers: Shadows Over China, Cast of the Seven Godsends, Horizon Shift

    A lot of old games. But a few new ones too. All activate on Steam. 😀

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    • Hammersteyn

      December 9, 2015 at 09:38

      • The Grand Admiral Chief

        December 9, 2015 at 09:39

        DEMOTED!

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        • Hammersteyn

          December 9, 2015 at 09:40

          I’m sorry, couldn’t help it. I mean look at all those classics. Cant wait to play Super 3D Noah’s Ark. It has Super and 3D in the title. Why isn’t it GOTy material?

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          • The Grand Admiral Chief

            December 9, 2015 at 09:41

            Games on that list made me the gamer I am today, so if you wanna be as awesome as I am, play them

            #ShamelessSelfPromotion

          • Hammersteyn

            December 9, 2015 at 09:44

            I have. Raptor, Death Rally, Terminal Velocity, Rise of the Triad, Blake Stone, All of the Dukes.This was when the best thing on console was Sonic the Hedgehog

          • The Grand Admiral Chief

            December 9, 2015 at 09:46

          • Captain JJ 4x

            December 9, 2015 at 09:41

            LOL

      • Captain JJ 4x

        December 9, 2015 at 09:40

        XD

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      • Ir0nseraph

        December 9, 2015 at 09:40

        Damn I can only give you one upvote.

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        • Captain JJ 4x

          December 9, 2015 at 09:40

          Haha.

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        • Hammersteyn

          December 9, 2015 at 09:41

          XD

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      • Loftus

        December 9, 2015 at 09:41

        How long have you been holding onto this Gif? bwahaha

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        • The Grand Admiral Chief

          December 9, 2015 at 09:41

          Ever since he jumped the fence

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          • Loftus

            December 9, 2015 at 09:43

            hahaha! You should know by know our supposedly master with their overclocked PC doesn’t like it when we talk to them in such a fashion. hahahaa

          • Ir0nseraph

            December 9, 2015 at 09:48

            After meeting hammer I picture his fence jumping something like this https://youtu.be/QqIFSvFdVR0 , they guy at the end of the vid.:)

          • The Grand Admiral Chief

            December 9, 2015 at 09:51

            Indeed, Hot Fuzz is loosely based on our relationship. I want to do things by the book, and he wants to shoot things and eat ice cream. We both like beer though

          • Ir0nseraph

            December 9, 2015 at 09:52

            XD

          • Hammersteyn

            December 9, 2015 at 09:54

            To the pub!

          • Ir0nseraph

            December 9, 2015 at 09:55

            Yes yes let’s go .
            That is a sound plan he had, one of my favourite movies.

          • The Grand Admiral Chief

            December 9, 2015 at 10:08

            Yes, let’s go, warm English beer and fish and chips

          • Captain JJ 4x

            December 9, 2015 at 10:11

            Urgh

          • The Grand Admiral Chief

            December 9, 2015 at 10:15

            I was kidding on the warm beer, no way am I drinking warm beer. I refuse

          • miaau

            December 9, 2015 at 14:27

            Shawn of the Dead, what a movie!

          • Hammersteyn

            December 9, 2015 at 09:54

            XD

    • The Grand Admiral Chief

      December 9, 2015 at 09:39

      WACKY WHEELS REMASTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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      • The Grand Admiral Chief

        December 9, 2015 at 09:40

        I’M UPVOTING MY OWN COMMENT BECAUSE I CAN!!!! AND THIS GAME NEEDS REMASTER!

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    • The Grand Admiral Chief

      December 9, 2015 at 09:39

      Raptor was a solid game

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    • The Grand Admiral Chief

      December 9, 2015 at 09:40

      OOOOH DEATH RALLY!!!!

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      • Captain JJ 4x

        December 9, 2015 at 09:40

        I played Terminal Velocity a LOT.
        That Monstrum looks kak scary, actually want to give that a try first of all.

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        • The Grand Admiral Chief

          December 9, 2015 at 09:42

          Dude, Terminal Velocity was a schweet game. Really schweet.

          I remember after getting a better pc, replaying that on the “high” settings, OH MAH SACK!!!

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          • Captain JJ 4x

            December 9, 2015 at 09:43

            Them edges O_O

          • The Grand Admiral Chief

            December 9, 2015 at 09:46

            Hahaha, BRA DO YOU EVEN AA?

    • Alien Emperor Trevor

      December 9, 2015 at 09:42

      Saw that last night. I’ve been eyeing Lichdom for a while, but I’ve got most of the 3DR games on GOG already, and none of the rest interest me much.

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      • The Grand Admiral Chief

        December 9, 2015 at 09:42

        If Wacky Wheels has MP and achievements, I’ll buy!

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      • Captain JJ 4x

        December 9, 2015 at 09:43

        I also have been interested in Lichdom for a while. But I’ve been feeling like a horror/thriller game lately, so Monstrum can help with that. I should only spend about 15 minutes on it before quitting and never returning to it again, but you know, that’s how horror games are.

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    • miaau

      December 9, 2015 at 10:04

      You play Endless Legend, right? I bought it last week and have already clocked up like 40 hours. Still learning, big game, not much manual or help.

      I did not like Endless Space, but this game is pretty cool. Thoughts, advice?

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      • The Grand Admiral Chief

        December 9, 2015 at 10:09

        Space, the final frontier

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      • Alien Emperor Trevor

        December 9, 2015 at 10:09

        You might want to specify thoughts and advice about the game. Otherwise who knows what’ll you’ll end up with.

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        • Captain JJ 4x

          December 9, 2015 at 10:10

          XD

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        • miaau

          December 9, 2015 at 11:22

          nothing special, it would seem.

          Rather disappointed in point of fact.

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      • Captain JJ 4x

        December 9, 2015 at 10:10

        Wow. I’ve got 7 hours on it now. Second game only, but seriously still have to learn a LOT.
        So far I’m absolutely loving it. I’m very picky with 4x turn-based games. Some I love, some I really don’t, but Endless Legend is just great.
        First time in a long time I actually played the tutorial, but yea man there’s a lot to learn. I feel like I’ve just started the game.
        The only other game of this type I’ve enjoyed this much was Warlock.

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      • HvR

        December 9, 2015 at 10:36

        Looks awesome, gameplay and combat actually reminds me Conquest of the New World but on steriods. Which I still dust of every year or 2 and fire up DosBox for.

        Reply

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