BeerTent said:
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is a great game, but it does have a few big overbearing problems. I'm not a fan of the fact that if I want more content in my beta equivalent I'd have to shell out the price of the game again for Horizons.
To be honest the whole backlash over that genuinely surprised me. It's not exactly like it's unprecedented, which is how everyone seems to be reacting. Guild Wars 2 is putting out a new expansion that costs as much as the core game did, as well as including it, as well as introducing F2P on the core at the same time. Taken King is also full price if you aren't getting the special edition, and that's actually been received
better then Destiny was at launch.
Hell, the latest WoW expansion is $50 for a base game that's fallen to $20, and that's
with the subscription, not to mention how many other expansions before it? And microtransactions on top of it, because sure, at this point why not?
Really I'm not entirely really sure why people decided to make this one the time they weren't on board. So far I haven't heard a single person complain about any of those other examples. Is it just a holdover from the existing concerns about a lack of content? I could understand that, although I personally haven't had any problems with stuff to do. I've spent the entire 10 hours I've put into it so far according to Steam just hauling cargo from system to system and I've had an absolute blast with it, to the point where I've started to wonder if I'd actually really like Euro Truck Sim. Some people see that as a lack of content, others just see that as a style. So I dunno.
The way I see it, we have a niche MMO with no subscription fees launching at what the industry considers a budget price, maintained by an independent studio with no major publisher support and no other releases to fall back on. Yes it'd certainly be nice if it was less, it'd be nice if it was free. But I don't know that it sounds that unreasonable, especially since again, they're hardly the only MMO adopting this model and that includes some much, much bigger players in the field.