Destiny 2 players blame \u201cmind blowing\u201d DLC prices for looter shooter\u2019s decline BungieFollowing the Bungie layoffs and leaks that Destiny 2 is not meeting internal targets, the looter shooter\u2019s playerbase has pinned the blame on its expensive DLC scaring newcomers off. It hasn\u2019t been a good week for Bungie or its employees with reports emerging that the Destiny 2 developer laid off 100 jobs, roughly 8% of its entire workforce. Matters only worsened when leaks surfaced that Destiny 2 is projected to miss revenue targets by 45%. Staff reportedly pushed higher-ups to make the necessary changes beforehand but nothing came of it. This news followed CEO Pete Parson\u2019s statement describing the fired employees as \u201ctruly talented people.\u201d Looking for the cause of Destiny\u2019s decline fans are now pointing the finger at the looter shooter\u2019s steep DLC prices and complicated structure. Destiny 2 DLC blamed for its downfall Looking to provide Bungie insight on why Destiny 2 isn\u2019t performing as well as expected, one player shared on Reddit: \u201cBungie if you want to know why your revenue is shot, maybe look at how you price DLC in steam\u2026. Seriously try explaining all this to a new player. This is mind blowing.\u201d Accompanying the post is an image of the full DLC section for Destiny 2 on Steam featuring fourteen different pieces of content with a combined value of $564.86. Comparing Destiny 2 to another live service game, one player replied: \u201cThis is something WoW realised. Now they have two products. The subscription, which gets you every expansion except for the newest one, and then the newest expansion itself. That\u2019s it.\u201d \u201cAt any given time, it\u2019s $100 to buy the current content and $100 to buy the upcoming content. That doesn\u2019t include any old parts of the game. Imagine being a new player and seeing those price tags. Maybe revenue is half of what Bungie projected for a reason,\u201d remarked another critical player. A handful of the responses given defended Bungie highlighting that a lot of the DLC listed on Steam is not required to get the full experience. If a new player purchased the following DLC they would have access to all of Destiny 2\u2019s live content: That totals 5 DLCs for a combined cost of $310. Technically, The Final Shape is only required to use the Tessellation Exotic Fusion Rifle so New Lights can pass on that to save money. Many in the community still view this as being a steep cost to get into Destiny 2 and it\u2019s not clear how a newcomer is supposed to know which DLC to buy in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Destiny 2 players blame \u201cmind blowing\u201d DLC prices for looter shooter\u2019s decline BungieFollowing the Bungie layoffs and leaks that Destiny 2 is not meeting internal targets, the looter shooter\u2019s playerbase has pinned the blame on its expensive DLC scaring newcomers off. It hasn\u2019t been a good week for Bungie or its employees with reports emerging […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}