It’s called short term planning and profit maximization of a game on life support. Gamigo has been doing this since 2010.
I think the worst part about this starter pack is that, not only is it mostly useless garbage, new players (who this targets) have no idea this is mostly useless garbage. They surely don’t even know you can only equip one of these weapons at a time, let alone that they are far from meta.
D2 is just the absolute most miserable experience for new players and Bungie consistently makes it worse. It’s baffling. Meanwhile, they try to milk their veteran players more and more every season by offering more for money, less for free, and making the game more of a grind.
The best part about Destiny 2 is it has personally put me on a hard line against any kind of live service game for the foreseeable future.
Destiny 2 has been one of the biggest wastes of my money ever. Every time I put money into it they drop a DLC shortly after, so I just gave up. I liked it at first, but man it just didn’t hold up at all. Warframe on the other hand has dope ass exciting things to do every time I log on and I have a ton of fun and have never had to spend any real money because the platinum trading system is solid and you can earn a good amount just playing the game.
Maybe it gets better once you’ve grinded a hundred hours but Warframe is clunky in comparison and every bit as confusing to a new player.
Not sure when you last played it, but they’ve revamped the new player stuff a lot to make the transition much better. I never had a big issue with how it was personally but I think it’s gotten way better about introducing new players to how the game works. Definitely not at all the case that you need a hundred hours to get into it, that’s just ridiculous hyperbole in my opinion. I think it may take a few hours of play to start getting into the habits and finding cool mods and stuff to experiment with, but definitely not a hundred hours of grinding. If you haven’t in a long time, try it out, it’s really great.
SAVE THE BLUEBERRIES