It's better than what Bungie did with Destiny 2... just gutted 1/2 the content from the game, including all the story missions and the first several paid expansions.

They wanted to attract new players with a smaller download size, but the new players come in and go "WTF is going on?"

[–] bassomitron@lemmy.world 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Whoa, wtf? How did I miss that drama, haha holy shit. I definitely remember downloading it a few years ago and being aghast at its absurd size (think it was around 120GB? which nowadays that's pretty par for the course because fuck optimization). But gutting half your content just to save space... have they not heard of compression? Like what the hell were they thinking haha

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 24 points 4 months ago

They didn't just remove story missions and quests and things, they removed entire PLANETS from the game. It was crazy!

[–] TrousersMcPants@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's the most baffling MMO decision I've seen, tbh. WoW has plenty of issues but at least they aren't just deleting the continent of Northrend to save on install space or anything

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Bungie's problem is they don't really want to make a story based looter shooter, they want a free to play PvP gacha engine.

[–] LordGimp@lemm.ee 8 points 4 months ago

I would've been fine with that if that's how they launched it. It wasn't. I stopped when they sunset a bunch of shit the first time in the first game. I figured the second would be more of the same, but sunsetting entire DLCs is nuts.

[–] MewtwoLikesMemes@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Both of those things are shitty; it's just one of them is worse.