What is with the horrible headlines around this game lately?

First, the headlines all said PvE was cancelled when it wasn’t. The scope and feature set was scaled back, but it was never cancelled.

Now that there’s a trailer for the PvE, people can’t pretend it was cancelled, so all the headlines have to act surprised that it wasn’t. But they’re still pushing a misleading narrative, saying that the PvE outright costs $15, which it does if you want to play it after season 6, but the PvE missions are still free at the time they are introduced.

I get it, Blizzard is a persistent PR shitstorm. People are angry at them, and often for good reason. But adding misinformation on top of their own shitty behavior does nothing to help anyone.

The way this is rolling out is certainly unusual, but I don’t find the act of charging for story content inherently distasteful. The fact that you can play this content in its entirety, for free as much as you want when it first drops, seems uncharacteristically generous, but still weird. In it’s original incarnation, this content was going to be a separate $60 boxed release.

I think the way Destiny 2 worked all this out was far worse. I bought the game for $60, and even paid for an expansion. This was all fine until they started straight up removing campaign content that I had paid for. So the fact that I can play OW2’s campaign content for free on release, and have the option to buy it with the promise that it will be mine forever, seems better. Again, it’s weird, but not fundamentally different than any other game selling story DLC for $15/pop.

And the really weird thing is, whenever I bring any of this up, nobody is able to argue against it. They just see that I’m not immediately shitting on Blizzard and downvote with their feels, rather than actually engaging with the argument. I’m glad to see kbin’s community is apparently not much better in this regard.

Wow I’m just gonna hold off on my D4 purchase a little while longer