My only complaint about Eververse is Eververse Engrams loot pool. The thousands of hundreds of possible loot makes it near impossible to get any singular item you want. Example: I joined late Witch Queen and right after it ended, I learned about the Harper Shell (Harpy ghost shell) and I _wanted_ it. But of course, it wasnt in the archive anymore. But it was in the Witch Queen. So for the past couple months, the hundreds of Eververse Engrams I opened got me multiple exotic emotes, ships, sparrows, ghosts, legendary of those, ghost projections and bright dust and everything inbetween. But I never got the Harper Shell. And the only way I'd have an actual chance at getting it, would be to lower the loot pool. _By opening thousands just to lower the possible rewards and raise the chance at the shell_ I just wish there was a way to directly purchase old archived items so we arent forced into rng.

They went too crazy with the prices. Games are still $60 so there's no excuse for $20 bundles. It's a shame too because I would buy ten $2 weapon ornaments but I'll probably never buy a single $7 weapon ornament because it's just a matter of princible that a jpeg is about a tenth the cost of a full game.

People love to (rightfully) criticize Eververse, but people often forget how bad it was. Lootboxes suck so much and I am glad they got rid of them. I remember wanting the book of the dead ornament for a whole year but I never got it. Lootbooxes need to be forgotten and left in the past. I will take the current system over year 1 Eververse any day

Tess is the real final boss of the Destiny universe 🗿

Bungie really can't use "Destiny 2 is free-to-play" as an excuse to focus more on cosmetics and an in-game store. This is because the amount of free-to-play content is miniscule in comparison to paid content. Even if you've purchased the previous year's DLC and annual pass. If you don't purchase the current year's DLC or annual pass, you're locked out of a lot of content. Try to rank up your guardian rank without the current DLC, try to level up your season rank by completing seasonal challenges, most the objectives for both the seasonal challenges and guardian ranks are locked behind some aspect of the DLC. Such as "complete the final shape campaign" or "level up your Ghost vendor" or even "find a feather while exploring the pale heart." Furthermore, each DLC comes out every year, they charge almost the same price as a new game, their expansions almost cost as much as D1 did, $60, and D2 when it first came out. And if you don't purchase the $100 version (the annual pass) you end up spending more than $100 to play throughout the year if you buy the seasons and dungeon keys. In Destiny 1, the expansions didn't cost nearly as much, and the game lasted for 3 years before Destiny 2 released. Tell me why they need $100/year per player now ON TOP of all the insane cosmetic prices. Seriously, 3 ornament sets can cost $60 themselves. If you want multiple things from Eververse, you're most likely going to end up paying MORE than the expansion's base price. Bungie, you made numerous Halo games. Games in which players paid for it one time, and had years of enjoyment from. You were sustained enough to make more Halo games just on the one $60 charge. Tell me why nowadays you need $100 per year AND an overcharged cosmetic store in-game. Where is all the money going that these players give you? I blame corporate greed, shareholders, and investors, and I blame the evolution of in-game stores. Fortnite ruined games by inspiring them all to add a battlepass. But at least Fortnite IS truly free-to-play. Now you have games like COD that used to be $60, charge $70 to play AND have insanely priced cosmetic stores in-game and seasonal battlepasses. Non free-to-play games are ALSO including these ridiculous in-game stores and battlepasses. It's like games forgot how to keep their players engaged without a battlepass, and forgot how to make money without overpriced cosmetics.

I remember playing d1 on ps3 late late late asf. Like a year or 2 into d2. And grinding prison for the box every week and when i FINALLY got that taken set. Omg i wish it crossed over to d2. I dont play titan anymore anyway 😢

Oh my friend, seasons aren’t $10 anymore. They stupidly raised that price, and then made it so you had to buy the dungeon keys too. Idk if that’s still how it works now that they’ve reworked it into the current setup with acts and episodes, but…it feels like maybe they’ve cut down on some of rebar nonsense. Either way though, their prices are utterly absurd for things, worse than CoD even, and that’s saying something honestly. And they have so damn much that it’s a literal chore to look through all the pages now, and getting a good one anymore is impossible, I know they nerfed those exotic drops on bright engrams.

I mean Eververse still (mostly) sucks. All I get is ghost projections and ships I’ll NEVER use😂

Ngl, i forgot about the prismatic matrix, they should sooo bring that back Ngl i dont think the eververse store has ever been that bad, but i do miss the early eververse in d2 days, cuz you could get a lot of brightdust just by dismantling stuff so much do you could realistically get all the eververse items for dust every week and thus p much unlocking everything

The issue is that DLC is $100 and you don't get any premium currency in that to get cool looking stuff. Yeah you can gradually get stuff for free, but people who invest in the success of the game should be able to get a little more in my opinion

I miss the Forsaken years, though I do love the Final Shape. My main gripe is that a lot of the ornament sets could be added into the game's loot pool as a means of giving players more of a reason to play activities like Vanguard Ops. Granted, I'm from a point in time where you earned cosmetics through gaming which made the experience more rewarding. Its why I love FFXIV, I can farm a dungeon for a gear piece I like and look cool without buying an outfit. I miss those days, now there's no real sense of satisfaction with getting cosmetics

Eververse has too much. They need to do more to add cosmetics as in game earnables. It’s one thing to support a developer, it’s another to rob your player base. I refuse to get anything that’s not for bright dust. I’ll wait. A lot of us year for expansion and season passes and now dungeon keys. Some pay more for the most premium edition. And lots of people use eververse. They have plenty of money. But yeah, bright dust and bright engrams are how I get things. And I wont buy ornament sets. I use all raid and dungeon armor. I earned it, it actually means something. Better than be like “cant believe he dropped 20 bucks for that” idk, I understand having stuff to buy, but there’s way too much. They should at least take things that are years old and make em available for a few thousand bright dust or something under a legacy tab.

I don't necessarily hate micro transactions. I think in a game like destiny or any live service game it makes sense and lets people choose which cosmetics they want and if they want to engage in those systems at all. However it is implementation that is everything. You should be able to buy exactly what you want with no randomness or spending a little more than it's listed price. Virtual currencies should be illegal. It is quite literally circumnavigating real world money to make you spend more. If you have a store in your game it should just say exactly how much it costs. Imagine if you could only shop at Target with target cash but you can't directly convert the exact amount you need from normal money. I really don't understand how this is legal

yeh, i remember getting that slr armor, but they took less than a week to pach it and make it so if you had the armor but not the pass, the armor would loose its appearance, give 0 light and if you unequipped it, you couldn't do other thing but to dismantle it

I was not expecting you to have just 2k subs

They have a system now that the community seems content with, athough I still think its quite a lot of eververse content for a game that really isn't free

Yesterday, i was in orbit and decided to do some missions, I entered the mobile app and wanted to take some contracts...surprise surprise...you can't anymore. I didn't read about any new updates, since I didn't have time to play and finaly when i got it, I couldn't close contracts anymore. I was earning bright dust with the contracts I made from Zavala, Drifter, and Lord Shaxx. now I don't have any motivation to play pve content like vanguard missions, only pvp now. another horrible decision that they made.

12:40 The prismatic matrix was a weekly rotating inventory of items that you could gamble on from what you said. You then say nothing close to it has been introduced while you do hover over the answer youre looking for. I didnt play destiny 2 on release and so I dont know if this has always been a thing but you literally show its replacement right then. There are 2 sections of the shop with a weekly rotating inventory that you can purchase for bright dust. Very similar to the matrix only when they say "we can do better" its kind of true since now you can CHOOSE which to buy instead of gambling Edit. I should probably mention that I don't mean to sound hostile. I'm just pointing things out and giving my thoughts but it was a good video. I had fun watching it

She said she wanted to express herself, so i gave her a thumbs up🤭👍

I miss the sparrow horns

I remember getting the full tsken set , then bungie took it away , I never bought eververse and stopped playing for 7 years after that

Still dont know why bungie hasnt brought back the taken shader/armor

in about 3-4 years I've bought 3 things from Eververse I bought the Vakarian Hunter Armor, a Hover Board since it's literally just a limited flying mount, and the Ornament for the new Exotic Khvostov because that gun looks like shit without the ornament

you forgot about when eververse had bountys for brigthdust

Man why can't they bring sparrow racing back it came out and once it ended it never came back come on bungie you all know if you add it back so many people are going to be excited for it like come on 😭

People will critique eververse currently and forget about paying to get a random thing instead of just buying what you want, still need more earnables though

Eververse would be completely evil if not for the bright dust store. It’s shitty for sure, but looking at other games, it could be so much worse.

Eververse is purely cosmetic so, never worrying

Prismatic facets huh? Now I know where the name came from…

CONTENT CHANGE?

Yeah, everyone should stop complaining about cosmetic rewards being sold by a company. The reason why I state this is if we didn't participate in purchasing items then they would have been changed it.

Are you actually Taspen's twin brother

Destiny is ruined…they ruined everything. The biggest thing that they ruined extremely is the poor written story, the bad lore, that is so exchangeable. They are making decisions in their office how to work less, how to copy paste things, how to use parts that are already developed and then they creating a story and lore to explain this decisions. A good game is build the other way around, the story and lore comes first and everything else will be developed based on that. Destiny lost this track a long time ago.

Free DLC? In a bungie game? Ha, maybe once every 3 years 😂

Good job

9:28 that controversy was a big nothing burger btw. This is a common practice. The only reason it got hate was because of how it was sold to the playerbase. Usually games do it like this: For the first couple of hours of a week, you get more xp or the weekly/daily bounties and then if you want to keep grinding you can but its at a slower pace. If they literally just sold this as "At the start of the week players will get xp bonuses so that those of you who dont have much time can still feel rewarded for playing" it would have not NEARLY gotten the amount of heat if any than it did when it was sold in a negative light. I mean think about it. Destiny STILL does this with the daily and weekly bounties and vendor rewards. Yet its just an accepted part of the game

they're a free to play game how tf do you expect them to make money

Long gone are the days of simply buying a videogame :/

I want paid dlc not mirco transactions

😱😱 Prismatic mentioned!! 😱😱

It was a better time than now. Stop the cope.

Tbh I dont mind eververse in the current state. I mean ITS ALL COSMETIC! Not buying shit doesnt put you at a disadvantage. I mean you wouldnt get a Gucci shirt for free as well in real life. The biggest point is: nobody forces you to buy shit

I kinda never understood the sentiment around the Eververse, sure we used to get more from it but in the end every single item in the Eververse shop is purely cosmetic except 1 or 2 brigtdust exclusive consumables. I get that lies from bungie aren't nice and loosing the ability to get cool cosmetics pretty much free is annoying, but for gods sake this is a company driven by profits why the hell are people actually suprised we don't get cosmetic items shoved up our asses.

I didnt mind them, make more money

Just give me the item who cares about it being locked behind a stone that needs to be taken to someone to only then reveal your item 😂😂😂

Let's just be honnest right now. In all of the gaming industry where microtransaction are legion. And I say ALL (yes even Ubisoft and EA shit) the fact that D2 gives you free engram that garanty a cosmetic you didn't got yet and/or can give you SOMETIMES a good amount of bright dust that will give you possibility to buy a cosmetic of your choice that change each week... Let's at least admit that D2 have at least a correct system. Not pay to win (well not all the time at least, I look at you chapperone) and still nice to have without having to farm too much. It's not a good system of course and microtransaction is dogshit in any game but in D2 it's at least acceptable.

The cash shop in D2 is actually kinda reasonable by modern gaming standards. A lot of new stuff is thrown into the bright dust pool every season and you get plenty of bright dust throughout a season to save up for the big events and buy something every now and then. Compare that to Halo Infinite and COD where there is ZERO way to get cash shop items for free...as a Halo player I don't think the D2 community realizes just how much worse it could be.

I honestly don’t understand why people get so mad at micro transactions. Has bungie not entertained us all for years? Why is everyone so up in arms about giving them some monetary support for items that they want? No one’s forcing you to buy anything, it’s your choice to spend the money or not. What, do you just expect to pay $60 once and then get a decades worth of content for free? Thats literally the kind of thought a child or crazy person (socialist) would have. Like come on, let’s be adults here, would you produce an entire franchise worth of content for free? Monetizing their item’s doesn’t make Bungie greedy, it makes them people with families to feed, like everyone else.

hrrrrnngggg microtransactionz bad!! must...not...consoom....product...!!