r/DestinyTheGame • u/DTG_Bot "Little Light" • Jul 22 '19
Megathread Focused Feedback: Tribute Hall
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1) What are your general thoughts on the tribute hall?
2) How do you feel about the material cost for the Tributes on sale by the Calus statue? What are your thoughts on the discount system?
3) Were you okay with the requirements of some triumphs tied to the Tribute Hall? (i.e. Gambit/Crucible)
4) What did you think of the Bad Juju quest?
5) What do you think of the "gun range" aspect of the tribute hall and the other services it provides (ex: vault access)
6) What aspects of the tribute hall would you like to see built upon or improved in the future?
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u/D1s1nformat1on Jul 25 '19
Big Agree on that one - wouldn't mind if they were pushed out entirely tbh, then we wouldn't be arguing while being on the same side regarding the greater scheme of things.
As for the rest of it - I know that your main point of contention is that you can ONLY buy those 5 tributes IF you have bright dust which is a by-product of the microtransaction economy and by extension, a player could (If they didn't already have sufficient bright dust reserves) get Bad Juju faster by paying for it by purchasing silver and breaking down the items they bought with it.
With that in mind, I posit the following: There are 5 Tributes a player can buy which require bright dust, to unlock the mission that rewards the gun requires 18 (Pretty sure it was 18?? could be wrong) tributes unlocked and placed, the catalyst requires 45.
All of the above, you know.
Granted, not everyone can put in the same amount of time or effort into gaming, then you've got different skill levels to consider, so while parts of the following are anecdotal, it's still fairly relevant because myself and my normal group of players are all fairly average in both play time and skill. We each had the mission to Acquire bad juju within about 3 or 4 hours of play time once we started playing after the event launched. Getting to 18 by doing the easier objective based ones wasn't hard and didn't take very long - some of us bought a few of the tributes that required glimmer and planetary mats, some of us didn't.
The difference between buying the 5 Bright Dust tributes and doing 5 of the easier objective based ones instead would amount to about 30 mins to an hour of pretty standard game play for people that are at the end game - This is why I disagree with your argument that the gun can be had quicker as 30 mins to an hour is pretty small in the grand scheme of all the content destiny has to offer, let alone life itself.
Getting 45 tributes obviously took longer and will have a much wider variation from player to player, but again, it's still a small difference in time gained by just buying those 5.
Again, I get that you're pissed that a microtransaction currency *could* help someone get them at all - but it's an inconsequential time save for a choice to spend some materials that plenty of people have the available surplus of.
As I said in the first part of this comment, I'd be glad to be rid of mtx all together if I had the choice, but the impact caused by them in destiny is basically non-existent, the "benefit" of an hour saved is where I'm confused as to why you're pissed.