Time For ‘Destiny 2’ To Undo Its Industry-Worst Transmog System

Destiny 2 is in wish-granting genie mode as of late, blowing by means of an enormous variety of participant requests during the last yr, and the previous few months particularly. They are saying outright they wish to do extra of this, as seemingly they now have a greenlight from administration to do no matter it takes to win the playerbase again.

But would they dare contact…Eververse?

I’ve spoken about this many occasions prior to now, but when they’re actively taking requests, right here we go. Destiny 2 has one of many worst transmog system within the historical past of the idea and it badly must reverse course to make it extra player-friendly and simply…logical.

The present transmog system is a convoluted set of currencies that assist you to run exercise bounties to get ten items of transmog per season, per character. It’s sufficient for maybe two new armor units a season, however generally there are extra, and you’ll by no means catch as much as get your full assortment unlocked.

Or at the least not with out paying. Unlimited transmog outdoors of that cap is $10 within the Eververse store for every full set of armor. It’s the one approach to each skip the grind and get previous that cap. And it’s one thing that simply appears outrageous in comparison with the bigger business.

Even Diablo 4, a recreation that I’ve decried for its absurd quantity and worth of beauty transmog units, means that you can immediately transmog any merchandise you really discover within the recreation itself. While I’m not saying Bungie ought to by no means promote Eververse armor ornaments, the identical system ought to apply. You discover armor within the recreation, you must be capable to transmog that armor. The finish.

A very long time in the past, I mentioned that they might hold the grind, simply take away the cap. But I’ve modified my thoughts after seasons and seasons of those extraordinarily uninteresting bounties, and now in a state of affairs like the current day, all I wish to do is play Onslaught, however that doesn’t contribute towards my new ten transmog bounty cap in any respect, and I’d must go run different stuff I’ve performed 1,000,000 occasions within the subsequent month earlier than The Final Shape and I lose my “free” ones. Forget it. Just make all of it free, unlock all of it.

This jogs my memory of the consumable shader debacle which featured each paid and earned shaders, however in a approach that was an exceedingly silly grind paired with a approach to get folks burning foreign money in Eververse. Eventually, that was ended. You unlock a shader, you should use it an infinite variety of occasions. It’s an analogous precept with transmog, redesigning a primary beauty system to be logical and beneficiant versus squeezing blood from the monetization stone.

It’s a preferred request. My submit below the “community manager asks for requests” tweet has probably the most likes of any others, and gamers have been beating this drum since transmog first existed. I hope this transformation is made, and despite the fact that I beforehand misplaced hope, I feel there could be an opportunity with Bungie’s new philosophy.

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