Destiny: The Taken King director defends £40 expansion price tag

Bungie has defended the full-fat £40 price tag of Destiny's upcoming major expansion The Taken King, as well as the fact that fans will have to repurchase the base game and its existing two add-ons to access exclusive content in The Taken King's Collector's Edition.

[-Foxtrot]

You can't defend this

This is still only a fragment of what should have been in the main game

[freshslicepizza]

if people buy it then that is all the defence they need unfortunately. this is what happens when you make a deal with activision and they spend that kind of money on the ip.

[xHeavYx]

They are crazy to charge that much for the DLC, especially when you can get the collector's edition with all DLC for $60.

[DARK WITNESS]

It is crazy, but at the end of the day we only have ourselves to blame...

I didn't buy the season pass or previous expansions because I felt they were a ripoff as they were.

so many people try to justify it and not just call it out for what it was.

and I keep saying when we support this crap, the publishers/dev's will just keep pushing to see how much more they can squeez out from us while delivering as little as possible.

When we really thought they couldn't take the piss anymore with DLC.. they throw this at us.

Thing is, if everyone jumps on this and defends it, other devs will start charging the same.

I still have Destiny but i have not payed for any of its DLC and not played it since prob Nov last year.

I'd sell it if I could actually get some good cash for it but it's almost worthless now anyway.

[Gazondaily]

And I thought the other DLC was a rip-off...

Well I'm all Destiny'd out. So much potential flushed down the toilet. I know quite a few who play this on a daily basis but I just can't face the recycle-fest this always was.

[Neonridr]

wait.. did you get your Gally yet? You can't quit.. :P

[Gazondaily]

Ah I quit :( The Gally was never supposed to be mine. But apparently the Plan C fusion rifle was my destiny! I got bleedin 4 of those useless things ha.

Destiny is good for just laying back and playing with mates but even that got tiresome. I'm retiring my ghost for a long time.

[Neonridr]

You cannot defend this in any way shape or form. Basically anyone who buys the Taken King physically gets the base game plus both expansions for free. I purchased the initial Collector's Edition for $100. And now I have to spend another $75-80 on all that initial content all over again, just to get this expansion...

It truly is ridiculous. And I am a sucker for the physical swag so I had to preorder that stupid Collector's Edition for $100 again.. lol

[-Foxtrot]

That Collectors edition when it first came out should have given you a Season pass that unlocks ALL the content for this game

It's something all collectors editions should be doing.

Like a Master DLC code or something which grants you the Season pass for all future content and also it gives you all the pre order shit out there.

[Neonridr]

I wish that was the case. But once the House of Wolves came out, that was it. Collector's Edition over.. make way for the "NEW" Collector's Edition.. lol

[NixonMonoxide]

I agree. "Sucker" is definitely the word I'd use to describe you too. It's extremely hilarious that you're still complaining about the sort of practices you're actively supporting.

Just because they put "COLLECTOR'S" on it, and maybe give you a cheap fast food statue, doesn't make it worth shit.

How about all those "amazing" COLLECTOR'S EDITIONS for the PS3 & 360s?.......Oh hang on....You can't even play them on the XONE/PS4 bricks.

[--Onilink--]

well if you just want "to get this expansion", you only need to pay $40 (which considering we dont know how much content it has, i think its a bit early to say if its too much or not). No one is forcing you to buy a collectors edition version of DLC

As for the change rate from dollars to pounds, its not like Bungie is to blame, even Activision. This has been the case for as long as I can remember, i dont really know why (probably more taxes or something like that) and it happens with pretty much all games

[Neonridr]

Oh I know I can just get the digital version for $40. However I prefer physical. Which means I have to spend $75 to get the disc which includes all the other expansions and the base game included. For an extra $20 I can get the collector's edition that has a couple of cool physical swag items. Not essential, but since I am going physical, might as well get the extra stuff.

[Rookie_Monster]

So this is what Sony exclusive deal was with Bungie? A £40 expansion the XB1 and X360 players won't get until the fall?

When Halo 5 releases and comes out with EVERY DLC Map free for gamers, Destiny will be long forgotten. This is just rediculous. LoL

[slinky123456]

The exclusive deal Sony made with them is just little parts in the DLC. NOT THE WHOLE DLC. The DLC is available for everyone, just a gun a strike and some armor is PS exclusive for a year.

[pompombrum]

I'd like to see someone from Bungie address their conversion ratio of $1 = £1. I still don't agree with the $40 price tag but at the end of the day that's their choice how they want to price it but I'd like to see how they justify essentially ripping off us English when absolutely nobody else charges the same amount in GBP as USD. We are essentially paying $63 for the expansion which I believe is even more than a full priced retail game over in the US.

[shotgun_ps3]

Or us folks here in the UK are paying £40 for a £25 piece of DLC. Either way it's a rip off. But I've fully succumbed to Activision's "fuck you you'll buy it" approach to video games so I'll be getting it.

[Last_Boss]

Mighty no.9 it is. Lmao

[Robearboy]

This is what happens when you get into bed with Activision,

[illtornworld]

imma buy it its totally justified guys, we get a new raid! thats gotta be 20$ worth now where is everything else. i have a question. besides obvious answer its Activisions fault, BUNGIE wtf happened to you guys? you all act like dick heads. and this, this is just bullshit. your game is literally a wasteland. this is exactly what happens when ppl support this bullshit. now we pay 60$ on a 2$ game then 20 each expansion it didn't even feel like an expansion. felt like content that should been on disk for everyone. but how else could they keep players interest up. when dlc is all anyone has to look forward to you know you got a broken game.

[GearSkiN]

Wow wit can't they add the extra shit as part of the DLC, not a exclusive disc that makes you spend again.... Wow.... I hope ppl would really stop supporting bungie to show how much fans they have lost in this game. Gamer needs to stick together to show this company that shit like this doesn't fly, it's not right.

[SaveFerris]

These kinds of practices by Activision and Bungie grind my gears, but gamers are also to blame by supporting them through buying the game. It gives these companies more incentive to continue doing this.

[rawrock]

Im buying it. It has a lot of new content. Between Taken King, Halo 5, Gears, Xenoblade, and Guitar hero I'll be quite content this fall...

[mike32UK]

The only time I've ever paid over £40 for a fully fledged physical release title was when GTA V came out. If they think I'm splasing £40 on a crappy piece of DLC they can get their bumps felt!

[DARK WITNESS]

It really does put things into perspective when you think their are full priced games you can by for like £45 - £49 that offer a whole new game.

If you go for pre-owned then you can got most games for at least £40 or less...

[MilkMan]

LMFAO! I swear I've gotten the best laughs from Destiny since an age.

[stavrami]

Is this even a thing?!?!? If so I'm selling paper clips on eBay at £120 a shot. It might sound expensive but it's allllllllll ok because I'm defending it