If you haven’t heard of the video game Destiny, it was the most expensive video game of all time (costing about $140 million dollars to develop). That’s a lot of money. Recently, they announced another update for the game. This is just the latest in a long list of failed Frankenstein-style experiments trying to bring the game back from the dead.
But, there is no power strong enough to fix what socialism did to the game.
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In 2014, when Destiny first came out, I loved it. Admittedly, I spent way too much time playing, boasting a whooping 2,200 hours (that’s over 90 days’ worth of time).
There was always a desire to get a new gun. Destiny had a few really iconic weapons. Who wouldn’t want a pistol that shot thorns, a sniper rifle that makes is own ammo, or a rocket launcher that doesn’t just blow up on you, but makes little bombs that chase you afterwards? Eventually I got all the hardest guns to get. I had worked my butt off, and gotten my dream set up – I was in heaven.
Unfortunately, my glory was short lived. It was as if Bernie Sanders broke into Bungie’s headquarters demanding weapon redistribution. This story, like all stories in socialism, ended horribly.
Who cares that I spent all these hours to earn weapons that not everyone else had? Bungie sure didn’t.
Destiny was designed to develop over time, and when the second year of the game went into effect, it was the beginning of the end. All those iconic weapons, they were gone from the game. Like every socialist experiment, they didn’t pull everyone up, they pulled the successful gamers down.
Most of us hardcore gamers held on for a while, we tried to bear the weight of this new system. Slowly but surely, even I fell off. Now, of my crew who completed every single task in the game (many times), only one remains.
Instead of clearly defined ways of getting the weapons that you wanted, everything became Random Number Generation (RNG). All worshiped the almighty algorithm (one that hated me). It seemed to be designed to benefit you more the less you played. The lower your skill, the better the weapons the game gave. It was a weapon redistribution.
Kids playing their first game in months found themselves getting things I couldn’t get after 2 years of commitment. Those most loyal to the game were betrayed, and all in a misguided attempt at equality.
Later this year, Bungie is set to release Destiny 2. As one of their greatest fans, I am hoping that Destiny has learned the lesson. I am hoping that they keep Bernie away from the helm this time around. If not, Bungie will see the same effect.
