Unless you coughed up £34.99/$34.99 for Destiny's season pass, or nabbed it in the collector's edition, you'll need to put down £19.99/$19.99 for the sci-fi shooter's first expansion, The Dark Below.
Confirmed to launch on 9th December, the DLC doesn't come cheap. It boasts a slew of features, including three new story missions, two new Strikes, a new raid, and three new competitive multiplayer maps, but we reckon it still sounds rather expensive. It doesn't help, of course, that the UK is getting the short end of the stick once again, with our price equalling North America's. Has the pricing turned you away from continuing to guard the galaxy, or do you think it's reasonable? Put your wallet behind cover in the comments section below.
[source uk.ign.com]
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Too expensive for an expansion in my view.........for a game that is getting boring fast....
Not going to pay that much just for 3 "story missions" cough and 2 strikes. I don't care about the PvP stuff.
The only thing keeping me hooked in the shooting and lvling of characters...I wanted to say loot but there are limited guns, sparrows and ships in Destiny and the vendors never get new stock.
Oh and after over 200 blue engrams decrypted still no legendary? I already have to farm 2 hours a day and never get something in return. :/
That price conversion is daylight robbery.
@Jazzer94 100% agree, it's a joke
The price isn't that bad if you enjoy and grinding and playing the same levels over and over and over and over again like the fans of Destiny do. It's probably excellent value to them.
To the rest of us that prefer our content to remain fresh not so much.
way to expensive, i'll only get if a few of the guys i play with purchase it
also.
despite it's price it will sell tons, destiny can fell like the emptiest game in the world at times, but i've still put more time into it than i thought possible.
there better be some new legendary gear on offer in this expansion.
It's steep but not surprising. Call of Duty expansions are comparably poor value.
Wow. I was under the impression that new raids would be free. This is such a joke. Everything about destiny's structure is just wrong wrong wrong. It's totally just designed to be a cash cow and that's about it. Makes me really sad because I actually enjoyed the game so much in the early going. But since I've been doing the exact same things over and over for the last month it's left me pretty bitter about it all. I've been stuck at level 27 for God knows how long, and only got my first primary weapon that's better than rare last week. I had enough for that exotic auto rifle.
I'm waiting for the game to come down to that price, let alone the DLC!
Jeez, not at those gas prices.
Its an unlocking pack isn't it really, you cant call it an expansion if you're returning to your original game size. Yuk.
Look what we all thought Destiny would be, now look what it turned out to be. It hurts my heart to see how this all became just another high value disappointment. Still, in a flash of craziness I got the season pass, so I'll give it a whirl nonetheless.
@get2sammyb how much is the cod season pass now days. I remember when it was about £20
@AyeHaley 200 hundred blue engram isn't a whole lot of a sample size to expect any to turn into a legendary considering the RNG.
Oh yay.
Once again we are shown another installment of "This Is Not How You Handle DLC". ugh.
I wouldn't pay for it. The content sounds like it should go for half the price of what they expect. It's like paying full price for a 12 pack of soda but only getting half the cans.
Thats pretty pony.
Not really worth it as it stands now.
I ready have the pass, as got it with the game but those paying might want to wait a bit first.
The worst thing about the DLC other than the fact it's over priced is, from what I read on the euro gamer article, the new missions still just retread the same ground as those found in the core game...the expansion takes us off to the Hellmouth...again.
The art design of Destiny was beautiful...the graphics gorgeous and the shooting immensely gratifying but the maddening levels of repetitiveness combined with the none story really just did so much to bring the experience down.
I honestly thought Destiny would get new free content as well as paid expansions much the way that Mass Effect 3 did it with its free multiplayer maps and expanded rosters of races to play as being balanced against the paid single player DLC.
@get2sammyb True, but Zombies was just so fun and addictive I had to buy a few maps.
It's shocking how Bungie has just completely screwed this game up. I have no idea, whatsoever, why people continue to support this game.
It's a perfect example of what's wrong with the gaming industry these days. Other companies should watch what Bungie & Activision are doing with this & do the exact opposite.
overpriced. Bungie is nothing more than a sellout. $200+ million my butt, whatever. I think they are full of crap. 10 years, pfffffffffffffffffft!
@Jonny The price is that bad when you consider that, with current exchange rates, $19.99 = £12.50. Which means that what they're asking for from us UK customers is almost double what they're charging US customers for the same content. That's what's shocking about it imo.
Doesn't really affect me either way, never bought Destiny and from what I've seen to date I reckon I made the right decision. Christ for £20 they should be adding a whole new location at least, given that it's almost half the price of the full game!
@SteveButler2210 That's a good point about it being almost half the price. and I think the big picture is that the game lacked content to begin with.
It was destined (no pun intended) for pricey DLC. Good thing Destiny has high resale value! a few more weeks of this garbage then bye bye. back to minecraft.
Considering that's half a game, or a whole game, come the January sales when the games that sold badly over Xmas get heavily discounted I'll pass. I'll wait till psn flog off the season pass cheap. Or, more likely, not bother.....
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