I don't want to sound like a jerk, but Destiny is hardly an MMO. It's a multi-player shooter with a loot system. There's nothing massive about it. Everything outside of the tower is heavily instanced so you never see a bunch of players just running around doing stuff. Planetside 2 is an MMO shooter, Destiny isn't even close to that in terms of player count. Even if it were an MMO, I don't have to go buy every WOW expansion they've put out to play the new expansion, I just have to buy whatever the most current expansion is and it includes all of the other stuff. I get that the Legendary Edition offers that, but only if you're willing to pay full retail price instead of the expansion price.
Even assuming Destiny was considered an MMO, this is not how they work. Having to fork out for the two Year One DLC's and then pay full price for TTK would be like having to pay $20 for the 6.1 content patch, 6.2 content patch, 6.3 content patch, etc., and then paying full retail game price for the next full expansion for WoW. Alternatively, if you look at the Buy to Play MMO payment model (like with Guild Wars 2), you'll see that even then, all major content patches leading up to the Heart of Thorns expansion were free, adding new zones, new quests, new dungeons, etc.
That said, with Destiny, they have a "deal" for all but one of their potential buyers. If you are a hardcore Destiny player, you bought all the DLC and preordered TTK, you got it for $40. Alternatively, if you are a new player to Destiny, and want to jump right in with your hardcore friend, you pay $60 and get the full game, all DLC, and the current expansion, along with a one-time level boost to get you right there with your buddy. However, for those of us who bought into the Destiny dream from the beginning, saw it for the unfinished mess that it was, and backed out until more content was there to justify the game, we're stuck with essentially rebuying the entire game again if we want access to this newer content. If we bought both DLC packs, then TTK, we'd be looking at spending $80. So instead, Activision gives us a "deal" with this Legendary pack, forcing us to rebuy a copy of the original game to get a "discounted" price on the whole bundle. So basically, they're just saying that our first $60 was what, our Year One closed beta entry fee? That by not dropping the dough on the expansion packs that added very little to the overall game, our commitment wasn't high enough to matter.
I came back to Destiny after the update went live and I liked what I saw. The game was fun to play, and with the new quest stuff, I could actually follow what the hell was going on. It got me excited for where that game might go in the future. But for now, I'll just continue to watch from the outside, because like hell am I going to spend $120 to finally play what should have been the 1.0 version of Destiny.
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