[HB Monthly] Destiny 2: Why did you get it OR why did you not?

I don't do multiplayer.

...I know, not a very exciting reason, but you asked.

Is it perfect? Far from it. Is it worth $12 if you're into FPS style games? Yep. Just don't expect to be blown away by story.

I did, for three reasons.
1) Humble wouldn't give me $5 or Prototype 2 as a replacement (I asked), but I realised trade value is higher than that anyway.
2) I've been on a yearly subscription and have regretted that for a while, so the sooner it's over the better -- skipping would have prolonged it for another month.
3) Fear of missing out. There are more games coming after all.

So yeah, I early unlocked. Don't have the key anymore, I have some other nice keys instead ;) Hope the other games won't be something I'd have rather skipped.

Part of me does say I should have skipped to "make a statement", but eh, those other reasons won out ...

(Edit: As for keeping it -- it's just not a game for me. After my year with Marvel Heroes I'm just not interested in MMOs of any type anymore (except Meadow ;). If it had been a Steam key I might have activated it and even tried it, but the added effort of using battle.net .... was just too much effort for something I didn't really want all that much.)

nice refferal, its not allowed here.

Thoughts?

Yeah, why not remove you're referral code from the link, it's not allowed here 😜
At first I thought it was the standard SteamGifts referral, so I deactivated that to check.

Nah, I'm not big on devs that treat their customers like scum.

I bought it because i want to see what's the rest of the bundle made of. Already sold D2 for a fair amount, i couldn't care less about a multiplayer shooter coming from Activision with all theyr usual scummy tactics and i really don't want to deal with another platform than steam on the monthly.

i played the single player campaign and it was awesome. no idea about mp but since it has MTs i can see why people dislike it (like 5% of the people that say it's trash, the other 95% are just jumping the bandwagon as usual).

Skipped, mainly because that game does not interest me. Actually, never heard of it beyond trigger words "shooter" and "multiplayer" which in themselves translate to "do not buy" for me. Recently I've also become seriously disenamoured with the whole Monthly (even HB) thing so I'm going to keep skipping until there's something I'd actually really want. $12 is money and I can think of better things to spend it on right now. On top of that, I already have a million keys to give away (whole Monthlies even) so... Not to mention a neverending backlog. \o/ And I rather keep my games on Steam in any case. But that's just an addendum.

tl;dr: No. Just, no.

Skipped because I'm not really too happy about Humble outright lying to their customers.

I will probably buy it and sell it for 9-10$ and get the rest of the bundle for cheap. Really have no intention or time or money to play game that is focused on grind and shoving dlcs down my throat. Didn't understand hype this game was surrounded in, shooting was nice, everything else mediocre. Why people buy this for 60 bucks I cannot comprehend.

Well I have bought it way back and I played the campaign completly solo .. If you have a friend or two it might be even more fun ... but for 12 bucks it should be a must for everyone who likes call of duty style shooting and diablo style grinding ....
It's also a pretty good pickup if you are into FPS and have a tolerance towards RPG elements .. if you dont .. stay away from it

Edit
I'll still propably get the deal though .. just to sell or gift Destiny 2 .. for now I'll abstain though .. my wallet needs a moment of recovery

I found the whole "Get an incredible game" part HILARIOUS as it was referencing Destiny 2. I believe the only reason they are using that game, is because it's in support of the Bungee foundation charity, which is quite commendable, however, I still don't want their shit game. I'm the kind of person that micro-transactions are aimed at, especially as I've become unemployed once more and they will just attack he senselessly. I'm tempted to just give the game away on here when I go in for a early buyin. I hope this trend doesn't continue, since IGN acquired Humble Bundle they might've been given the suggestion to do this, but without any information, I'm going to assume it's all for the Bungee foundation which, by the sounds of it, is doing a lot of good for kids. Doesn't mean I forgive their shit business practices around the Destiny series, but I'd like to look for the good before declaring anything nefarious.

I've been subbed to the monthly for over 2 years now and i never skipped one. But this is the first time i consider pausing my subscription. I have zero interest in Destiny 2 that need expensive dlc to be of any good and it is not a Steam game. Still hoping they reveal some other good unlocks to keep me on board.

FYI: the 'Deals' section is for sharing bundles/sales/freebies/etc, this thread should be in 'General' perhaps?

I don't play fps games, but things I heard from my friends about Destiny 2 include:

• when adding the first DLC devs removed some things from the base game and included them in the DLC so you had to buy it if you wanted to continue having access to this part of the game
• there where some questionable decisions regarding balancing out the pvp
• the series is a MMO with a subscription in form of DLCs. Without them both Destiny 1 and 2 would lack content
• for many players Destiny 1 was better than 2

No, because friend bought it for me as birthday present, which would have been great if I wanted it lol, I did play it but game devs weren't really in touch with their user base, scammy practices with loot boxes, DLC etc and I gave up on it a long time ago. If I didn't have it I'd probably buy it now to try it

I'd say pretty much all Humble Monthly bundles are a good deal. Although if it's a good deal for you is entirely dependent on if you are interested in the games in the bundle and want to play them.

With only a single early unlock revealed so far for a non Steam game that I'm not really interested in that has a bunch of DLC it's an easy pass for me.

not a fan of multiplayer-only games.
not a fan of MMOs anymore, wasted too many years on WoW.
not a fan of ridicullous business model based on tons of microtransactions and lootboxes and shady systems made solely to push you into buying them.
not even worth it as +1 to Steam library xP

Bought it and going to buy another copy for my brother so we can play together :)

They used to call Warframe "poor man's Destiny", but now they call Destiny "rich idiots Warframe".

I'm not getting it just on principle. We went from (most of the time) getting 3 early unlocks that I hadn't thought of buying but might enjoy to a single early unlock that I had planned on specifically not buying.

I did not buy it as I played it on PS4. Without buying DLCs you just feel completely hopeless and weak in comparison to other players. On top of that light level progression is terribly slow later on. When the first DLC came out I was blocked from content I had had access to, so I sold the game and don't want ever to come back to any game made by Bungie, thank you very much.

If I did not play it, I would definitely buy it with Humble monthly, though. it's quite fun before you reach endgame.

I'll just copy+paste my post in the official June Humble topic;

Micro-transactions
Secret XP choking
Requiring DLC to play base game content
"Events" which are just DLC fests that cost $1000 to collect all items
More lying
Even more lying
Even after all this time still having less content than Destiny 1
Removing D1 content for "balance reasons" then adding them in DLC

And I probably missed a couple more things.