Destiny 2 was scamming players about the progress in the game

The picture you see above is funny by itself - buy yourself a candy treat and get faster progress in Destiny 2! But it's not quite funny when players find out that Bungie is actually lying about their progress in the game through the number of XP points.

Namely, players have noticed that the number of earned points in some cases is not correctly counted in the total meter until the next level/ingram. With further investigation it was found that Destiny 2 secretly slows down the pace of progress, even though to the player still claims that its rewarding him with significant amounts of XP.

If you immediately became obsessed and just wait for this story to go into microtransactions, it seems that the thing is not designed with that in mind. Slowing down progress in Destiny 2 happens under certain conditions, for example, if the player focuses on grinding by playing only public events. In this case game by rigging the amount of achieved XP cares that the player does not progress faster than he would otherwise have progressed.

Although it is not controversial that Destiny 2 this way encourages players to engage with various activities, and not just with those that bring the fastest progress, players are by no means satisfied with the lack of transparency about it. Bungie therefore immediately decided to react, by agreeing that the system did not work the way it should. So they turned it off and now all the activities have different amounts of XP points to achieve.

Their reaction is great, but the fact that they reacted only when the players noticed the scam does not go into their favor. Given with raised dust on microtransactions, the lack of transparency about these things can greatly harm the game alone.

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