The terribly named bundle value $15 USD and included nothing that will be helpful for a model new participant.
The discharge of Future 2: Season of the Want ushered in a few thrilling new issues for gamers to dig into, however it additionally introduced with it a lump of coal within the type of the Future 2: Starter Pack. The group was fast to dogpile this atrocious bundle and Bungie was even faster in yanking it from digital storefronts.
On November 29, 2023, simply in the future after the discharge of Future 2: Season of the Want, Bungie eliminated the Future 2: Starter Pack from Steam and seemingly different digital storefronts. The pack launched alongside the brand new season and veteran gamers have been fast to level out just a few issues: the bundle was overpriced and nothing in it resembles something that could possibly be thought of good beginning objects for gamers.
Future 2 gamers can deal with paying exorbitant costs for objects. Whereas many have put their foot down, there are those that nonetheless buy the assorted armor units that arrive with the seasonal occasions. However what Future 2 gamers can’t abide is Bungie promoting a bundle with a deceptive title that’s clearly concentrating on new gamers.
Any new participant coming to Future 2 (an ordeal in and of itself) would absolutely take a look at a chunk of DLC known as the “Starter Pack” and suppose that it contained issues they wanted to begin the sport. Whereas Sleeper Simulant is a powerhouse, there’s a merciless joke being performed on newcomers with Traveler’s Chosen and Ruinous Effigy being described as “Future 2’s most interesting”.
To additional sweeten the deal, this pack included 125,000 Glimmer, 50 Enhancement Cores, 5 Enhancement Prisms, and 1 Ascendant Shard. All of this for $15 USD. Not really sufficient supplies to improve a single piece of armor. As FalloutPlays factors out, Shadowkeep is at the moment on sale for lower than $7 USD and it grants gamers entry to Ruinous Effigy, Traveler’s Chosen, the entire assortment of Exotics from that yr of Future 2, and every little thing else that growth added to the sport.
The Future 2 group group took to X, previously Twitter, to acknowledge the Future 2: Starter Pack and famous that it “is just not one thing bringing pleasure.”
Suffice it to say, the Future 2: Starter Pack was not solely a rip off, it was at greatest misnamed and at worse deceptive. Whereas it’s nice to see Bungie taking swift motion to drag this DLC from shops, it’s only one extra misstep in a path that has curved up to now off observe. Bungie has plenty of work to do with a purpose to restore the goodwill with gamers, and whether or not that may be completed earlier than the discharge of The Remaining Form on June 4, 2024 stays to be seen.
