Fewer Currencies/Materials (Destiny)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Tuesday, November 08, 2016, 00:53 (3181 days ago) @ Blackt1g3r

The idea of currency that is essentially infinite is silly to me really.

All currencies in Destiny are of limitless supply. There's no cap on lifetime earnings. All it takes… is time.

I remember wondering why they bother having all the materials if we can now exchange so many different materials for other materials now. If I can earn glimmer, then get armor parts, why not just make weapon upgrades cost the equivalent of buying 5 armor parts? It's a useless step in between. Why not get rid of it an make glimmer the go to for everything? Wherever you'd earn a weapon part, you earn 50 glimmer instead.

You can buy materials with legendary marks, why have material at all? Why not make material nodes cost the equivalent in legendary marks?

Why not streamline and eliminate the conversion steps? But if you go down that road, why not eliminates resources altogether and just charge the player what they are really paying… time. Why not, instead of converting time into glimmer just spend your time played to upgrade stuff? It's exactly the same thing. If I can earn 25K glimmer in 2 hours, that means about 415 glimmer is worth a minute. Why not just bank playtime and spend a minute to buy whatever would cost 415 glimmer?

Because that would be stupid. The whole idea of limitless resources is stupid.