"I am so disappointed in Bungie right now" (Destiny)

by Kermit , Raleigh, NC, Tuesday, July 08, 2014, 10:43 (3800 days ago) @ bluerunner

Abandonment would be Playstation exclusivity. Offering one market a few incentives to join is not abandonment, it is enticing that new market by saying "you get this, those other guys won't!"
The exclusive content doesn't have to be more than an emblem or sticker, but the bigger it is, the more people will want it, especially if they know that other people outside of their circle aren't getting it. That's how you hook a new group of wallets, and hopefully you make loyal wallets.

I can't think of a single time I've made a purchasing decision based on whether other people get to buy what I'm buying. Do that many people really worry about having some kind of "superiority" over other consumers? That seems pretty petty to me.

Yeah. Although I mostly agree with Korny on the big picture, I think that's not the best way to state it. Exclusives entice. There's no getting away from it. There's a greater need to entice Playstation users. There's no getting away from that either.

I hypothesized yesterday about one day being able to play cross-platform. That would be awesome, but it has to become something that becomes advantageous for platforms to adopt. In most respects, I think competition is good. The PS4 wouldn't be as good as it is without all the learning that happened while Microsoft was eating Sony's lunch. XBox Live is still a better service than PSN, I think, but Playstation is coming along. I actually liked many of Microsoft's ideas at the Xbox One launch, but I was in the minority, people voted with their wallets, and now I don't see huge advantages to either platform. Seems like many people weren't sure they wanted an Xbox before it became available without Kinect. This is the market at work. It doesn't always work out to suit our personal preferences, but over time we usually end up with something better than what we'd have without competition. Without competition, there's much less drive to be better. For instance, Halo 5 will be a better game in part because of the existence of Destiny.

tl;dr Competition is good and makes games and platforms better over time.