Fireteam Chat Ep. 49 - The Microtransaction Fury Storm of 2015 - IGN's Fireteam Chat

Fireteam Chat: IGN's Destiny Podcast

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🗓️ 18 December 2015

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

This week a new consumable was added to Destiny that has the community quite angry. Here's what our Fireteam Chat crew had to say.

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0:00.0	And the Welcome to Fire Team Chadd, I. G. N's Destiny Show.
0:21.0	Thank you for joining us today.
0:26.0	Joining me today is Fran Mirabella.
0:28.0	What's up, Desin, Sean.
0:29.0	And Sean Finnegan.
0:30.0	Hello everyone.
0:31.0	Guys, today we're going to be talking about the destiny microtransaction kind of hubbub that's been going on.
0:36.5	And also, we're going to talk about challenge mode as a whole now that we've got to experience each of the three portions and kind of what our thoughts are.
0:45.6	So let's open up right away and we kind of need to talk about the whole microtransaction thing that's
0:50.6	been going on.
0:51.6	Yeah, so what happened is on the French PlayStation store originally a consumable was activated
0:59.2	to immediately level up your characters to level 25 and it was...
1:02.4	Basically Spark of Light. Yeah, basically Spark level 25 and it was...
1:02.8	Spark of Light.
1:03.8	Yeah, basically Spark of Light and it was 30 euro and now it is officially on the
1:07.4	US store it is 2999 to level up a Titan Warlock or Hunter to level 25 basically immediately. I actually have the exact
1:16.4	items that you you get here. Yeah but I mean it is it's basically that plus so it's the
1:21.6	Spark flight but then they added a subclass boost and you got another
1:27.4	piece with it right what was the telemetry's yeah you got some telemetry's so
1:31.7	that is one difference over Spark of Light yeah
1:34.6	the subclass boost is nice because it does take a while has there been just a
1:38.7	subclass boost on its own yet not that I know of yeah Yeah, I'll buy that.
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