Expectation can be something of a double-edged sword. One edge is the lovely everyone-wants-to-buy-our-game edge. The other is the everyone-thinks-this-game-is-something-that-it’s-not edge. It’s very possible that no game in the history of games typifies that more than Destiny.
Ever since the acronym MMO was uttered in proximity to the name Destiny, certain expectations have been attached to it by a particular set of gamers. These guys are expecting an action game of Halo-standards in a world the size of World of Warcraft. That isn’t what Destiny is (and in fairness to Bungie, it never said anything about it being an MMO), but the fact that it’s a good two-thirds the way to that heavenly, perhaps unreachable goal, means it’s an exceptional, landmark game.
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