So begins another week in the wild world of video games. Not much today since I posted on Saturday. Let’s dig in.

  • Demon’s Souls will be shutting down their online servers
  • Bungie upsets community with experience gain changes

Demon’s Souls Online Stuff
That’s right, the online functionality of Demon’s Souls is shutting down. The first game in the famous “souls” series will be losing summoning, bloodstains, and messages. The shut down will happen February 28 of next year. Specifically at 3 AM ET in America. The Dark Souls Twitter account even gave it a goodbye. Originally this was going to happen in 2012, but some developments allowed it to stay. If you haven’t played, don’t worry. You can still play and complete the game just fine offline, albeit it’s less fun. I have a deep respect for the souls games, and I’m sorry to see this part of it go.

Destiny 2 EXP Gain
A few days ago, Destiny 2 players were upset at the discovery of diminishing experience returns from repeatable events in game. After you hit max level, the EXP works towards unlocking Bright Engrams, which are the game’s loot box like item, giving the player a randomly chosen cosmetic item. Aside from the EXP system, the other way to get Bright Engrams is to purchase them via microtransaction. With the heat of Star Wars Battlefront II still there, many grew angry at what they believed to be an attempt to further encourage microtransactions by restricting gameplay rewards. Bungie later apologized, and disabled the diminishing returns system in place.

Happily ever after, right? Later on, the Destiny 2 help Twitter made a post saying that the EXP cost for the Bright Engrams will be changing to 160,000 XP

The Destiny 2 API has yet to be adjusted to reflect the recent in game change to earned XP. We are working on an API update to address the discrepancy. The correct value to earn an additional level is 160,000 XP.

That’s nearly double what it once was. Again players were outraged. With this change, the time it takes to unlock a new Bright Engram is dangerously close to what it was when the diminishing returns system was still in place. Now players felt cheated, insulted even that Bungie would think they wouldn’t realize this change. This is all that has happened so far and ill be sure to report any updates that come in the later days.

That’s it for today. It seems to have generally been a negative news day. that’s no fun. Be sure to check back tomorrow for the latest and greatest in video game news, maybe it’ll be a more positive one. Otherwise, have a great night!