In Destiny, a fan proposal finds favor with the team: to award titles for extraordinary achievements or accomplishments.
Anyone who logs into any MMO and kills 5 rats in a row gets a title. They can take it and wear it like a badge, displayed above their head, so that other players can instantly recognize what they have accomplished. This has been the case for years, roughly since the rise of the “Achievement” or “Success” system which flooded titles into the games.
There are already achievements in Destiny (the Grimoire points) – so why not titles as well? A fan on reddit suggested:
- For killing 30,000 Dregs, the title Dreg-Slayer!
- For 50 hard mode kills in a row – the title Epic Raider!
- Killed Crota 10 times with a sword – Swordbearer!
Bungie likes the idea
A corresponding thread quickly gained attention on reddit, and fans came up with more suggestions. One suggested that after 5,000 deaths in the raid, the title “Flawless Raider” could be awarded, a nod to the coveted Playstation trophy.
Well, such threads appear more often on reddit, but this time particularly: Destiny’s community manager DeeJ showed up there and said: He likes these ideas. And he knows that some who could make these ideas reality like them.
Anyone who knows DeeJ and his rhetoric knows: This is about the most binding thing he has said in months. Normally, the maximum response from the community manager is: “Great! I will bring it up.”
So why not?
One can assume that player titles are something that Bungie has already discussed internally and likely approved. There’s hardly any reason why this “typical MMO idea” to motivate players should be missing, especially when the success system is already in the game. Well, it’s not carved in stone yet, but it wouldn’t be surprising if player titles might come to Destiny with Comet in September.
Or it might go on the pile of “things hanging in the air”: Another interesting idea still in the works, are the “Treasure Maps” that once appeared.
What do you think of the idea? What would be your favorite titles?
