In Destiny: Rising, fans can secure significant advantages with a lot of money through vast amounts of currencies and items, which falls under Pay2Win. The community wondered how NetEase intends to make its leaderboards fair. And the team has a clear answer.
Is there Pay2Win in Rising? Yes, there is, because Destiny: Rising relies on gacha mechanics, allowing you to purchase crates for real money. These contain currencies, guardians, weapons, or other items that can quickly make you powerful. So, anyone with a bigger wallet is also more powerful in the mobile game.
In itself, this would not be an issue in the community, as it’s up to each player how much they want to spend on a game. However, the problem connected to Pay2Win concerns the leaderboards and contest modes for various endgame content.
Anyone trying their luck as a free-to-play player to reach the top of the leaderboards would lose against the much more powerful Pay2Win players. NetEase has recognized this and therefore establishes rules specifically for these types of activities to ensure equal opportunity everywhere.
New regulations aim to ensure fairness
What do the regulations state? In a blog post from NetEase under the section “Fair Play Mechanics,” new regulations are supposed to ensure fairness so that free-to-play players also have a chance to reach the top of the leaderboards. The following can be concluded:
- Mods for weapons are disabled
- Exotic weapons are limited to Catalyst Node 1
- Level of your weapons is capped at level 80
- Talents and companions linked with you are disabled
- Only perks of your artifacts are active (levels, refinements, and attributes are disabled)
In short, this means: Everyone should have the same chances, regardless of how much they have spent in the store.
The post especially refers to raids and contest weeks, where it’s important to ensure fairness. Because anyone good enough to hold their own can reach the top of the leaderboards.
What do fans say about these changes? On X.com, the user “MossyMax” raves about the changes in endgame. He thinks it’s great that NetEase wants to clarify to players that only those who have good RNG and thus good rolls from the free-to-play segment will emerge victorious. Many fans agree with him and comment as follows:
- “That is … truly impressive!” – @davidmanly
- “This is also a REALLY good precedent because it means that as a F2P player, you can achieve everything the game throws at you. Because NetEase had to make this physically possible due to the race.” – @LN_RuleYOURface
- “Destiny Rising is definitely doing everything right so far; I really enjoy my time with it and hope they continue this way.” – @KathielGaming
- “It’s crazy how Destiny Gacha is more fun, more balanced, and more enjoyable than the actual game.” – @wo1f_sapphire
It remains to be seen how fair the actual contest mode will be, but these mentioned regulations at least create a basis for offering everyone the chance to prove themselves. You can find more about Destiny: Rising here: Destiny Rising: Best artifacts for every guardian in PvE and PvP
