Destiny Is Getting Microtransactions

<p>It was a matter of time&comma; but <em>Destiny <&sol;em>is finally going to be getting a few items to buy with real-life currency&period; Players will have the opportunity to purchase &&num;8220&semi;Silver&&num;8221&semi; via their respective console stores for a price that has not yet been revealed&period; Bungie announced that Silver will be used to purchase emotes initially &lpar;and likely other cosmetic items down the road&rpar; from Tess Everis in The Tower&period; Pricing for the Silver&comma; as well as images and descriptions&comma; will be coming on October 13th when the storefront is released to the public&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Kotaku broke the news early with reports from sources&comma; and it was then confirmed later on&period; I mention this because they also reported on the DLC structure for <em>Destiny <&sol;em>to be changing as well&comma; which sounds interesting&period; <em>Destiny <&sol;em>will not be releasing any more paid expansions to the game until <em>Destiny 2 <&sol;em>comes out in 2016&comma; but that doesn&&num;8217&semi;t mean the game won&&num;8217&semi;t be updated with new content&period; &&num;8220&semi;Going forward&comma; our live team is also looking to grow beyond vital updates and improvements to focus on world events&comma; experiences&comma; and feature requests&&num;8230&semi;&&num;8221&semi; states the Bungie news post&comma; indicating that Kotaku&&num;8217&semi;s report may very well be true&comma; though Bungie has not yet confirmed the DLC structure to be true&period; If true&comma; the game would end up being updated every couple months with new quests and content&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Sources&colon; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;bungie&period;net&sol;7&lowbar;Introducing-Eververse-Trading-Company&sol;en&sol;News&sol;News&quest;aid&equals;13672">Bungie Community News<&sol;a>&comma; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;kotaku&period;com&sol;sources-destiny-will-get-paid-cosmetic-dlc-and-free-ne-1734800399&quest;utm&lowbar;campaign&equals;Socialflow&lowbar;Kotaku&lowbar;Facebook&amp&semi;utm&lowbar;source&equals;Kotaku&lowbar;Facebook&amp&semi;utm&lowbar;medium&equals;Socialflow">Kotaku<&sol;a><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;