Everyone's Obsessed With Destiny's Loot Cave
By Alex Chen | January 01, 0001
What began as an easy way to earn loot and experience points in Destiny has become a full-blown phenomenon. The Internet has caught Loot Cave Fever. The Loot Cave, an area in the corner of Destiny‘s Russia map that lets you mindlessly farm experience points and gear, has been a known commodity for a while now. Last weekend it rose in popularity—that was when I found out about it, anyway—and these days, it’s become something of an obsession among Destiny players around the world. It was a symbolic cornerstone of my review of the game, to boot. Here’s my take: The Loot Cave is what’s known as an exploit, a trick the game’s developers didn’t anticipate that allows players to bypass the game’s carefully-scaffolded progression system and earn experience points and gear faster than the developers intended. That so many players would so eagerly latch onto an exploit like Destiny’s Loot Cave only makes สล็อต sense, given the game in question.Destiny itself is brazenly, almost inhumanly exploitative, so it’s only natural that players would take every opportunity to exploit it right back. Others have been discussing the cave as well—critic Sparky Clarkson had some similar thoughts:cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"e3616d04-4972-4839-a63a-c6975e2e9731","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.kotaku.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"1638818196","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"uncategorized","SECTION":"","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"uncategorized","TAGS":"","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); In perhaps the biggest game of the year, one of the things players are spending a lot of time doing is shooting, for hours on end, into a cave. They’re not doing it for fun; I’ve tried it for just a few minutes and I can confirm, it’s incredibly boring. But, it’s also productive, in the sense that it gets players more of what they want, what they in fact need if they want to progress. So quickly, before it gets nerfed, gaze in awe upon the wonders of… The Loot Cave. Lots of other people, of course, are just making jokes. Here are some of my favorites: https://twitter.com/embed/status/514852336858955776 https://twitter.com/embed/status/514799774147821570 https://twitter.com/embed/status/514515251803332608 https://twitter.com/embed/status/514566396718510080 Not too late to start selling "I Poopsocked The Loot Cave And All I Got Was This Lousy Shader" shirts, people. — Bill Mudron (@mudron) September 23, 2014 https://twitter.com/embed/status/514435105649999872 @WillJPowers @kirkhamilton @beardedbuffalo found this sweet new bounty pic.twitter.com/XMuouDRoo7 — Sebastian @ E3 20’ NVR (@gundamman) September 24, 2014 Here’s a video from Matt Lees (seen above after quitting caving cold-turkey) as he attempts to explain the Loot Cave toa friend: Hitler weighed in on the Loot Cave as well, in this video by Ray Frenden: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1awVTEE5SNM The Loot Cave is even turning up on Whisper, the service used for sharing dark secrets: The official Destiny forums have been alive with p31 เครดิตฟรี 188 Loot Cave chatter, including one user who quotes the great poet Astley to capture his feelings about the cave: Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you There’s also this steamy Loot Cave fanfic: he blindfold obscured my vision, I couldn’t see where we were going. But I trusted Captain u31.com เข้าสู่ระบบ Fal’ric as he carried me in all four of his big strong arms. “We are near.” he said, his voice deep and commanding, yet soothing and seductive. He unwraveled the scarf around my head, we were standing at the entrance to a forboding cave. “They call this the cave of treasure.” Captain Fal’ric said. “It is said that you will find many treasure in it if you wait long enough.” “It looks dangerous” I said, holding onto him nervously. A year ago, I would have never believed I would fall in love with a Fallen. Yet here I was clinging to