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Edited by Endless Spheres:
7/4/2015 10:08:24 AM
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If you thought this game was a failure, you wouldn't have played for as long as you did. Either you have a very poor taste in games, or this game wasn't a failure, and you played it because it's fun.
Failed games don't get the highest view count for a game reveal on Twitch. Failed games don't get to come back to E3 to reveal their latest expansion. Failed games don't raise over $1,000,000 for Direct Relief in Nepal.
While you and your "Spartans" mourn over your fallen developer, the "Guardians" are going to keep playing Prison of Elders, Trials of Osiris, and come September, we're going to play The Taken King, and we're going to have fun with it. Maybe you'll come back to it, you're more than welcome to.
I won't put the game on a pedestal and say that it's the gold standard for games. Far from it, the way Activision is forcing Bungie to sell this game in chunks is astoundingly anti-consumer, and I know it's not Bungie who decided to do this.
But I play Destiny because it's fun, and that's reason enough. Can't argue with fun, and no reviewer is going to make that decision for me, especially one that can't use his inside voice.
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Edited by Malphisto: 7/4/2015 10:29:25 AMYou can see on my profile how long I played for. That is all from the first few months following the game's launch. It took me 4-5 hours, taking my time, to beat the entire story. The rest of the time I spent in the game was consistent grinding. My goal? To get the guns I wanted, because I had an objective and plan. I loved the game, at first. I defended the game, at first. If you look back at some of my earlier posts on this forum, before the DLCs came out, I was one of the biggest supporters for it. But then the Dark Below came out, the DLC I was looking forward to. And it was a total letdown. I played for all of two days, and then stopped altogether. At the time, it amounted to being at around 250 hours total in the game. At which point, I began playing Dragon Age: Inquisition and easily spent 300+ hours on there, first playthrough. House of Wolves came out, and I came back, all due to the introduction of Etheric Light. But with there being no confirmation on whether or not you can continue ascending your weapons and armor in TTK, I have zero reason to spend anymore time playing unless I know for sure one way or another. If no? I'm done. Simple as that. And there are MANY who feel the exact same way. The vast majority of what Destiny has for its player base is owed greatly to its former community. The Spartans set the foundation for this community, and this game. If this continues? When Halo 5 gets released, those who have Xbox Ones are gone. I've done the checks, I've spent the time going around asking people. Destiny has two major communities backing it for activity. The Halo Community and the COD Community. Halo 5 comes out, Spartans are gone. All you got left are the COD folks then. But then the next COD comes out or The Division (which is going to rip Destiny apart...holy crap... In case no one else saw that shit at E3, lol), the COD guys are gonna be moving on and getting sucked into other things. Fact is, Bungie needs to do something drastic. A LOT is riding on the TTK. Its not looking good, especially with the hype having worn off for many.
