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8/18/2015 11:56:24 AM
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If you feel you wasted time and energy earning digital rewards in a video game, you have no one to blame, but yourself.
You chose to buy and play Destiny. You chose to keep playing. If you didn't enjoy your experience playing then why did you continue to play? Bungie did not force you--you are accountable for your own actions.
That said, I think Bungie's development philosophy for this game is troubling....if not downright manipulative.
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To be fair, most of the 400 some odd hours I have in the game was spent Pre-Dark Below. Despite all of the game's other issues, when DB landed and they tried doing this back then as well? I immediately saw those previous months as having been an utter waste of time and promptly stopped playing. House of Wolves then released and introduced Etheric Light, at which point my largest problem was resolved by it and I resumed playing. Now they are once again repeating Dark Below nonsense and right after giving us a system for Gear Ascension they are taking it back out again? So no, I once again have no motivation to continue playing. Am I hopeful these problems will be resolved and this won't become an issue ever again? Yes. I have already invested $100 in the game and have no desire to sell it for only a fraction of what I spent, so I'll keep it for sure. And I haven't quit the game, either. I got on to buy the Gally from Xur and have been leveling it up off and on, but for the most part I've been busy playing the new Witcher game which is a much more fulfilling experience.
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Edited by AMGS8: 8/18/2015 1:51:27 PMI'd agree with you if we went in eyes wide open knowing full well what was going on, but that's not been the case on this issue. When Bungie flip flops on a deal breaking mechanic (gear ascension), that isn't our fault. The dark below was a low point for many of us, it made me personally stop grinding gear, legendary or exotic, ditch a load of what was then useless stuff, and only keep the necessities. Then HoW dropped and they fixed that whole retarded system, all of a sudden I'm thinking 'bastards, I ditched X Y Z for nothing', but I'm also relieved they sorted their mistake, & since they made this change that's them figured out how to keep gear grinders happy so the effort is going to be worthwhile from here on out. Now TTK has announced it's flipping back to no ascension, and all of the grind I put in collecting gear was for nothing, it's all getting left behind AGAIN. TBH if HoW never added etheric light I'd have moved on & forgotten about raid gear, but that's not what they did. People like us choose to keep playing because of all the good things, just because of this very messed up item, doesn't mean the rest of the game has no value or potential. This is verging on a deal breaker for me going forward, certainly in terms of play time as the new raid basically has no long term value. It'll get left behind along with it's gear at the next DLC. For those who like collecting interesting or rare gear from end game content, exotics are the only reason to grind. I've also no idea why those are being carried forward but raid gear isn't. The most depressing thing is that TTK seems to be improving on every single aspect of the game, except this one, and it's a biggie. I agree with you on your last statement, completely.
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Nicely said.
