A week without playing Destiny has opened my eyes.
With TTK destiny got a lot of [b]good[/b] things like the new questing system, more interesting bounties.. a whole new patrol area. Strikes that are fun to play and new subclasses that feel fun to play.
But with those good things there came things that in the end ruined the game for me and many others I believe.
[b]Weapons:[/b] You took away our favourite weapons from Y1. Fatebringer, Icebreaker, Black hammer and Gjallarhorn and gave us no choice of ascending the gear we have grown into. Instead, you gave us a bunch of new weapons that dont feel as powerful as Y1 weapons even remotely. You murdered Hand cannons and gave us Hand Cannon lovers no way of practising our trade.
I personally have not found a set of new weapons I would feel home at.
[b]Lvl 34-40:[/b] I went from 34-40 in a one day! In a game where you are forced to grind for gear you get the XP levels for free? XP levels are utterly useless. Just a number which rolls up too quickly.
In my opinion this was a huge -blam!- up from bungie.. Levels should have meaning, Levels should be harder to get.
[b]Sense of progression and old content:[/b] None! All the gear we have grinded was swept useless in a single blow! Bungie does it periodically to keep players grinding for gear. But for what? I dont see the carrot grinding items anymore. After the items have swept clean from our pockets, the old content get rendered useless.
The game gets an "expansion" But actually gets shrinked.
[b]Time Gated Items:[/b] Bungie please! Let ME decide when I play! As a father of a 6 year old girl and working 5 days a week I dont have time to play whenever RNG just happens to pop up the quest in the daily rotation. So no black spindle for me, as the days the quest is up I just dont have the time to play.
[b]Still no LFG system:[/b] As I said, I dont have time to spend hours visiting Facebook, Bungie.net, DestinyLFG or any other 3rd party LFG site to get a team together I have no proof of how it will perform in the raid. I have like 50 PSN friends on my list and that gets me a 1 raid per 2 weeks if I try really hard. Mainly because my working times are concidered to be different from normal in my country.
[b]Rewards:[/b] Last time I played, I was with a struggling team on Oryx. We played 4,5 hours and stopped on Daughters as the team scattered. 2 hours of putting the people together, 4,5 hours of raiding. Thats 6,5 hours of effort.. What was my rewards you may ask? 304 boots and a bunch of shards. RNG system can be so cruel and Bungie claimed they have improved it. Raid drops in general are pretty bad compared what we had in the previous raids.
Raiding should be rewarding experience.
[b]Microtransactions:[/b]
This was just a last nail in the coffin for me. I always have been against games that try and pry more money out of their product by making the player addicted and then starting to cash that addiction in.
In response Bungie havent announced anything about the next DLC. There are too much rumors going around.
Will it be free? And if its free? Is it going to be cheap like free products are?
[b]No point in light 310+:[/b] You released hard raid for us to get over light 310. But for what? to play Hard mode raid? If I land to the moon and kill some dregs as light 260 character, I do it as efficiently as I kill them with light 320 character.. Because the difficulty modifier system is just plain bad. I didnt kill atheon and crota.. Skolas and Oryx just to struggle in a starting area against low level monsters. Where is the sense of character developement here?
[b]Iron Banner[/b] I loved the way how House of Wolves iron banner offered you a new way of reaching the maximum level with the etheric light. It felt rewarding and fun way to get those etheric lights. With TTK iron banner you just murdered the illusion of the rewarding experience grinding a week in PvP tournament.
Now you have light 280 legendary items as a reward for such a special event? I dont know what to say..
[b]The addiction:[/b] From launch to TTK, I played every single day. And when I didnt play, I would pop up the destiny app and see what the forums had to say about daily missions or would they have a new cheese for the lamp section at crota. In general I had to drop a lot of activities to make time for my beloved new hobby, Destiny.
When TTK launched I had a change in work schedule and I slowly started to realize I should probably give some time to the family and friends too. I made the decicion to slow down with destiny and at the same time not knowing about the time gated exotics.
Now I keep destiny at bay. I keep prowling the forums and wait if they launch the next DLC.. And what are the major changes if any to the game. But with confidence I must say Destiny is done for me. It seemed like a game I would play trough the whole 10 year plan.. But it turns out its not.
Without my addiction I have found a lot of things to do with my life!
Its like my eyes would have been opened from a long sleep..
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Same with me! I stopped playing destiny the same way you have. I wanted to see if it was possible. Man it's freaking amazing to be out of bungies evil grasp. I now have stuff to do with my life. It's amazing
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Edited by DameWhoGames: 11/10/2015 3:27:51 AMAmen to this. I never thought I would quit Destiny, but a game that had a lot of potential to be amazing has now gone downhill. Especially after the Weapons 2.0 update. Alas, onto better things...
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Glad you saw the light as i have,and i had played since beta up to TTK .Life has been way better without Destiny.Bring on fallout 4 and tomb raider.
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Same. I just wish that people would stop riding Bungie's dong. Even Gothalian, Bungie's biggest employee (Kappa), tweeted today how we are all getting bored with no news for the future of this game. But why do I care, I get to play Fallout 4 in 35 minutes.
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Edited by RogueAgent-11: 11/9/2015 6:10:30 PMSame feelings here. Edit: I don't hate the destiny. I am starting to dislike the people running it or ruining it, depending on how you view it. They made it easy for me to leave. Once the "I gotta play" (addiction, trying to keep up with friends) is taken over by frustration and boredom, it's easy to walk away. After that there is no real reason to play, other than talking with friends. Now we just talk while playing other games, multi-player or not. The destiny grind is endless and pointless. And bungie has made it clear several times, this is what they want and how they want us to play their game. Well thanks bungie, enjoy the game and have it all to yourselves to play however you wish when people leave. Even Burger King knew it was smart to let me/us "Have it my/your way". I ask this, why grind now, for months, when you can just rank up next dlc in a few hours? Some will say for fun. But I doubt more than a handful of early Y1's are still enjoying the game enough for that. Hopefully bungie will pull their collective head out of their ass and fix the game. I'd love a reason, other than helping a friend, to keep playing.
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Oh my gosh... I went back to BO2... Hadnt hadnt had this much fun since... BO2 before i played destiny... Now for BO3...
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Pretty much, yeah.
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Tommorow bruh, the light is shining, just a few hours left until the bombs drop...
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Shame u aren't on Xbox halo 5 is really fun
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[quote]The game gets an "expansion" But actually gets shrinked.[/quote] Best line in the whole thing
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Been gone since Halo and haven't looked back.
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"My eyes have opened, me me me me, me me me me" See ya next week sport.
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Taking 1 day off year 1 = Anxiety Attacks Taking a week off after TTK release = perfectly fine
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Will agree. Doesn't feel the same. Or nearly as much fun
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YEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSS!!!!!!
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I don't normally reply to post like this, but I actually took the time to read your post and one thing that confused me is this..... In one breath you are saying you don't have that much time to play etc etc...... And then you say you play every day and when you can't play you check the forums..... So which one is it??? It sounds you are a bit salty about some of the time events because you haven't been able to complete it. Doesn't mean the game is bad though....
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I agree, ttk was the last dlc for me as there doesn't seem to be any progress being made. Collect gear, reset, collect gear, reset...rinse & repeat. Destiny is a great idea but thats all, the idea didnt translate very well into a game, this game just makes ppl run in circles which is why i'll be ditching this game in favour of other games in the near future. I really think bungie are out of their depth on this game.
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I agree with everything except the year one weapon stuff. Ever since the release of TTK I have dropped play time by a good 60% playing only 2-3 hours a week compared to my around 20 hours before.
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What's amazing to me is how many agree with these post now. What like a month ago you would have been burned at the stake.
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Congratulations, cocaines one hell of a drug.
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Somehow the changes in tone and RNG in TTK made Destiny a sillier less epic place to spend your time. It's lost a lot of its coolness and a lot of its grind rewards.
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Agreed
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Agree with everything, but especially the bit about the handcannons, as I'm trying and failing to get any kills with Imprecation in Crucible.
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This Christmas when I get a Xbox one I'm going to give up destiny and play halo 5 and star wars battlefront