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Edited by Kharnex: 11/10/2015 5:45:01 AM
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You did it Bungie! Im no longer addicted!

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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  • Good post and agree

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  • An excellent summary and well said!

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  • I agree. It's like quitting sweets or smoking though. It's definitely not like putting down the super Mario controller. If you have stopped already and climbed that mountain then don't keep coming here! Pick up another game and leave this one in the rear view mirror.

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  • Op I agree with everything, except your view on weapons. However you decide to categorize this game, it has a lite mmo framework. When new content is released old gear becomes obsolete, then the grind starts over. That's just the way it is. The way Bungie does this is pure stupidity. On other games you put work into you character with gear and weapons being gravy. On this game the opposite your character is only a collection of gear, naked they are all the same. By putting importance on gear (and the completely shit way you get it) it pisses people off when they have to leave gear behind that took them a lot of time and more luck to get.

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  • Welcome to the true light my friend. Glad your eyes have been opened.

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  • Edited by Swarfiga86: 11/9/2015 9:50:17 PM
    the raid drops are annoying as hell - literally the full raid start to finish was shards and I got a 303 rocket from oryx with the double drop for 20 shards. so it took 20 and gave me 2 back

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    • Edited by cq13: 11/9/2015 10:57:13 PM
      People keep calling it a grind...I haven't grinded for anything since I had to farm materials. What are you people grinding? Strikes are for 3 of coin exotics. Court is for 290-300 blues. Raid is for 300-320 gear. Trials is for legendary marks, legendary gear, and good pvp gear. None of that is a grind to me. Grinding is walking around 1 area for 4 hours collecting material. I think people mistake grinding for playing a game. If raiding and trails are grinds to you then I highly suggest going to buy a sports game or something because destiny is not for you.

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      • I love how people where saying year 1 was a beta just wait till year 3 and year 1 would be the alpha.

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      • A combination of shabby rewards, bad friends, and a few new games have put out the flame that was my addiction. I have finished the never ending grind, and it feels great!

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      • I used to be addicted also, but now it's starting to get boring and I'm definitely going to play fallout and a bit of destiny on the side

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        • Tuesday night is the only time I play Run nightfall Run raid Log off until next Tuesday Feels incredible to be free from bungie now

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          • I did 3 hard raids this week then put the game down. It's true that it's the same old game. I'm 315 on all characters and have no interest. Hard raid is easy. I'm looking for the next game now. There is zero incentive to play. There are no exotics I absolutely need to collect. Somehow there is even less endgame content now that revising old raids is absolutely pointless in terms of character advancement.

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          • I completely agree man. Can't be bothered to play anymore I'm burnt out. Black ops and Fallout are where it's at.

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            • Agreed, well said. My wife is so pissed at Destiny as of late because I don't want to play it as much as year one. That means I hang out with her in the evenings & she hates it when I watch shows with her and ask questions. She is so excited for tomorrow & a new game for me.

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              • They didn't take weapons away from you retard.

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              • What I hate is 3 of coins. There is no way a strike should get better rewards than a nightfall or raid

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                • Great points...just broke my addiction as well, but I'll likely be back when something new gets introduced.

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                • I agree I'm taking a break from destiny right now I just couldn't find a weapon I really wanted :/ no weapon in taking King feels great to use.

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                • Edited by CrimzonReaper: 11/9/2015 9:13:31 PM
                  My friends and I were talking about this last night, and we think we came up with what happened... Bungie made a list of what the players really liked about yr1 and what needed to change. And then some ass went in an switched the list titles =)

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                    I complete agree. I stopped playing a few weeks ago. I logged in once a week to check what xur was selling (and finally got the Supercell) but I'm done. I pretty much played year 1 continuously. It was so addicting. Repetitively doing raids and nightfalls trying to get the Gjallahorn. At least when you finally got the drop you really wanted the drop was at top level (whether it be raid gear or an exotic). All of a sudden I found myself done with Destiny. You can keep grinding raids but the odds of it dropping you 310 or 320 gear were really slim. You finally get the boots you wanted only to get them at 303. I found it so frustrating that I turned it off and stopped playing. I really like the year 1 leveling system better. Everyone could level to 30 or 31 fairly easily without fireteams. If you found legendaries or grinded for marks you could by the gear you needed. Participating in the raid got you one level up from everyone else. Once you found the boots (it's always the boots for me) then you could grind the raids for materials to upgrade them. Way easier than relying on RNG to simply drop you a 310/320 object. It would of been like the original raids randomly dropping level 29 gear instead of 30 (or 31 instead of 32). What makes it worse with Taken King is instead of 4 pieces of equipment needed to hit max level (light level being the new max level) you need 10. So not only do you keep getting random low drops for equipment but you need to be able to get all 10 on perfect rolls which seems almost impossible. It's the first time the grind doesn't feel worth it. It would take an eternity to get to perfect light level, only to have the equipment deemed useless when ever the next dlc (or destiny 2) comes out. It's amazing that vanilla destiny and it's DLC's kept me hooked for a year, but Taken King had me run away after a month.

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                    • Been 2 weeks since playing. Halo then COD story now onto Fallout and Star Wars. Wonder what I should trade Destiny in for?

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                      • It's been 2 weeks for me to, I got over it in a week.

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                      • OP nailed it

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