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Discuss all things Destiny.
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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  • Great job explaining pro's and con's However I disagree with assembling a raid team. destinylfg.com get's me a team within like 10 seconds of posting. It's more about selecting the right team for me because so many invites flood in. Sad part is honestly if the drop rates for the raid were just better a lot of the other problems would be a lot more bearable but now yah it sucks Not sure why people are hating on trials outside of the fact that the gear for that sucks as well

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  • Although I disagree with a lot of your points (certainly not all) it's refreshing to read a balanced and rational post about leaving destiny. Pretty sure this is the only one I've read that sounds like it was written by a sane adult

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  • Bump

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  • Tonight will be my last time playing Destiny for the foreseeable future at least. As a day one player I was reflecting on the past year the other day and it has been a fun at times, but an ultimately flawed and aggravating ride. I'm sure I'll revisit the title when the sequel comes along (hopefully it'll have optional matchmaking across the board, an actual story, a better loot reward system, better customization and they won't constantly screw with my favorite weapon class) but for now it's time to pay the wasteland of Boston, MA an extended visit if you catch my drift. Catch you on the flip side fellow guardians.

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  • I'm taking my characters up to about 315 light( they are all at 312 with best gear and guns on) that way I feel ready for the next dlc then I'm gone for a couple months again until the next dlc. Too many good games coming out just in the next week (Fallout, Tomb Raider, and battlefront), let alone the rest of year.

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    • The raid drops suck balls regard for sure. Got nothing but shit 311 or normal gear, and still haven't got a ghost above 313

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    • I absolutely hate the fact that you are just as efficient at killing low level enemies at level 40 300+ light as you were at level 2. I also hate all that talk they were spouting about "level will no longer be based on gear and RNG, you can increase it just by playing the game!" Then TTK comes out and it's based on gear and RNG. What is that about? I also hate what they've done to trials. I hate a lot of it, why am I even still playing? I've genuinely no idea. Time for a break.

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    • Just get Fallout 4!

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      • Edited by Kyddz: 11/9/2015 8:02:13 PM
        dude I literally feel the same, hopefully they will read this!

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      • I've heard the phrase "Still a better story than Twilight" since that movie came out. Unfortunately, Twilight told a better story than Destiny.

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      • I'm glad other see what I see. Come with me.... There's a #Fallout shelter nearby

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        • I agree I played from day one but didn't get addicted till HoW to now. I realized though this weekend with BO3 out and many other games to play still that I simply don't wanna grind this game out anymore. I probably will come back to it here and there but at least I have something else to play other than this because frankly I'm getting sick of bungies shit lol.

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        • C'mon Bungie... I see this as a recurring theme. Hundreds of these threads saying the same thing but in different ways. Your community is putting money in your pockets AND the feedback is invaluable. It's time to step up to the plate and make the most out of this IP you've worked so hard on. OP, I agree with you. I hope they're reading. =/

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        • The thing that winds me up is they bring out dlc.and expacs but whe. They land they tske loads of stuff away, we got 5 new strikes and they took all the old ones away and made them worthless. why not just put all the strikes together and have different difficulties, that way i wont grt the same strike 5 times on the bounce. I just hate how stupid they think we are.

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        • The only thing I don't like are the quests. No matter what quest it is be it the very first quest in the game or the newest one they're all the same. Kill things then kill the boss. If it had more like little puzzles and some new people I feel it would be better. They messed up with the awoken and the reef. They killed off the queen and everyone and then you heard nothing about it. They could've done so much more. But all in all I don't think the games bad. And I love the raid. That's fun as hell

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        • Agree wholeheartedly. Why do the raid tomorrow at all when all my characters are 315. Hope that the 4-6 hours needed to complete it on all three is going to get me drops between 315-320? I would be playing for such a small percentage of light increase for hours worth of my time. For what? I have beaten hard mode on every character since inception. So why would I need to be 318 on all characters? Doesn't affect any aspect of it. And to the OP's point, getting higher light isn't going to affect the rest of the game. Did Trials this weekend and plenty of guys were below 300 and did just fine. Nightfall is pointless unless 320 gear is an option as well for the more advanced light level player. This whole setup is a very unrewarding experience.

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        • this was surprisingly well put. I can tell you are a fellow adult because you presented this in a fair and detailed manner, not a broad complaint

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          There is a lot of wasted potential unfortunately :/ all they had to do was up the level of everything as they went. Allow each raid and PoE to all drop appropriate (310-320 with relative difficulty) weapons and armor, and boom- so much content, and a super fun game. Destiny is still fun. Heck, I played King's Fall for HOURS last night, but as you and many others have pointed out, for what? I understand it's a business. I see why they're doing what they're doing, but there has to be a better way. There really are countless wasted hours of my life for gear that is too low of level now to even allow me into the raid. OR, maybe this is just an MMO aspect they are implementing that the FPS player base is having a REALLY hard time understanding and accepting. Either way... [spoiler]cant wait till midnight :P[/spoiler]

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          • Iron Banner isn't very competitive I totally agree with the lower gear choices

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          • Yeah i used to have three pages of friends at any time now not even a half page destinys done even i went out and bought cod III and fallout 4 comes out tomorrow i guess u guys wont be getting your bonesses

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            • yeah me too

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            • Wow. Could not disagree more. The majority of the changes in TTK saved the game for me.

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            • Bump. Good stuff

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            • I agree with every one if your points. Pretty much sums up how I feel about Destiny at the mo.

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            • I'm a day one and I couldn't agree more... I left last week as well which is actually quite funny because I was the guy in my group that just continued to play no matter what. My friends would take breaks or go play other games and I remained loyal playing every day. I haven't looked but I think I'm over 1500 hours... Maybe even 2000. I've also deleted my characters like 10 times so I could raid more than once per week, that's how much of a junkie I was. Yeah I get the guns are disappointing and the levels pointless etc etc. The raid was fun but the drops are flawed. For example, run the normal raid at light level 303 and below and the drops are close to 310. Run it at or around 310 and the drops are consistent 300? So the higher the light level you are the lower level the drops are? My groups tested this extensively for those that want to challenge but it's definitely flawed. Same seems to be true for hm also... All this aside, I've dealt with the highs and lows in this game and am by no means bitching about the games flaws as I believe that every game has flaws. I've dealt in the past and continued to play no matter what... Just purely agree with the OP that the game for me is not really fun any more. For those of you that are still having fun playing, enjoy. I'll prolly login once a week to run a raid or two with friends but other than that I'm enjoying other things now

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            • Very good points. Of them all which I find every one valuable I too thought it was such a slight to players to ruin the Iron Banner. I know many see the trials as the bit it for pvp but many do not. Iron Banner launches again I am figuring tomorrow and if it has not been changed I won't likely bother. This from someone who always spent those weeks in the banner and little else.

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