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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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  • This^

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  • I hear you man. I have a kid too. There's simply not enough time to invest in Destiny. The Effort/Time vs Reward curve just doesn't cut it.

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  • This kid really this stupid?

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    • Same, although it was more the draw of other games rather than anything actually kissing me off about Destiny. I just downloaded BO3 and Fallout 4 is sitting on my hard drive ready to go, so my time will be taken for a little while.

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    • Haven't been on for about a month I just don't see the point to play anymore even with time gated exotics

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    • Bang on mate,all the exotics are worthless and forgettable,bet people can name 10+ perks from year one exotics that stand out and are brilliant to play with name me 2 from year two, I hammered Athlon killed crota,skolas,oryx for what to get 304 drops in the hard raid I can't even infuse it all it is 3 x legendary marks I can do a daily and get 15 !! Takes all this time to find good team and get and kill oryx for rubbish rewards. They even ruined the nightfall,bungie we don't want to force people to do the nightfall first well guess what bungie if they want the buff then they should do the nightfall first, Also return to orbit removed well if they want a chance at exotics then there has to be a punishment if people die, SToP spoon feeding guardians bungie watering your game down for kids/squeakers Rant over by destiny

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    • As the official video game rehab therapist and lion tamer for Bungie I wanted to thank everyone at Bungie HQ. We've been tracking you for months trying to get you to quit and it finally worked. The reward ceremony will take place in a Burger King parking lot around 6 ish, and yes, it is a black tie event.

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    • Solution, never get addicted. Maybe they saved your personal life by not being so time consuming

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    • I agree with eveything you say except matchmaking for raids. It will never be a good idea. It takes 5 mins to find a group in the recruitment forums, often less. And you are guaranteed people who actually want to contribute, as opposed to the AFKers and players who hide away hoping to get carried. But yeah the rest, you're right. I'm not quite done yet myself but its getting close, there are a lot of threads like this popping up right now I can only hope Bungie take note and do something fast.

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    • I already know I'm getting a few games around christmas. I guess I'll reserve judgement on where I'll be until then

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    • Half your points are moot.

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      • I got out of it too!!! Yippy!!!!

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      • OP says he hasn't played Destiny in a week....yet he's still lurking around the forums. Are you sure you're not addicted? If you haven't been able to leave the forums then you haven't completely let go.

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        • Unfortunately I agree also I've got like 1200 hours put in but I don't have a desire to grind because I've got no sense of progression anymore

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          • Glad to see more and more people are realizing how shallow TTK was. Figured it would be before it came out but wanted to believe Bungie would actually improve things in the right way. It's basically just year 1 with worse RNG and less useful gear and activities. I really hope Bungie pulls off a Halo 2 with the next game, but if it's true they pushed the original content for "comet" to Destiny 2, it's going to be more of the same crap.

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          • Yeah I stopped too

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          • Forget the haters. You're allowed to complain. Anyone who's paying any attention can tell that it's a veritable ghost town. I'm in the same boat. Job, wife, 3 kids. I have about 80 friends and it's a rare day any of them are doing anything other than patrolling. So, I should spend: - 5 minutes booting up the game - 2 minutes going to the tower and hanging hoping to get picked up Meanwhile... - anywhere from 5 minutes to an hour trolling reddit, bungie.net, etc. hoping someone picks me up for the raid or nightfall knowing I don't have the "required" weaponry, which is ironic since you can't get the requisite weaponry without completing the really difficult content - then spend anywhere from 45 minutes - 3 hours trying to finish the raid. Riiiiight. I get maybe an hour and a half at a time to play before "life" calls. Just yesterday, I tried to play lvl 260 strikes with teams of other 290+ players and we couldn't finish either of them. It should be tough, but not damn-near impossible for casual players. And THAT, is why I'm waiting on Fallout 4 to hit my mailbox tomorrow.

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            • Great post. I gave up on this game at some point prior to TTK, and that (while making some steps forward, as you pointed out) did enough to prove this game is on the wrong path. Halo 5 couldn't have come sooner.

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            • They have to cater for the main player base..this is apparently someone that can and does play 3 hour a day...if you don't it will seem diffficult and grindy for no reward..

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            • Raid loot sucks

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            • Edited by rpgdustin: 11/9/2015 6:05:59 PM
              I am with him on his point of addiction. Since TTK has launch this game turned into a grind to keep players playing till the next DLC comes out. As I outlined in my form: https://www.bungie.net/en/Forum/Post/172290360/0/0 . The items before where a scene of accomplishment, now its about the grind. Dependent on two variables of RNG rather then one.

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            • [quote] [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. [/quote] Do you honestly want to be playing with the same damn weapons 3 years from now? Really? This is one of the best things Bungie did, although i think they could've made all the DLC weapons a Y2 version off the bat. A Queensbreaker Bow would have been fun to use a little longer. [quote][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.[/quote] Tied to above: no one wants to be playing with and using the same gear 2 years later. Expand your horizons and try something new. And if you really want to use that older gear and weapons, do it in the cruciable or throw it on and go do the older content. Every single other game on the market does this exact thing. No one in WOW is still wearing the same gear they had During the Burning Crusade, and Black Ops 2 weapons are not available in the current release, why would they be here....? [quote] [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 with a 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.[/quote] If you have 50 friends on your list and spend 2 hours on LFG and still havn't beaten Oryx then you need to add me and our crew, we will WALK you through it. You are either full of it, or have the worst luck on the interwebs. On 2 characters I had a group with LFG within 10 minutes of logging in, and I have a ton of friends who do the same thing. [quote][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?[/quote] Simple solution: don't like them, don't buy them, and if things change then cross that bridge when it comes up, no point freaking out over speculation. [quote][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. [/quote] In one section you talk about being a Dad and not having time to play Destiny or spend it learning the raid but here you talk about addiction and how much you played..... not sure whats up but here is some advice: If you don't like it, put down the controller and walk away, it's a game and meant for entertainment. If you are no longer getting that entertainment then it's a pretty obvious what to do. I find it tough to believe a lot of what you are saying, looks more like saltiness boiling over and a re-hashing of every complaint that people have had over the last 3 months. My Thoughts: I too am done with Destiny, for the moment(Fallout 4 at 10 pm tonight!!!!). I hate the time gated stuff and the grind but I managed to get a NTTE, a Sleeper, a First Curse and Black Spindle, plus finish the raid playing late nights with a group of other fathers. I hit 305 light on one of my toons finally and am prtetty happy reaching that point. I have a toddler at home as well and feel your pain with finding groups but I just can't believe you spend 2 hours LFG only to spend 4.5 wiping, like I said, send me a message and we will run you through it. I hope to meet you and you can prove me wrong.

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              • you mad bro.? you are addicted. sad

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              • I have your answer my friend as I too have become bored. Fallout 4! Tomorrow

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                • I have said it before and I'll say it again. We have less content to run now than we did in year one and things that were "tweaked", are less relevant than ever. Point in case: I loved playing so much, that I ran three characters as much as my, married with 4 kids, life would allow. I want Destiny to be relevant again. I want to be addicted again. Destiny was so much fun! Please Bungie! Fix this before the next DLC. I can't wait that long. I need my fix man!

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                • This was actually very well said!

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