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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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  • Leveling up meant nothing. The new system that ties light level to a horrible RNG has turned the game into a joyless grind. The hamster wheel of disappointment.

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  • [quote]The addiction: I played a whole year, 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. 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. [/quote] wow that's me word for word. Just stopped playing about 10 days ago, cannot find any reason to return, mostly for the reasons you listed. P.S - the Ten year plan started Summer 2010 - so it ends Summer 2020 when the contract ends - so only two more Destiny games and two more TTK size expansions for the whole "experience".

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    • Edited by Adam: 11/9/2015 4:43:02 PM
      Yeah, I stopped playing a couple of weeks ago too for literally the same reasons. I loved this game, but I'm honestly not sure where they go from here.

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    • Completely agree. Even when ttk dropped, i played a day and had to take a break for a few weeks because i had to help out family. I was in withdrawal lol but got back and have been considerably less interested inn the game. Especially crucible, idk exactly what screwed it up, but it's no longer fun for me. On top of the fact that it's harder to stay consistent in games now, im a fairly skilled player who used to get 25+ each game, even shuffling around guns. Now I'm trash 80% of the time smh. And like you said, after removing the y1 weapons, they've made it very easy to move on.

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    • Agreed, haven't played Destiny in almost a week and everything in my life has been better. Even my mood. Been playing a little Black Ops III instead and loving it. TTK looked great when it came out. But again, it's more Bungie product that feels rushed. They didn't think things through very well, and I'm better off without Destiny being a part of my everyday life.

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    • You seriously complained that you couldn't do certain dailies because you have kid/job no black spindle. Finishes the story with "I've played everyday for a year." GG

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      • [quote]I'm a father to a daughter of 6 years and I work 5 days a week. I don't have time to play whenever the Spindle comes up ... I played everyday for a year[/quote] Just saying. I do agree with you, destiny is an addiction.

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      • * Congratulate emote One of the best posts I've seen in a while.

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      • I could desalinate all the oceans in the world, and your post would still have more salt than me

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        • It's like you've never played any kind of mmo before, which is what destiny is trying to do sort of. New xpac, new gear, new grind, old stuff useless. I just don't get why people are so upset about the way mmos have worked for the last 20 years. It may not be great but it's what's out there..And the plus side you're not paying $15/month to grind...

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          • Oh dear. Has everyone forgotten the fact that this is a video game? Not the least bit important. If you couldn't stop playing, that's your addictive personality speaking. Everything in moderation.

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          • I really hate that i cant reforge my weapons at the Gunsmith anymore.

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          • 110% agree. Find myself playing less and less. Year 1 I didn't think of buying another game, because destiny was keeping me hooked. Now I'm buying fallout and am looking forward to something new and exciting. Beat the heroic raid this week on 2 characters 312 light. 1st character. Got another 318 ghost (what I had equipped at the time), A bunch of moldering shards, and a year one shotgun. 2nd character: got drops, but not 1 piece of armor/gun higher than my current gear. 3 night falls this week. 1. Legendary chest 302 (had 310 equipped) 2. 11 3oC. Would rather get 18 strange coins. 3. 302 ghost (had a 318 equipped) ...Load of horseshit. Destiny: a game with a story so thin that they had to time gate exotics to make people think they are getting "new content." Fallout here I come.

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            • So well said. I stopped playing a couple weeks into TTK for all the reasons listed above. I think the worse part is that fanboys dont get. The reason why we stop playing and complain about VALID arguments is because we love this game. If we dont complain and keep playing crap they'll keep on giving us just that crap. Glad to see alot of us are wising up. It may save the game. But even if it does I'm not really sure if I'll buy anything activison or bungie is attached to. Great post man!

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              • Well put....the fun has been drained out of this game and with Fallout 4 a couple of hours away people may end up leaving for quite sometime. Since the weekend it's taking longer to find pvp matches and there's hardly anyone in the tower. Which is a shame as I really liked this game, but TTK has drained me.

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                • You lost me at the rehash of the Y1 moan

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                • Still no LFG system: 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. This, so hard, this.

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                • Sometimes I get a bit down on my life...various reasons not worth going into. Then I read these posts and am so glad I don't have the same level of emotional investment in a -blam!-ing videogame that some of you people seem to have.

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                  • I'm glad and surprised to see all the support here. My grind time was lessening a few weeks prior to halo 5. Now I have logged in once since Halo 5 dropped and that was to pick up my First Curse. I am seriously happy about all the flaws you listed and for Halo 5. They have kicked my bad habit that was effecting areas of my life where it shouldn't have.

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                  • Amen man. In a way, it's a good thing you're free of the shackles. It's sad that bungle and activi$ion have built a business model around gamer addition. Hilarious to see that the grind they've designed is pushing people away.

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                  • I don't play much at all anymore. Trials matchmaking is too garbage. Raid drops are garbage. I played through need for speed and loved it more than I ever loved playing destiny. The story is interesting and the game play is awesome. In top of that the dlc' will be free forever for NFS

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                  • I am with you. My biggest complaint is that they decided to make all my year 1 weapons and gear obsolete. I grinded tirelessly for those, not just to obtain, but then to get the materials needed to level them up. And for what?? Such an absolute slap in the face to make all of that hard work meaningless! Not to mention how badly Bungie misjudged the benefit of having an abundance of really good weapons to choose from, rather than slim pickings. In other words, the experience would only be heightened if we could select from all year 1 OR year 2 legendaries/exotics when going into battle. Instead, they decided less is more, and that is a really bad marketing decision, IMO.

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                  • I haven't been on it for two weeks and I now feel the same as you. The weapons handling in Destiny was superior to any game I have played in recent years. Its just a shame they screwed around with game (and us). As for TTK, an expansion is means you expand, not contract.

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                  • Exactly how I feel. Well said sir

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                    • Yes I'm at the same stage day one gamer, 3 X 310 plus characters all exotics that have been released so far y1 and 2 and the ttk has ruined the game, I can smash trials and the raid week in week out and watch the worst player get the highest light level rewards. No thanks Bops 3 has been a great surprise it's amazing and zombies allows me and friends to laugh and have fun gaming together

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                    • We really have been paying for a beta game for over a year now. Good write up, very true in a lot of aspects. one that you listed is patrolling the moon or anywhere for that matter to still get 4 shot by any enemy and be red barred or even killed. You should be wiping your ass with these enemies at a rank 40 300 light level.. instead, your grinding areas you have already grinded a hundred times over. The missing content, the dlc releases we all have hoped for. To figure out in the end. Bungie in some way is f'n us over. .. Anyone get a raid hard mode ship yet? no? did you forget about that kickass ship too? Its two months into TTK and we still have content missing and it wont be put out until either later this month or next month. 'we are releasing challenge mode" and everyone cheers... think its going to really be anything different? Everyone should be pissed about this. New games are out now. we can all move on and wait to come back at a later date. Which is a good thing. I just hope on the next dlc we don't have to rebuy shit we already paid for and re-play the same f'n maps over and over again.

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