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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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  • Whole heartedly agree, There are some major flaws in the game, but I don't think Bungie sees them as flaws, Destiny is tailored around the 'Sore Losers' and the people who are prone to addiction, Destiny purposely aims for the 'masses' in a very short term view. Bungie uses 'Casino' Strategy to keep people coming, small rewards on a low interval.. gets boring? change the rewards. ( same setup mind you.. just different looks ) 100 people complain about not getting 'Exotics'.. what does Bungie do? Implement 'Xur' now what is the point of exotics if they are buyable and not 'rare' ? same goes for 'Legendary Gear' In any game I've ever played 'Legendary' means 'Hard to get' and worth your while, in Destiny Legendary means, grind a couple of hours and you can have sets for all your characters. There is no dedication/skill needed at all to get to 290+ and be able to play all the endgame stuff, Destiny purposely has a high 'addiction' factor, which in itself is fine, I've spent loads of time on it and I don't feel cheated per se, I've been happily blowing away enemies all over the system and having an ok time doing so, it's just that there is no way really to distinguish yourself.. Got a cool exotic gun/armor? well guess what? so does every single friggin person in the game. got cool raidgear? call me when you find a place other than the raid where they are useful.

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    • Idk why, but i randomly one day couldn't play destiny on a consistent basis. I play it like once every 2 weeks atm. I've been playing other games and the excitement of actually playing a new game and it's campaign is something I didn't know I missed ha!

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    • Well said sir fallout 4 is the bees knees

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    • I literally can't leave Destiny. I'm on 360. I'm stuck. Help me. PLEASE.

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      • I've been playing since the beta also.Highly disappointed in the hard raid drops oryx.Have beat it all three characters every week and it seems like every time I beat it the drops get worse!Trials came out last week so I completed all bounties and went to the lighthouse twice.Well from packages I got motes of lights.My friends got 317 exotics from silver tier (not me motes of light).Then even worse both trips I made it to the lighthouse I got 310 scout one for each character (yet again friends getting 317s and 320s.So this weekend I played one characters trials bounties guess what (motes of light)wtf.I am so dissapointed with a game I really love and have a spent so much time on.Im really thinking about just skipping oryx raid and trials and just moving on as bad as I hate too. FOR BUNGIE,please in the future if drops are random could you please make them at least progressive in light than less light than the last time?I'm a fan but have got so dissapointed lately.My guardians will be resting thanks for reading

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      • You took the words right from my mouth, this is exactly how it happened with me, I'm a father with kids and a ful time career too and my addiction is almost gone completely, so sad cause I played every night since release over a year ago, the surprise quests that pop up are too much to ask of anyone just to get a weapon you can't use until you find a way to level it up, otherwise it drops your light level. I'm not done yet but my original clan pretty much is. Wow I just logged on and NONE of my friends list is playing! Damn. I've got 50 plus people on there too

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      • I couldn't agree more with everything you've said. I'm less inclined to play Destiny a bit more every day. Its just a boring grind now. The raid rewards are absolutely killing it. I'm finding it harder to get my clan mustered to do a hard mode run, even finding people with half a brain on LFG are few and far between. I'm going to pick up Fallout 4, Witcher 3 DLC and Bloodbourne DLC and take a break from it for a while. I'll still come back for the odd raid but my time will be better served elsewhere.

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      • I feel like Destiny is turning into a big dry promise where the fans mean nothing.

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      • weapons have no meaning anymore like it did in vanilla leveling was way to quick, needs to more like 1--20 even if its only 5 levels or whatever time gated quest, while i get your issue, this is something i found really cool about ttk. it actually kept coming back which if there was not any destiny might have been done earlier LFG, i want people who know what there doing, the problem people take a little too seriously with crazy requirements for people to join there group, but there is really nothing you can do about it. plus if they did add matchmaking,, you will be forced with people all the time who does not what to do and it would teacher vs student all the time rewards, yeah agree while some of the rewards are good 80% are just irrelevant to even have or need. micro transactions, there just cosmetic and as long as they stay that way, does not bother me higher then 310, - plain out agree here iron banner - just not rewarding enough like it used to be the addiction - yep just not there anymore

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        • Once you take a break from the addiction, you begin to realise the truth

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          • you have hit the nail on the head here, so much promise but rewards are so far in-between. I am all for being made to wait but not wait too long. the raid drops are hilarious, i did get a nice handcannon and shotgun and pulse, really happy but now i get shards haha. i feel sorry for skolas and crota and atheon, great raids/strikes etc. they need to be made relevant again. something needs to give of the game will lose its shine., yes its a long term project but it needs to be kept fresh cheers

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          • I pretty much agree... I used to play every day after work when the Mrs was in bed. I've slowly found myself falling away. Last night I watched Ant man and read a few chapters of my book. It seemed to be a more productive time, to me. Best of luck guys, maybe I'll see you around, maybe I won't. /me shrugs.

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          • Edited by Tiger Kurama: 11/10/2015 1:19:21 PM
            DBLE post sorry

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          • I feel the same way. I would throw in the multiple disrespectful comments by Bungie employees to their customers. The issues with the way they treated their employees also matters to me. In my opinion they blew a huge opportunity here but we shall see.

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          • Didn't read wall of text... But congratulations. Bungie and destiny helped me with my alcohol addiction. Thank you Bungie.

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            • Agreed make him a saint

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            • To summarize: Destiny has become a second job. I play Destiny to forget about my first job :-)

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              • Edited by Washman9: 11/10/2015 12:28:06 PM
                My addiction is gone. its a shame. I really liked this game.

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                • I only really agree with your reward system point. I only play hard hardmode across my three characters and the loot system sucks. I enjoy playing with my raid team, they're the only reason I come back after reset.

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                • Only thing i can think of is this

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                  • The raid rewards system is what's killing it for me. Three times in a row my 20 moldering shards were taken, and I receive two in return. The only raid primary I have receive is the garbage hand cannon, twice. On the same character too. The second one was 4 less attack. That shouldn't happen.

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                    • I have been thinking of writing one of these posts, but now I don't have to. You my good sir, have written basically what I thought of.

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                      • Exactly my feels bro...I stopped playing for two days,and then i realized how much time i wasted in it.The only reason to make me come back is for my clan only.Hopefully Star Wars is just arriving next week,soo ^^.

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                      • Good post. I haven't played in 2 days and to be honest I don't miss it as much as I thought I would. Smeagol is freeee!!

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                        • Edited by Shadow: 11/10/2015 1:02:08 PM
                          There is just not enough here to continue playing at this point. basically the only reason to continue playing is if you just enjoy the game. all my friends have quit playing until something new comes out. don't get me wrong there a lot i still have not yet obtained in the game. but those things just don't make a difference to get like it did in vaniila. there was a reason for every weapon you obtained in the game specially the raid gear. so when new content comes out for destiny i will return but until then, im on to other games.

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                        • Ehh when you have a job it normally opens your eyes to some of the lackluster games that are out there. Not really much to do on destiny TBH. Gunna pick up fallout 4 when I get paid this week. Been a while since I've sat down and played a single player game.

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