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I agree with your title, but not necessarily with your solution. For a D3 to happen it has to build on what D2 already has. It cannot launch with just one raid and dungeon. It has to launch with some legacy R&D content. All R&D content has to have an explorer mode to onboard people into R&D content more easily. It has to have something unique. I’ve seen suggestions that we just have Prismatic class but have access to all the aspects and fragments from all the mono subclasses. Giving more build diversity. I’m not sure it’d work but there has to be something unique about the builds or subclasses. Maybe, just maybe, like I and many others have suggested for years now, how about Lightbearers from our allies (Cabal and Eliksni) or new Guardian classes that are distinct from Titan, Warlock and the other one… just kidding Hunter mains. Or even a class that is more like the original lightbearers were, not really fitting into distinct classes but are a class version of Prismatic. I.e. you can have a selection of supers from the 3 original classes of T, W and H but also with some hybrid or unique abilities. We must leave the solar system and fight new enemies that have been infested with the Winnower’s philosophy, like the Hive but not the Hive. ( We can also fight the Hive, because who doesn’t like fighting those Chitin covered monsters?) It has to have a better campaign that allows current, lapsed and new players be able to understand the story and have a synopsis that is better than the current new light experience in D2. And lastly current day Bungie has to only be tangentially involved as they were with DR. Just to allow a different, less jaded and more competent developer to take the reins for D3. Now none of this is going to ever happen. But it’s nice to dream. Realistically I feel this game is done. I hate to even say it because despite the demented rhetoric from the Bungie defenders saying I hate this game, I don’t. I want it to continue on. However, simply given the state of the spaghetti code alone and the perpetual issues it causes whenever Bungie implement even a minor change in D2, means this game is probably not going to last much longer.