Look pvp is optional, and because of it pve has been messed with as well I.e. Nerfs , but bungie has done much to fix it , and in the new update for Ttk it will be fixed some more. With this game you have so many gun types to balance , including exotics , you really have to balance it perfectly to keep it from being unfair . In cod there's nothing like guns with special perks , and everyone knows , just like destiny unfortunately , no one cares about the story , it's more multiplayer centric. even still destiny provides loads of more things to do , vault of glass , raids , arenas ( in my opinion Poe is better than zombies by far , just based on it being rewarding to do it on harder difficulties for better rewards). So all in all cod has less to worry about with balancing than a game as diverse as destiny , plus even when you lose in pvp in destiny you never feel completely like , what just happened , how did I die , and even now with cheaters bungies is doing its job and banning . I believe cod is just an ip now for people to compare every other shooter because it was once good , so honestly come back with an argument that fully covers why it "should be better than destiny " even if it's not Edit : oh and if you mean to say that the gunplay is better , that also plays into balancing , and if I had to do what the coders for destiny did , cods balancing is laughable in comparison to the enormous amounts of rebalancing destiny coders would have to do after tweaking one gun type over all the others types