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Edited by VexxedDragon: 3/28/2017 12:41:47 PM
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best thing ever said

So a fellow Guardian named Boobel commented this on a post. I just wanted to post it. "There wasn't a singular thing that ruined the original Destiny experience. It was a culmination of multiple errors. Year 1 was good. Like if you played the alpha, and the beta, and year 1, you are aware of the reason for the anger that fills the forum now. A lot of folk may dismiss this, but if you did it, you know. You had a nightfall that when you were launching in, you were a tad nervous. Because you knew you could spend an hour or so trying, just to lose it all very fast, and be booted to orbit. The sense of achievement when you completed it was excellent. The rewards were good too. You would run the raid, and be ecstatic to receive the VOC. Then, you do Atheon over, and over, and eventually, the Vex Mythoclast dropped. And the grind just is SO worth it. You'd relive the moment with destiny pals when they saw you had it. Year 1 felt relevant. There was an end game gun we chased. We felt rewarded. We saw parts of the cosmodrome that were locked away. DLC. But already on the disc. Then year 2 arrived. And it started to feel like the best parts of the game were slowly being removed. We were told by Bungie that we were playing the game wrong. They had perks on guns, and when we used them effectively, all within the realms of the game, we were told we were using them wrong. Then we started to feel the affects of nerfing. Guns which we had worked so hard to get, became useless. The variety of weapons available was still big, but nerfs forced players to use very few. auto rifles started to fade, our game was being directed by the requests of the supplementary PvP aspect of the game. Updates came that meant previous content we paid for, was made useless. Game modes that are supposed to encourage team work in pve were forgotten. You aren't allowed raid matchmaking but, we shall matchmake you a pvp session with 11 people from all over the world resulting in a terrible experience. We won't matchmake nightfall, because you might get someone who is bad. That's better than no matchmaking right. Then, we got told previous gen was holding back vault space. Then, luke Smith tells us we are playing his game wrong, but we're going to throw money at the screen anyway. And there's way more to kingsfall. 0,4% auto rifle. What's VOG again? Who is Crota? Trials further toxicated the game. Bungie based game updates on trials. YouTube streamers. The community was ignored. The game grew towards trials, bungie pandered to this, pve got a few more stabs in the back. Lag switching. Bungie didn't seem fussed. We became iron Lords, and we were happy for a bit. That mountaintop. That raid. But it fizzled. More nerfs. Friends list didn't show Destiny as much. The last gen vault space limitations seemed a lie. It didn't increase when last gen wasn't included. Shotguns. Matador. Heavy ammo. Special ammo. Then Age of Triumph. Bungie thank us for participating in a 3 year beta, and begrudgingly make year 1 relevant again with some new year 2, but on their terms. Oh you want elemental fatebringer? Thats fine, but it'll take an exotic slot instead. Destiny was failed a lot on petty little stuff, stuff that folk meddled with, that was in reality, doing ok. And there wasn't more to kingsfall. If Destiny 2 can avoid the blindingly obvious mistakes that happened over the last 3 years, they could have a fantastic game in the making." Edit: Thanks for all the replies guardians! Edit 2: Whoa this is trending. Never been up here before, and it wasn't even my own words lol Edit 3: Number 1 trending. Wow. Thanks for everyone who liked and commented! Edit 4: Thank you all for the amazing posts! I'm glad people know how good this game could be. How good it should be. [b]UPDATE! NEW WORDS BY BOOBEL!![/b] "Thanks for highlighting my post. The fact that so many other players are in agreement does give credit to what I said. I expected people to say I was wrong etc, however we are entitled to our opinions. Maybe these are the people who forget that the game was never sold as being a pvp game. They clearly told us it was a pve game, with optional pvp. We also were told that a day one weapon would be relevant to whatever direction the game took. They aggravated people by completely doing a u turn on this, leaving many stuck at 170. If people feel it necessary to repost what I said, this to me just gives further evidence we agree. It's then funny to note that people said my observations of Y1 is the result of rosetinting, and I was wrong. I'm that wrong, that they are making raids relevant again, bringing back older weapons. They also have made AR better again, after the pvp nerds rendered them useless. It is also funny that people are assuming I'm wholly praising year 1, when I simply listed, in time order, things that I remembered from the top of my head. All of the points I made, weren't borne from negativity. They actually happened. So if you choose to focus on one aspect of my comments, rather than the whole post, you'll fail to see I simply pointed out what was done incorrectly, or things that were done that resulted in a poor experience. I am sure a lot of people are happy with the game how it is now, I merely gave my opinion on things that actually happened in the game, that left many of us disappointed." Edit 5: OVER 500 UPVOTES! Dang, is this a record or something? Someone has to know. Edit 6: Over 600 upvotes. Dang Edit 7: 700 UPVOTES BABY!

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  • Great post. But you forgot about the removal of primary burns that too the fun out of the game. NOT one person asked for that. You never take fun out of a game. You did and lost millions of players.

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  • The Developer got in over there head with Destiny. No clear roadmap or vision. A great concept, superb gun mechanics, but no clue how to effectively move the game forward. Poor Dev Team and very very weak Community Management. Made $100s of millions putting out a mediocre title. WTF do I know.

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    • To sum up: They made the game too casual. Casual = Boring

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      • Edited by FatDaddy001: 3/24/2017 6:20:51 PM
        Year 1 was easily the best Destiny time, I may not have been a good player but i would have so much fun. Racing to the nightfall on Tuesday for the rewards and xp buff and the threat of being kicked to orbit was so real, nightfalls are so boring now and the raids were fun, every single time, trials was good then and not the toxic cesspool it is now. It'd be so great to go back to that time. The game has now been made for casuals and it has suffered incredibly for it

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        • Agreed, well said.

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        • Amen brother

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          • Destiny 1 was a BETA TEST. The whole. Entire. Thing. We thank you for your feedback, Guardian!

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            • Stopped reading early I played beta and year one. Things have gotten a lot better since then in almost every way. Anybody who says otherwise is looking back with rose-colored glasses.

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              • Best post I have seen on here

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                • Year 1 seems to be framed as this god that once existed. As for the elemental primaries, it makes sense to make them exotics. They are easy ways of by passing modifiers. Also, they can easily pull through hordes of enemies.

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                  • Back in my day we had to run around an endless circle opening the same chests over and over and we liked it.

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                    • I hope Bungie reads that

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                      • Brings back a lot of memories... There were a lot of problems in year one, but sure was fun! I used to hate patrolling for materials and looking for chests with once in a while legendary engram, re-upgrading exotic weapons all over again when new light level kicked in, flying back to bounty hunter to turn them in, nightfall rewards were 3 strange coins, LFG awesome guardians with VoG exotic chest check point, purple engrams turning into blue... all fun memories now. I think I was just too addicted to the game in year 1. Now with all these changes and slowly fading away from Destiny, I'm finally able to balance my personal life. Overall, still the best game in my book! Cheers

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                        • I look at my experience with Destiny like this: 1. Great experience (never played an online multiplayer shooter before even though i beat all the CODs but only played campaign mode solo and I'm 38 years old) 2. Getting adjusted to many different personalities was a challenge on its own and i had to woo saaa many times and tell myself "it's just a game Huseyin, this 15 year old wouldnt dare talk to u like that in real life Huseyin, just take it easy Huseyin" but after the 1st year, i got better at the game and my social skills with talking to people i can't physically see got better. 3. Started to feel like a job instead of a fun video game. 4. Started effecting my physical appearance. Before Destiny i was all muscle and worked out often, but playing Destiny everyday made me gain weight. 5. Problems at home. Shows i would normally watch with my GF together, i would tell her to watch on her own cuz "i HAD to do a raid" or something of those sorts. 6. I have an addictive personality so it was hard for me not to turn the PS4 on and play Destiny. 7. Finally quit 3 months ago or something like that and haven't looked back. So the conclusion is this: If you don't have an addictive personality and can play Destiny casually and still make time to hang out with family and exercise and work and take care of other household responsibilities, then i applaud you and you should continue doing what you're doing. But if you're like most players I've met and can't stay away from the game when there's so much content to clear and guns to get (with the right perks), armor also, then this game and games like this in general aren't healthy for you. Since quitting i got back into working out, looking good, feeling good, the whole nine. It's kind of pointless for me to even post this cuz even though i left destiny, i like to check the forums to see how things are going with the community and from what I've been reading for months now, MANY Destiny players have left the game or have just become casual players. Not a life coach but it doesn't take one to realize that video gaming gor 8 to 10 hours a day isnt healthy for you. If you're doing it to get paid like streamers, then cool i guess. That could be your 8 hour job and then you take care of other responsibilities when you're not playing. But if you play one game for 8 hours a day and years later still feel like you haven't accomplished anything, something is wrong.

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                          • Mostly true, but it would be silly to say that making elemental primaries exotic is idiotic. Nobody wants the exact same -blam!-ing load out. Year one was great, sure. Being able to cover every activity with a last word and a Fate bringer meant everything was both boring as -blam!-ing shit and with absolutely no variety. It's not a big deal, and Im pretty sure most people say exotics are​ underpowered anyway.

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                            • Ppl whining about the grind of all the way back in y1 ruined this game. Activision probably ruined this game. Lfg's and groups in the towers; requirements causing ppl to be shunned ruined this game. Content, more content, being rushed and mixed matched was the need to make older content useless. The game has had problems but it was also fun. The wrong voices in my opinion were here. D2 is gonna be great.

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                              • The only thing that is missing from this game is the grind and the exoticness of exotics. In year 1 we would have to grind the living shit out of our selfs to get an exotic we wanted, now all we have to is pop a three of coins and even u get an exotic engram ur just like meh

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                                • Nerfing fusion rifles? Can't forget that one lol.

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                                  • Let's keep those "wow we're trending" edits coming!!!! None of us are sick of those after three years...

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                                    • It sucks because we played the game backwards. Anyone else think it would have been the best to segway into Destiny 2 by beating (grinding) Atheon, getting the elemental primaries. To go forth and kick some mega alien butt. Just my two thoughts.

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                                      • Edited by JHarv: 3/24/2017 4:59:45 PM
                                        What Bungie improved: Quests Raid drops more rewarding PvP custom matches What Bungie ruined: The sense of reward with exotics PvP balance PvE power scaling What Bungie never fixed: PvP lag Purpose to bounties / faction reputation Lack of exploration Poor storytelling Pointless weapon perks

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                                        • I agree with bringing back elemental primaries as exotics was a little stupid. It's D1's last hurrah, just give us the damn old ones and let people have fun.

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                                          • Very well said.

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                                          • Wow reading this and thinking about how fun year one was reminds of how much I used to love this game. Like anything it had its flaws but year 1 was interesting! What happened...

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                                            • God Bless You Boobel. This manifesto should be printed and nailed to the doors of Bungie headquarters.

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                                              • Thank for posting this words and sharing with the comunity.As a y2 player i dont really know how it was from the beginning and cant comment all the things in the post.But one thing i know is that i love this game and even after all the hate posts here and nerfs and buffs and all the things that changed the game im really addicted to it and since the 1st day ive played it no other game got me so like DESTINY.I am not a hater or someone who came here to make nerf posts only because everyone used the same guns(matador,clever,....)but i always looked to go my own way,to adapt,to find new ways of challenge and tried to get my best experience and fun from the game and i always found it and that is the real reason we all playing games for fun for grind and for US.And im glad to see here people that have the same thinking like me and dont start against other people and judge theme only because of they own statement or when they english is not so good like MINE:-)The comunity is for me really important and without it is Destiny only a half game and i want be a part of it even if my english isnt the best.(i got more hate posts for my eng than for posts i made about the game thats sad ).But i thank you all for a great game and sharing your thoughts here and many of you who helped and are helping other people they dont have much friends and this game is all about this and i made many good friendships here and im really glad of this. P.S. :im really sorry for the english but i hope you all understand the meaning a hope to se you all in D2.

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