So much of this post. Y1 was flawed, the story was terrible, but there was so many fun things to do we just didn't care. On reset day, we were stoked to get our nightfalls done, no matter how hard they were. Then we wanted to do our heroic strikes x3 (guaranteed strange coins - not for marks) for coins for Xur. Then, if we had the people online, we would focus on raids. If not, we would raid throughout the week. On a daily basis, we would do our bounties - either AFTER we did all our good stuff, or before, when we were waiting for people to get online. Bounties had a better purpose - you needed to do them to unlock nodes on your weapons and armor. And many disagree, but I didn't even mind farming planet materials to upgrade gear. Boring? Maybe, but you could get all the mats you needed within 10-20 minutes if you familiarized yourself with all the spawn points, and I'd much rather do that then have to farm strikes trying to get a specific gun to drop. And I remember having fun using the Destiny tracker to track public events to try to earn extra upgrade materials. When was the last time ANYONE did that? The endgame rewards were MUCH better and worth chasing after. Exotics were harder to get, but were also much stronger and made a bigger difference. By the time you did the endgame multiple times, you FELT like you were much stronger than anything else out there - at least until the next DLC hit. And then you got put back in your place again - for a while. Y2 just sapped all the fun away from the game. Basically "streamlined" it for those who didn't have time to play this game like a career- but wanted to get everything everyone else had anyways. Streamlined is just a euphemism for making content optional or irrelevant by way of watering down the rewards. Was some of Y1's gameplay a little tedious or boring? Maybe, but you expect to have to do some farming in a game like this. When I want to enchant stuff or craft stuff in Skyrim, I have to gather materials. When I want to make ANY item in Warframe, I need to gather parts or materials. Some level of farming is just expected. Not EVERYTHING in the game is going to be exciting as running the raid - but that doesn't mean it shouldn't be part of the game. I think a lot of people complained about Y1, but nobody fully appreciated what we really had: a good foundation for the game that was fundamentally FUN to play in spite of all its flaws. And while Bungie started working on fixing a lot of the storyline flaws in TTK, they also started to erode the foundation that made the game fun in the first place, which is why I stopped playing. I decided purchasing new content just wasn't worth it. I was content to play Y2 as long as content was free, but I came to the conclusion that after a certain point, Destiny wasn't worth the investment it would take to continue playing it. I'm truly hoping that Destiny 2 looks more like Y1 than it does Y2.