What's going here is simple. 1. People are having euphoric recall about Destiny 1. Not only was Destiny 1 [i]that bad[/i], it was worse than this. Not only were people calling for the death of Destiny with the release of every new AAA game, "People still play that game?" was a popular meme. The game's loot system was so broken people shot into monster closets and one cartoonist compared Diablo 3 to Destiny: "Three hours playing Diablo 3@...happy gamer sitting in a pile of loot; "Three hours playing Destiny"... annoyed gamer looking at ONE engram. People are forgetting that you could play an entire week of Vanilla Destiny, only see two lengendary drops...and have both of those give you RARE gear. Or clear the raid a half dozen times and get NOTHING but shaders and upgrade mats. 2. The "problem" here is three things. a. Some people want this game to be a daily grind, and it wasn't built to be one. Bungie's stream on Friday shows that they are emulating Diablo 3. A game built on [i]episodic [/i] play around seasons and special events. So they are looking for something this game is no longer going to provide. Destiny 2 had moved away from that addictive play model of lots of effort for unpredictable reward. b. Some people want endless progression. No loot based game gives you that. Destiny 1 and Warframe hide that they couldn't under tons of grindinesd. Diablo 3 hides it by letting you continuously see numbers increase, but autoscales the difficulty, so you end up running on a hamster wheel. Destiny 2 doesn't hide it. Because they aren't trying to force you to keep playing c. Some people want status symbols.. and this game isn't providing them. Seasons will bring some, but they will only be cosmetic. The days of this game locking game-breakingly powerful gear behind inaccessible content are over. Bungie wised up and realized that this is really bad game design for any game with competitive play. TLDR: People are stubbornly refusing to accept that this is [i]vanilla[/i] Destiny 2 and are comparing this game (unfairly) to Year 3 of Destiny 1. No base game is going to be comparable to a game that has had 2 DLCs, 2 major expansions, many free content updates, and three years worth of raids and other end game content. Also people are deceiving themselves about how "good" Vanilla Destiny 1 was. It's game mechanics were great. Everything else was a broken mess.