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6/28/2022 2:39:41 PM
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Where did everyone go?

Once again Bungie you've managed to scare off your entire community with boredom. This is the worst drought of players since after the Osiris drop. No one I know wants to play. The content was boring, the weapons lack lustre, the encounters either WAY too easy or WAY too difficult even with a team with no middle ground to feel like a god and recover some feeling of dignity. My friends list is empty all day every day now. What is it with your studio that you charge more than any other DLC and your content goes into drought 2 weeks into the new season? The only thing anyone comes back for is the tiny little bit of story that you release to us each week. 2 hours of content per week, if they are slow players, and you expect us to spend money on next season? Not unless there's a huge change in the content. Changes to rocket tracking have made PvE unbareable watching trash mobs dodge a Gjallarhorn shot. PvP is filled with cheaters regardless of your Battle Eye implementation...btw did you know it is the easiest system to defeat out there?? I do because EVERYONE that cheated before is still cheating. The drops are ugly and the only thing worth getting dropped from the first chest in the new dungeon and I didn't even have to complete the dungeon to get it.....and I probably never will because it was over hard, uninspired, boring yet frustrating content with little to no reward to fight for. No way I will re-enter that arena, there's nothing I want for my character in there, no reason to go back, just like the rest of the game right now. I can not even bring myself to log in past the character selection screen because I know I will be soloing anything I want to do, as no one is on in my friends list. Where did they all go? To greener pastures and games that keep them interested. Its too bad that Steam has a 2 hour play return policy, actually now that I think of it, you probably did that on purpose so none of us can demand our money back for the waste of time that you released as a DLC.

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  • Dude, just play a different game for a bit.

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  • I used to play Destiny non-stop. Now, I only play long enough to finish the season pass, and then I go back to Fallout 76. The Witch Queen legendary campaign made me not want to play Destiny anymore. I'm tired of everything having to have a tryhard, elitist neckbeard difficulty that requires weeks of power level grinding and specific gear. I won't buy Lightfall. Bungie killed my Destiny addiction.

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    • Edited by Insatiable: 6/30/2022 12:02:24 PM
      Didn't joe Blackburn state that seasons would be a lot better this year ? I expected that to be PR garbage and it exactly was. 1) Dogshit seasonal activity. Honestly the worst one yet . Seraph towers actually saw me play that more than this. 2) The story content is literally 10 mins long at most and does not even really meet the bare minimum for playtime for a week . 3) the dungeon , the only good addition was an additional expense so it's not even like that can be used to justify this garbage season. 4) Completely recycled loot . Like L O L. Wow I'm so excited to grind the exact same guns from menagerie ! Not even bothered to reskin it ! Best part is you locked the crafting behind the most garbage activity this game has seen ( point 1). Yeah no thanks , I have under 10 total completions and even that felt like I lost a piece of my soul. Won't be doing that again . It doesn't even end there , the season pass exotic was complete copy and paste trespasser , with a very minor tweak to it's perk. Great job ! 5) pvp even further ruined ( I'm legit dumbfounded how ) . Restoration and healing has powercrept primary weapons from having general effectiveness . Like imagine saying that You want to tone down special weapon usage and then making it so you essentially HAVE TO use a one hit kill weapon that can actually provide enough burst to deal with the broken healing and the exotics that synergize with them. Omnioculus hunters can also be grouped in this brainless phenomena. 6) Goes with number 5 , nerfing Airborn effectiveness. So in addition to having to deal with people sitting behind , rifts , shields , or wormhusk dodging for all their health back , I can't even utilize the verticality available in this game to push them with any weapon without completely building into ae. Makes the game a " whoever has class ability or exotic cd wins or you hide till they run out of it " . Well done Bungie ,you apparently understand that players want guns to be the majority factor in deciding fights,but then overbuff healing to the point where said guns are once again only a COMPLEMENT to the abilities. I told myself I wanted to see this light vs dark saga through and then quit . But now I don't feel ill make it to that point.

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      • The seasonal activity is tedious. The inability to queue with 6 is brain dead. Sever is incredibly boring with more moments of empty dialogue where you just stand around. Duality is solid - probably the only piece of solid content.

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      • This post is not based in fact. Destinytracker.com I have gone to everyday for years. Usually just something I pull up when going to the bathroom. There is, without a doubt, very little players that play this game. We got here over years of Bungie lying, making horrific decisions, content droughts, and more. But there is no drought in players. Not sure how you compared this false statement to Osiris. Destinytracker.com and all statistical websites show normal player logins for this point in a season. No less than this time in last season or the season before. Though I agree. There is nothing for me to do, literally, other than seasonal challenges to increase my light which means nothing cause I am already higher than needed for anything. And EVERY SINGLE pinnicle requirement was the same as last season, which made grinding pinnicles boring. There is only so many times you can do Preservation or Vox before it is just too much. I admit the Leviathan is cool and clear took so much work to cover every inch in something new. And the story missions are dope. But once you are bored of Leviathan and its event, there is no content to play. None of the small amount of content has any replayability. Last season with Psiops was even better honestly.

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      • As a solo gamer. End game content isn’t for me. Trials and Raids all need teams and welp, that’s not going to happen so I just go to other games. Also, pvp is just terrible and their pve content is just boring. Been gaming on my switch and learning how to tattoo lately and having more fun with that✌️

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        • No new PvE content, crucible team is the most incompetent PvP team around, huge delays on endgame PvE content like GMs. The reality it bungie sells minimal content for a huge price and locks meta gear behind a paywall, people must just be over it

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          • Edited by NeddyMorai: 6/29/2022 7:02:39 AM
            The seasonal activity is garbage, the seasonal story missions are rinse and repeat, rehashed trash and the patrol/red weapon grind is utter root canal surgery. The Royal Pools patrol area is ghastly. Take a bow. You really did knock it out of the park. Worst. Season. Ever.

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            • Edited by massatony: 6/29/2022 3:59:44 AM
              Why are ppl leaving. The shitty RNG which isn't real RNG if they stop you from getting that one item. The riduculous leveling system which once max LL is reached ppl tend to go no further or only do what they like doing... me I just stop Gambit altogether. The crappy PVP which still has cheaters and the meta has not changed for ages. The endless grind which is way over the top. Shaping weapons is ridiculousky long. First you got to get 5 drops, and once you do... an eternity of levelling up that weapon. Etc etc.

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              • The seasonal model is good for them but not for the game

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              • Game has been dead since forsaken. Everything is catered towards clowns like Datto who play the game 24/7. Countless hours of grinding pinnacles just to get duplicates. 😂 Legend/master nightfalls gatekeeped behind LFG wtf? 😂 No dungeon matchmaking. 😂 PVP completely abandoned. Seasonal event is trash. I could go on and on.

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                • Even i, a former Destiny lover, have completely stopped losing interest in the game sadly. All i do is log in on reset to do my dripfed chores and instantly alt + f4 the game after. One way to burn out dedicated players. Their dumb "be here every single week" strategy is doing the oposite to me and many other players. We just don't care anymore. With how my interest for the game shifted, i might even stop loging in for an hour per week at reset, the game is just so horrible now. Zero content for pvp within the past 4 years (No, taking away 11 maps and adding 1 new one is not content), the game becomes more grindy and unnecessarily difficult for casual content, nothing is rewarding and the activision split killed the game.

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                  • The cheating in PVP is at the worst point i have ever seen it since day one. I really dont understand how gaming companies dont make fighting cheating their number one priority over every single thing in their games...

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                    • When you lock 5 red bars behind 2 weapon types that not many people use in a dungeon that’s not very soloable and other red bars behind one public event and gated content, of course nobody is going to want to play

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                    • Waiting for Soltice I imagine

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                    • Most people leave. My friends list is 99 people, all who played D2 (all the D1 people I was friends with also moved to D2). It usually bounces between one and seven or eight people playing, with I'd guess about 15 still active at all. Point is, lots of turnover. They keep finding new players to make up for those that leave, just look at the 24.3 million tracked accounts on desitnytracker. That's really not that unusual for a 7 year old game. And the ones that have stayed long term, some are just having their gaming addiction fed with Bungie's scientifically constructed reward system (look up John Hopson, I'm not just talking out of my rear). Just look around, so many people love to hate this game yet keep playing it. I'm not lumping every single player into this, but why else would people who complain about how boring and repetitive things are still keep playing when there are literally thousands of games they could go try out instead.

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                      • Well, i really like this game and want to play, but im not only a AAA game price in DLCs late, but they also deleted my old stuff, sunseted my weapons and armour, just for me to see today again that i can re earn them but now at new light level. "THey sAid THeY WilL noT sunSEt STUfF evEr Again" Well too late, not gonna invest another 2k hours in stuff i already have. Sunset and content deletation was unnecessary. Weapons are bad/unbalanced? i paid, and not a small price, for the DLCs. Other games can do better weapon balancing with less budget. Game getting too big in space? Let people donwload separate content, just the stuff they wanna play. I bet you a LOT of people would get this game just for crucible if it were like 30gb. Anyway, its a bit said this comment is more aimmed for the community so they can see that more poeple have similar opinions rather than feedback to the Destiny team itself, that literally just dont care about you unless you are buying their DLCs and eververse stuff.

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                      • Far less cheating for the masses with SBMM. Cuz… if they are good cheaters they move up the skill curve…

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                      • Edited by Golden_Apple: 6/30/2022 11:52:11 PM
                        It's hard playing this game consistently nowadays. My friends' list has been pretty dry as far as people logging in; don't blame them really. The amount of bugs/glitches this season definitely didn't help. There's just more appealing games out at the moment and more coming this Fall/Holidays. The population has been mostly stagnant, with new players being allured only to leave 2-3 weeks later due to just the massive climb to get somewhat up to speed with everyone else. For a game that's supposed to have MMORPG elements (said by Bungie themselves) it's really lacking; as far as cost it's probably one of the cheapest MMOs to get into if you play somewhat consistently, but the more expensive ones at least offer a lot more.

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                      • I went back to Dragon's Dogma.

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                      • Hmm, I have to agree with you on the friends list drought. I e noticed this myself in the last week or two. Hardly any friends playing the game with any regularity. You still get the few diehards that will always be on the game but in general my friends list of destiny 2 players is very small only a few weeks into the season.

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                      • Edited by Ferus Lux: 6/30/2022 7:45:14 PM
                        The season just isn't very good and I'm not paying for dungeons on top of Seasons. I'd rather just buy other new games. We didn't even get an Exotic quest this season so if you didn't buy the dungeon key you have no activity to level up for like Harbinger, Presage, or Vox. The haunted weapons are trash and the Opulent weapons aren't new 🥱 Depending on what next season is, i might take a break till Lightfall. Love the game but this is just one of "those" moments in the games life cycle or maybe I'm just burned out.

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                      • To be fair, destiny is how old now? 8 years? (No Destiny 2 is not a new game) There is nothing wrong with an 8 years old game to become boring. Even if it gets updates.

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                      • You're right. However, I think the mostest (new word! [i]mostest.[/i] I rather like it.) reason no one plays is the stupid Cap and Pinnacle system. Once every gear drops at the Cap, why play? I mean there's just so many Typhon Gl5s one can use. Sure, legendaries drop at the Cap plus a bit, whatever your level is, but it's a long slow grind to get enough to make a set. So, onto Pinnacles. If you hate Crucible, as most do, then there's only a few you can do each week. Which brings me to another thing. Weekly limits. It's a play time deterrent. If you're serious, you can get all the PvE Pinnacles in a few hours, in one day. To insult you further, there's no reason why all your Pinnacles aren't the one type. Half a dozen Pinnacle helmets or ARs is going to take you...no where. So, if you're a casual player due to work or whatever commitments, and miss a couple of weeks, you can't catch up in the time you have' Jeez... even if you were home for a week with a broken leg, you can't catch up because a few hours in that week gives you all you are gunna get, even if you played for 40 hours. Pick any activity. Once you have your Cap and your Pinnacle for the week, each and every time you play this activity advances you nowhere! Oh sure, you get a few XPs each time, and when you have a gazillion, Bungie gives you a fake power increase of 1, which I don't think actually does anything. so, where are all the friends? They don't want to play if there's nothing to show for it. I's said, and I tend to believe now, that the whole purpose of the game is for people to pay good money and subscribe to a channel to watch someone else play the game.

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                        • This season is not good. Take the solar update away and what do you have? A re used location, some re used weapons (not all), and that’s it. The dungeon doesn’t count due to the fact that’s it’s not part of the season. It’s a separate paid thing. The pve story might be good. But everything else is pretty mid. And pvp is still neglected. One map in 3 years. And a re used game mode only playable on 3 maps. 2 of which are re used from D1. The Solar and season pass ornaments are great. But should the cosmetics really be the best thing about a season? It’s kinda sad at this point that we, myself included, look forward to re acquiring gear that was taken away from us to begin with. And the ae changes. Wow, just nerf stompees instead of destroying in air accuracy. You don’t have to destroy everything you nerf. Just tune it.

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                        • You even have some pretty big names saying they are getting burnt out & it's getting boring to login for 2 hrs a week.

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