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Edited by Ogma: Destroyer of Worlds: 7/15/2022 4:07:54 AM
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Great story/themed season marred by rigid/unforgiving RNG.

The quickest way to significantly reduce my play time is to make the game feel unrewarding. This is my issue with the game at the moment. I love the story and theme of this season. I loved returning to the Leviathan, what’s happening with Calus, seeing Zavala’s past, and scorching enemies into ignition for the explosions. However, I don’t want to play because of how unrewarding things are right now. There seems to have been a hard return to rigid/unforgiving RNG. Out of my first 5 weeks of running Duality, 4 of my first time completions awarded two pairs of boots for the final encounter. I get armor significantly more than weapons from this dungeon. I didn’t see my first Calus drop until week 3. I haven’t had the new Vanguard bow drop with Incandescent even once. The playlist exclusive weapons have very large perk pools. Enough so that they should be a guaranteed completion drop. I never actually got the roll I wanted on Royal Entry. How long ago was that released? That shouldn’t happen. Getting world drop rolls you want is even worse. I still don’t have the Ogma roll I want so I have no real hope for getting any future world drop rolls I want at the moment. The focusing costs have become overwhelming. Was it intended for us to use them more than barely a handful of times each week? Or even each season? I blew through over 13k shards and got next to nothing I was going for. And we’re going to get more focusing sources? How is anyone that’s not a steamer supposed to effectively use them? In a loot game, the loot system should not exist in a way in which the player never gets the drop they want before it is replaced by something better. That’s a fundamentally flawed and unrewarding system. Nearly everything should be reasonably farmable upon release, or even focusable for a reasonable cost.

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  • I couldn’t agree more. I used to love this game. I wish I still did because I had so much fun back in the day. It all stopped once they started doing everything in their power to milk playtime as much as possible. Kinda funny how it’s blown up in their face. Not in terms of money or anything because eververse is an absolute cash cow but in terms of loyal players. It’s turning into vanilla D2 all over again. Anytime I go on , the multiple pages of friends that used to be more dedicated than I was just aren’t there anymore. Bungie has an incredibly low retention rate now for new players. If they’d just reward us for our time we’d keep playing. If I didn’t have to play for 2 weeks straight just to unlock the ability to focus red border weapons I’d still be leveling up my Austringer and Beloved to this day. Once I got them though I was burnt out from the grind. I was even burnt out beforehand. After the third week I only got on to get my focused red border then I immediately got off. I did the seasonal question for a couple weeks then couldn’t keep going anymore. It’s a shame to see Bungie has gone down this path but what’s done is done until they decide otherwise

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