I have been playing Destiny ever since The Taken King campaign, and I remember how I completely fell in love with this world. There is just something truly special about the magic of these games, and I loved existing in this world and just losing myself in it. One of my favourite things to do in Destiny was to keep making new characters and just go through the entire story again and again, just experiencing it all over and over. In Destiny 2 I can no longer do that. Even after content vaulting started I still kept on playing the game, but it never sat right with me. It was always there in the back of my mind when thinking about the game, and the reason I am writing this now is because of what happened after The Final Shape. When I played through the expansion I thought it was one of the best pieces of content Destiny had ever made, and I was so excited to dive into the post campaign quests. Then the layoffs happened, and I lost all motivation to play. It was so incredibly disappointing to see, and I just could not enjoy the game at that point. This was the moment where I took my longest break from Destiny. Even through all of Destiny’s hardships I would still log on to experience the story so I wouldn’t miss anything, and because I love this world, and some of the seasonal story beats were incredibly powerful and important for the overarching story. I decided to come back for Edge Of Fate, while that campaign was really cool towards the second half, I couldn’t stop thinking about the story that I had missed. It is so demoralising to know that after all these years of playing this game there was now story that I had missed. Story I just can’t experience. I have no clue what happened after I left, and it is so disappointing that I just can’t experience the story I have been so invested in for 10 years. Furthermore I was also looking forward to experiencing the rest of The Final Shape content, but the way all old gear has been sunset, I just haven’t even touched it, and that sucks so much, because I really really want to. It was honestly what I was looking the most forward to when returning, even more than playing the new content. We have always been used to new content being the most lucrative to play, but you could still get good rolls for weapons when playing old content, but now with this new tiered system there is just no point. Most of the updates that Bungie are posting, I am just so uninterested in. They keep talking about these ability buffs and portal reward changes, and I’m sure that is great for those still playing, but I see nothing in there that really appeals to me as a somewhat lapsed player. I don’t want a reward chest to get me to 300. I almost haven’t even touched The Portal. That menu is so much less interesting than the beautiful, expansive and rich Director screen. What I want is to somehow be able to experience the story I have missed. What I want is the vaulted expansions back, so I can replay the old campaigns. What I want is for old content to not be THIS irrelevant. There is such an amazing game here with such a rich universe, and I now don’t feel much of a reason to play most of it.