Since you’re listening to the loud minority, less than casual gamers, or those that don’t really want to challenge themselves by tackling the toughest aspects of the game….can a player with over 266 hours as a Titan and over 34 hours as a Warlock have the mic for a few words. First off…Love the game. Obviously you can tell by my hours, which may seem miniscule to other hardcore players, but this is coming from a father of 3, full time active duty military service member, and fulltime college student. Played the crap out of the Beta and haven’t been able to put the game down since its launch. As far as my Raid comments….coming from a player who has beaten it every week...both straight up and legitimately and/or also knocking the bosses off the edge, please bear with me. You are becoming the extreme opposite of COD, which many of your fan base is already. COD fails to properly update its games during its life cycle and the multiplayer becomes nothing more than a contest of who has the best hack, spawn trap, or new glitch. After the first 2 months, the game is virtually dead, minus any DLC….which interest usually last about a week. YOU on the other hand patch stuff every week it seems and quite frankly it’s all the wrong things. You’re not rewarding creativity, tactical organization, or completion. You’re catering to a select group that does not represent the entire Destiny community. Your taking away the very strength of the “fire team” based game, and that is putting all the minds in a 6-man party to work, exploring innovative ways to beat a boss or level, and at the end giving us the same rewards that you can accumulate in other game modes such as weekly’s, nightfall’s, and publics. STOP DESTROYING THE GAME Developers….admit it, the VoG has been conquered. Can you please concede that and move on. You’re taking the effort that your fans have put into this game and smacking it with a backhand from the edges of darkness. So what if players have found out that using the very resources you gave us….grenades and pushback’s….that you can push Atheon and the Templar off the map…it still is not easy and it still takes coordination and skill. Do you blame us? Actually the bosses fall and die in the same manner that a player does when he gets thrown from a goblin grenade and falls off the map! Having grinded 3-4 hours or more on VoG especially the hard mode…you give us shards, energies and a ship. At the beginning of the game it specifically says rewards…”Ascendant Material” and “Raid Gear”. Go through the game completely (raid)and you get mostly ascendant materials from the boxes….not complaining…but beat a checkpoint and you get….what a surprise…ascendant material and possibly a raid weapon that we already have…or if your completely lucky…a piece of armor you don’t have. If you get the same weapon or armor…guess what developers…it is practically ascendant materials. C’Mon Man! So now you’re going to create bumpers so they can’t fall…you already toke away the tactical positions at the pillars, (which you still have to fight off the hobgoblins), you weakened the prize possession of the Hard Mode VoG to this point in the Vex Mythoclast….which is now trash because a few lazy individuals thought they didnt want to challenge themselves and grind the raid on hard. It should be an honor to have that gun. It should be a culminating event and reward. However, the VoG has been conquered. Admit it. Move on. You want to create patches and updates that address other things but the following is still true…… 1.       Your Cryptarch is still garbage….what is his level for? A legendary message gives out blue engrams and motes of light…more to follow on the motes. What does a level 27-29…or even 30 need with a blue engram….ask yourselves that? 2.       Grinding the raid on either mode, but especially hard still mostly only gives out ascendant materials…..can we get an engine that gives a piece of armor that the guardian doesn’t have….then engrams if the raid armor is completed….Bungie…one of the rewards listed prior to even playing the raid is Armor….why keep boning us with materials we don’t need. 3.       Stop playing with weapons….if a guy’s getting melted by the vex…that should be more than enough motivation to get a crew together….play the damn raid on hard and be rewarded after successful completion. Not wine about getting wrecked from a player that is by far superior and far more experienced as far as time played. It is exotic…it is prestigious. However make it so deadly that it is almost a necessity for a team to have at least one Mythoclast in it for support to be a competitive team. You can even make it so that only one member can have the gun equipped when playing the raid at a time. However, VoG has been concurred. 4.       Factions are just an extension to the crytarch…level them up and you get a weapons or armor or engram…but it is a joke….mostly stuff you do not need. Where are the exotic class items…can we at least get a preview of what’s to come or what they do? Why level up your faction if you’re only going to get caca? 5.       Back to the Motes of Light….your Xur guy, is a clown. Why does he give you a “random” engram. Why not a engram that a player that grinded for mote of light and needs a piece…which its appearance every Friday is already random….in turn gets a exotic engram….which later randomly turns into a exotic piece of armor for a completely different character class. C’Mon Man….that is just another way to get ascendant material, for mote of light….more materials….just like the nightfall…just like the daily….just like the weekly…just like the VoG. 6.       Stop changing stuff because it has been beat. You did it with the Queens bounties…you did it with the VoG…is this how the game is going to be down the road? What’s next…oh man…launchers destroy Crota tofast….no launchers in the Moon raid? Ultimately it feels that you want players to go into a game with a rifle that shoots paperclips…a gun that launches marshmallows, a heavy weapon that presents a flag with “Bang” on it, and all gather in front of the Templar and Atheon and get wasted while you all laugh at us from your Mt.  Olympus. Celebrate that your players have put in so much time playing the game that we have found intricate ways to defeat it, do not punish creativity, just make the next raid even stronger, because I guarantee that players will find out how to beat it too. That’s what we do, that’s what we have always done since Atari…NES…Sega..etc. VoG is conquered..move on, or yes make it harder but give the people a choice to select a armor item or something, kind of like your exotic bounties that repeat themselves way too much, with weapons we already have. “light-bulb”! Again love the game, can’t put it down. But the changes are getting old. We are not playing against developers…we are fighting the fallen, the vex, the cabal….etc. COD comes out in a few weeks….i am a hardcore COD gamer, however Destiny has gotten me hooked just like millions of others. Do not let the game die from your own micromanagement. Thanks again for an amazing gaming experience, just don’t kill it. Kapicupr:PS4 Infamous Legendz (NFMS) Scuff 4PS Controller (White) Asus PB287Q 4K Monitor Astro A40 Headset (White) 100% Gaming fan