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Edited by Night Owl: 12/21/2014 4:22:16 AM
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This community is changing along with the game.

[b]Edit:[/b] Well this received a lot more attention than I expected and as near as I can tell, it's all good! I just wanted to say thanks. -Also adding a Thank you to Harperluu for her contribution. We're not all kids here and the string of comments following her post shows just how diverse the gaming community is. These are what I consider to be hardcore gamers, the ones that'll be taking a controller to their grave (but not just yet!). Is it my imagination or did the Destiny community turn out quite differently from the one we were expecting? I thought it would be a group of like minded sci fi fans playing out their fantasies of being the next Boba Fett or creating teams and trying to save humanity. Regardless of the path chosen I believed we were going to be in this together. Instead we seem to have been over run with a group of trash talking kids that conform to the COD stereotype. "Git gud scrub!" Is all over these forums and the vitriol they expel whenever someone makes a criticism (regardless of merit) of the game is appalling. I've been muting them as fast as I can, but they're everywhere! This community has become toxic and I can't help but feel that, as the game pushes the PVP aspect over the PVE more and more, it can only get worse. My fireteam and raid team is composed of adults, most with children. After the DLC dropped the polarity amongst the players became severe. My fireteam and raidteam found it so unpleasant that they've left Destiny. Some have returned to MMO's like DCUO and FF XIV , others are back to playing Borderlands. This game didn't turn out to be the epic space drama sandbox we expected and that's something we accepted (though we still have hope!). What is harder to take is Bungies insistence on fostering this prevailing "Space COD" atmosphere. Competition is fine, but the Co-op is why so many of us are here. We wanted to be part of an event that was going to be the gaming equivalent of Star Wars. To be able to look back ten years from now and say "I was there for that!" Don't lose sight of your vision Bungie. We bought this game because we believed in it as strongly as you.
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  • Edited by harperluuu: 12/21/2014 4:55:14 PM
    I am an old school gamer. As a female in my early 40's, I've lived a lot more life than the kids that surround me in the vast majority of gaming communities. I am an anomaly in this space, and don't often reveal my age. My close friends don't play games like Dark Souls and Destiny. They don't watch Twitch, much less stream on it. I've watched the ebb and flow of the gaming industry. I've played Pitfall and Space Quest and have come to appreciate the efforts of developers like Bungie, that strive for something new and innovative and different. I've met a few jerks on Destiny, but I've met some gaming fans as well. That take the good with the bad (every game has room for improvement.) They see the bigger picture. That understand what Destiny is really all about. Sometimes, when a developer breaks new ground they don't get it exactly right. But Destiny is a solid game. And while I've come across my share of adults behaving like children, I've also met some decent people that have a love for this form of entertainment. When I was in my teens and early 20's, I'm pretty sure I behaved as obnoxiously as you see here on occasion. But I didn't have the world stage, where hundreds of thousands of people could collectively s-blam!- at my immature sense of humor, my sense of entitlement, my lack of life experience and common decency. I enjoy games like Destiny, that expand our ideas of what a game should be, that explore new ground and are willing to fail in order to push forward and create something new. I have my complaints, just like everyone else. But I also appreciate what gaming landscape Destiny is trying to cover, that they are a business that needs to make business decisions that may ruffle fans' feathers. I've lived a lot more life than the vast majority of you. Years bring a bit of wisdom to know when a developer is sincere with their efforts to make the best game they can make. Thank you for those young people that have been willing to accept me into their fold, and treat me like one of them. This community isn't so bad. It too will mature and grow. See you on the battlefield! [b]EDIT: [/b] Thank you for all your responses and support of this community. It's been fun to see that there's more over 30 Destiny players than I thought. I haven't run either raid because I've been too nervous to run it with a fire team of strangers. I'm on the 360. I'm an average player, but not too bad (I am better at Dark Souls if that makes any sense). Take care, everyone. :)

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