[quote]I work as a game tester. I've worked on a few disc titles and many, many games on the Xbox Live Arcade and almost all of the digital launch titles for Xbox One. I also know someone who I used to work with, who does the same work at Bungie. I've worked through every milestone in a games development, I've seen how the product starts and how it ends, and often times, it ends up being completely different, with a lot of stuff cut, for good reasons. Now, I haven't worked on a game with a long as a life cycle as Destiny, but I'd like to share some thoughts following Destiny's release. Content gets cut, things get re-written. Things that the Dev's may have "promised" or said a year or two ago could easily change, and for good reasons. Maybe that content they said they could do didn't fit within the parameters of release, maybe it just didn't seem as fun as they had originally planned. People need to understand that there are dozens of variables that go into game development. Have you seen this game? It is completely and utterly contained with some of the highest attention to detail I've ever seen in a game. People spent hours, countless hours, working hard spending time away from their families and friends to build a universe for YOU, for YOU to enjoy. When you come out and say that this game sucks or rate this game at a 0, you are being completely and utterly evil, and mean, completely disrespectful and ignorant to what it takes to make something like this. This is a vision created by talented minds for you to enjoy, and for them to enjoy themselves. As gamers we need to take a little more time to consider what we say and do and appreciate that these developers spent millions of dollars and time to create a game for us that is much bigger than we all realize, for 60 dollars. 60 bucks. There is plenty of fun to be had here for 60 dollars. I've paid 60 dollars for incredibly worse games, INCREDIBLY worse. Now, that's not to say that the game isn't without its faults, there is no PERFECT game. Take pleasure in the notion that Bungie will support this game for many years to come, and your initial investment is one that will carry that investment into greater, more in depth experiences within Destiny. Give them some feedback about what isn't right about the game, I for one would like better voice communication and better itemization, and places to explore. If you don't like it, or feel betrayed that Bungie has somehow "lied" to you about the game or features, then move on or provide some real constructive feedback, or maybe pick up the game at a later date to see if any of the feedback has changed the game in a positive way. This attitude and conspiracies over a video game is just silly, immature, and your time is better spent on other things. I spent two weeks researching this game, listening to opinions, seeing the rage and insta-zero's on metacritic. While the game clearly has a few identity issues, there is no game on this planet that deserves a zero (With a few exceptions, of course). I've accepted Destiny's weaknesses and see the potential of it's glory. Give Bungie the benefit of the doubt, instead of the hate, and try to be more accepting and understanding of game developers. They are not slaves to your needs, rather, wizards for your imagination. EDIT: Let me make this clear, you are entitled to your opinion, I am simply communicating that better effort be spent in clear criticism rather than incessant whining and berating. EDIT: This guy gets me - [quote]Quote from Poster - Recreant888: While perhaps they have not phrased it sufficiently, we believe that the author is mainly objecting to the rampant hyperbole and vilification that permeates so much of the objection to the game. Destiny may not meet one's expectations and we firmly believe that everyone should be free to assess the games merits personally, but the constant bombardment of tirades marking Destiny as 'the worst game ever' or asserting that no one should like this game are both misleading and presumptuous. All these rabid screeds do is act as noise, drowning out the valid reasoned complaints. [/quote][/quote] Translation : I don't care that Bungie and Activision slapped me to the ground, took my lunch money, and laughed while they walked away trouble free.