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9/18/2014 11:08:58 PM
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Why I don't want to PVP [An open letter]

[b][TL;DR] I'd like Exotic Weapon bounties picked up in PVE to remain in PVE and not cross over into PVP because I do not like playing against other players.[/b] Dear Bungie, I'd like to start by saying that I am fully enjoying Destiny. I've loved the story thus far and can't wait to play more and find out where all of this is heading. I understand in an FPS-MMO that gear drops will not always be what I want, nor will they always be for my class, I've been around the block enough to fully understand all your choices, save the lack of a trade system, and appreciate the tremendous time and effort you put into your game. However, (There's always a "but".) in my years as a dedicated gamer, from the humble beginnings of shooters, into the golden age of Halo and beyond, I have grown as a person and as a gamer. In many ways, I'm more well rounded these days. My temperament is at a lower level than my teenage years and I've come to realize one irrefutable truth about myself, I do not like to play against other players. This has been a preference for some time now. I've shied away from Call of Duty and Battlefield because that is largely what those games are, I've continued to play Halo for the storyline but have not often touched the competitive multiplayer. When the Xbox One announced Titanfall as a game, I was excited. I was not aware, initially, that it was a completely competitive multiplayer game. I was fully aware when I purchased the game and played for some time with my friends, once again enjoying the rush that I felt whenever the enemy fell before my team and I. In short order, though, the game turned. It was not a patch or a feature added or changed. The game had remained the same but the temperament of my teenage years began to rear its ugly head. In my years, as I think all gamers experience, I played somewhat angry. Every death was some mechanic of the game gone wrong, an exchange I had been shorted on or any of the varying lies we tell ourselves. It was never to a more skilled player or someone who had gotten the drop on me at a time when I wasn't paying attention, it was always "shenanigans." I began to quickly realize, this is not the type of person I had grown into, and certainly not the type of person I wanted to be. To give you some context, I am a US Army combet veteran. I served 4 years in the Armed Services. 15 months of that in Iraq. When I came home on leave during my time, I sat down and had coffee with a friend. After we talked for about twenty minutes, there was a long pause in our conversation, which she broke with, "Yeah, you've changed." This caught me completely off guard. I still felt like the same person. I still made all the jokes I normally did, I felt there was laughter behind my eyes at every turn. When I asked her to explain waht she meant she said, "You seem a lot angrier than I remember." We didn't discuss the topic further but that conversation stuck with me and subsequently changed me.I observed myself for the next several months and my reactions to situations and I realized something. She was right, I [b]had[/b] changed. My temper fuse was nearly non-existant. This was not the person I was when I joined the Army. It was not the person I wanted to be. So I made a point of avoiding certain things that I knew would anger me. What I realized was a chief source of anger in my life was competitive multiplayer video games. Obviously this wasn't a concern for my every day life, but if something I do in my leisure times makes me so angry, why would I continue to do it? So I stopped. I focused on non-PVP games and I had a blast experiencing a relatively unexplored side of gaming for me. But all of this leads me my point, I do not like to play competitively against other players and many of the exotic weapon bounties take me into the Crucible for some reason or another. I stumbled across one recently that asked me to get a kill/death spread of +25. I would like you to know I promptly abandoned that bounty and the chance for that exotic weapon. I did this because, at my very best, in any of the competitive multiplayer games I've played over the years, I have never been good enough to get a +25 on my Kill/Death spread. Never. I know that seems lackluster, like I just need some fire and passion, but for me, that passion lies with putting boot to ass on Mars and Co. Point being, I'd like to humbly request that exotic weapon bounties recieved in the PVE side of the game, stay on the PVE side of the game. As players like myself, or many other who may just not enjoy competitive multiplayer, will likely have a horrid time in the Crucible trying to complete these nigh impossible challenges for weapons we never intend to use on another player. Thank you for your time, your wonderful games, and all your dedication to your players. (Though I feel it often goes unappreciated by far too many.) Casually yours, RangerBeef309 (Xbox Live)

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