Everything is there, it just fails to give you a reason to repeat anything, more than a few times. In a PvE system, the core element is [b]character progression[/b]. And Bungie went and put a brick wall at 300 light, and drip feeds you end-game rewards through the clan system. Destiny is supposed to be a looter-shooter, but they took the looter part out and replaced it with a pure RNG monstrosity. In D1, I never really hit a point where I couldn't do anything to advance my character in a meaningful way, in D2 it took 2 weeks to get there. At D1 launch we could: - Farm faction xp for a chance at new gear, and eventual access to purchase certain items with faction currency. - Farm weapons for better rolls (I'm not saying this is a bad thing to remove, but it should have been replaced with a more fleshed-out mod crafting system to replace the RNG aspect.) - Run strikes to get some awesome exotic loot, and level up the vanguard. - Head to the crucible, and make a noticeable advance, not 20 matches between actual rewards. (And pick our game mode!) - Level up our weapons (which required getting crafting materials from different zones) In D2 we can: - Go to the farm and play soccer. - Go to the tower and play soccer. - Farm engrams for loot dropping below our power level, that will require future luminous engrams to infuse them up to level. - Play in a 1-strategy, no-map-choice, no-mode-choice crucible - Head to a planet to try for a gear set you like, only to realize there is a 10% chance you are going to have to open a ridiculous number of engrams to get what you were after. - Run a bunch of side-missions that give you no adequate rewards. Last night, it finally hit me. I saw 3 people in my clan online when there used to be 20. I saw all my milestones were completed, and there was just a challenge quest from Ikora, not worth doing, because it doesn't advance my character in any way. I logged in, looked at my character, then logged off. I didn't feel like starting a 3rd character, just to run the same story, that loses its shine and shows its self as a blatant collection of cliche with no original thought, with some witty Cayde-6 lines thrown in to distract us. At least after the first run-through you'll have a sparrow, and don't have to suffer through the blatant time-delay that is walking through sparrow trails. Then you get to throw on a couple 305 weapons on once you hit 20 (no one should ever be expected to artificially bottleneck them selves to experience a game to its fullest extent) just to hit 285 over the next couple of hours.