Dear Bungie,
You know, looking at old quotes, at design documentaries, at everything that existed about this game PRIOR to launch, I can not shake the feeling that I keep playing Destiny because I wish I was playing what YOU advertised and sold each and every one of us on.
I bought into the Destiny "dream". A open persistent world, where everything you see is playable..........With gear, and classes and specializations. A game where "every Guardian would be unique". I bought into the "epic" and into "becoming legend". And I am not going to lie, as much as I might complain about what's wrong here, I do not hate this game. I still play this game in the hopes that you deliver on what was promised while trying to sell this game to the public. False advertisement in every way shape and form. I STILL play this game, mostly because it reminds me of the things I liked about you, and about your games.
It made a great first impression. There are puddles of Tang and things are colorful, skyboxes are gorgeous, art and modelling are top notch. I can say there are few things that come close. Your world is not brown. Its not Black, or dark green. For all the gloom of the darkness, your world is gloriously colorful. Full of life and promise.
-blam!-, just today, doing a mission, I wandered into an area of Venus that is not used for anything. And probably will never be. In it, there is a pillar and some very interesting architecture that, having seen the rest of the game, exists nowhere else. Just like that cave in the coast in Russia. Or all the nooks and crannies in Mars and the moon. And I keep hoping to find something, for something to happen. To find some plot, some fun, some vehicles, some interesting weapons. My whole journey through your game my breath was held for the moment I'd hit the content YOU SOLD US ON.
And we soldiered on. We soldiered on until we found ourselves looking at each puzzled after the Black Garden mission.
Surely something was wrong. No way the game is done. What about Rasputin? And about the hive, and the moon, and the shards? What about Venus? and about the Reef?
We thought that, like in many other games, something would change in the post game and we'd find some answers, plot, a story, anything. Your game doesn't start until 20 and we were 18 or so.
So we made 20. We saw your real game: Endless recycled grind. Then endless hours spinning in circles to get the materials to upgrade them. And endlessly repeating the same missions which play in much the same ways to get the shards and coins for them.
Is this the real game? The game that starts at 20? Is this some sort of sick joke?
Where is the mission variety? Everything playable in this game is recycled content. Lol come on, am a taking crazy pills over here? Are you all not playing the exact same missions, bounties, minuscule pool of strikes as I am. It's like Groundhog Day all over again when i log on. This is clearly not the game you advertised??
You said the game started at 20. So where is it?
I could tell you of how we used to joke that the ability to talk with our team in our crucible was in DLC. I could tell you of how we stood in front of a cave reloading once in a while. I could tell you of hours spent running in circles looking for shiny green blinking lights. I could tell you of getting shards after a nightfall, and getting chatterwhite after chatterwhite. But I think you know. And I think these days, you lousy sit back and laugh, laugh, laugh.... Funny thing is, it's the truth..
Destiny is nothing but a random reinforcement schedule Skinner box where we peck for hours hoping for a reward which might, or might not ever come.
And its not that you don't have it in you anymore. Jesus, the raid is great. Roles are great. Strategy is great. You did not lie when you said it would be taxing and fun, but sorry, it's not difficult. And I can't understand why the rest of the game is not like that. Why every mission consists of waiting on dinklebot to open doors. Why there is little weapon variety, and vehicles are pretty much only a memory. Why there is no story, or plot, or why you didn't even see fit to name your characters. 3 attributes? THREE?? Thats it? A insanely minuscule pool of perks that are just jumbled on armor and weapons?? Thats customization? What happened to every Guardian will be unique? Ummmmmm have you looked around the tower at any given time, i see my doppelgänger repeatedly every time i log on. Its laughable.
I have a problem with you stating you'll fix the reasons we stood in front of a cave in the first place while really changing nothing much. And with you replacing strategy and tactics in the Raid with a RNG because, hell, we need more of those right? I have a problem with there being no rewards, or any sense of advancement whatsoever, or anything to see, or do, or explore. I have a problem with you treating us like idiots, calling things "bugs" when its clear they were not, calling things "new content" and "exciting events" when you are just giving us the same stuff in exactly the same way. It's the exact same content with a new shiny name attached?!?!? Recycled content, rinse and repeat.
You don't need to artificially gate what little content you have. Any person with half a brain knows its all there to be played.
Throw some interesting triggers in all those caves and locations where nothing happens. Give us events with rewards of meaning and variety.
You want this to last ten years......
So do we, so cut the crap and release the game and content YOU SOLD US ON. Does that sound fair? I'm not even going to bring up the DLC, that is a joke in itself. Speechless when it comes to that.
A long time fan,
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I didn't read it. Anything new?
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He's saying what were all thinking.
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PLEASE BUNGIE GODS HEAR OUR PLEA. Fix this recycle grind wannabe mmo fps. Let's not talk about pvp that is beyond the most one sided design base for "bad" or "casual" players. You killed halo and destiny. No respect rip
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This is the smartest and most articulate post I've ever read on these forums. Well done sir! Oh, and I totally agree.
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You have basically captured everyone's words and thoughts and conveyed it perfectly. I applaud you good sir.
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Who the [b]-BLAM!-[/b] dug this up?! [spoiler]I'm actually concerned, because I started playing in January, and I hear these repeated a lot. It's now March. [/spoiler]
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Your about 2 months late to this party
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Bump and thank you for taking the time to articulate this for me.
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Totally agree with you
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Edited by ihateyou7777: 3/8/2015 5:05:49 AMI could not agree more. It annoys the -blam!- out of me every time I get another word of crota doing the same hard raid over and over again. And, can anybody, anybody. Deej, RNG Jesus, anybody tell me how when you kill a boss, he isn't dead for good? Went I ran the dark below raid, crotas end and killed crota, WY was it that next week, the guy I saw crumble in front of me is standing once again, ready to fight. I wouldn't call it recycled content, no. That's an understatement. It's a lazy ass piece of copy/pasted content. Destiny, you failed me. I came in expecting a mix of my favorite gun fights from halo or COD, and some of the free roam feel from minecraft, but all I got was a grinding game, and whatever content we were grinding has been grinded to dust!
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The games still evolving, dont forget the 10 year plan! Im sure it will eventually be alot bigger and more freedom to explore, more bounties, strikes, raids and pvp events etc. You just need patience - Rome wasnt built in a day.
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Well said. This is the most disappointing game I have ever played in my life.
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I'm not reading all that
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I know your not really complaining your just asking why they couldn't offer what they said. But personally I don't ever watch reviews or trailers or things because I don't care what it says, I just wsnt to see what the game itself has to offer. I for one love this game and don't care about how much content there is. With college, working full time, and being in a relationship it's hard to find too much time to play. So i basically have enough time to finish everything
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Destiny is 5 months old. Stop.
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'Is it the men who take me away, why do they follow me?'
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Really tired of having to scroll through walls of text of rehashed, preachy garbage.
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Bungie response. "Oh noes.....a hamster discovered his hamster wheel is exactly like everyone elses. And is threatening to stop running in it until further hamster notice. What will we ever do? Oh Ill take a dip in that pool of hamster money. It always seems to help meh deal with loss."
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If you dont like the game, [i]then dont play it[/i]
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I miss the Destiny from E3. No troll Rahool and the Devil walker public even looked epic. Oh yeah and "out here in the wild this is how we speak"
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Did you miss the part where they said that destiny as a franchise was supposed to last ten years? Did you think you would make level 20, punch the Darkness in the face, and have finished the game? Did you think that a single disc could possibly last 10 years? You have no one to blame but yourself, little scrub. I was not one of the people hyping this game to the high heavens, and thus, my destiny experience is, and always shall be, better than yours.
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A long time whiner*
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Don't buy from either company ever again... Simple.
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If you have been playing video games for any amount of time. Nothing a developers says is ever final and subject to change prior to the games launch
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Oh look this thread again