After reading Polygon's review of [The Dark Below] expansion, I'm left with an empty feeling. I love Destiny, but how much? At first, I didn't really mind the Exotic resets since I rather enjoy completing bounties and seeing progress as I pass time in the game. However, after reading this article, I remembered how much time I've already dedicated to Destiny. Maxing out all my weapons... Getting two characters to 30 and one more to 29... Now dropped down to 28 and 29 with purchased gear, which I ALSO had to grind for... My beloved [Fatebringer] now being a weak weapon VS a non-upgraded Vanguard weapon... Then this part of the article really shined a light on what was to come: [quote]If you were unfortunate enough to commit to Destiny to an extent that you play all three classes and collected all the exotics, upgrading them all to the new baseline will cost 266 Strange Coins and 266,000 glimmer. If you do the hardest weekly heroic strike on three characters, you get 27 strange coins per week, and the cap on the amount of glimmer you can carry at once is 25,000. So you'll have to do 10 weeks of strikes on three characters, and farm glimmer for about 12 hours, just to erase all your progress on your collection of pre-expansion exotics. Once these items are upgraded, you'll have to complete roughly 1,200 bounties to get all the experience necessary to re-level everything. I assume you will get experience for one equipped armor and one equipped weapon simultaneously. You'll also need to collect about 3,000 destination materials, and another 200,000 glimmer to buy all the upgrades again. And spend another 266 Strange Coins to obtain 38 exotic shards for all the final upgrades. And I hope you enjoy doing this, because presumably, this entire process will start over when the House of Wolves expansion launches next year. This is your endgame.[/quote] WOW. Just, wow... I don't understand why Bungie wants us constantly playing the game since they already got our money...? It seems that relevant content and new things to do brought a flood of old players back, and then they left again. I enjoy Destiny, but can we all agree that this is an abusive relationship? Constantly needing us to log in, spend countless hours in it only to see our progress reset every 3 months or so... Any thoughts?