This is #feedback from a longtime software developer. You personal mileage may vary. If I didn't like it I would play something else. There are so many things right about the game it would be criminal to discard it. There are, as I have listed, areas requiring dramatic improvement. Now I shall endeavor to respond, as you say, point by point. #1 uh huh. I know the textures in my two player tiles are enormous. Thats why we wait 30-70 seconds for that. Regarding the actual we page the textures by zone as we go. If we didn't we would not see the loading screen if we traverse zones too quickly. So whats the holdup. We are already hogging 10s of gigs of HD space with the game take advantage of some local storage. #2 So DestinyLFG is just fine. It is, however, another example of leaving the game to get in the game. Like the <insert pejorative/> grimoire cards. Nothing says immersive game play like putting the controller down and picking up a lappy or whatever. You dont have to do all of this to get a team together in halo which is more than a decade old. #jussayin #3 Yes, all games that make you press play game after you have already chosen to play the game are insulting. Simply because a thing is prolific does not make it THE way. We have already chosen to play the game or we would not be sitting at that screen. "Its always been done that way." is not a valid requirement. #4 Then lets make it a setting. So everyone could choose. IMHO, If we got to the tower in less time than we get to orbit now it would be better than a wash. #5 Orbit [b]IS[/b] stupid its just another damn loading screen. The game came on a blueray but its installed on the hard drive. I would be interested [i]and surprised[/i] if there is ANYTHING on the disc that the game uses outside its use as a validation dongle. In closing it should not take multiple minutes to get to the part of the game you want to get to. Opinions to the contrary are not obligatory and contribute to the general devaluation of the game play experience, little buddy. LOLZ