the thing is those criticizing the game, myself included aren't just hating on the game for the sake of it, as I and many others have written elsewhere I am yet to see any real criticism of the underlying mechanics that make destiny destiny, the only thing that is turning people off is this feeling of "why am I doing this?", i think the majority of player experience with the story can be summed up as - I was dead now I'm alive because light and I have superpowers - there are aliens on earth and shoot them because they're bad and don't like anyone who isn't them for the most part - things used to be better because traveler and light now they're pretty bad because darkness - fight the darkness because bad. I don't know what light and darkness are as entities? are they space magic? a force like gravity? how does one influence one over the other? the vex fallen hive etc. clearly have their own agenda's no idea what they might be but hey whatever, why exactly are they here in our solar system anyway and how did they get here? the golden age fell but was it a cataclysmic event or was it the slow inexorable decline of a stellar roman empire? this is what is so infuriating the actual lore being setup is intriguing and the foundation that has been built is solid from the mechanics to the lore in the grimoire cards, and things being hinted at like the awoken queens fallen guards, but the problem remains the story as presented in destiny at the moment is thin on the ground thin enough that if the only promise is more of the same to come but you'll have to pay then many will not stump up the cash and without the cash Destiny dies and that is what we all want to avoid.