[quote]Every patch or hotfix so far has been to take away from parts of the game. No patch has improved the game.[/quote]Spaceme has said it best. Why punish us for creativity and pattern recognition, Bungie? And you do realize that he's correct, don't you? Every single patch and hotfix has [i][b]removed[/i][/b] aspects from the game. Nothing has been added to it. Now, you might say; "Queen's Wrath?" or "Iron Banner?" to which most of us would reply that both of those were train wrecks, and they were very short-lived. The changes you've made that take away from the game are permanent. And that's all you've done. You've removed aspects that allow us to play the game as we want. You say you want us to write our own story, then remove the ability and incentive to do so. I like Destiny. I want to love Destiny, but with the path you have chosen, I can't love it. You won't allow it, Bungie. While I know this is a "shared-world shooter" (lolsureitis), it has enough MMO and RPG elements to follow certain basic rules for success. Two of those that really are the determining factor in the success of any MMO or RPG is... Ready for it? "Player free-choice" and "Options". You give a player more freedom to choose their own path; and I mean honest freedom to choose on their own, and you give them a multitude of options for most every situation. From character creation to quest/mission completion, to problem solving; the more choices a player has, that are not arbitrarily decided for them by some shadowy development team, the more successful the game will be. This has been proven over and over again. With minimal research or a simple phone call to some of your professional peers, this would have been a simple nugget of knowledge to unlock. But you have either chosen to not study up on the genre's you were trying to break in to, or you just don't care about what makes these genre so successful and such cash cows. It's player freedom. Uninhibited by figuring out a puzzle solution, then having the developer say; "We want you to forge your own paths, we want you to find your own solutions; but we didn't think you could do it that way, soooooooo... we're going to remove it. It's your story, but only if it's written in the exact way we tell you to write it." And that's what all you've done has boiled down to so far, Bungie. You've removed aspects from the game, removed our freedom to write our own stories in our own way, but added nothing to fill the void that these actions created. Listen to your fans, Bungie. We [i][b]want[/i][/b] Destiny to succeed, and to succeed mightily. We're giving you the suggestions and laying that path to success out for you. All you have to do is listen, really listen to us and we'll guide you there. But instead, you're leaving us with removed freedoms and a black hole of silence. Like any other singularity, that void will also devour this game if left unchecked.