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11/6/2014 5:23:24 AM
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Well, this site is a huge disappointment now

I stopped playing Destiny a few weeks ago because I didn't see the point in the grind anymore. I stopped posting on the site because it was chaos due to the influx of new users who didn't know the rules. I try to come back to the site every now and again, and it is still flooded with poorly grouped topics and mostly people just trying to find raid groups. (Which could be fixed by adding a raid matchmaker that required a mic to be plugged in). I know the mods on this site are basically appointed volunteers who can only moderate in their free time, but it seems that the site is finally out of control. Unless you are willing to hide away in the private groups, you cannot communicate anymore. Hell, I doubt this topic will get read by more than two people. You go to Gaming, it is all raids. Community, all raids. I haven't clicked on Destiny but damnit, that is where all those topics should be in the first place. I'm sure offtopic is just as flooded, but I have don't want to disappoint myself any further. This used to be my go to site when I opened Chrome. Now it is just a link I dread clicking. I think Destiny has effectively killed the forums for the predestiny community. Now that we/me/they are gone, all that is left are people who don't even care about the site. Bungie, I hope you learn from this and fix the issues at hand in the future, but until that happens, you have lost another long time fan (I guess you don't really care since the site probably generates millions of hits a day now) to your shenanigans with Activision and just a general lack of planning. The site has no structure and clearly the ninjas no longer carry enough fear for users or the numbers to actually stop the flood of crap coming into it now. It's been great everyone, but now I must say farewell and hope that those of you willing to stick it out longer than me are able to see a brighter future. p.s. Bungie, I'm not saying this happened because you sold out to Activision, but this happened because you sold out to Micro....Activision. (Wait, didn't you want independence from big brother when you broke from Microsoft? Great choice guys, great -blam!-ing choice).

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  • and every one of their responses to requests for raid matchmaking is "raiding is mixed with intense encounters, that will require all 6 people to communicate, and strategize their tactics" yet people are soloing the raid, and people are using sites like destinylfg com/net and performing their own matchmaking with success. and since it is being accomplished independently, why not just clean up the site and allow it in game?

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  • It is ironic how they went to Activision when they said they wanted to break from Microsoft before. They basically just went from one Big Brother corporation to another, and only because they needed the backup and funds to make this game happen. That huge -blam!-ing budget for the Destiny "series",(because let's be honest, Destiny does not have the depth, creativity, or capability, of being something that spans a decade when it's supposed to be a AAA title that sucks ass like all those other B rated games out there) is Activision throwing their big hat in the ring to help support Bungie because they're a small but talented(not sure about that anymore really) company that doesn't have the clout to run it themselves. The reason people compare Destiny to Borderlands and mixes of other games so much is because it tried to emulate it from all the propaganda we were fed before the game's release. They do an Alpha, Beta, and dozens of trailers and talks about the game before release, and it still feels like someone roided up it's graphics and gun-play so everything else could go flabby in the process. Bungie might have been looked at better in hindsight if they ran this game by themselves since it's announcement, but too much indecision and inner turmoil has prevented it from working appropriately. And instead of postponing the game till everything could be sown back together, they sutured it back together and shoved it into the limelight coasting off of their previous successes to sell the game. (No one can argue that the game didn't still sell well, because it did. But it does mean that it only did because it was coming from Bungie. They made their money back for the development process, but their reputation and persona has been stained and trashed in the process.) I've stopped playing Density myself weeks ago, and don't miss it in the slightest. They call the game a "Shared World Shooter" because the term "MMO" was too repetitive and un-creative for them, but it is an MMO, it just lacks any hard worthy content that makes someone come back to it, plus some FPS and RPG elements shoved in. We can easily see that it's lacking all the precise qualities from all those genres that make them staples of the gaming industry. The RPG elements are barren(Story is inconclusive and vapid of creative or well-thought out narrating and arrangement). The game does not have varied or lengthy enough end-game/post-game content to keep someone entertained through variations of combat and activities(Horde mode 24/7 with "defend this objective while Dinklebot shoots lasers at it for ten minutes" being the go-to approach for Story missions, while Strikes and Raids are full of bullet-sponge turrets with no creative or challenging mechanics, they just hit you harder and throw more trash enemies at you. As for the FPS, it has that part down, guns work solidly(when people aren't bitching about some gun in PvP and asking for it to be nerfed in the game's entirety, because Bungie clearly has no goddamn clue how to keep PvE and PvP separate and distinct from one another.) Besides the game's clear flaws, the site itself for Bungie is in need of desperate uncluttering, because too much shit is unorganized and bleeding into all forums' sections. But with Destiny being the only thing they should have been working on for the past 4+ years, I suppose asking the [b]shit-eating twats[/b] to keep one f[i]u[/i]cking thing running correctly, be it the game or website, is far too difficult for them.

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    • I can't like this post enough! Seriously, it's been about a month since they said they would start fixing the site. This morning I found I had an update for the app; lo and behold no fixes to the forums, but hey there's improvements to other stuff! Also I agree about the Ninjas. The new moderation system makes them seem pointless/nonexistent. I get they don't want to scare away new users, but it doesn't hurt to inform and teach new users how the forums work. Let's be honest too, the new users clearly don't listen to veterans of the site who, regardless of how polite they are, try to teach them how the forums work. Furthermore, the new moderation system doesn't show people "this is bad, don't do it", people aren't going to learn if they don't see what's wrong. I know Bungie is focused on Destiny, but they are forgetting that the Destiny fans are just another subsection of the Bungie Community. It seems as if (and I know, or hope, this isn't the case) that they want the Bungie Community to become the Destiny Community. People come to the site because they like he Community, they don't just come for the game, I really hope Bungie understands this.

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