D1 beta player, primarily pvp. Honestly could give a shit less about eververse. My problem with Bungie is the ruining of pvp in D2. I just don't feel like the guardian bad ass like I did during pvp in D1. I don't like the weapon configuration at all. I used to run a lightning nade titan with no land beyond and a thesan fr4. You know, cause I'm that asshat. Actually had a positive k/d as well. Anyways, there isn't that weird type of load out anymore, and everything just feels cookie cutter. My play style isn't unique anymore. There isn't any real experimentation in D2 that made D1 fun. All of the weapons moved to heavy are useless in pvp compared to swords and rockets. There is no point to fusion rifles, snipers, shotguns or grenade launchers, when swords and rockets outclass the moved over weapons. They are obsolete. I could use them, but then I'd just lose to rockets. It goes against the power fantasy, it goes against fun. To everyone else's point, dawning is a predatory mtx event. Even worse is that mayhem is broken. The problem with eververse is that the rest of the games problems exacerbate the vitriol for Tess and her wares. If the end game loot grind didn't blow, or if pvp wasn't such a team shooting, slow ass, predictable toilet of gameplay, we as a collective whole wouldn't be bitching nearly as much about the micro transactions. I don't feel legendary. I don't feel like a space God with grenades and supers. I feel like anyone else, just a face among a sea of faces. Don't tell me to go back to playing destiny 1 if I don't like it. I paid for D2 and the season pass. I just didn't imagine while pre ordering, that crucible would be stripped way down, and broken like it has been. It really doesn't feel fun. It feels like a chore. I've been playing other games. I miss old pvp. I miss 6v6. I miss combined arms. (one of the few) How about new modes? Like a big team battle or capture or king. Couldn't they just build modes, roll them out and see what sticks? The playlist method after all the control had in game mode selection in year 3 of D1, is such a massive step backwards. Customs games next year I guess. If we lost all out great gear when the red legion attacked, why am I earning D1 exotics? If I was on that 10 year plan, I should Still have my no land beyond. That was garbage. Lost all my old gear, so I could re-earn my old gear. F-you on that one. If it's going to be new gear make it new gear. Stop rehashing stuff from D1 or let me have all my gear from D1. Inclusion of old exotics is just lazy. When early d2 trials had everyone running mida, I swore at your company under my breath. All these jerks get to run around with their old favorite scout, but I can't get my NLB crispy headshots anymore. There are just so many things that got screwed up between D1 and D2. How? How is that possible. The players were in a good place after RoI. I just don't get it. I haven't had that moment when I got my gjallarhorn from going first in a Rumble match, or when my god roll eyasluna dropped. That elation from finally getting the carrot on the stick. It doesn't exist in this game. I'm just sad that my favorite game had turned into a hate toilet echo chamber. Destiny's sandbox feels like a litterbox, with a fresh steaming pile of eververse. Good job, and kudos, mates.