Currently having the same issue myself. I've been around since Year 1 D1, stopped playing around Forspoken after we sorta avenged Cayde, and trying it again with my girlfriend. The 'new light' content feels so bland for a returning player like myself that I often got bored playing it, and trying to figure out one thing from another campaign wise feels like completely fractured. I'm running lore videos like crazy to figure out one thing from another. I love the actual lore, I hate how poorly it feels like it translates to the actual gameplay, at least for the new content/available content pre DLCs. It comes off like a bunch of disjointed missions rather than a cohesive story. I've heard very high praises for the witch queen, if we last long enough I'll buy it on sale. My girlfriend, completely new to Destiny, has the opposite problems. Rather than feeling bland she had no idea where to start for most stuff and it feels like it's all being crammed down your throat. And apparently we start at 1600 and the cap is 1810??? That feels awful, leveling through the stuff was what I was looking forward to most. Everything that is available to you feels accessible right out of the gate, compounding the issues even more. It feels like it's designed to just keep you busy to pass time, rather than work as a cohesive product. I'm sure that changes with the DLC. We haven't been convinced to buy them, especially at full price as they are. I know they all went on sale for like 3-5$ recently. I hope that occurs soon. My girlfriend and I found ourselves fighting for our life at public events though, that was pretty cool at least.

Please learn to separate your thoughts so it’s not just a wall of text. Makes people not want to read it.

The only reason the core player base has stuck around is the time/money investment , still chasing the game Destiny could have been if its potential hadn't been so hastily squandered by corporate interference But if I had no history at all with this game, and was trying it has a new player in 2024, it would be a hard pass

Game is dead. Tell your friends they are playing a corpse. And they are squeezing that corpse until they milk you dry. Dry as a mummified corpse! 🤣🤣🤣 Absolutely nothing here but a shamble mess of shallowness!

watching a streamer play pantheism or whatever bs you call it. really had me laughing it's was like ok counting down 10 9 8 ect. then shoot the little ball. it was so stupid . it drove home the reason why l don't like raids.bungies idea of funk mechanics does make for a good laugh though. if new players watched his video they would be like this game stinks lol.

if people think the game is bad now wellll. wake up call will come after FS is out. Bungie will feed people with lies, "new" content after that will be vaulted sh.. they willl feed more lies, "new" content from the forgotten vault. Bungie have been way to predictble,after FS the only people left playing will be those that live for destiny and those streamers ofc.

Paragraphs, -blam!-.

🤣🤣🤣 Did you not learn how to paragraph

Well said. New player orientation needs work, cost of entry needs work, skill level indicators need work, build crafting testing needs work, and others. Fixing is possible but takes a coordinated effort by Bungie. That said it is a very old and well known issue.

I think content that’s way older like shadowkeep, beyond light and forsaken pack should be free for new players

That's not hell, this is hell ⬇️⬇️⬇️ [spoiler] [quote]ive been playin Destiny since 2014 so this obviously isnt abt me. but given the final shape and also possibly the end of D2 ive decided to get back into the game and ive gotten some friends and even my girlfriend to install and play it with me. Given the old fireteam is already well tired of the game. And all i could say is that trying to keep these guys invested is nearly impossible. it comes down to two factors. The current price to purchase every piece of content in destiny right now is just shy of $300, the majority of the free content is almost a decade old and recycled from D1, and there isnt even an actual D2 campaign anymore. The red war was intriguing and an interesting story line as well it was also a good guide for players who never played D1 and it gave players a path to follow. But when my friends completed the new light tutorials they all asked me the same things. "what the hell are we supposed to even do" and i was actually stumped. u take one stroll through the hall of champions this season and youre already at powercap, so you cant tell them to grind for powerful gear. there is no story line in destiny currently that isnt locked behind a paywall. Which i know the games free now so they have to make their money somehow but by doing that theyve completely killed the games wow factor. Every single time you see a cool mission or interesting place, Youre redirected to a $100 checkout screen. The only End game content that doesnt drain your bank account is almost a decade old and not even from the same game. and it doesnt help that onslaught just provides some of the best weaponry you can get. which u can play within 20 minutes of opening the game.[/quote] [/spoiler]

I wanna add to that, now that I have read it all, you are absolutely right The new player experience is so terrible because of all of that, especially since you guys are missing massive parts of lore and sunset gameplay. All which requires a literal study to catch up with. My little brother who loves gaming had the same experience as you. There is no way to fix it , he quit on the same day he installed. And it sucks but quite honestly just … treat it like a casual game if you are new. And you only really need the final shape. Thats where the big content will be at, their magnum opus. The rest is gone sadly or not even worth it because its all powercrept. This is now a graveyard for the veterans. Edit ; if you do want all content buy from a trusted keysite. On a sale you should have ALL current content for under 100 total. But then The Final Shape is like 1.5-2 months away, more like 1 month now actually and you really want to ask yourself if you’re going to play ALL that content within the next month (spoiler alert you cant, grinding out all weps alone takes longer than that). Maybe u just should enjoy Onslaught and PvP /casual pve with your friends , the free content. And then buy TFS if u yearn for more. And then, when TFS loses popularity after 1-3 months you could always decide to get all the old dlcs and play them. But thats what I would do.

It’s a little overwhelming the amount of catching up new players have to do.

Not just new …

The cost versus the quality, it's just not worth it. The game is the way it is because this developer forced 2 games into one, and vaulted a lot of content that caused a lot of the issues the game has.