[quote][i]PSLS: Are you confident in your ability to still surprise players? Players are so familiar with Destiny at this point, are you confident in your ability going into Destiny 2 to make someone like me, who’s got 1300 hours in the game go “Holy crap?”[/i] LS: If I didn’t believe in the team and I’s ability to delight and surprise players, I should probably be doing something else. [i] PSLS: We see the Crucible going to the new 4v4 mode, and it’s changing up the whole dynamic of fireteams. In the first, you had three man fireteams for almost every activity and then Crucible and Raids you could jump in with six-man fireteams. Now you’ve got some three player activities, some four player activities, and some six player activities. Do you worry about that fragmenting people, like those that want to hop out of a Raid and play Crucible, now they’ve got to kick two players? Are you addressing that in any way?[/i] LS: It’s a known challenge. We looked at things like PvP, and we looked at the passion of the PvP and the sandbox team. Their passion came from a place of, what can we do to make PvP as good as possible? What’s the right player count? If you look at the constraints that previously existed, things like fireteams being factors of the same size, and you say what if we got rid of those things? What if we removed those constraints? Would it let us make a better PvP game? The team answers yes and I support that too, even if it brings in some additional social friction.[/quote] That fat bitch cant find his dick, and really doesn't know how to give direct answers. Then again that interview was ass. A -blam!-ing hoodie question? really?

The problem with Luke Smith, from a PR persepective, is that his comments come off as anti-player. Notice how DeeJ is always saying things like "we nerfed this gun to shit because [i]we respect the players[/i]". At least DeeJ is trying. Luke Smith tells us that all of the changes are in response to player behavior and this leads to the understandable conclusion that the D2 will be less fun for players than D1. There is precedent for this! More than a few of my PS4 friends ditched Destiny after The Taken King and it's derogation of Ice Breaker and Gjallarhorn, the unforgiving nature of King's Fall, and the insanely difficult exotic quests. So Luke Smith, instead of telling us how Bungie removed Sunsinger revives because players liked the 1-up, instead tell us how the replacement subclass, Dawnblade, is [i]more fun to play[/i]. It is more fun to play, right?

I caught myself criticizing their reveal because it turned me off, but to be honest I realized what you did: That we wanted transparency and we have certainly gotten it. Sucks it backfired on us, but hey, them's the breaks.

Edit#2: I really didn't expect that big of a reaction to this post. But it does show that the community has a kinda love hate relationship with like Smith. Some applaud and appreciate his brutal honesty. Others think his aloof attitude disconnects him from the fans. Lol oops. I replied to myself by mistake.

I dont think he was supposed to say all these things in the first place. Luke Smith has a huge ego, so if you tease him enough he probably will say things to you that he regrets afterwards. Thats why a lot of things come out the wrong way, split moment answers. What he said hurts Bungie in one way or another , you saw what happend after this interview. Was he saying the truth ,probably of some sort, but reflecting on it ,his ego was talking yet again. Dont think Bungie was happy with him. So if you want to know something about Destiny, please interview Luke Smith. I am already waiting for his next one.lol Cheers

Luke Smith's opinion doesn't matter and is irrelevant.

No it doesn't hurt! I want a fresh experience

Communication with the community or for this companies entire fanbase has always been an issue and always will be, but that's on them. Gamers have played their part for the last 3 years on giving feedback and more then half of it has literally been ignored until much later or answerd when the company is put up against a wall. There isn't one single person on this forum that can say gamers haven't tried. It's like dealing with a stubborn mule. Until it's ready to move you're are going to have a vary hard time.

'Honesty' doesn't always make for a flourishing community, especially in particular when you over-generalise your entire fanbase as a bunch of mindless lemmings who "would throw money at the screen" after they "showed you the emotes". Transparency is great and all, but I don't want to know the developers I support are pretentious snobs.

"Bungo be transparent! tell us what we want to know straight forward!" -the 'comunity' OK -bungie "BUNGO Y!?"

I think Luke is related to the ceo because he is Definitely a loose cannon when it comes to pr

IDK the only true problems I had in D1 was lag, messed up Vanilla campaign, and the entirety of Crucible. IMO I don't see much wrong with D2 besides lack of FFA and the possibility that there will be absolutely no Taken outside the PS exclusive strike... and possible lag.

I'd rather here somebody tell me the reason for something opposed to "I told you so" Sometimes blunt honestly sucks, but I'd rather be pissed for a few than feel like I was lied to for weeks on end.