Wife and I have been talking about this dungeon all week. Originally thought that it was cool to have contest mode on for the top players to race. In practice… this was the first ever dungeon we didn’t even play on its first day. And we 2 man all of them on day 1. The problem was…. When I got home from work, no one had beat it yet, and we couldn’t hop on and play normal mode together like we have in the past. So we sat around waiting…. And eventually said “eh, I guess we will watch a stream and see how far they are” and then we ended up spoiling the dungeon while watching and waiting to be able to play. Then because we spoiled it we felt no motivation to play it because that sense of mystery was gone. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND you just release normal mode at the same time as contest. On reality it makes literally zero difference for the competitive people, and it doesn’t throw a wet blanket on the others. I’m kinda sitting here asking myself… why didn’t you do it in the first place? I’m also thinking….. am I even going to bother playing the dungeon? It looked kind of boring…. If I just been able to jump in with my lady on normal right at the start maybe I wouldn’t have thought it was boring at all. And THATS my feedback. You should want players to PLAY it immediately rather than watch others play it and formulate opinions that might not represent what it FEELS like to actually play it. Edit: many people seem to be misunderstand this post. This post is FEEDBACK as to WHY I made the decisions I made. I made every decisions, but the point is I never HAD to make that decision in the past. A change in their rollout which is what led me NOT to play to the new content on day one. This is feedback for bungie basically saying, when you release a dungeon without normal mode and make people rely on others to unlock it, it changes the way some people interact with your game, possibly making them not play it at all due to time constraints or getting distracted with real life. I’m not playing victim lmao, I’m giving feedback. I still haven’t played the new dungeon, and I have like no motivation to do it. That’s on me, but that’s a massive difference from all the other ones.