I’m aware I’m not the only one but here’s why Bungie is making my game absolute redundant. I play fairly regularly when I’m in the mood to. Usually daily with the occasional weekly break to stop content from getting really stale. Like most people I run three characters but I don’t alternate my equipment between three characters. I run seven items in each slot and those items stay on those characters unless I get something that improves those characters or I feel it fits the character’s ‘personality’ better. I usually run two primary exotics, one special exotic and three heavy exotics and then fill the rest of the spaces in with fitting legendary weapons. I make sure I have two of each flavour in my elemental weapons and usually have one of those primary and one special. When Forsaken came out, I replaced all of my weapons and I’d estimate it took me until Season of Opulence to say I’d got my characters where I wanted them to be. I then had to do the same with my armour and I’d say last season was a turning point in that too. I have the stat rolls i want and the armour that fits my characters weapons nicely. It’s take me almost a year to get the character set up I want and to play the game how I like to play it. So with sunsetting, I’m going to get a couple of weeks, if I’m lucky, to do the same before those guns are capped. That seems really, really unappealing to say the least. Now, while I certainly stick by my tried and trusted weapons and armour, I don’t overlook any of the new gear. I always try to get the new gear in, even if it’s for a couple of weeks and I always replace one set of armour with something new but I’m in my mid-twenties. I don’t put the same amount of effort I did when Destiny or even D2 launched. That is to say, I don’t grind for gear anymore. It’s such an awful way to spend your time, doing the same thing over and over until you get a roll you want on a weapon. I simply now just play and if I get what I want, great. If I don’t, well, I’ve already got a load of weapons that work for me. Unfortunately, that way of thinking is going down the loo. Basically what the most recent TWaB said to me was, you’re not going to be able to play Destiny how you like to anymore and get ready to grind to replace all the gear you’ve enjoyed so far. To me, the simple truth is, almost every enjoyable aspect of Destiny and D2 has come from outsourcing and Bungie are basically saying they can’t control ‘power creep’ or creating loot that players want, something that Borderlands and Warframe (the only similar games I’ve played) have no issue with. It feels like Bungie can’t take this game forward anymore so surely it’s time they let someone who can before they force the playerbase away completely.