When the PSN servers went down around Christmas time I was forced to take a break from Destiny. For me that break ended today. I know the PSN servers have been back for a while now, but I could not bring myself to come back to the game. I found myself feeling relieved when the servers were down. I had an excuse to not be playing. For the first time since release, I could stop playing and not worry about falling behind. I started PC gaming again while I was away, and I have had a great time.
My phone buzzed with a message today asking me to play and I obliged. We didn't play for very long before the person I was playing with signed off. Since tonight is the last night Xur is around, I checked out what I could upgrade, and it turned out I desperately needed to upgrade my Gjallarhorn. If I was going to be continuing my break, I at least needed that upgraded right? Then I saw that Xur had Kuncklehead radar. I needed that upgraded for my main's subclass, despite the fact that I've already put hours into upgrading it in vanilla Destiny.
Then it hit me. What the -blam!- am I doing? Why am I playing this game? I come back after a week-and-a-half hiatus, and do you know what my night consisted of? Glimmer farming... -blam!-ing glimmer farming for three hours straight, because I didn't want to miss out on Xur's upgrades. Something dawned on me as I was sitting in my usual Glimmer farming spot; this is not fun, I am not having fun right now. In fact, this is agonizing. All I want to do is stop playing. This is how I realized after playing Destiny since release day, that I hate Destiny. I hate Destiny for the time it has taken away from me. In the short while I was not playing, I was actually enjoying myself gaming on my PC. I was actually enjoying myself not farming all night while my girlfriend waits for me to finish. I was having a good time not feeling like every action I made was carefully controlled by Bungie.
I haven't even been playing Destiny for more than a few months, and I already feel like it has been a huge drain on my life. And worst of all, I was never actually having a good time. It isn't even like Destiny is even a good game! If you are going to sink hours of your life into a video game, for God's sake make sure it's actually a good one at least! Quit while you can guys. This game utterly sucks. You are all just mindless drones programmed into doing the same thing over and over. Get out while you can.
And no Deej, we cannot be friends. You are promoting a game you know is garbage. I don't feel sorry for you. You and Bungie deserve all the hate you get.
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I'm with you
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1 ReplyEdited by reece22345: 1/4/2015 11:39:35 PMI hear you. Ever since PSN went down I haven't gone back to Destiny. It's so much of a grind and TDB just demoralised me after all the effort I put in beforehand. I'm not setting myself up for the same thing in the HoW. I doubt I'll even play it. We were told a new exotic system would be implemented but nope, they're content to spend a couple of months with this dog's breakfast and not giving us a clear idea of the future direction. I'm not doing it anymore Bungie. Thanks for not making Destiny anything more than a glorified slot machine when you could have made the best game of 2014. Oh and you can keep your Christmas present. You've already taken Destiny from me.
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I hate it's repetitiveness and all that time consuming stuff, that's why I play crucible. Sniping is ridiculously fun
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9 RepliesEdited by Matu Flp Krawfe: 1/4/2015 5:59:50 PMA game that bases itself on grinding needs to be able to provide something else in order to provide a rational argument for playing it. Skyrim has its interactive world. STO has its customization. SWTOR has its narrative. Destiny...has nothing. Everything feeds right back to grinding or has been reduced in order to provide that pathway with a clear channel. Rudimentary story telling, rudimentary mechanics (even for traditional shooters), you can find a better experience out of the back catalog of last-gen shooters (Fracture, Blacksite: Area 51, Timeshift, Singularity, Section 8. At least they all approached the problem of succeeding Halo with some ingenuity, and above all creative integrity.) What it means is that Destiny is a tautology, you play more of it because you have to play more of it. You enter at first because of the marketing exercise and stay because the game expects you to via its structure and equipment mechanics. Once out, there's really no [i]reason [/i]to go back in (apart from absolutely wasting time, but then again that's what daytime TV is for.) I'm generally not one to endorse this type of "I quit, look at me dev! Feel sorry now?" thread, but here it does illustrate a definite point about Destiny's rot.
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7 RepliesOh god, stfu please. Not a single person cares - not even your mother.
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6 RepliesBye. Good Riddance. One less whiny bitch to listen to on the forums.
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11 RepliesI don't get why people post novels on the forums about them quitting and why. Nobody cares and just leave.
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Wow! I see a lot of people are still standing by this game. Whatever. They couldn't tell a good game from their own ass. I'll stick to Mass Effect, Dragon Age, and any Bethesda game thank you. I hope you all enjoy your bulshit game, I will not be coming back. On that note, I am giving away my copy of destiny, with the expansion pass that I have not entered yet to anyone who wants it.
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Can't say I don't feel the same.
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2 RepliesNo one cares about your quitting story. Just friggin quit and shut up idiot.
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3 RepliesDestiny: The Game Plays [b]You[/b].
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4 RepliesDude! I was actually reading your post and feeling some sentiment...and sympathy...up until you started calling everyone names. That just TOTALLY degrades what I thought might have been the purpose of your post. Pro tip...don't get into politics. You wouldn't get voted for.
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1 ReplyDestiny is like a secret cult. Once your in, you never come out of it alive.
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3 RepliesLol sounds like a self control/time management issue to me. If you would rather farm glimmer on a game you dislike than hang out with your girlfriend or whoever, you have serious issues haha.
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5 RepliesOh no, you mean after weeks of inactivity, you ran low on a resource that we normally have an excess of running conventional missions and remembering to pop Ether Seeds, Black Wax Idol, Blue Polyphage, or Resupply Codes? That must have been tragic for you. A better question, if this game impacts your life so negatively, why do you feel the NEED to come bitch to all of us about it? Apparently, you have no life and this game reminded you of that. Good riddance. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
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4 RepliesKnucklehead radar sucks
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8 RepliesLol he played today
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14 RepliesIm taking a break from destiny, im picking up Dragon Age tomorrow
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I pretty much only play for crucible, raid, and to continue to be shafted in nightfall
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1 ReplyI am far from home, I'm on vacations, I stopped playing destiny for 2 weeks, I played three days and then went on vacations again, in those three days I realized the same as you, but not that hardcore, I realized that I had to take breaks from time to time from the grinding, maybe read a book, get out or simply spend time with my family, that did it, I love destiny and I will continue playing, if you feel like that then it's okay, no hard feelings, it is repetitive, in all the sense of the word, and in the end, it may not be as satisfactory as we all think, but it is one hell of a game, maybe it is just me, but it's one of the best I've ever played
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I agree 100% I'm just on the tipping edge also, looking for shards so I can hit 32 why oh why lol
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1 ReplyOk, pretty lady. See you, buh bye!
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1 ReplyBuh bye.. Can I have your stuff?
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You have been "awoken" congrats
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Bye. "The vanguard would be grateful"
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Nooooo don't quit!!!!! :(