I don’t mean to come off as a hypercritical arse from the title, but the game as of late REALLY feels like it doesn’t have that finesse that radiated from previous years. If anything, it feels like its diminishing. I understand its difficult to develop and create games, but the amount of revenue this game generates barely reflects the content we get in return. Is there a complacency that no matter what's thrown at players they’ll buy it anyways? The quality of the game has gone down considerably over the years. All the QOL aspects of Destiny 1 were torn away, such as strike specific loot and armor, strike STREAKS which reward more you stay in, rerolling masterworked armor and weapons, arms day.... Content is taken away in large numbers and we’re forced to PAY for a reduction in content. There hasn’t been a proper vendor refresh for a year. It has been 558 DAYS since a new crucible map has dropped. How on earth are we paying for expansions/battle passes and we can’t even get ONE new map? At least with strikes we get some back, albeit old ones and the enemies not even being updated (house of dusk in the house of devils area and being labeled as “devils”...) Enemies are boring. We’ve fought the same enemies for, how many years? Cabal have been Red Legion for almost 4 years despite most content depicting them as not Red Legion. Taken are reskins. Wouldn’t it be cool if taken could merge together and form to form an abomination if you left them on the field for too long? Or, how about giving our ships some ability to do dog combat in a specific game mode instead of being a load screen? We haven’t had new iron banner armor for 2 YEARS. TWO. YEARS. Is it REALLY that hard to import some of the assets from D1 instead of giving us the same armor we’ve gotten for 6 seasons now? The system for Iron Banner sucks as well. Always control, no clash, nothing else to break away from the constant mercies that always happen. Aside from Iron Banner, it would be nice to just inject the game with older armor sets into other vendors as well. No one would complain *too* much since they're visually better than most armor in THIS game. Trials is a mess. Cheaters are almost CONSTANT (On PC. Not sure about console), especially when Igenous Hammer is in rotation. Recovery accounts are constantly a thing and honestly should be banned. It feels like there hasn't been anything done to deal with them aside from banning the cheaters who give themselves heavy and super at the beginning of the match. If you want a specific weapon, good luck because the loot pool is disorganized as well. Why not make it like D1 where you had specific weapons and armor pieces dropping? Why not make Lost Sectors have a legendary option that rotates a world drop daily? Or, how about D1 Iron Banner having specific armor and weapons for a week? It made Iron Banner more fun to farm knowing you’ll most likely get that gun you REALLY want instead of getting a class item for the fourth time. The armor design choices from Destiny 1 to 2 took a major nose dive. There was a clear theme with post-apocalyptic themes applied to armor while retaining a bit of sci-fi. In Destiny 2, its gone off to the extreme end; Warlocks and Titans are the biggest downgrades in the visual department. Titans are stuck with a goofy, giant pauldrons while Warlocks got dresses instead of dusters and coats, the pauldrons FUSED to the chest piece and making fashion for warlocks extremely linear. Not to mention the weird window face Warlocks constantly get stuck with. What on earth happened to the cool armor? I mean look at the cool Titan in D1... [url]https://i.ytimg.com/vi/BJoCA93XEOo/maxresdefault.jpg[/url] ...compared to this... [url]https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e0/87/c3/e087c3e8ccdd2b55b2b457b231064372.jpg[/url] And last, but not least, the vicious FOMO this game is afflicted with. Those cool season one, two, and three ornaments from Trials of the Nine/IB/Faction/Crucible/Vanguard have yet to return. It was never explicitly stated that these would never come back, and I have a sliver of hope Monuments to Lost Light will return these things since it states weapon [b]AND[/b] armor is put in there. Yet, no return. That and the terrible battle pass model basically preys on the consumers FOMO and forces them to play. Each season is getting one exotic ornament rather than two in previous seasons, and they're being done for armor pieces that usually already have one. Veritys Brow and Frost-E's haven't had an ornament for 4 years... I could go on but I’m just tired and this is mostly a rant that’ll get downvoted. I love Destiny, but it feels like its potential is squandered for what it could be. It feels like its just become a revenue machine rather than something innovative and exciting