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Edited by Noble 6:
2/28/2020 4:22:09 AM
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If you retire my Legendaries I will stop caring about loot
Ok, so first off, the new Director's Cut as a whole isn't all bad, some important stuff is being addressed. But the thing that really rubs me the wrong way is retiring legendary weapons.
Don't get me wrong, as someone who is into game design, I GET IT. No really, I do. I get how carrying forward hundreds of cool weapons makes it nearly impossible at some point to create cool new stuff. People want things to chase. But I can promise you right here and now... it will have the exact opposite effect on me.
If I know the god-rolls I grind out for hours will be useless in about a year, I will stop caring about them. I have spent absurd amounts of time getting my god-roll Kindled Orchid, Hammerhead or now Breachlight. Those guns, as weird as it sounds, mean something to me. How good they are, how long it took to get them, how cool they look. If every time I get something like this I KNOW I will lose it in time... I just can't bring myself to really care anymore.
...so yeah, again, I fully get your problem, but I'm gonna be brutally honest here: My enjoyment doesn't care about the issues in game-design you face. It may work to keep OTHER people interested in the game, but it will have the opposite effect on me. If you retire my Legendaries I will stop caring about loot.
EDIT:
So some people are telling me that my own personal feelings on the game somehow make no sense. Apparently because I already have all the good stuff I could ever need, I should've already stopped grinding... except I haven't. Bungie has still managed to give me stuff worth going for every season. I'm also a collector, so if something is good and looks unique, I want it.
But also, I'm just a bit tired of grinding after 2 1/2 years of hardcore play. I still play a lot but getting a god-roll just once in a while is fine. That's fun to me nowadays. But if they were to take it all away again and again and again... I would just burn out. Their intended effect of forcing me to play more would just backfire. I'd go from a game I just play a bit less after literal thousands of hours (which is normal) to a game I might actually quit. I hope that makes sense.
(Also, it's not like they couldn't do other things to make new weapons more viable. In another thread an actual game-dev has made some great suggestions, I was just here to voice my disappointment.)
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3 RepliesHonestly I have been walking the razor's edge of not giving a damn about this game entirely for, well, pretty much from the start. Lets be real, D2 launched as a sad, hollowed-out mockery of what D1 was even at its worst. I tried to hold out hope for improvement, I had already bought the "Limited Edition" so I was in it for the first year one way or another. But by the end of that year I knew if I hadn't bought them in advance I would not have bought Osiris or Warmind. I was slow to buy Forsaken and the Annual Pass, waiting for a trio of coinciding deals around Black Friday to get Forsaken at less than half price, and another set of deals to get the Annual Pass sometime in Season of Opulence at roughly 1/4 the price. And in both cases I still felt I overpaid. I felt Bungie should have started as close to where D1Y3 left off and built up from there, instead they took a massive step backwards and in many areas to this day they have not yet so much as broken even with what D1 was. Not to say there haven't been ANY improvements, but they are far outweighed by the detriments. And seeing this plan to return to the forced obsolescence we all strung Bungie up by their innards for back in Dark Below and acting like it's for OUR benefit and thus we should be "happy" about it... ...let's just say I'm glad I haven't spent a single cent on this game in Year 3, and I will not be spending a cent on it in the future. I may stick around long enough to complete my current backlog of insanely long-term, excruciatingly tedious quests I've been putting off for months because the "rewards" quite frankly are not worth the effort required. Then again, I may not. I've got plenty of other games I haven't even touched yet. Every month there's usually at least one "Games with Gold" I want to try. And by the end of the year Halo 6 will be out, and I'd like to be closer to completing Halo 5's armory before then, so in all likelihood my time spent on Destiny, already severely diminished, may dwindle off entirely. Put simply, I did not pay for temporary content, I will not grind for temporary gear.
