[quote]The portal should be a hub for convenience, not a game within a game.[/quote] This is probably the absolute best take I've read about the portal. I've mentioned that the main/landing screen should still be the director (planets) and the portal should just be a tab for "quick launch" or "whats new" or whatever, but Bungie keeps trying to jam more & more stuff into the portal as if its the "main game" ...and nobody wants that. Its bad for both new players & OG alike. The OG players are watching our nostalgic game get slowly chipped away & phased out in favor of the soul-less portal... And the message to new players is : Welcome. Here's 3 campaigns you have play thru to unlock all the subclasses & abilities. The weapons & armor you get will be out of date & not as powerful as what you can get from the portal, which has no story or lore. You must decide whether to mindlessly grind for power in the portal so you catch up with everyone else's power level... or rush thru the campaigns as fast as possible so that you can move onto the portal with a full kit of abilities. There is no immersion for new players. There is no lore & no investment. They're learning a story that has already ended (build-up to the Witness who is already defeated). There's no way they'll stick around as long as us OG players did, cuz there's nothing for them to get "hooked" on the way we did.

I still can’t believe that after all the $h1 t I paid for that they’ve deleted from the game they still want me to pay for Shadowkeep to get access to the exotics. It’s the one expansion i didn’t buy on PlayStation.

Destiny 2 development is, “How can we get these addicts to play something they’ve already played before, and grind it for months to give us time to work on something we enjoy instead of D2?” That’s why the loot is screwed, that’s why all our DLCs are now mini areas with gimmick powers, and that’s why even the stuff they’ve pushed out until June is going to be recycled content. They aren’t going to suddenly crunch on D2 like they are doing for Marathon. They made a judgement call and let what they thought was the “weakest” of the two die to focus on saving the other. And let’s not forget about the upcoming layoffs as Bungie will have to trim away more devs to make their hit Marathon look like it made them money. Fewer devs means on paper they are successful, but will they ditch Marathon devs they still have a use for, or ditch the D2 devs for a game people have largely stopped playing?

Supposedly come June the armors will be updated and hopefully the sunset armors like tec sec etc brought back ,hopefully they are realising fomo with builds has always been an bad idea which the community expressed back in the well/warmind/charge with light mods being fomo at the gun smith But this is bungie so you never know

D2 is less like a mmo and more and more like an arcade game with little to no free choice on how to set up your mods . Thats how you end up with anti barrier side arms in a long range map with enemy snipers. Just moronic game design. Also they actually wrote code for all the armor you earn to be nothing you want so you’ll be motivated to spend real money buying armor and ornaments from Eververse. It’s not broken it’s working exactly as they intended. Shameless greedy game design that gives the middle finger to every guardian that spends time in the game.