Respectable feedback. The views expressed have some well thought processes with them. Most businesses behind developing a video game are of course in it because it's a business. AND there are tons of developers out there that do it also because they absolutely love making games, and love gamers enjoying those games. There are for sure, developers at Bungie who fit that description. They exist. What a lot of people are also not aware of is this. The following does [b]not[/b] come across to me as people who are about the gaming business when they test people like lab rats on bottles of opiate laced water. The following exudes "shadiness" and "scheming". http://www.geek.com/games/how-bungie-devilishly-trapped-its-players-in-destiny-1619668/ [i][quote]Three years before Destiny released, Bungie had test groups regularly playing game builds and documenting almost every response elicited during gameplay. The developer split players up into five categories: short and long campaigners, short and long omnivores, and specialists. Campaigners would play the campaign, omnivores would partake in activities from every category — PvE, PvP, and anything else — and specialists would focus on one specific activity. Wanting players to get the most out of its game, Bungie focused on the omnivores. Bungie employed eye-tracking technology to document where players looked, they recorded what players said — explicit or otherwise — and gave players a button to press when they felt something in the game worked. So, while Bungie employs dastardly tricks like time-gating the game’s most fun content or requiring a slog of a faction reputation grind, the developer’s real trick is it psychoanalyzed — and recorded — players to find out what works best.[/quote][/i]