Man, it is pretty irritating when you hear a call for what is pretty much an appeal for censorship and closed communication for a product/service that relies on community growth and integration. It's like what's happening with politics, when people try to shut down an open press and discussion forums because they simply don't believe a democratic process should be promoted unless its spun as completely positive to those in power. I let you in on something OP, something you might have been too young to understand at the time. But when Halo came out Bungie had a forum and website which heavily supported and criticized elements of the game, Halo 2 and Halo 3 would come out and the community only grew, in fact the growth of the community had indeed benefited the growth of the series financially as well, it went hand in hand. What Bungie did during this period was cultivate a community and supported them, in turn the community did so and gave back. Halo's success was not a fluke because it was just a good shooting game, it had backing from the players, and from its own studio to continually reaffirm that this was something special. Skip to today, corperate policy and blah blah has always found a way to brute force its way into 'maximising gain' from its customers, sure it happen during MS reigns in Halo, Halo 3:ODST and lastly Reach were more notable examples of pushing it out. But during this period Bungie and the community at large [Even though Reach did bring its own controversies and slight split] worked it out. Now comes OP, a couple of years down a product that shows not a lot of faith was put into following through with it, although the frameworks are solid and show clear signs that it plays like a Bungie title. The attempt with community this time was ushered in such a way, where it was completely obvious that it was going to be a corporate vs community relationship, in many ways Deej can be seen as the symbol reflecting the two meeting points, but it wasn't a compromise at all, as the lines aren't 50/50 but more so 95/5. There's not a lot of room to engage because we know the corporate hammer just doesn't care about what would make the game better for the time-being but more on what it could do generate more profit in the next quarter so quality and content is stretched out over time to compensate for a lack of full commitment. The community lost its voice and it's solidarity easily after TTK, that was the final straw that broke the mammals back for many, maybe some even earlier, players generally only return out of curiosity only to find themselves disappointed again as the train of D1's potential has left the station. D1 community ran mainly on D1's potential but with each release, it showed that it was becoming that mediocre product people would not let themselves believe it was, we as a community hid behind the Gally, we hid behind the repeat Raids and repeat nightfalls to force outselves to believe that something better was coming in the next DLC. It never came. Now OP want's to close a discussion board because the praise wasn't positive enough for Bungie, so he made 2 and 2 together as if the community drove bungie to make a mediocre but potential filled game. This is where we're at today, where shutting down the forums is seen as a solution, My have times changed, but at the same time not really. We're currently in this bubble of a fringe community but the kind of players who have spend so much time in Destiny 1 who have left with such a bitter feeling for the series, has severely damaged any PR D2 can come up with coming in with a new release.

During my time with Overwatch, I've noticed Blizzard is very vocal with its community. Jeff Kaplan himself even goes to the forums to answer questions. They are relatively open about what their development process is, actually acknowledges feedback(good & bad), hints future plans, frequent balancing, etc. Most people just have become upset because Bungie doesn't talk to us besides the scripted TWAB & basically abandoned the forum

By forums he means YouTube and streamers, and buy the community he means bungie some devs who -blam!-ed the game up in the past. I'm not mad some of our old content is coming back, but don't act like we had anything to do with it being taken away in the first place, or have any real say in bungies decision making. Especially when it comes to balance.

Destiny 2 would be better without hunters which would make the forums a better place is what you should say.

Destiny 2 will be better without the shit Xbox one. Hopefully bungie realizes and makes it PS4 Exclusive.

A community based game would be better without the community? You sound a lot like the current wave of anti-free speech lunatics that seem to be rising in our society, under the guise of "social justice". I'd like yo tell you to kindly go fvkc yourself and the safe space you rode in on.

Boi

I blame Trials and its community.

1 word, reddit