Honestly mate reading this, its exactly what i feel too. I can't even express in words how much i dislike Destiny2 right now. Aside from the first week and a half where i put in around 80+ hours of game time (Mainly because my work had some college hopefuls doing work experience there so i wasn't required as much. Only been working there 2 years compared to all my other staff mates on their 5th and 6th years), any way back to the point, after the first 2 ish weeks of non stop playing, i only played maybe 3 hours a week, and it was only to do prestige nfs on each character and help some clan members through it. Now nearly 2 months later, i log in like each saturday, pick up some clan engram rewards, maybe visit xur to see if he has nighthawk, then i log back off and go play either Dark souls 3 (recently bought, still noobish af) or just log into destiny 1 and enjoy messing around in patrols.
As seen in your post one of the earliest points, there are no random perk rolls, and that offers no differences or replayability that i got used to in D1, for instance, the undying mind strike (im xbx btw so having that as nf was fkn amazing) i grinded hours after hours, run after run, coffee and red bulls after coffee and redbulls to even get a semi decent drop of imago loop. (perks on my only semi decent one were Reactive reload, extended mag and fire fly). In D2 there is nothing like that, sure if i didnt get better devils to drop from one package, il just run as a squad again for another hour, 6 packages later bam i have 2. There is nothing unique anymore about legendaries, why should i run pvp trials with a legendary or even an exotic sniper, when my blue one is better, Not like there are power level limits that stop me doing less damage now are there.
Point is i stuck through Destiny 1 through thick n thin, 3 years of it sometimes only playing pvp in one week, sometimes messing around trying to speedrun with my clan, or just friends in raids and pve activities, but at least there was something to do is D1 to keep me playing. Yes after HoW lost its hype and its burns it got dry, but Trials kept my regular D1 group together, always grinding sick snipes, or shotgun or hc sprees to 1up each other. Jesus christ man after How dried up i spent a entire week just looking around for hidden ghosts, glitching into ps exclusive strikes to grab em, bloody killing 500 ogres over and over took forever. But i was proud when i saw mu grimoire score had gone up, i was proud that at the end of Destiny 1 that yes i completed a chapter in my life, where i played a great game, that i met some amazing people, that i made friends or joined clans with or who are now some great RL friends that i hang out with on a daily basis.
But This is 2017, not 2014 no longer do i have pals who will stay up till early morning hours to grind out the raid or pvp endgame because at the end of the day im grinding for a chest piece that makes my hunter have some dangling string over his chest, im no longer grinding to the perfect roll on the ill will, il get my reward same as any trials guy, by handing in tokens. Not to say D1 rng was the greatest, but at least it made playing the damn nightfall over and was worth it to me to get a different roll on my weapon or armor.
And see now i have rambled alot when all i really wanted to say was, While D2 lasted me a good month of playability, the core of is game has not made it as enjoyable as i would have liked, and while i will still log in every saturday morning for xur and my engrams, i can't honestly see me playing this game like its predecessor until maybe the dlc this december comes out, then perhaps i can have another month of excitement then.
Well this is MLG Fr1dge's story thanks for reading if you got this far (honestly if you have, well done my grammar and spellings were disastrous, but still thanks 4 reading) and this is me signing on D2 for a while.
Peace.
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Hey man thanks for reading. Really constructive post. I appreciate your feedback - hopefully bungie is reading and things change for the better