Requirements for posting on your forums (includes purchasing your latest releases) on top of the forum rules. This can’t be real ..... i refuse to believe this level of foolishness exists. You should consider yourselves lucky people are still talking about this rubbish (good or bad). “Talking” about the game is better than it fading into oblivion. The moment it does, all that will be left is a label to be avoided. You see, the kind that will remain are those who silently fade away (zero feedback/casual). In any case, i’m impressed Bungo. Keep up the -blam!- ups.

Honestly a good move. If you don’t have skin in the game , you don’t really have a worthwhile say as you don’t even feel any of the changes. So let the hate roll on but at least some trolls will fall off, some.

Wow, way to dig your own grave!

Way to censor the community. Gaming and Off-topic should not be behind this 60usd paywall. This is wrong. You -blam!-ed up bungie.

... but why?

So we are being Na[i]z[/i]is now?

Just when I return to the game (some old D1 buddies started playing) they pull this crap. How long until being "overly negative" gets actual players booted?

You guys lost... give it a rest. Poor losers.

The guy who green lights all this stuff needs a raise. Xp throttles, “miscommunication”, paywalls, rewards for events that are dragged out over months to keep from making new stuff. I mean you can’t make this stuff up.

Don't be jerks, Fix the game and the forums will fix themselves.

Negative feedback will not go away by decreasing and impeding future forum users. This only relays a bad message.

You shared the what. How about sharing the why? You can see the assumptions we’re coming up with, but would like to hear the company rationale.

Well that’s shame because we want to encourage non-players D2 play if the game is like destiny 1.[spoiler]this post could hurt destiny 2 sales[/spoiler]

Silly rabbit tricks are for kids.

You are destroying your own game now.

Lol this will not end well for you tards...so you make a crap game people talk trash and you cry like babies and block them? What does that do in the end? Oh I know deej and luke are girls in boys bodies and the safe space is for them....yay

Congrats Bungie. I was honestly going to wait till the 2nd DLC to see if things get better but with actions like this, I decided to uninstall the game and have no affiliations to do with you any longer. I'm not doing this, you are. With such behavior, I can't support a company, or whatever, that once took a stance in community support to just take a stance against it. Your Bungie spirit has long since faded away. Hope you find it but until then, farewell.

I have to say that this is somewhat indicative of what the wider community has feared and has felt to be true for a while - their concerns are not being addressed. This implementation aside, because honestly, it's not that severe. It's what this shows that's the real problem and something that you should consider: heads are being buried in the sand. So there's been a whole bunch of backlash, that's no secret. We've all seen it, even those of us that don't really frequent the forums all that much. It's been pretty hard to miss, honestly. This change, as minor or as severe as people will make it out to be, (let's be fair, there's a lot of melodrama on the Internet) shows that you are willing to clam up and hide away from this reality rather than fighting it head-on. It's a middle finger to the community. Actually, the OP is tinged with a little bit of sass that could stand to be reworked. There's a community out there who want to love the game. Honestly, there are. It's just hard when it appears - from an external perspective - that this is a fool's hope. At this point, I don't think anything short of A Realm Reborn will make any progress in resolving the issues that the community has with the game or the mechanics/systems... and I'm not even talking about the alternative revenue streams from ol' Tess. The Destiny community needs its very own Yoshi P to spearhead a change and, as I say, enact its own A Realm Reborn on this thing. Sure, I know it's insanely expensive. I've worked in the industry for the past 7 years and am aware that a decision like that is risky and will probably get push-back from publishers, but that's a worthier and easier fight than having a project that fails to retain a community in its first year and acts as a huge black mark on the entire franchise. Applying duct tape and small changes over a long period of time isn't going to satiate the community, it needs to be a massive triage to the fundamental areas of the game. Still, that decision is obviously yours. Just adding some thoughts from what I've observed and have been thinking about for the past couple of months. Your community is important to you... you're trying to maintain a perpetual game and you can't do that without people invested in it... and the community will have to just accept that alternative revenue streams will exist, though ideally not a dice roll! Making a move to stifle angry voices will only serve to exacerbate the issue, not resolve it. Now they'll just continue to do the same, except they'll do it somewhere you have no influence instead. Do what you will on the forums, but consider how this looks from the outside.