This year of Destiny 2 went down hill extremely quickly shortly after the release of Witch Queen. I feel like Bungie got overconfident ever since they received the community's response to the new campaign. Honestly, Witch Queen really wasn't as good as everyone said it to be. It had a great campaign that had me hooked all the time and the gameplay felt great during the campaign. It was really fun to collect all these new weapons with their new origin traits, new enemies that actually change how you approach the game, and actual difficulty that got me focused asf all throughout. But everything pretty much changes after the campaign, the gameplay goes back to the same thing we've been with for the past 8 years. You literally can rush through every ad and be in the middle of them all shooting you and you still wont even die. Anyway, that's not the point of this post. My point is, Bungie is no longer innovative. Before, I always felt like Bungie is trying their best to innovate and create new interactions for the player with the new activities but now, it feels like only the Subclass team is the one innovating. Honestly, the Beyond Light year was by far the best year of Destiny content all throughout in my opinion. We had a great story each season, we had so many new armor mods each season, new weapons with new perks, new SECRET missions that were actually apart of the season pass (you didn't have to buy a whole other pass for them), new activities that had some variety between one another (Season of Splicer's main activity was okay but the backgrounds and art direction were superb), the weekly missions were really fun, the seasonal challenges felt like they were rewards that you got just for playing the game (recently it feels like you have to change and put all your focus into the weekly challenge to complete it as there are some absurd requirements in some of them), and just the Quality of Life updates we got throughout were great. Remember guys we got an anticheat, crossplay and so many more features within that year. This year, what a boring year of activities honestly. Its remastered content one after the other. We got pretty much no big QoL updates, many bugs have been appearing one after the other ESPECIALLY with the free content (Bungie doesn't bother with free content). Like -blam!- man we've had the same artifice armor mod bug for like a year now, duality is still broken, some fragments and perks straight up have wrong interactions with one another, FoL has the same issues as the last one and so many more new bugs. Also whats the new content that we got? Season of the Risen we got a new activity that was actually fun in my opinion. It was short, sweet, and had alot of ads so it was fun going around defeating them all. Season of the Haunted? We got the leviathian back with a new public event, woah. How's the public event you ask? Its extremely lame and it got boring literally after 5 runs. The story missions? I mean the story was good and the missions weren't all that bad to be honest. This season? They took quite the few steps back with PVP. Alot of PVP problems became extremely obvious this season. The story? The main story of this season is actually quite uh whats the word for it, predictable and sort of a Disney like movie. It feels like I'm watching one of these children movies you know? Like that ending was also very uh strange, makes me worried for the future of Destiny 2's story. Also, the story missions in term of gameplay? The easiest missions i've done in my life, could probably be done using my feet. Also, the maps are basically previous lost sectors reversed. Idm it honestly as they are one and done missions but mid way through the season they started letting us repeat the same exact missions which got a little boring. I wish if they'd atleast make it a little harder because it feels like the enemies are at 1350 power level. The new activity? Uh ketchcrash is actually not too bad. The treasure hunt thing is basically a public event. Literally the new Witch Queen escort public event but more tedious. The seasonal challenges are also annoying asf. New FOTL activity is same as always and its the same boring thing but somehow buggier than before. Bungie can't even copy paste code properly its honestly disappointing. Idk, I'm extremely fed up with this game. Bungie is no longer passionate about Destiny and that is evident with how much money they demand from us. We have to pay them for expansions, season passes, dungeon keys (why does this even exist), Eververse, transmog, event special cosmetics, and now also event cards that cost as much as a season????? Watch them force us to pay for a blue drop in the future. They are literally becoming the new EA. They are literally worse than activision -blam!- me man. This game is taking an extremely bad direction. Yo legit you guys are making me miss Luke Smith. I know Luke Smith did alot of bad things to the game but atleast the man carried Destiny throughout it's worst times (Shadowkeep and early Beyond Light as they had literally no employees). They shipped content that was different for its time, we had public events (remember the almighty crashing? The traveler awakening? The corridors of time? I know they weren't all that cool but its SOMETHING that broke the repetitiveness and united us as a community), cool -blam!- weapons, new armor mods, and arguably the best season in Destiny (Season of the Arrivals). They also catered to it's dedicated players that actually spend alot of time in the game and it respected their time commitment. Now, I feel like the direction that Joe Blackburn is taking the game isn't the best. He is making everything in this game casual, removing all sense of skill ceiling other than artificial differences between each player, and is simply not innovating in anything but the story. It's honestly exhausting to see this happen and for the first time in 7 years, I actually didn't preorder Light Fall. Honestly, its extremely disappointing to see the Game Studio that I used to look up to fall this bad. ** Quick point. I wanted to say that during Activision days we always blamed Activision for their scummy practices but this time, I guess we all know who's behind all of this. Atleast Activision gave us 2 game Studios in which were extremely talented and probably were more passionate about this game than Bungie currently is.