During end game events like faction rally I usually grind til i hit package limit or whatever i can fit with work. I didnt play as much this time because work drama had me drained. Dead Orbit usually wins so i never have to try hard at it. Wth happened with this one. There needs to be meters on this junk its not like the whole faction talks to each other and this is honestly very disappointing not to be getting my factions secondary. If anything I feel like the whole mechanic that places the discount should be for the winners weapon and a secondary option for the losing faction should be 80k glimmer for the losers weapons. Even since day one of the first faction rally it was extremely awkward that 2 AAA studios couldnt cobble to gather some simple number meters or just flat out token counters to keep track of who is winning. All it is a Calculator. You learn how to make those year one in programing classes. Yes you guys are doing it in a massive data base, but at the same time its fundimentally the same and you keep track of the stats any way to figure out the winner to begin with so why is it so hard to display and output that same thing to all of us while its going on? Mainly put I am a die hard dead orbit loyalist. I dont want any others weapons. So essentially the past week and a whole months faction rally is complete waste of time and i have to wait a whole month to grind and fix this issue. When there are better games out coming out within 3 days of me writing this. Color me S.O.L. right bungie and activision? This kind of mechanical customer game/interaction is the fundamental annoyance that is anti-customer design. Who ever is calling the shots and making those calls in your design process is putting your whole brands at risk from within. Yes i know its hard to hear or maybe you are reading this right now, but this is an open letter from all of your fans. Get in the game and just look what its like its not enjoyable everything in created in anti-customer fashion and no one in this day and age who care about what they are playing are gonna have this non-sense. Its one of the largest reasons why people quit playing again, because it becomes a big rolling ball of wasted time. This negative customer impact while we play forces your customer/us to consider doing other things. We find those things; we have fun. We have fun playing those other games; WE DO NOT COME BACK TO DESTINY 2. But why is that? Its because of logic and your competitors ability to provide what your game can not AT ALL. In other games your learn about how to play it, get skills, etc, but then you get into the end game in that end game you never should run out of things to do. There should always be a tangible ability to say "I progressed in X way. Now i have/can X". You should be able to do that because the alternative is "I didnt do anything worth while and wasted another night playing X". See how that works? Destiny 1 & 2 were both like that later example for max level players. The later example is also your leading cause of player loss and disappointing reviews. The gaming flaw im trying to describe is this terrible negative feedback loop you serve your player base every time it seems. When you are maxed out on light and have all the exotics your could ever want there truly is nothing you can say you progressed in any form. Ya sure maybe the dev team thinks its fine, but D2 just doesnt offer anything to keep me playing atm. Im max level and aside from my extremely large collection of maxed light gear. I have a maxed light faction load out with perfectly tuned mods aside from the faction secondary i just lost out on (for a whole month. which im still on the fence if i come back). Hell even my whole clan has gone inactive and im the last admin watching over it and i just dont wanna play because faction rallies are designed so poorly for loyalist players. You guys gotta fix this by changing faction rallies to always apply the winning faction's discount to their weapon for all participants AND allowing the purchase of any other factions weapons for 80k (or the 50k) you create a better environment for all players and create something for all players to play for every rally regardless if they win or lose. Making this a public event into a Highlander archetype is a turn off, straight up. Ask anyone to play again with you with this question "Do you wanna go and play X for some Event loot? If we lose we get nothing we would want for over a month though...". The answer is always gonna be no. Who would? And to be honest If i cant even trick out my guardian in my factions gear whats the point in playing this game? 2018 is shaping up to be a great year for new games 2 of which come out this month and Monster hunter worlds is out in 3 days. (As im proof reading I honestly cant think of any reason to continue playing destiny 2 until faction rally next month and just not log in til then. I have over 5 sets of armor maxed with mods and over 9 maxed weapons for every slot. I have no reason to play) By being such an anti-customer platform Destiny 2 is honestly just gunning to fail its long term goals just because its [b][u]uninhabitable[/u][/b]. I worked hard in my off time for something. I should at least be able to get the thing if im prepared to pay a greater toll for it with in game currency. At least im in the game playing to insure i get the event items im looking for. Without a change like this i literally have no reason to play and I should just join the cruise control majority of players like in my clan any majority of your fan base. I honestly dont know how you guys are going to save your brands at this point. Ive been through this same things with D1 and know how this is gonna work and this is my last straw really and the more i write the more i realized im just done. Im gonna go enjoy fully furnished and featured games that had a development cycle. Not this; period. Fix all aspects of this game that are anti-customer please your public image is at stake and honestly as we saw in D1 & D2 STOP SCRAPPING EVERYTHING 1.5 YEARS BEFORE LAUNCH JUST DELAY IT A YEAR PLEASE!!