The sad truth is this: there is a giant miscommunication between Bungie and their players. Let's take an example to shine light on the gap between player feedback and "fixing issues." I'm sure you can think of plenty, so I'll just list one for now.
1.) Loot Caves - The Problem: Players were not being rewarded with enough substantial and interesting guns, loot, and ways to achieve new tools. So, players did what players do, they innovated. They created a new solution to their problem, which was exploitation. The Solution: Add a joke to the loot cave, eradicate them, and tell players that engrams would be better rewarded through activities. This is one of many well-intentioned, but failed, attempts at confronting the player's issues. In the end, the problem hasn't been fixed, the exploitation has.
Bungie needs to ask themselves, "what led players to do this?" This comes down on you, Bungie. Not us.
The problem is not that Bungie does not hear us. They do. The problem is that they are are focusing on the actions of players, not the gameplay institutions that lead players to their actions. I respect Bungie, Deej, and Destiny. If I had no love for this company that I grew up with, I would not be angry. Anger is the inability to change something, and while Bungie hears our anger, they have no idea why it exists.
Our actions are not the problems to be patched and banned.
We love what this game could have been as previewed at E3 2013. Friends flying into our worlds in their ships. Direct loot drops reminiscent of Diablo 2's addicting system. Massive PvE events where fire teams dropped into our worlds to join our fights. Sadly, some have forgotten this Destiny.
We loved this. We still do.
Running raids continuously, playing hours of horde mode in PoE, extremely repetitive strikes, only to be met with more of the same and an extra subclass? Same problem, same content, new amazing artwork and sound design. This is not my Destiny. No. I need satisfying, complete, and cohesive gameplay. As long as Bungie's answer is "here's more of the same content," as it seems with The Taken King, I will remain disappointed and hopeful that maybe, just maybe, the people who pioneered this dream will come back and revive this shard of a complete game.
Side note: If this is somehow read by any team member who worked on the art or soundtrack for this game, you are amazing. You've done amazing work. I hope those conceptualizations are still brimming with life, and I'm sorry to see the worlds you've created being [i]Taken[/i] for granted.
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Very well said.
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"Tips hat" So many bumps deserved.
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Add a Tldr pls
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Well said, and a very astute evaluation of a core problem with Destiny. Might Activision have something to do with this?
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Cannon bump
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*slow clap * Bravo.
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*stands and slowly claps*
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Anointed one right here, praised!!
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HALLELUJAH
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Edited by KygonMuffins: 8/2/2015 1:13:53 PM[b]You have been blessed with a Big Bepis Bort Bump. Say "Big Bort" and you will be blessed with seven years of good luck.[/b]
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Tactical Bump in bound.
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Big bump
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Fully agree with you here.
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The loot cave was nerfed because of the massive amount of players reporting other players for various reasons...it was essentially our fault...they new about that cave before the game was released, and left if alone...
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Didn't Warframe have that exact situation? too many players farming, initially they tried to stop it, then realized they were pissing players off ended up rebalancing rewards system so farming was not needed everyone rejoiced, Warframe rocks
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Except I got banned for no reason when $300 bucks was put into that game from me
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The makers are cool people...for nerds
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I love how they "solved" the poor communication by hiring some fool redditor to do a "job" that was already not being done by some one else.
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Cosmo and deej are rarer than a good xur day in these forums.
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Well it seems they're buffing patrols to bed harder and actually give loot. So who knows maybe you'll get what you asked for. I saw a video of something where a guy gets a Gally out of a chest. It looked like a normal patrol chest.
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It happens. Extremely rare but you can get exotics from patrol chests.
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That's because it was the nerfed version that fires unicorn farts instead of wolf pack rounds. There will be one for everybody.
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Well said, just....well said!