Destiny is an ok game, but what holds it back is that it is trying to play the field instead of commuting to PvP or PvE. The main reason someone buys destiny is to run the PvE missions and raids, ToO may be an ok feature, but CoD, Halo, and just about every other shooter have more enjoyable fast-passed PvP games with easier rewards and play styles. The type of grueling, arduous labor necessary to run in the top tier of the crucible is not exactly what most PvP players want to put into the game. While PvP balance has been stressed in recent updates and hot fixes, these "balances" have completely ruined some people's PvE experience. Nothing is worse than blindly blinking into a taken phalanx and seeing you brains splattered across the map. You show at least separate the Crucible and PvE updates so they don't affect each other. On the other hand your story is just vague enough that it hasn't screwed itself over and raises a lot of questions that players want answered. Answered by more terrible Lovecraftian horror beast to be shot in the face. Also the combat for PvE needs to be tweaked a bit, originally there were about four tiers for PvE, patrol which was a joke, story which was normal, strikes which were hard, and raids which made people pull their hair out. But now if you play to about 400 light the entire game seems like a joke except for the hard mode raid, which still makes people rage quit. Maybe make give majors a buff and introduce some new enemies to mix it up. Also in PvE exotics need buffs, there is almost no reason to use half of the exotics unless your using them for fun, for example, Khostov-X1, Boolean Gemini, Touch of Malice, Hereafter, 4th Horseman, Super Good Advice and Sleeper Stimulant (now that gally is back) to name a few. Additionally some exotics are nigh impossible to get, such as ToM. No one runs court these days. No one. But don't just nerf the good exotics, bring the lame ones up to their caliber. Exotic guns are supposed to be special not just a legendary with a new coat of paint and a mostly useless perks like "armor buff activated by body shots on a class of weapons used for head shots". And some exotic armors could use buffs too, like Peregrine Greaves and Astrocyte Verse and the hunter one that only zooms when you use GG. Or at least give them a cool animation when their perks are activated. Also bring back the old raids and CoE and court. And a cabal raid if that will ever happen.