Before I gripe, I wanna say I was so supportive of Bungie despite knowing that even before D1 took off I knew I wasn’t supporting the group that gave me so much fun and expanded literature in the Halo series. I pre ordered both launches of Destiny 1/2. Something I am usually very much against. I played D1 for a total time of what makes 4 weeks, I loved it, I could not get enough of it. It was digital heroine, my gambling instincts due to the RNG was always fired up and I couldn’t stop playing despite the fact I was doing the same thing over and over and over again. I thought the first raid was incredible and I still think it was great. VOG is still my most favorite PVE activity I’ve EVER done. I loooove the aesthetics of the games. The guns and most of the armor are really cool and have given life to amazing fan art. I made so many friends including two “older” dudes in their 40’s from the UK that I got to talk to about working at Atari and swapping stories. I met so many people and had such a good time playing with those people that I really wished I lived near a lot of them. I don’t have a lot of friends and that made me feel a lot better. Fast forward to pretty much every DLC and while most of the quality of life features improved over time thanks to this new and rising community I got to be apart of I started drifting away, content really wasn’t keeping me, again I really felt addicted so it was for the best. I finally got to the point to where I didn’t pick it up anymore and couldn’t understand how I ever got that involved with doing so little. I could’ve done so much stuff in that amount of time I spent playing this game. However I had fun, least I think, addictions are bad mmmkay. I was stoked and hesitant about 2. I played it, I gave it a solid month and I can honestly say I don’t think this is the company to handle a series like this. I don’t think it’s fun, I don’t think they really listens to what feedback they got over the last three years and the corporate greed is at an all time high. You can’t have an “MMO light” without having things that bring us back and I think this game looks way better than ANY MMO you’re gonna find for sure, but the way companies like Blizzard do it is the only sure fire way to have that kinda fan base and it go over all. I think it was fate or people finally saying enough is enough that the EA controversies happened so close to Bungie/Activsion not being transparent about experience gains when telling us to go firing up those public events, structuring a lot of the new game around those(which were done better this game). Then the same thing happened with the first dlc as the first game. It felt very lack luster, it didn’t feel as fun and the content was maybe 3 hours worth. The only difference this time was that we got the same raid slightly changed up and people who love the game got kicked out of launch content because of how they wanted that dlc sold which can only be acquired in a expansion pass. That’s not ok, it’s not a way to keep people playing, with a packed year, the holidays and (most)people aren’t made of cash, that is taking advantage of your consumers. The last straw honestly was thinking about this past weekend. I played so, so much D1 on ps4 but I never ever got any of the exclusive stuff from vanilla. Even after nerfs it took it coming over to Xbox finally (who still gets super screwed in this game due to exclusiveness) to get it form Xur. This past weekend they sold the Promethean Lens, super OP because they didn’t play test it, yet launched this weak DLC full of re skins, stuff from D1?! (Why’d you delete our vaults then?) and the new cool looking stuff was only obtainable from bright engrams which looks a lot like”hey spend money” if no one had caught on to the slow exp stuff, then it’s very likely their plan was hoping the slow progression would make people spend more real money to get the new stuff locked behind the bright engrams. Getting side tracked there in a tangent, going back to the OP laser gun.. we were told all of D1 they can’t control what is sold from Xur due to an algorithm and here they sold that gun so people could play around then they’d nerf it. For someone like me to hear that after how much real time I spent in their world was super upsetting. I DON’T TRUST THEM ANYMORE. I’m done, they’re not doing this well, it’s not really getting better and I don’t know what else to say, but I’m disappointed in them and myself for the most of the time lost, again I did have a lot of fun with friends in D1. If you continue to support them make sure your voice is heard, as far as I go, I’m done and hope eventually they get it right and don’t just have their studio destroyed by the suit/ties, as the legacy of “Bungie” doesn’t really mean what it did when I was a kid. TLDR: playing since D1 alpha, disappointed in how the game as evolved, sad at the non transparency and corporate greed. I’m done playing