Just curious. Usually when someone inquires about a product they purchased or has a question for whoever they do business with, they get a response [quote]Yep; they pretty much are, J. All their resources are going towards Destiny 2 at this point. There's a skeleton crew left manning the Destiny "wheel". Those left watching Destiny though, they think games should only be PvP shooters. They don't believe that PvE has any place in a game other than to get you into the PvP. How do I know? Look at their "Weekly Letdown" messages. Always and only PvP. Nothing is ever mentioned about PvE, and when they do rarely release PvE content; it eviscerates the PvE content you had previously, removes weapons and armors from the game, and they release PvP updates that (for some Trump-level-of-ignorance) completely trash the PvE side of the game (because they simply are not smart enough to realize that PvP changes do not work the same on the PvE side of the game...). So they've decided to shut their eyes and ignore the PvE side of the game completely, focus all of their time/energy on PvP, and they [b]STILL[/b] manage to -blam!- up that. But eventually they'll release some PvE content. It'll have all of 4-5 hours of content, and they'll charge you $40 for it. Not only that, it will completely change and render obsolete, all the content released before it. So, you're left with 4-5 hours of content that's barely engaging enough to play through once, and then you hit the grind-wall. Again. And again. For every piece of shit DLC "lolExpansion" they release. New CEO or not, Bungie only cares about you throwing money at your TV. If you think that was a simple Freudian-slip from Luke, you'd be wrong. Look at what Bungie has/has not done with all of their updates, DLC, and weekly letdown messages. What Luke said is exactly what the entire company thinks about their Gamers and their game. Quality is secondary to getting you to keep paying a premium price for the lowest quality digital shit that they can push out of their digital rectum. And "Destiny 2" will be even worse.[/quote] -------- [quote]Destiny/Bungie RNG is designed to punish players, and artificially extend playtime. I've thought about this for a long time. I am now ready to post my thoughts. RNG itself is NOT punishing to players. Examples of good RNG you ask? [b]Battlefield 4/Hardline[/b] The battlepack system is RNG based. You know why no one has ever said anything negative about it? Because there are only a few items that can repeatedly drop (xp boosts mostly). The items you really need (knives, scopes, camos, etc.) never double drop, the game actually knows what you have. [b]Diablo 3[/b] Can items repeat drop? Yes Are they sometimes weaker than what you have? Yes BUT! What saves it is you can increase the difficulty, which increases the power of items that drop. The Enchantress allows you to replace a useless stat with possibly something better. The Jeweler lets you attach things that increase the power of your items, but.... the game is consistently rewarding on it's own. [b]Final Fantasy XIV[/b] Can you get repeat drops? Yes Are they weaker than what you already have..... that depends on the activity. In FFXIV RNG is there, however, it is very very clear where the best equipment in the game is, doing those activities provide a chance for it to drop. Once you see it, you and other players roll for it, highest roll wins. Need>Greed (there are basically 2 rolls you can make. If the item matches your class you can roll need, if it does not match you class you can roll greed. If no one rolls need, then the highest greed rolls win, otherwise the highest Need roll wins) The highest level activities always drop the highest level gear available, or the materials needed to make the highest level gear available. Destiny in an example of an abusive RNG implementation. The system is inherently designed to keep you playing the game as long as possible. There are X number of limited weekly events that are either 1. extremely time consuming or 2. extremely difficult that only have a [u]chance[/u] to provide you with the highest level equipment in the game. Nearly all of them (save Iron Banner and SRL) require you to hunt your own team mates. Which in turn uses a game mechanic to get us to force the game onto others. So not only do I get sucked into a 1-7 hour raid (depending on the group), but I had to sucker 5 more people into it. They say 80% of your money comes from 20% of your customers. So it looks like Bungie's 20% are a bunch of sweaty 320 chasing try hards with 2000hrs+ in game. So it's painfully obvious why they cranked up the grind to 11, implemented this broken ass infusion nightmare, and cater solely to PvP (lately). That's the 20% that is dragging the majority of the other 80% of the people into this game. Even I have brought people into destiny, none of who play anymore because it's just not fun anymore. HoW had it right.... Max level gear dropping every where, rep gains were good, nightfalls were rewarding, etheric light made everything in the game relevant. Those were the good ol days.[/quote]