I have never written an "im quitting" post before. Im doing so now, because most of the reasons im leaving are stuff that the community has debated to the death in these forums, and Bungie has refused to listen. Also because I have been a supporter of one of those requests in these forums, which is the most blatantly ignored and even censored: Optional Matchmaking Today, something happened that made me realize that destiny has stopped being fun for me and more like a a time-wasting chore. Not an impulse or a tantrum, more like "the straw that broke the camel's back" situation. I was doing PoE 34 The Forever Eater, for the first time, with a manually matchmade team (because thats what an LFG site is), we did well until round 3, we had the bosss almost down but one guy got disconnected, and shortly after we were overwhelmed and wiped. Remaining guy called it a day and left. I was still motivated, after all that etheric light is the only thing that i need to reach lv 34...so i went again to "manual matchmaking" and found 2 guys which happened to have gallys. Cool. We got the the final boss, after a few fun and challenging fights, and we couldnt beat Qodron. Couldnt any of us find the Eye before being imprisoned and frustration escalated, so one of them said "why dont we just pop bubble and gally him down" The other guy said "OK", I said " I dont have a gally but have truth or dragon breath". We tried a couple of times but now even half of the bar we managed to drain...mostly because one of them kept dying b4 unloading all rockets. One of them said he was lagging and said "can u make me leader to see i my lag improves" I knew it was bullshit, i knew he wanted to boot me and keep the checkpoint to invite some1 else with another jellyhorn. I thought of booting them both and find another 2, but at that point of the night there wasnt many options and they were posts like "i have gally lf team with all gallys". So i was mostly screwed anyways, so I decided to make him leader, with a very small hope I was mistaken and we could keep trying a few more times. I wasnt, Despite I knew what would happed, I was very angry and lost all motivation to keep playing this game, specially when you realize than many of these issues are because bungie is stubborn/lazy. I wasted FOUR hours of my life for absolutely nothing. These are all the things that caused this and all of them are because of poor developer decisions. - With optional matchmaking: finding people to play would be quicker and painless, yes I could get matched with idiots, but using manual matchmaking sites still finds me idiots and also waste more ofmy time. Also they couldnt have booted me and "steal" my checkpoint, they would have had to leave and let the game replace them or soldier on. This is an option that has been asked countless of times and is blatantly ignored to the point of topics being removed. I find it insulting that it hasnt even been put in the so called community wish list, but they put "facial hair" instead. - If these weekly challenges had checkpoints like the raids, all of the above would have been a minor annoyance. I value my gaming time and I hate when a game wastes my time and makes me lose progress, because of stupid developer decisions. - Also I think the Qodron fight the Eye of Qodron should be marked just like the Swordbearer in CE or the VIP in the PoE target elimination challenges. Having us to spot one single slightly different goblin in a few seconds while being shot at from every direction is a cheap way of making content "harder". And Believe me, after being playing videogames for more than 30 years you kind of know when a game presents a fair challenge and when is just cheap way of making itself "harder" - The Ghallajorn, is really becoming an issue. Takes a long time if at all to find a grp to do PoE 34+ that doesnt require you to have it. Hell, there are even individuals that refuse to join grps that arent "all gally". And the problem isnt the gally itself, its that most of the most "challenging" fights can be done in less than a minute with a fireteam equipped with them, and doing them with any other strategy is most of the time unfairly hard. Making things hit harder and and with bigger HP bars is one of the cheapest ways to make "harder" challenges. Also is not marking important targets, and call it a challenge. And saying that part of the challenge is to find friends to play, is just a TIMESINK, at least other games put timesinks INSIDE the game and more or less cleverly disguise as gameplay, but Bungie is so lazy that it wants its playerbase to do their jobs for them This game had a lot of promise, it had a good story background and universe albeit most of it is OUTSIDE the game, just like the LFG tools. It has great gunplay mechanics, but ultimately all these issues draw all fun at least for me. TESO is due in little more than a week, and Id rather give it a shot than keep wasting time in Destiny. They will have to make a lot of changes in their upcoming expansions for me to spend any money on them. So im off to play Witcher 3 until TESO launches.