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11/25/2015 5:40:46 PM
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Why is the Destiny community so toxic? A question from a new player.
I would like to preface this with the fact that I've been gaming for a long time and I've been heavily involved with various communities over the years. I have been a fan of Bungie for as long as I can remember. I ran a community called Arm The Flag during the Halo days and we got our Machinima work on the front page all the time. I was even interviewed by the community director, Urk at the time. I've seen issues left and right within games, their creators, and the communities around them and I know there is a mature/respectful way to handle them.
I am late to the Destiny game as I just recently finally purchased an Xbox One and I was eager to jump into the Destiny community because I remember all of the fun I had back in the Halo days....well that feeling was soon squashed for me. Upon checking out the Bungie Forums and jumping on r/DestinyTheGame on Reddit for the first time a few days ago I was met with all of of this hatred and resentment towards Bungie for just about every little aspect of the game. Where was this beloved community that I remembered from back in the day? It was nowhere to be seen.
Now I've seen the posts and arguments...I realize that veteran players feel shafted for the Y1 stuff taken away then brought back...that's some BS. I see the arguments against the RAF program...which I think is an excellent program and the people complaining about it come off as nitpicking self entitled children, but that's just my opinion. Regardless of your opinion instead of dumping toxic waste posts everywhere in the community about how Destiny is shit and you hate Bungie, and you think it should be this way....maybe you should look at a more constructive way.
Where is the mature community that enjoys the game? Where is the mature community that instead of whining like little girls they start a meaningful discussion and possibly come up with something to present Bungie that voices the thoughts of the community as a whole? Turning this sub and the Bungie forums into a cesspool of negativity, complaints, and a whine fest will not help your cause.
I love you guys...and I've loved my time playing Destiny so far, but I hate reading through all these crap threads day after day.
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5 RepliesYou don't see it, but Destiny is running on my TV right now. For an entire year, since the birth of Destiny, I've looked at this ship orbiting earth more than anything else. Yeah I go outside, save your salt for someone else. Destiny didn't chock up to what it was said to be. Not a lot of promises were kept. But, note this is a big but, (I can not even lie) Bungie did make something. Something different. You can sit down on any lackluster, run-of-the-mill shooter-type pew pew action game and kill the same generic (insert choice of foreign, middle eastern/Russian/German/etc. Terrorist group here) That's not Destiny. Destiny made a community out of some of the most diverse people out there: gamers. We've got your geeks, your not-geeks, your try-hard blowouts, and can't forget those filthy casuals (who are totally great people). I've got the worst RNG luck in the world. Never had a good roll, in fact, to this day, I have yet to receive an exotic bounty from the bounty tracker. All of year one, the only exotics I received were ones I bought from Xur. But hey, I can't complain. I get to sit down and play Destiny. Destiny's great, with its flaws. Destiny is fun, with its flaws. It has flaws for days, and I love it's little flaws. I don't care if sunbreakers smash my shit every time I spawn. I don't care if someone blows my head off every time I get revived. I[i]have[/i] [b]fun.[/b] So all this toxicity, this salt, this [i]poison[/i] is stupid. Why do I see new people come in every day, to be greeted with slurs and judgement in fire? For Traveler's sake, guys and girls, we talk about how Destiny is dying because of new blockbuster games, but you can't stop busting someone's chops long enough to teach them how to be a Guardian? My rave might not have structure, maybe there's some errors. Maybe I'm biased. But you've got to admit, not many Year 1 beta-tested filthy casuals care enough to come up on their soapboxes to sort shit out, yeah?
