I guess, foremost, congratulations Mr. Parsons on your newest endeavor at Bungie! I But many of us saw this coming. I myself as a single individual have played this game almost every day since 9/9. But 4 weeks ago, I took a break. And to be honest, I didn't miss it much. A look at my stats show how many hours/days per character I have spent playing every day for about 16 months. With that said, the PvP side of the game clearly is where Activision and Bungie see continued profitability for the future. But for many of us, it is the PvE that kept us coming back. I can say I was doing about 6 Crota raid every week. And VOG at least 3 times a week. Then came HoW and the POE. This brought us many changes, but it killed the raid. Those 6 player teams that we worked hard to create, now were falling apart. I know at least half of our guys either lost interest or made up there own teams, of 3 players. The raid continued, but suffered. At the end of year one, and the start of TTK, was perhaps the greatest mistake of all. Suddenly 2 major AND I MEAN MAJOR screw ups occurred. First you introduced new players to an item that would advance them from level 1 or 2, to level 25. This took away the need for them to play the entire storyline as it was intended, and deprived newer players of so many experiences. No longer did the have to spend hours leveling up armor or weapons. It is like give a child something without them paying for it themselves. They won't appreciate what they have nearly as much. Also gone is the need to experience the exotic bounties, and the storyline as it was intended. The whole game saw so many changes, and with each change the players that built the game, saw Bungie say, all that you just spent the last 3, 6, 12 months on, was for not. Which brings me to my biggest sore spot. All of those great guns, and all that armor we busted or asses to get and upgrade, is now worthless scrap. Patience in Time, Icebreaker, Thorn, all junk. Let's not even mention Gjallarhorn. The GREAT ! weapons for VOG and Crota, and that armor, all crap. Of no use. So there is no need for the P.O.E, or Crota, or V.O.G. No use for Etheric Light. No use for shards, or energy parts. ... This is what killed your game. I loved my Vision of Confluence. I enjoyed Fatebringer. And the Vex, that was hell in PvP before the engineers got involved. Make the items of year one mean something ago. Idea. Take the Vision of Confluence. I need to max it out at year one level with Etheric light. I Cannot reforging it because it is a raid item. Now if I want to take it or any other year weapon and make it year two, I need to acquire something. You figure out what. But once I obtained said item, and infuse it into my year one Vision, it brings it up to level 220. The rest of the upgrade is based on the same current system of infusing high items into it. Same with the VOG gear, and Crota, and the HoW items. Rumour has it the game engineers decided Gjallarhorn was too much for the game. And that they didn't want elemental primaries. Ok I van live with that, but I busted my ass getting my weapons and gear up to level 170 only to be ____ed with my pants on and no kiss. Maybe the V.O.G and Crota and the P.O.E cannot be upgraded with the newer level difficulty. But you have completely destroyed the game by making the first year completely obsolete. I played with a new Christmas newb, who spent $30 on the Legendary verision. He made the comment, that a friend of his told him to skip V.O.G and Crotq, just work on getting to level 40/290 to get to Oryx. I told him he should play the game in the same sequence and do all the missions at least once. But he is convinced he just needs to work on getting to 290. I spent hours hunting chests on Mars looking for relic iron. I spent time soloing a N.F. to get fusion rifle killed, (before I got my first Vex.) I didn't reach light level 30 until the week before the Dark Below. I keep a Vision and an Ice break and a Fatebringer and a Fang, and Sword breaker on each character. And I had them all leveled up to 170 when TTK brought all our dreams crashing down. Enough, can I get some cheese with my whine. That is a brief rundown on my reasoning as to why the new guy in charge is screwed. I actually played Farming Simulator for a week while I am waiting for The Divison. I have most everything new, I just never got into Fallout 4 or Black Ops III. Destiny was all I cared about for 15-16 months. Hell I did the Devil"s Lair last night and it was a challenge because I was out of practice. Bring back all the old strikes, the new ones all the time have become boring. We'll enough, my cheese has arrived, Peace out.