[b]Pillar 1:[/b][b] [i]A World Players Want to Be In[/b] [/i]Jason Jones: "This pillar really influenced us early in development. Is this world cool? Do I want to stay here? Do I want to learn more about it?” Joseph Staten: "One lesson that’s critical is that the most important stories we tell aren’t going to be told by us. They’re going to be told by players – their personal legends built from shared adventures.” [b]Pillar 2: [i]A Bunch of Fun Things to Do[/i][/b] (after describing a three-man dungeon run in detail): Joseph Staten: “And just like that, The Dust Palace becomes part of my story. The breadth and depth of Destiny’s world encourages me to find my own adventures. It’s a place where I can leave my mark.” [b]Pillar 3: [i]Rewards Players Care About[/i][/b] Jones explained how the game will have “a lot of great things to earn, find, and make,” reiterating that “everything you do in Destiny earns rewards.” Besides unique weapons, every piece of your kit will be your own, from your helmet to your cape to your armor pieces to your face. Their goal, he said, is to keep players coming back “day after day, week after week, month after month, [and] year after year.” [b]Pillar 4:[i] A New Experience Every Night[/i][/b] Jason Jones: “Imagine you could spend an hour and accomplish something, but you get distracted from doing the thing you meant to do when you logged on. Every time you sit down to play Destiny you have a different experience than last time.” [b]Pillar 5: [i]Shared With Other People[/i][/b] Jason Jones: “Everything that’s fun to do is more fun to do with your friends.'” [b]Pillar 6: [i]Enjoyable By All Skill Levels[/i][/b] Jason Jones: "All core activities can be enjoyed by a novice player, that's not hard. What’s hard is keeping it interesting for your advanced players.” [b]Pillar 7:[i] Enjoyable by the Impatient and Distracted[/i][/b] Jason Jones: “Players don’t want to work hard, they don’t want to read, and they don’t’ want to go to the Internet to figure out our bullshit.” I think it's time for Bungie to remember the foundation that they laid for this game. Bungie's own words.

I'd like to address something to you, Bungie. Under ideal conditions I'm sure the Crimson Days holiday event would be going over much better than it is now. So then that begs the question, "Why isn't it doing well with players under these conditions?" Well many reasons for sure, but one in particular is the fans are beginning to believe that these holiday concepts are nothing more than distractions for real problems that continue to be a concern with the player base. "Dangle a shiny object in front of them and hope they are none the wiser." Whether this is true or not is of little concern because it is what the players are beginning to feel. But, again, that is your fault is it not? Destiny players have no idea where the game is going this year. There was no New Year's Resolution 2016 update that outlines what's coming down the pipeline or anything. There is no Marvel Phase 3-esque timeline that Destiny fans can look at and be assured, "Ya, okay, so we'll be getting something in an 'x' number of months." or "Hmm, okay so the next major patch that will address many community concerns will be in <INSERT ESTIMATE MONTH HERE>." There is no hype for anything, only nebulous speculation that something is coming some time (unconfirmed). So for all the fans know, this is as much effort you are willing to devote to this game going forward. So naturally they are hostile to the event they perceive as nothing more than a smokescreen to hide underlying problems. Point being, keep with the holiday events but in order to prevent increased hostilities you are going to have to start taking communication with your players on your own website way more seriously than you have. Keeping them informed is so extremely vital with games like these. Twitter and the subreddit are nice, but the main source of information should be plastered all over your own Bungie.net domain, not through some tweets.

Declined the quest on all 3 of my characters....

Does anybody else think that the trail of rose petals that starts from the spawn point in the tower and runs towards the downstairs area looks like a gutted animal dragged its dying carcass across the floor of the tower? That's what it looks like to me.

I'm not touching it... sounds stupid to begin with... all for a chocolate ghost?... no thanks and why is there no way to get silver in game??

I'm more excited for my surgery next month.

the fact that there's six lame bounties for the entire "event" just makes it worse. There should have been a guaranteed 320 ghost from the big rewards thing, I don't want another fall emote, if i had wanted them, i would have bought them. Now there's three "legendary" emotes I would like, but there's a zero percent chance that I will buy them unless there is a major PVE expansion or addition announced, TL;DR Lazy "event" No more money for bungie