I'm 39 with a job and a kid. I only play casually about an hour or two a night if I'm lucky. Casual or not people sink dozens if not hundreds of hours into this game. The issue isn't time the issue is trying to make it appeal to the lowest common denominator. You'll find older gamers are the ones that have less of a problem with activities that involve exploration and thinking in a game. I grew up in an era before internet walkthroughs and YouTube guides.
Bungies thought process would of been:
"Will your average 14 your old skylanders fan find this boring? Probably. We better mark everything on the map otherwise they'll go back to playing overwatch or CoD".
Bungie are wasting their time though. That sort of player is going to get bored of Destiny in a couple of weeks anyway, no matter how easy it is. That sort of player gets bored of everything after a couple of weeks.
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I’m almost 33, 2 kids, demanding job and schedule, I get it. I grew up with the Atari 2600, Intellivision, NES, etc. Exploring can be fun, but I also like having the map icons because in a way, they’re something that indicates I still have things to do. It gives gamers a definitive objective. Fallout does the big open world with lots of exploration, but in my opinion, it got boring. I kept asking myself, “When will I be done finding every location?”
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Sure but Fallout had hundreds of locations. There are nowhere near as many lost sectors in D2. There's probably only 20- 30 of them max. If people really don't have the patience to find them them they can always look up a guide or map online.
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Perhaps an option to turn off the map marker for undiscovered Lost Sectors?? It could be off by default, then those that don’t care to search can just turn it back on?
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Or an option to purchase lost sector maps from Cayde (similar to the treasure maps).
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That would be fine too...