Good to hear Deej.
I know for myself and I think for a lot of people here we just have loved and supported this game for so long we just get frustrated with the choices made in the game. Live team weren’t perfect but they made many great changes and updates to keep us active and playing for three years.
Destiny 2 removed a lot of those plus a lot of the design decisions and rewards aren’t as enjoyable. Token system, raid loot, lack of raid perks, exotics easy to get but vault space and duplication still a massive problem.
Discussing this with my clan yesterday one of my friends put it very simply “I really liked it that you had to do certain things, sometimes a lot of times, to get what you wanted”
Exotics and levelling up has become too easy but with no point as power doesn’t matter (outside DPS increase in raid)
High level rewards should be gated behind higher level content, and they should be worth it
For me my areas of frustration are
PVP. If I could wave a magic wand I would have Quickplay as 6v6, competitive as 4v4 ranked playlist, punishment for leaving (timeouts, bans, loss of ranking)
TTK increased across the board to slightly below D1 levels, buff don’t nerf. Allow solo players a chance to compete
There is a lot of frustration and salt on the forums/reddit. Whilst there will always be a toxic few I feel the majority of it comes from a genuine love of the game and a frustration when we see our friends list disappearing and aren’t motivated to play ourselves. I want to love D2 and play it for years with my friends. At the moment it’s getting too hard, simply I don’t feel as powerful and it doesn’t feel as fun. Balance and fairness doesn’t equate to fun and longevity in a power fantasy.
We know you community peeps have a thankless job and that you would love to share more and fixmore if you could.
Keep doing what you’re doing, share your plans and we will be with you
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Agreed.
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The comment your friend made reminded me that I played the Onmigul strike more than 80x for the Omnigul Bond. I was so frustrated, but when I got, I was so, so, so happy it didn't matter the time "wasted". Maybe 40x would be enough. But still. And none of my friends had it or knew about it. It was awesome. lol
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Did the same!! But yeah in D1 if you wanted a chance of Fatebringer, Vex, necrocasm, imago loop etc you knew where to grind. Exotics (before 3oC) were limited to chances from Nightfall, Exotic Raid chests or bosses, also with a very small chance to drop in strikes or PVP end game rewards
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And cheering for the bounty robot to give you an exotic quest for Thorn? That was spectacular. Now "go to the blue flashing light ans start the exotic quest every one can get straight out of the first week". Damn.....
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Spot on man, D1 was a huge part of my life. But with the state of things I just can’t find that thing in D2 that make me want to keep grinding on and on.
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Soooooooo Right..... 😉