My feelings at first where slightly optimistic but as it digests I have some hard realizations honestly.... The path destiny has and continues to take is not the game style I liked from D1 and not what I and I think others wanted. I had hoped this would renew my hope in the game and this was making me look for the potential in the post. But as I digest it I realize the truth... the majority of the decisions and criticism that is being addressed takes the game further away from what I and I think others wanted in a true grinding looter shooting rpg style game. This is due to the fact as it seems the updates will actually making loot easier to get, exotics easier to get, and centering the grind even more around cosmetics. Also I don’t see the extra urge to grind there for anything. Masterworks has promise but the truth is I don’t think there is enough reason to grind there given what likely will be the extra stats. Will this really make you more powerful or stronger than others? See what made D1 a great/replayable game for me to grind was that the grind made you better. This is fundamental for me in any looter style games. Grinding yields rewards that with the right skill can make you stronger than others. That fuels the desire to get X weapon or X exotic. By grinding you became a stronger member of the Destiny universe. Obtaining specific weapons made you stronger, exotics made you better, maxing out had a purpose and was something to be proud of. Honestly for comparison I didn’t stare at my phone playing MCOC for a year and a half just because I loved the gameplay(I did find it fun but repetitive). I did it to grind for loot to make me stronger and more competitive to complete harder content and help my alliance go up in ranks. This type of feeling doesn’t exist in D1 at all anymore. The game doesn’t have that separation anymore. Everyone gets everything regardless of pursuit of endgame activities or effort put in. We are all the same and this is boring. I want to grind for epic loot. I want to have moments of letdown and moments of triumph with drops. Now all moments feel Meh mostly. No excitement with loot drops hoping for X because truth is X doesn’t exist to hope for anymore and nothing you have there will change that. If anything I think it might make it worse. I bought the season pass so I’ll play the expansions so I’m still holding out hope but I truly just think the game has become just another video game. This everyone wins mentality is part of the problem along with allowing balance to completely override the fun factors of the game. Unless you move away from that mentality it will not be the game it was or can be. If this is the chosen direction of the game I understand and that is fine. But in truth then it is not the game for me anymore which is fine as well. It unfortunate because I loved D1 and see so much promise in what could be in this game.