Not happy, we don’t want that shit in the game at all Bungo. #FcukEnhancementCores

Poll needs "I don't care" as an option. I'm not happy, nor am I unhappy. I feel neither way about enhancement cores being a resource. Sometimes it's annoying, sometimes it isn't. It doesn't really make me angry, though. I'm just like, "eh, I'll get around to masterworking/infusing eventually." Or I'm like "holy crap I have a ton after grinding a thing. Time to masterwork a scout rifle I'm never going to use."

One thing I've suggested on other posts and other guardians have suggested also in similar fashion, is add +3 cores to primes, 2 cores for weeklies, and 1 for dailies. This alone would've alleviated a lot of hostilities, you would have the cores if you wanted to infuse or save them for a masterwork and you would earn them by playing the game. A simple solution and we get this, and have to wait 2 months on top of it all. To be honest, I really think your going to see numbers decline even further and I wouldn't be surprised if there's a last minute change because of this. In hinde sight Sols, in your previous post about them "listening", they are listening but just at topic bodies and nothing more. This TWaB just proved it and might be the nail in the coffin for a lot of fellow guardians.

It's bad. They are taking the free, frequent, lenient, and simple bounties that give us cores, and throwing them in the trash. Only to make room for another set of bounties, that will have a cost of materials we already use for many other things,, expire daily or weekly, and their difficulty is yet to be known. For the same rewards. The only way this makes any sense is that they will be constant daily grind, as opposed to the random nature of Scrapper bounties. I'm swimming in cores, so this doesn't necessarily hurt me. I've been grinding for these yellow P.o.S. materials since they were first introduced. I've run countless raids, throwing the drops in a blender to harvest the Masterworked nuggets within. I've spent hours exchanging one material for another to hand in to another vendor to get materials and roll the dice for cores. I've waited for HVT's, only a handful of times because it is even more mind numbingly boring than mashing X over and over to exchange mats. I've completed almost every Scrapper bounties I've ever received. I've done everything Bungie wants us to do, and have been "rewarded" for it. But every time they needlessly expand our levels, I grimace, watching my stockpile shrink slowly but surely because inevitably, the majority of new gear is no better than my old tried and true kit. Just like Bungie's spaghetti code, the problems in game are intertwined. Unnecessary level increases. Mediocre gear. Random rolls. Incessant nerfs and "balance" patches. Core availability (or lack thereof) during regular play. Tedium and inconvenience of bounties. Economy, economy, economy. Never has the economy in this series been in a good place. Look back at the loops we used to make for Relic Iron. Or the hours we spent in the story mission farming glimmer because of the asinine cap. The weapon part droughts. HoW giving us a new mat to farm so we could use all our gear only to be forced to throw it all back in the trash a few short months later. So on and so forth... Cores are just an easy and obvious target for our frustrations. Not that we can't get them. Not that there aren't ways to save. Just that it is yet one more barrier to entry, chore, or tax on a game we just want to have fun in and enjoy. Their insistence on "We're right, you're wrong" with these half hearted efforts and conversations regarding cores are yet more symptoms of the bigger problems with the game right now. Trials, anyone? Every trials player I've ever known, spoken to, played with, or watched, has said simply- Give us 3v3 elim. But no, Daddy bungo knows best and thinks that isn't enough for the changing landscape of PvP. How many times and in how many different ways can we give them DIRECT feedback of what we want, like, or dislike in the game, only to have it thrown in our faces and hear that we don't know what we want, or are talking about? I fully appreciate that this is their game, and they are free to do what they wish when it comes to changes. But this stick in the mud, and "oh it's your fault because some streamers asked for it", attitude does nothing but breed malcontent in the community and hurt the goddamn game. You know, back in D1, I felt betrayed when all their promises and senseless changes turned the game into a shell of what it was sold to us as. I left for almost a year. It was like a mourning period for me. When I inevitably came back for the gameplay, I had learned to accept the game for what it was, and cling to nothing, care for nothing, ignore most of the BS and just play. If I try to apply that to now, there's plenty of good stuff out there. Tons to do. But their insistence on grind and extending the play time has made it a grueling experience. Even to play casually, you have to jump through their hoops. Every day, hour, minute you don't play, you fall further and further behind. I feel that returning apathy as I go through the motions, flicking these moronic cores, one at a time, on top of my pile. It seems like this is the game now. Not cool loot. Not experiences with friends. Not a challenge to overcome. Just the never ending loop of garbage currencies. Currencies that have chased my friends away. Currencies that have made it harder to get a group together to get more currencies, I mean [u]cool loot and experiences[/u]. I want my cool loot and experiences back, Bungie. You telling us what is meaningful, doesn't make it mean a damn to us. I wish I could say I was mad, or cry out in sadness. But I've seen this all before. I'm used to it. Thanks for making so many of us not care anymore, it makes these bitter pills really easy to swallow.

I really don’t have an issue playing a game as it’s designed. Learning the mechanics, farming for mats upgrading my gear. This is all part of destinys design. This game has real issues and gear upgrades seem to be the least of them. Why can’t you just play another game? If bungie sucks and destiny sucks than why not play a game that doesn’t suck to you. Doing the same things over and over and expecting a different outcome..that’s what’s going on here. Flood your local politicians mail box for a cost of living increase. Ask them to move to more sustainable resource that can be used without depleting earths resources. Ask them to use your tax dollars to feed the starving instead of funding more wars. Play the game change the world.

[I’m glad that bungie is increasing how you guys get cores, and they shouldn’t have removed scrapper bounties. But, the fact that people are complaining about gunsmith bounties costing gunsmith materials only tells me that you’re bad at saving materials, meaning it’s a you issue with cores and gunsmith materials.]

I have 190 cores. But i agree the way the cores work drives players away, hurting player pool. Also drives everyone into patrol mode which leaves me soloing everything. Which is a fun challenge for most things. Until you need teammates who are not potatos for gambit prime and reconing teir 2 and 3. Then that is annoying solo. Forget raiding all my raiders are on patrol mode waiting for a hvt. Alot of my good raiding friends have long gone.