No more crying. You play what they give you or you play a different game. Very simple. The season of crying and getting your way is over!!! Suck it up buttercup!!!

[i]"If you can see it, you can go there."[/i]

You had to be there when.... We had fun content Strong abilities Good weapons Good exotics Raids worth doing Less eververse A community that came together on a regular basis

Drunken VoG. Need I say more?

Exactly. This is the worst direction they could have ever taken. I can't believe people actually are defending it.

This is just their new marketing technique. Creating a sense of urgency to get people playing the game. "Get it now, or you'll miss it, then come next season we'll do it again. Be there for it!" It works on a lot of people. It tends to push me in the other direction though. I'm such a rebel! 😂

It’s simply a belief that Bungie know best and will create the Destiny universe how they see fit. Here’s a statement you’ll never read in any official Bungie release but summarizes the 5yrs of the franchise. “We appreciate the feedback but our vision of the game is constantly changing and always influx so asking us to fix something now is pretty much pointless when you look at the big picture”

Im almost positive Prison of Elders would’ve been one to go they had taken this direction since D1. I would’ve been very pissed if I missed out on POE. I had so much fun when I finally hit level 34 and faced Skolas with my two best friends. I understand the problems with the size of the game, but I feel like a Destiny 3 would be a better option than removing content. I quit for a solid 6 months last year and missed out on Black Armory and most of Season of the Drifter. I don’t touch Forges or Reckoning anymore at the moment, so I could kind of see what they’re saying, but I would’ve also missed out on weapons like the Hammerhead, Kindled Orchid, Spare Rations, Jotunn, Le Monarque,etc. Hopefully exotics won’t be tied to certain seasons and removed for a time. That would definitely put me off from this model.

Bungie has an idea of how they want players to act and think, and they design Destiny based on that. For example: Bungie wants us to look at other player’s weapons and say “oh wow, that’s so cool, how did you get that?”, or see another player’s emblem and ask “can you tell me the awesome tale of how you got that emblem?” If you’re the type of player who does that and asks those questions, then you are Bungie’s type. Me? Not so much. I couldn’t care less about the “epic clutch whatever” story a player has about their Gjallarhorn, and I only care about emblems for how good they look for me. I really only care about [i]using[/i] those cool guns and [i]running[/i] those cool activities and if i [i]did[/i] have “cool stories” (which I do), I keep that shit to myself because who really talks about crap that happens in a video game. Really. So yeah... I get why Bungie is going the “you had to be there” route. I just think it’s dumb.

So I can’t be bothered to write it all out again, but this is what I think from another similar post that was a bit more polite and thought out. I see why they want to do it and I like the idea. I humbly disagree. It’s just like the different meta’s. Think of games like WoW or diablo. Part of the charm is continuing forward and limited time events etc. Think about the vex mythoclast meta of destiny. There are so many people even now saying, “I WAS THERE”. And same with the laser tag weekend. There are things that you can say you were there for and impress people. Plus, people who leave often and don’t stick with the game are going to lose out on things. You yourself admitted that you came during forsaken. This most likely means, like most of the player base, you didn’t do all the leviathan raids, Osiris prophecy weapons, the warmind elemental things for the sparrow etc. There’s so much content that just goes to waste because it’s old. And I think that’s what they are trying to avoid. Think things like EP or blind well. They are fun activities and have great rewards. But they eventually expire and become irrelevant. Just bringing up the light is a shortcut and only negatively changes the games landscape. I have so many friends who refuse to play because, “There’s too much to do and I’ll be so behind!”. There’s so much stuff that it alienates a good majority of the community. Think about a new player coming right now. They have gambit, reckoning, dreaming city, forsaken, forges, dungeons, raids, pinnacle weapons, armor sets. Menagerie, the tribute hall, gambit prime, the secret quests, the vanilla game, Osiris, prophecy weapons, EP, blind well, and all the questlines that come with it. They get overwhelmed and give up. Somehow, someway, Destiny 2 went from having next to no content, to having TOO MUCH CONTENT. Not to mention Bungie needs more money to stay afloat and better player numbers. So by doing this, they introduce FOMO and motivate players to do these activities and earn rewards through them. This not only helps people discover the game, but also helps keep players engaged and motivated to play and do things. People like yourself will be more motivated to play the game instead of taking massive breaks in between. And finally, the problem that is most important. Space. At the end of the year, Destiny 2 will be nearing 164 gigabites. Things like Xbox and PS4 have limitations to how much space a game can take up and destiny 2 is nearing that limit. They can’t continue making this evolving world because they are right. It’s not sustainable. But through doing this, they can significantly lengthen the life span of destiny 2 before they will be forced to move onto Destiny 3.