The Core of Destiny Community: Will Not Do Public Events Will Not Do PvP Will Not Do LFG Will Not Do Eververse [i]will not end up playing[/i]

Ana: "Guardian, we're almost done powering up Rasputin. Now we just need you and other guardians to get those remaining satellites into orbit." Guardian: "Can't do that." Ana: "Why not?" Ghost: "Social Distancing." Ana: "What? But you'll be six feet apart from fellow Guardians practically the whole time!" Guardian: "Tell that to the Fallen, Hive, Vex, and Cabal."

I think this is what happened. Team had a meeting to discuss how they will break it to the bosses on why seraph towers was a failure and no one played it. So someone came up with the idea of making everyone forcefully do it so the numbers will look better, and they can claim it as a seasonal milestone achieved. Luke will get his bonus and the devs will get their pizza and burgers for their hard work.

I don't mind these things being bonuses carrots to chase after, but it's the fact that the core PvE gameplay revolves around this is disheartening, especially for someone who already can't stand PvE for the most part, with boring, predictable spawns and really terribad AI that can't fight their way out of a paperbag without getting caught on an annoying outcropping on an otherwise flat surface, and can only be a 'challenge' when given so many OP mechanics to make up for the lack of skill and self-learning that these mobs cannot do that all it does is teach players how to memorize encounters. Nothing wrong with having activities like that, because they can help hone players' skills and teach basic game mechanics through them, but when the actual pinnacle PvE activities themselves are fixed, immutable, unchanging (but for some minor tweaks), non-dynamic, with bosses that can be easily cheesed no matter how difficult Bungie try to make them, just because players get clever when bosses get annoying to kill, rather than fun. It just becomes a silly meta-game of one-upping between devs 'balancing' the game to be more 'challenging', and players who thought of a way to get around annoying mechanics in the game instead of playing them through because they're fun. These PEs, etc. could be content _in addition_ to actual content, but bounties and quests alone do not a MMO make... at least, not one that can hope to last and maintain a playerbase. I barely spent a few years playing MMOs despite their supposed 'addictive' nature (and to be sure, many were and still are designed that way deliberately), yet they failed to engage me because the gameplay did not keep me coming back, and neither did the PvP. I wasn't interested in Raids and other multiplayer activities because they took so much time and effort to organize with other real people who all have lives that don't revolve around gaming, and there was little margin for error unless people had the time to waste. Whereas I spent decades playing text-based MUDs, a couple that involved friendships and relationships that moved offline as well, and I think Destiny has the ability to be that kind of place too, if Bungie would just stop messing about and treating players like a cash cow but instead concentrate on making a game and community that is so fun to play, that very few people will play it to troll or grief, but to actually want to be a part of the community, a living entity within the game world itself, and as a member of the community. It's sad to see so many players (especially on the forums) who were so excited about the Destiny franchise, devolve into petty bickering, infighting, bullying, harassing, trolling, because of a lack of good community management and game development that seems insistent on pitting players against each other rather than work cooperatively. I recognize it's not only the fault of Bungie, but when players are constantly being exploited and manipulated for no reason than to keep metrics artificially raised and to promote in-game purchases instead of playing the game, with makework so onerous and tedious to keep people artificially 'engaged' instead of playing because they actually want to just sit around in the gameworld and interact with other players and NPCs because the 'verse is so fascinating and you just want to escape into it. Oh, and a lack of dedicated servers makes playing this game a risk to every Bungie customer who decides to login, risking getting DDoSed any time they interact with anyone in the game. :P During a global pandemic where people are encouraged to stay inside, people are more reliant than ever on always-on internet access, and one petty troll who decides they don't like you because you spanked them in Trials, decides to take down your entire household's internet access for hours at a time? I'd imagine from a legal perspective, that would leave Bungie in an actionable position if a Bungie customer were to suffer material damages or even personal injury due to lack of internet access resulting in harm. GET DEDICATED SERVERS, BUNGIE.

It’s vanilla all over again, except we need EVERYONE to do it just to get a shotgun I doubt anybody will use after a week

Serious question: what were you expecting from a free quest plopped into the game in the middle of the season?

and the worse is that everybody know that later on after all that grind they just going to came out and nerf the gun,

'do public events' is one thing.. do hard mode towers to achieve 9,000,000 clears is quite another 🤔 I don't mind PEs, but this is jus delusional. "Play your way" they said.. 😅😂🤣

I did a couple of attempts and went on swtor instead. Didn't we just come out of a community wide event?