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2/1/2022 2:02:27 AM
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Why Im (Probably) leaving Destiny 2 again (for good this time...maybe)

Howdy I played Destiny 1 for thousands of hours--Destiny 2 I played up to Forsaken. I quit because whereas Destiny 1 steadily got better over time, Destiny 2 pretty much stayed the same--the main improvement being adding Lore into a menu accessible in-game. Crucible was the worst it had ever been. The story writing and dialogue were cringe and embarrassing and the Charactters added in were uninteresting and useless. Then they killed off the only interesting character in their entire franchise, which, fine--but the shoes werent filled. Eventually, I was tired of going around in Bungies circle. Pay money--they add a minimal amount of content and everyone in the community promises itll get better. I was done buying all the McFarlane toys and statues--thousands of dollars I willingly gave Bungie whether it be cosmetics in the Eververse store or their Lore Book or Funko Pops. I was a Bungie supporter because I had hope they would get better. I stopped hoping. Years passed and every so often Id see a Twitter post highlighting how broken certain weapons and classes were. Nothing had changed. So, four years later, the other day, I (stupidly) get the urge to download destiny 2 on my new Xbox. I have still been in my Clans Discord since i left and have played several other games with them since I left D2. I had heard it was free to play. I downloaded it and figured Id go ahead and get all the expansions available, so Id have a lot to do. So I spend around $60 or whatever it was for Shadowkeep-Beyond the Light. Get in the game--oh theres a battle pass too. I went ahead and spent $10 on the Battle Pass cuz why not, I had four years of stuff to catch up with. I played through the story for Shadow Keep and Beyond the Light in two sittings, maybe 8 hours...and all the while wondering why characters I hadnt met and or had been gone before started appearing. Oh theres Crow...okay I remember him in Forsaken and he was revived...but hes a Guardian now? Hmm, must have forgotten. Oh theres Saint 14...when did he...Maras back too..okay. It became increasingly obvious to me that I was missing something. I eventually came to realize they were selling 4 years worth of content for $70 on the store... It hit me. Where are the planets from Vanilla? Where Calus' ship? My CLan explained they had all been removed. So I was charged $70 for 8 hours of a mediocre story (my god ghost is unbearable in Beyond the Light) and a few Exotic Quests. Not only that but they took away all the content I had previously paid for when D2 came out, which means I cant rerun them with my clan for titles and achievements (because oh yeah, they take titles out of the game too) AND THEN they wanted me to spend an additional $70 for previous content so that I could seemingly understand what the hell was going on in the story. I bought what I did in hopes I had a LOT to catch up on, because like most games, thats how it is. You take a break you come back and pay for xpacs (the product) and you have years worth of content to catch up on--so that you have a good understanding of what happened while you were gone. Not for Bungie. Not only do they want you to spend around $150 for 4 years worth of content (minus most of the content released before that) they want you to pay $10 for a battle pass that has one armor set attached. To be fair, the battle pass is actually the best thing about Destiny 2--Because you actually save money. Because if you miss the battle pass, the armor set for that season is $15.00 in the Eververse store....What is the line of thinking here? Players are monetarily punished for not playing your game? I mean you get exotic weapons, emotes, finishers, bonuses, AND an armor set cosmetic for $10..unless you don't play, then we'll ramp the value up by 3x's. Its embarrassing. I am sooooo saddened by all this. I really hoped Bungie would have had theyre -blam!- together by now. Theyre a AAA gaming company and to see such inexcusable-high school level- writing, unfortunate game management, and lazy content creation is so sad. Its arguably the worst that Ive seen in this franchise. I spent $60 with the expectation Id have weeks of farming. Bungie very much overvalues their product. What's the point of buying an expansion if it doesnt unlock the contents of said expansion? Bungie, seriously, why are you charging $40 for an expansion and then $70 for everything in that expansion? Youre seriously charging $40 for 10 story missions and a couple of exotic quests? Thats almost the price of an entire AAA titled game. You know, if I thought Xbox would refund me Id ask, but honestly this ones on me. I should have done more research before spending the money. To end, if you play Destiny 2 and have been playing Destiny 2 since launch, im sure none of this matters to you. But to new players or returning players, this is an absolute embarrassment. Bungie should be -blam!- embarrassed over how they have set up this game for returning players. I dont know what needs to change. But as a consumer and a Destiny universe LOVER somethings gotta give. Because yeah you guys got your community. But thats it. People arent gunna keep coming. Only more people will leave. Good luck at your next xpac launch, hope you guys do good. -admiral

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  • You don't need to write a novel, just go.

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    • Nobody actually cares about your Destiny experience. Over 1mil pre-orders for witch queen. People gonna play this game till they take the servers offline someday. Just go find another game, what's the point of looking like a chump telling why you "might" be leaving when nobody sought you out to find out if you were gonna leave the game in the first place. The only thing I can think is that you are famous in the community, and you are trying to say bye to your circle of other community VIPs 'cause they might wonder why you are offline during normal online hours - but the odds of that being the case here are not seeming reasonably good. So, if you are another anon nobody like most of us, and are telling us you might leave (again); and then start explaining why (again, nobody asked). Well then, makes you look like a needy chump! So, stay or go; come back, leave again. Then back for a bit, then leave....etc....it wont matter; because no one cares.

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    • You know you can just leave right? Instead of attention seeking?

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      • Edited by MasterProtector: 2/1/2022 4:03:21 AM
        I understand, it’s equally sad to see and is prevalent in the comments on this post that the remaining majority of players are petty children incapable of perceiving the concept of customer feedback on a company run forums site dedicated to what? “Feedback” no different than leaving a review, yet every time I see a post like this it’s a bunch of repetitious attacks and underhanded commentary from people who need other people to tell them how to prep their loadouts for end game. (Sad thing is those same trolls won’t be able to resist commenting their usual brown water spit up and they will out themselves for the toxic keyboard warriors they are) All that said, hope you have fun on whatever next venture you move too, I’ve been very tempted to get back into warframe since I was never disappointed with their game.

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      • That sucks -- people don't understand that this game is a meme among the gaming community. There are way better alternatives to this game. And sadly, people fanboy this game because it's all they have to their name, it's the only thing that makes them feel special. Quite frankly, Im glad you're parting ways with this game as it serves for exploration of other games. And to be honest, there are plenty of them out there.

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      • Ripoffs are in the eye of the beholder. I got a lot of enjoyment out of Destiny for what I paid. Is it perfect? Nah. Lots of room for improvement, but lots of good things about it too. Not many things in this world you can buy for $100 and enjoy for hours on end.

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      • [quote]Howdy I played Destiny 1 for thousands of hours--Destiny 2 I played up to Forsaken. I quit because whereas Destiny 1 steadily got better over time, Destiny 2 pretty much stayed the same--the main improvement being adding Lore into a menu accessible in-game. Crucible was the worst it had ever been. The story writing and dialogue were cringe and embarrassing and the Charactters added in were uninteresting and useless. Then they killed off the only interesting character in their entire franchise, which, fine--but the shoes werent filled. Eventually, I was tired of going around in Bungies circle. Pay money--they add a minimal amount of content and everyone in the community promises itll get better. I was done buying all the McFarlane toys and statues--thousands of dollars I willingly gave Bungie whether it be cosmetics in the Eververse store or their Lore Book or Funko Pops. I was a Bungie supporter because I had hope they would get better. I stopped hoping. Years passed and every so often Id see a Twitter post highlighting how broken certain weapons and classes were. Nothing had changed. So, four years later, the other day, I (stupidly) get the urge to download destiny 2 on my new Xbox. I have still been in my Clans Discord since i left and have played several other games with them since I left D2. I had heard it was free to play. I downloaded it and figured Id go ahead and get all the expansions available, so Id have a lot to do. So I spend around $60 or whatever it was for Shadowkeep-Beyond the Light. Get in the game--oh theres a battle pass too. I went ahead and spent $10 on the Battle Pass cuz why not, I had four years of stuff to catch up with. I played through the story for Shadow Keep and Beyond the Light in two sittings, maybe 8 hours...and all the while wondering why characters I hadnt met and or had been gone before started appearing. Oh theres Crow...okay I remember him in Forsaken and he was revived...but hes a Guardian now? Hmm, must have forgotten. Oh theres Saint 14...when did he...Maras back too..okay. It became increasingly obvious to me that I was missing something. I eventually came to realize they were selling 4 years worth of content for $70 on the store... It hit me. Where are the planets from Vanilla? Where Calus' ship? My CLan explained they had all been removed. So I was charged $70 for 8 hours of a mediocre story (my god ghost is unbearable in Beyond the Light) and a few Exotic Quests. Not only that but they took away all the content I had previously paid for when D2 came out, which means I cant rerun them with my clan for titles and achievements (because oh yeah, they take titles out of the game too) AND THEN they wanted me to spend an additional $70 for previous content so that I could seemingly understand what the hell was going on in the story. I bought what I did in hopes I had a LOT to catch up on, because like most games, thats how it is. You take a break you come back and pay for xpacs (the product) and you have years worth of content to catch up on--so that you have a good understanding of what happened while you were gone. Not for Bungie. Not only do they want you to spend around $150 for 4 years worth of content (minus most of the content released before that) they want you to pay $10 for a battle pass that has one armor set attached. To be fair, the battle pass is actually the best thing about Destiny 2--Because you actually save money. Because if you miss the battle pass, the armor set for that season is $15.00 in the Eververse store....What is the line of thinking here? Players are monetarily punished for not playing your game? I mean you get exotic weapons, emotes, finishers, bonuses, AND an armor set cosmetic for $10..unless you don't play, then we'll ramp the value up by 3x's. Its embarrassing. I am sooooo saddened by all this. I really hoped Bungie would have had theyre -blam!- together by now. Theyre a AAA gaming company and to see such inexcusable-high school level- writing, unfortunate game management, and lazy content creation is so sad. Its arguably the worst that Ive seen in this franchise. I spent $60 with the expectation Id have weeks of farming. Bungie very much overvalues their product. What's the point of buying an expansion if it doesnt unlock the contents of said expansion? Bungie, seriously, why are you charging $40 for an expansion and then $70 for everything in that expansion? Youre seriously charging $40 for 10 story missions and a couple of exotic quests? Thats almost the price of an entire AAA titled game. You know, if I thought Xbox would refund me Id ask, but honestly this ones on me. I should have done more research before spending the money. To end, if you play Destiny 2 and have been playing Destiny 2 since launch, im sure none of this matters to you. But to new players or returning players, this is an absolute embarrassment. Bungie should be -blam!- embarrassed over how they have set up this game for returning players. I dont know what needs to change. But as a consumer and a Destiny universe LOVER somethings gotta give. Because yeah you guys got your community. But thats it. People arent gunna keep coming. Only more people will leave. Good luck at your next xpac launch, hope you guys do good. -admiral[/quote] I'm sorry. But there is no way, you bought all of that content, not knowing all the older stuff was in the DCV. Every man and his dog knows about that BS. [spoiler]lulz[/spoiler]

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      • Same think whitchqueen is the last time I play sick of the hamster wheel of stale content might go back to eso a game that I always has something to do, in destiny I find myself in orbit majority of the time bored

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        • No one is ready all of that for a “maybe”.

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        • Edited by Dismay: 2/1/2022 6:30:36 PM
          TheAdmiralOreo retires from D2 yesterday, now Tom Brady today. Pain.

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        • Wall of text to quit a game you barely play. Nice.

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        • See you at witchqueen

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        • You're playing a persistent world game. The whole POINT is that the game world changes, and is constantly updated. The hard reality is that the limitations of PS4 and Xbox 1 limits the size of the game. So if you want NEW stuff to play, you need to let go of the old stuff. ...and with Sony now in a position to bank roll this game, and (imo) a very POWERFUL vested interest in its success? We're gong to see a lot of Bungie hiring and a radical expansion of Bungie's development bandwidth. So....good time to get out now before the game takes a radical turn for the better. Or (more likely) [i] see you in three wee[/i]ks.

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        • Let's hope with Sony behind them they will rebuilt Destiny for Destiny 3 and make everything coherent from Destiny 1 all the way till Destiny 3!

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        • Edited by Psyggie: 2/1/2022 1:11:13 PM
          I stopped reading at "D2 has stayed the same" lol massive improvements have been a constant thing especially the last year. It's world's better than D2 launch so much that it's practically a different game. Muted for no logic, and excessive whining

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        • You play Destiny for the story and characters? The shooting my dude, shooting stuff is cool.

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        • Another pointless farewell speech. If you are serious, just don't play and move on. But I am sure that you will be back in 22 days

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          • Content vaulting is a necessary evil due to their crappy engine. However, I can empathize with you and totally understand you not wanting to come back because of it. The way I see it? You already spent a lot of money, might as well get your investments worth, right?? VoG is back and reprised, give a go sometime, Guardian.

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          • Believe me, you'll be back for Witch Queen and you will be grinding Public Events like a maniac, no offense.

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          • I had to scroll past all that nonsense just to say, “see you tomorrow for the weekly reset!”

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          • You should get a job as a commercial aircraft.

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          • All that and you don’t know whether your coming or going. Mr indecisive.

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          • Oh don't worry, you have more than weeks of farming. The story is not what makes destiny.

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          • Edited by Carnage: 2/1/2022 5:38:31 AM
            Here’s that attention you wanted. Hope it hit the spot. By the way. See you on the 22nd when Witch Queen drops. You’re not fooling anyone. Lol.

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