If you want to find what's causing the player exodus, simply look in the mirror.
The heavy handed micro-manipulation of the way the game is played, coupled with the obvious neglect Ie: well mods only showing up once per year in the shop, among other things, is the patently obvious answer.
For some unknown reason, you're rated as a AAA game dev. company. Good investment on whoever you're paying off to claim that for you. This kind of crap isn't what's expected. You're expected to pay attention to what's going on.
For a brief comparison between well mods and weapons mods, and weapons mods outnumber the well mods by quite a margin, you can play 3 games of "pick a list" and weapons mods will literally be dropping out of the sky like rain from the clouds at the end of each activity PLUS you have 6 and sometimes 7 rotating slots at the two vendors, Ada and Banshee.
Well mods have exactly 2, and sometimes only 1 spot at Ada.
Are you trying to set a record for operating with your eyes shut?
This has been mentioned ad nauseum on the forums with the expected "we don't give a crap" attitude from the devs.
Take the 15 seconds it would take to fix it. You already have vendor templates in place. Use one, stick it where drifter used to be, and bam, done. But no, you simply don't want to is all I can guess. You want the new players to feel like crap seeing all the builds they can't do by content creators showing how great the builds can be.
They could be like that for everyone if you showed the slightest interest in giving the slightest crap about the players.
But no, you won't take the miniscule time it would take to do that .... and you'll sit back and wonder why, no matter how many releases you do, that your population takes a 2-week peak, and then goes negative again.
You folks have a flat line learning curve. Facts.
What you should do is dedicate 40 hours/wk for a dev to come here and look at the forums and actually get things in the process of being addressed and have that dev post into the forum "hey, we see this, it's simple. Probably have it done tomorrow" Something like that. Instead, you insulate them and by doing that, you prohibit the growth and development of the population of the game. EVEN when you do address things quickly, it's ONLY if it is something that is game breaking in favor of the guardians, NEVER if it's game breaking against the guardians. Your bias shows in favor of the game, and your bias against the players show as well.
Gotta love a company that hates new players aka Bungie
Peace
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2 RepliesI’m sorry but these posts are always funny and yours went above and beyond. “Heavy handed micro manipulations” has to be one of the dumbest things iv heard in awhile. Keep up the good work.