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Edited by Schlokey:
10/21/2023 10:10:11 AM
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Festival of the Lost 2023 Open Letter
Dear Bungie,
Thank you for your hard work throughout the years and putting out the most amazing game which of course is Destiny 2.
Having said that, I guess I'll start with the obvious.
Yet again Festival of the Lost 2023 is a copy-paste of years prior. The only difference is the "Legendary" Haunted Lost Sector that is almost unplayable. Every Red Bar Ad is a Red Sword which basically make them Yellow and Orange bar enemies in strength. Most of the time people are died and when spawned back in are knocked again. Bracus on the EDZ Legendary HLS spawn kills and when he is immune, stands on a point and when you get on he stomps you out. Legendary haunted lost sectors are the biggest mistake for an event that is supposed to be light-hearted and fun. All in all It's way harder then a GM.
And before anyone says you don't have to play them, yes you do, let's be real. Mementos and Erie engrams are tied to it.
You put eerie engram's on these miserable and broken legendary haunted lost sectors. It says recommended light level is 1830 but yet the modifier says your maximum effectiveness is 1815. This makes no sense. To add insult to injury there's a 15-second respawn which slows down everything because you get downed by the sheer volume of ads coming in from every direction, a headless horseman that throws smoke on you and a boss that has never ending ammo and stomp you out plus spawn kill you. The easiest part is the champion?! Smh
Turning the knob to 11 and making it Hard is NOT Content, it's just Hard.
You get nothing extra for playing the Legalendary(GM) Haunted Lost Sectors except a guaranteed Erie engram and annoyed.
My favorite content is the harder stuff but this is not fun and not thought out or seem to be play tested. If you did you would see how busted it is.
Then there's the event card
The event card has you playing ten times more Normal Destiny games (Crucible, Strikes and Gambit) then FOTL Season Games. Why do I have to play 35+ Crucible matches (which are the fastest way) to finish one of the event card triumphs? I want to play FOTL stuff not Unreasonably Forced Grinding to progress a event step.
Another part of the event card is the candy which I believe is 15,000 and to gild your title you have to get 30,000 which is just finding the fastest method of farming which ruins the spirit of it all.
EVERYONE wants the Haunted Forest back. You can even have both. Every year it's the same thing now and I don't want to lose hope that it will get better. Playing a haunted lost sector that we already play that is just dressed up with a Halloween theme is not an event. The haunted forest made it feel like an event.
I know you all at Bungie love the game and want the best for it. Please listen to the community. If you have to send out a poll in a mass email OR have a in-app poll for every player to click on then please do so.
FOTL 2023 looks and feels like Minimum effort for Maximum profits.
Please make next year's better. I have hope but it's fading.
We listen, We are listening. We Watch, We Are watching.
Sincerely yours,
Guardian(s)
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3 Replies[quote]And before anyone says you don't have to play them, yes you do, let's be real. Mementos and Erie engrams are tied to it.[/quote] The people who rapid reply with answers like this, most likely didn't read this far down.
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5 RepliesBungie need a boss, sad to say but they're too soft & workshy. 4 day weeks, no one works weekends or nights, most still work from home. All since the split the games become minimum viable product for maximum return, even the new hires who now control d2 are all new or inexperienced Devs, so cheap., even putting things like seasons & dungeons as silver purchases is a way of paying less fees to digital stores. Under Activision we get forsaken, under bungie we get excuses why everything CANT be done, engine, covid, people at home, spaghetti code, etc etc etc Look at cod, bare minimum product for years, new boss comes in & people want to stay employed, so we get the best event cod has ever had, the haunting, adding zombies & Halloween themes to huge warzone maps, free rewards, new loot for free, even altered some PvP maps. Warzone btw is free, yet bungie use that as excuse to ignore core playlists for 5 years bcoz it's free so can't have budget spent on it. Sony need to bring in their own management tbch
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1 Reply....Just to add, please let new players buy the old masks from past seasons.
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1 Reply[quote]Mementos and Erie engrams are tied to it. [/quote] Let's goooo they named an engram after me
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1 ReplyEdited by ΞsnΛχΞ: 10/22/2023 11:47:06 AMDidn’t make it past the first paragraph …
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Edited by Lazer Scooch: 10/22/2023 3:25:06 AMThanks for being reasonable and not just throwing petty insults at Bungie. I pretty much agree with all your feedback. Festival of the Lost is my favorite seasonal event in Destiny. I love the fun spookiness, the masks, and the candy collecting. But every year I keep wishing it was a little fresher and less frustrating. Why are the stats on the mask helmets so bad? Why do the "epic grab bags" give you 50 point purple armor and the same world drop weapons you get from Banshee rank ups? (That really feels like getting toothpaste or raisins while trick or treating, lol. Really disappointing.) Why can't we get the infinite forest maze back? Maybe alongside Haunted Sectors? I know there are higher priorities in the game but I'd be so stoked if they went all out with refreshing the holiday events, esp. this one.
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11 RepliesSpot on. Hope spawned from the difficulty of the day 1 crota raid. It felt good to have a challenging raid. It has since petered out. The raid became laughable after challenge mode. We want hard content, but not in the activities we do for fun. Neomuna is a great example. I never go there. Dungeons are meant to be hard, but shouldn't be harder than raids. Man said it though, "minimum effort for maximum profit." Is this the new Destiny way? We understand yall want to expand. Hire more people and let Destiny recieve proper development. You cannot buy a more dedicated fan base. We are here. We are loyal. Respect our time. Respect yourself and your game. I have very little faith for TFS. Please prove me wrong. Also, well said Schlokey.
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1 ReplyIt's copy/paste because they simply don't care at this point. They have the winning formula. They know new lights and whales will continue to sink time and $$$$ into this game. Which continues to fuel their greed. This "bare minimum" approach is their new standard, because they know they will come out on the positive side with MONEY. Regardless.
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12 RepliesHaunted Forest sucked.
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2 RepliesThat was very well said, and I completely agree with every point you made. Thank you for taking the time to type that up. Now I just hope that Bungie listens to you.
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1 ReplyI’d say I disagree to be contrary against the gaurdian(s) at the end for no reason other than trolling but tbh this hits to hard and is too accurate.
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7 RepliesThese events are meant to be the same thing every year While I prefer haunted forest it was less casual friendly unlike the current LS version They will always have limited optional paid cosmetics
