DO NOT listen to content creators who have barely scratched the surface or who have not played gatcha games telling you Destiny Rising is a good game, this game is not what you think it is and anyone telling you it is good at face value is not a reliable source of information, all opinions are valid but gatcha games take a certain mindset to appreciate. This is not a hate post about Destiny as a whole or even Rising but a realistic take from somebody who does play gatcha games. These games will lure you in with a lot of currency and minimum pay/grind walls at the start, likely giving away some decent characters or weapons, sometimes allowing story content to be unlimited (so long as your characters are strong enough to progress) but there will be a wall that you can only get over by paying or grinding. When I say grinding I’m not talking about the kind of grind Destiny players are used to, this is the kind of grind usually accompanied by resource/currency time gates that can take weeks or months to equate to someone that dropped hundred of dollars to be at the same point. The activity’s that feel fun or new now will quickly wear down, the xur rogue like is a good example. Right now it’s enjoyable but what it will come down to is likely having to run the activity tens or hundreds of times to farm the material you need to edge the character you need leveled just a little further to hit the next break point. By the time you do that you’ll log in and the new limited character banner will be up just in time to have to do it again. The guns you get outside of banners will most likely be an illusion as well, no matter what you farm no weapons will compare to the limited banner weapons they introduce, there will always be a new OP “thing” to get and you’ll only have about a month to get or you’ll be waiting a year for the rerun for your next attempt, oh and you thought just getting the gun/character was enough? Nope, if you want the full potential you’ll need 6 more of it to power it up, historically something like this would cost in the high hundreds of dollars. No amount of good gunplay will change that this is a gatcha game at its core, can you still have fun with it with the right mindset? Yes. Can you play this game without spending money on characters/weapons? Yes. All I’m trying to get at here is there is a lot of misinformation and praise spreading from people that absolutely do not understand how these types of games work and are just parroting second hand info and don’t actually know first hand how gatcha works just what they’ve heard from somebody else. If you’re not careful you could potentially waste a lot of unnecessary money. Aside from the gunplay or activity enjoyment I would NOT use a Destiny content creators’ opinion specifically unless they have history/understanding with gatcha. If you’re in need of a content creator worth listening to on this subject I recommend Mtashed, not only does he have history with Destiny but is now primarily a gatcha streamer, he’s already made a couple of videos regarding this and makes a lot of the same points. You know just in case “some guy on the forums that plays gatcha” isn’t good enough for you and you’ll only listen to the gospel of content creators, as if we aren’t all just some random person posting information on the internet. If that’s not enough for you Aztecross also gives a realistic take taking gatcha into consideration, he also references Mtashed’s takes which apparently isn’t good enough for some people even though dude literally makes a living with gatcha. Final note, this is in no way me saying destiny rising is a bad game, just that gatcha games have a very particular play style and should be gone into with proper information of what to expect which is not being given by content creators unfamiliar. There are definitely people that will enjoy this for what it is.