When you cater a game to the 1%, don't be surprised when the other 99% leave.

I would argue it's like 95% actually. Roughly 600 teams participated in this silly day one race, which can be entertaining. This one wasn't, because it was like 10% ad clear, and 90% shooting the boss. But betwen 600 and 700 teams makes it about 4000 players.. out of approximately 100.000. Sure, maybe not everyone could participate for whatever reason, but i doubt we would see more than 5000, but lets say 6000 for arguments sake.. still nowhere near the majority. Most players wont bother with even trying the 500 level cap, because soon they will have to do it all over again. I wont try, i will level upp, but i wont aim for 500, 300 maybe. But i dont see myself grinding for powerlevel over and over again, and certainly not every 6 months. Bungie needs to sort this one out, otherwise this is probably the last raid we will ever see.

Why do you expect raid gear without raiding?

Bump

How do you not have time to do a raid. Most raids take an hour or less.

I don't understand why Bungie has made the last two xpacs, whatever you want to call them solo based. From the beginning, the point of playing a game like this is the public zones where you run into people and wind up working together to complete something. Sometimes you made a friend, and would group up and still play in those spaces and push for the drops and upgrades. Now it's based on the same zone, and increasing the power level as you go. The problem is, it's the same frigging zone, just more difficult as you raise the bar. Bungie, do you not know how boring this is? For years the player base has been talking about how you add just enough to say you added something. Each season has been a short story, and then the same boring grind in the same content. Except that now you've made it even worse. 450? 500? whatever the power cap is, as far as I can tell that number is just bragging rights and slightly upgraded gear. Yes, this story took longer to complete. BUT, that's only because you riddled it with ridiculous puzzles and a sparky ball that, apparently, makes people nauseous. I'm sitting at around 230'ish. If I reach 300 before the reset, I'll be surprised because I don't see myself playing the same zones over and over just to get a 5 point upgrade in a single slot every now and then. I'm simply doing fireteam ops now, heh. Upgrades are decent, 4 per hour or more if you find speed runners that actually go for the max score. Oh well, I'm not gonna beat a dead horse any longer, but I really wish we had the team from destiny 1 still going at it.

No correction the player based doesn't give a s*** about the seasonal power bs nobody is gonna grind for seasonal power if this is going to reset like this... ex one thing if the power cap was like 10 power per season that's one thing but the fact that they want you to grind 250 levels per season just to reset that is just utterly f****** stupid... It's almost like bungee put more dedication to make a power grind until you die but they put less dedication into making additional content after the campaign because think about it we only have one piece of new content in kepler and it's a arena that you can only complete for 30 minutes and then you have to wait 2 hours after it finishes to do it again... It's almost like bungie didn't learn what happened with escalation protocol and Naomi labs if you were here for curse of the warmind you would know exactly what I'm talking about how bad it really was bungee had to remove the labs they had to nerf escalation because only 5% of the community actually f****** completed it... Even more so look at the current state of mystic even streamers are saying that they can't handle it and they're supposed to be Professional gamers... If you want even a bigger example look at the raid few people who completed it took them almost 30 hours not because of the mechanics but because of the difficulty it's way too f****** hard it's nothing but bullet sponges and you have to constantly rely on ability spam... What's crazy is the content creators who complained about this they actually had early access they're the ones who told bungie that the progression was too slow that the content felt too hard and they ignore them...