After the recent news stories regarding disappointing sales figures from Activision, and the rebuttal from Bungie, I thought I would share my and my friends' personal views on the matter to help shed some light on the matter. When Destiny 2 first came out, I bought the game and the full season pass from the start. The game looked great, and I played through it fairly quickly before DLC1 dropped. The game didn't quite feel complete, but I figured it was ok because the DLC would complete it right? Obviously, like everyone else I was disappointed in the expansion. I don't say this lightly, but I honestly felt like someone had just stolen my money. By Christmas (2-3 weeks), I had already stopped playing Destiny 2. Just prior to DLC2, I had hope that maybe Bungie would fix my concerns and so I started playing again. I beat the story of DLC2 which was fairly fun. The frozen thrall enemies were fine, even if I did feel it was pretty much a reskin without much difference. The bosses and strikes were fun though. However, I couldn't bring myself to even finish the expansion's post-story quests. For instance, I loved the idea of increasing difficulty of waves of enemies like it escalation protocol, but it was so poorly executed that it was far more trouble than it was worth. I found it ridiculous the amount of trouble you had to go through to find a group of people to play it with. And if you didn't go through that trouble, you would either be doing it by yourself or with one other person because they would be the only people on Mars.... I also didn't like that it would cancel the world's public event, so I couldn't do those either because there was always a person trying to do the first wave of escalation protocol by himself. Really it should of just been a service similar to strikes and that would have been far superior. Additionally, I felt the other quests just made you go and do old missions for no reason in substitute of new content. I felt this was a slap in the face considering I had paid money for this, only for them to make me redo old missions. If you wanted me to do that, at least change the voice lines or make it *seem* like there was a shallow story reason for me to do this. Understandably, I was hesitant about Forsaken when it released. I told myself I wouldn't buy it for a while until it proved to me that people still felt like a good game after a month. So far it has passed that test, and I'm happy to hear that. So I logged on to give it a try, and I must say I'm finally happy with the weapon system. I finally feel like loot is worthwhile to farm now, and to try different weapons, so thank you Bungie. The player movement feels clean, I tried Gambit and that was a lot of fun. However, I'm very annoyed that Bungie has taken content away from me because I didn't buy Forsaken. I understand this to an extent, but try to understand that I already felt that Destiny 2 was lacking after all my money spent, and now I actually have less than I did before? I find that very annoying. Furthermore, as far as I can tell there is still no matchmaking for Nightfall which is total bogus to me. I should not have to go searching for a teammate on the internet for something as simple as nightfall. The heroic strikes have it, why in the world doesn't Nightfall have it? That actually makes me not want to play Nightfall. For the raids, I am more understanding why there isn't matchmaking. I wish there was, but I understand why that could go wrong. However, I also had huge problems with bugged drop rates of engrams and those Ace of Spades cards and stuff. How can you actually release an item intended to increase drops rates, that ACTUALLY set the drop rate to zero. I actually felt that Bungie had stolen my in-game money this time.... Why haven't I bought Forsaken still? It mainly comes down only a couple reasons, besides my previous gripes. 1) I think $40 is too much to pay for a game that has consistently made me feel like I wasted my money. Forsaken seems to have finally made Destiny 2 feel like a complete game, but I shouldn't have to almost buy a complete new game on top of the original and a year of DLC to feel that way (and they still haven't fixed all of my complaints from launch. I will pay $20 for it, and I think that's fair. This is because I don't consider it paying for a new expansion, I see this as paying to fix a game. 2) After seeing that Destiny 2 revoked content from me for not buying Forsaken, I'm positive they will do it again during the year 2 DLC. I guess DLC3 is set to launch sometime next month, which means even if I pay for Forsaken I probably won't get to enjoy it because they will lock content behind a new expansion again. While I understand this to an extent, this shows me that Bungie is moving forward without fixing concerns of the many players it slighted. I don't want to hate this game, I really want to enjoy it, but this game and the way it's being handled has left an awful taste in my mouth and they aren't trying to remedy it. I'm not posting this to look for a debate with players who purchased Forsaken and think everything is better now. This is simply a statement of why myself and my friends have not chosen to spend more money on this game in hopes that maybe Bungie can fix these problems and concerns, and maybe bring the community back. I sincerely hope that Bungie and Destiny 2 can change my mind, because I really wanted to enjoy this game.