What has happened to my favorite past time? I have been playing this game for years and have mostly always enjoyed Destiny since vanilla D1. I have to say that Bungie has taken a wrong turn with the game and I don't see it getting better. The biggest problem? They have made the game artificially harder. Why? There is no possible way they had a game tester play some of the newer content on the hardest levels and they said it was good. They have taken away the reward of grinding a high power by introducing nonsensical limits to various activates and areas that make the game more annoying than fun. The best example of this is the Exotic Glaive mission on legendary difficulty. If you have played it you know, it's already an annoying mission and with Bungie adding the artificial difficulty it gets way more annoying. That mission is not their best work, and making it as repetitive, add heavy, and difficult as they did, I give it an F. I have really enjoyed all of their other exotic missions, and this one might have been enjoyable prior to the changes. Bungie also takes way too long to fix issues that hinder players, or gameplay, but are super quick to fix anything that is advantageous to players i.e. exploits, weapons that do more damage than intended, or areas of zones or maps that you can use to hide from damage. They are so worried about players playing their game in their own way instead of some intended way that is never fully clear. The changes to comp don't make a lot of sense either. To promote to the next rank you have to play extra matches, and win the majority of them to advance? Why? I earned to points to go to the next rank, now I have to hope to win more matches to advance, and if not get knocked down half a rank? But don't forget you lose more points for losing a match than you get for winning one, so if you win 3 but lose 2, you didn't' really do anything at all. Does bungie listen to the average player? It feels more and more like they only listen to streamers and not average players. I am saying they listen to less than 1% of their player base. If they listened to the average player I don't think they would have ever implemented these recent changes. I don't think anyone from bungie will even read this post, but I had to write it to get my frustrations out there. I have really put a lot of time into this game and made some good friends, but it is getting harder and harder for me to justify playing this game and spending money on it. I like the story, even though it doesn't always make sense, but the game play is seriously going down hill. It's just not fun anymore, and that really frustrates me. If you read this, thanks, and sorry for all the sodium.