They -blam!-ed up my favorite game -blam!- them I hope they all die.

This is what happens when a company forces their talent out and focuses solely on monetization Vice creating a great experience. The comment that Luke Smith said during D1 about people throwing money at the screen after seeing an emote is in essence what D2 is all about . Developing a glorified pachinko machine...Luke Smith can always go work for Konami if this franchise fades away or gets let go

This game is in a real sad state right now. If you go to the TWAB for the 5th of october it says there was 61 million reward packages for the faction rally handed out. They never posted numbers for the second one but the Charlemagne app via the warming.io tracked it around 10-12 million. This faction rally there was just over 500,000 turned in. Whether this is due to player base or them throttling tokens, it doesn’t bode well for bungie.

I bet you voted Hilary and protest chik fil-a for not being Vegan.

Yea bungie is in full damage control. Really interested to see how this all plays out. September’s expansion I believe will be the make or break for the franchise. Is it free? Is it offered at a reduced price? We will have to see

I did some quik mafs and figured out that the total amount of people who played PvE yesterday (about 632k) are only about 7.715% of the total amount of recorded players (8.2M)

Honestly. They must want this negative attention, and i'm starting to think it's a part of the show. They hired behavioral psych's so. It would make sense to mess with your emotions, and frustrate you in order for you to be overwhelmed with joy with the changes coming in the next "DLC" That would be the "Real stuffs." You know all the streamers will scream like lil girls on Dlc release day. Even if it's trash, but im thinking this next dlc is going to be a lot of changes, and OP weapons.

The game did sell a lot more than D1, those 8 year olds that couldn’t buy D1 three years ago and the 10 years olds that couldn’t buy it three years ago etc etc. They all bought d2, the only thing suffering financially is the micro transactions.

This same thing was said by the same analyst about battlefront messing with activision's profits, and was wrong. https://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2018/01/24/a-warning-about-the-notion-that-destiny-2-will-drag-down-activision-in-2018/#29b32a361832

Is they’re anyway to play Destiny 2 offline? I like the game, but don’t want to have anybody playing with me whilst I do my milestones.. I’d love that. Anybody know how to do that in Game? I’ve hear other say today when they did there’s they couldn’t find anybody to do public events with... I’d love that...

No it can, but they need a splash, not a plunk. There is always opportunity in failure, and what people love more than seeing a top dog crash, is a comeback story. Look no further than the '' Division '' and all the recent buzz it's getting. But to do this they need to start restoring the public trust, Advance some good will. And not just with free silver or bright dust. Take those exotic ships and sparrows and put them in the actual game. That's one thing they can do right now. The game can't be changed overnight. But what they can do is start changing the perception, and show players that they actually get how poorly the ip is doing. Start generating positive buzz by throwing caution to the wind. The great thing about no one playing the game is that you can start taking some chances. Why not? What does it matter at this point? That means whatever they got sitting in the basement as far as ideas or ways to improve the player power fantasy and grind, it's time to dust them off and see what they can do. Not tomorrow, now. And then just come out and say it. This is what we are going to do. Expect it on this day. Or just ask, lets have a conversation right now, this is what we want to do, what do you think? Get the players involved, and start making some splashes. A good analogy is to think of it like a football team that is down in a game, say by thirty points with two and a half quarters left. You take it one play at a time until you score a touchdown, not a field goal, a touchdown. Then you build on that momentum and start making more touchdowns. Next thing you know, you got yourself a competitive game again. That needs to be the mindset. If they come at it with this type of strategy, this game can be turned around. If they don't and it's business as usual until d3, d2 will continue to suffer, and carry the dulled expectations of d3 with it.

What I don't get is why did Bungie choose to take D2 in such a drastically new direction? I mean if they are as lazy as they are perceived to be, then why didn't they just stick with the winning formula they had developed with Destiny 1? All they really had to do was take all the content from D2 and make it DLC for Destiny 1 and the community would've supported them fully.. By creating a sequel the entire franchise has been split in half. Somebody at Bungie is gonna get fired for this you can bet on it.. Activision is not going to take this lightly.