You're absolutely right... I've been a Destiny player since The Taken king (actually played D1 vanilla, but abandoned it pretty quickly) and have always been the one trying to convince people to play. In fact I can't even recount how many times I BOUGHT D2 and it's expansions FOR some friends who showed interest. I was hooked on this game but knew the steep price, so I'd always buy the expansions for all my friends. I must've sent it as a gift more than 20 times on steam alone. Bought the whole package for my 5 year old and even my 3 year old who doesn't even play games yet. However, they managed to fumble the new player experience so bad that NONE of these friends stuck around. NONE. NOT A SINGLE ONE. And now the veteran player experience feels just as uninspired. So after years of buying this game for others and preordering, I'm one of the people who DIDN'T buy The Final Shape. And, to be honest, unless they blow it out of the water, I probably won't buy it on release. What they did to this game is so disappointing that I honestly couldn't care less about the layoffs... Good Riddance. I just hope someone develops a proper live service looter-shooter to take it's place eventually.