Several reasons. D1 launched without the Eververse and many did not want it introduced when it was added later. However, at the time we were told it was just going to be a small side thing to fund the live team who would take that money and reinvest it into the game and expand it. Most of us, still having faith in Bungie at the time, did not like Tess but were willing to accept her if it meant free content. However, the live team never produced anything of substance and now Tess is one of the main economies of the game. We did not buy a $60 game with $40 of DLC with more paid DLC on the way to have all activity related ships sparrows and shells stripped from the game and put in a cash shop. Bungie did not keep their word about Tess so she needs to go. Next there are several cases where Tess simply existing hurts the game. The way they broke the shader system and turned it into the current inventory management nightmare is an example. The largest way she hurts the game however is in opportunity cost. In three months Tess saw three different inventories while huge problems with the core game are unresolved. Anytime Bungie chooses to focus on Tess they are choosing not to do something else. Why did the game launch with no strike specific loot and no loot for any of the endgame activities? Because they were busy making three different inventories for Tess. The Dawning most clearly shows the lost opportunity. The entire event was microtransactions. ALL development effort went into giving Tess more loot boxes instead of anything meaningful. There could have been a cool little thing were we search the fallen tower and city for lost toys to give back to the children of the city, but we got loot boxes instead. This lost opportunity is a cost everyone pays. RNG loot boxes are a from of gambling that is targeted at vulnerable adults and children who do not know how to deal with vices. The people who spend money on loot boxes are not rich whales but adults no better off than anyone else who have addictive personality traits. The loot boxes are designed to be appealing to these people in the same way pulling the lever on a slot machine might be. This is literally an abusive practice and I do not want it in my games. Finally, if Destiny 2 and COO were in good places, no one would care about Tess. However, the majority feeling is that D2 and COO were massively underdelivered and disappointing. Resentment over how many of the game's systems worked has been building for years and D2 fixed nothing while breaking things people liked like the grimore, core gameplay, and weapon system all while stripping away features. This massive step backwards with no sign that the major problems are even being worked on cost Bungie the faith of most of their players. Because of this questionable decisions are now being looked at with a lot less forgiveness, and Tess is on the top of the list of questionable decisions.

If I am being completely and blatantly honest about it I don't even care about eververse in fact I tend to forget about the fact that it even exists unless i'm in the tower or I get a bright engram and even then i'm just like "oh hey you exist I forgot about that.... huh" and go about my day as if it didn't even happen

There is more and more focus on EV instead of new playable content for DLC, expansions and events. That's my beef.

Let me explain it not like a complainer, because I think a lot gets lost on a lot of these posts where people are calling for Eververse removal, Luke Smith to get fired, Bungie to burn but the big picture gets lost. I think the real problem is that Eververse is actually the best thing this game has. Honestly, the people that are calling for it to be removed sometimes say gambling, dishonesty, bla bla and some of that may or may not be true or whatever, but really the problem is Eververse now in D2 compared to Eververse in D1 and what it is doing to the game. I don't care if Eververse is in the game, and I didn't care in D1 and I didn't care if someone bought the extra emotes and what not. The problem is that D2 is an Eververse game. We understand that D2 is not pay to win, you don't get better gear from Eververse, and nothing is locked there cause you can just get it by playing.........that is NOT the issue. The issue is that there is no longer the handful of very unique and coveted end game items available only by completing hard mode raids, going flawless, etc. Eververse killed the need/want to do endgame content by absorbing the rewards and making everything available through engrams you can get by basically going to patrol and killing anything and everything over and over.

I don't care about Eververse but claiming you don't know why after all this time makes me feel like you don't read. Or can't.

The more they make from eververse, the less meaningful content they will feel compelled to make. (CoO is a joke) The game is designed around eververse and in a very scummy way.

Agreed eververse has no impact on main game. Every game has cosmetic shit you can buy Call of duty Warframe Battlefield GTA Wow World of tanks Come on list goes on Stop whining people

I have played many games and money is always involved with MMO's. A fantasy game, Neverwinter, has many money portals and I have not seen the tears shed in that game that I see in this. Why? Removing Eververse will not put more content in the game.

Really, it nothing more than s bunch of little sheep following a couple of streamers. It’s all fake with 20 to 30 actual people being responsible for every Eververse post. It has no real support at all and should be ignored. Just mute anyone starting a thread about it and report them for disrupting the forums. After about 20 you won’t have any more of those posts in your thread.

MTX's were birthed from the FTP Mobile paradigm. The games were free, but in order to progress at an accelerated rate OR to change your appearance, get special items, etc, you needed to buy things with real world money. That paradigm carried over to PC and console with games like Warframe and Neverwinter. And it was accepted because those games allowed you to use 1 of 2 forms of currency: time or money. You could grind out items/gear, or you could buy it outright. The latest trend from so many publishers now is trying to shoehorn this system into their Triple A titles because of a single reason: It is [u][b]cheap[/b] [/u]- development cycle on MTX content is a fraction of things like DLC. Bungie attempted to toe a fine line with Eververse trying to claim it was all cosmetic and thus none of it would affect gameplay. And for the most part they are right. However, now that people have experienced everything D2 has to offer, many are finding the Barbie Dress Up endgame to be stuck behind the Eververse paywall. Not to mention much of the lore itself trapped in random Eververse items that are a limited time only. So if you are really interested in what happened to the Vex for example, you better be grinding out your time or throwing down some cash to get a chance at some crap that will tell you the story. And that brings us to the other side of this: loot boxes. Pay to get a shot at something. Where Warframe you can see something cool and buy it outright, in D2 if you see something cool you pay Tess for a [i][b]chance[/b][/i] to obtain it. If you didn't, oh well - pay her some more and try again. People like to compare Eververse to casino's, but I think it falls more in line with a shitty carnival that comes into your town. It has a lot of useless crap that, even if you get it, after a while you are asking why you even wanted it in the first place.

Apparently it's because of "topic body". I'm not sure what it means, but it seems to be the most important reason because that's what every post's description says.

Fake news started by liberal weenies at CNN.

♡ Tess is bae. ♡