The more I think about the things that I don’t like about D2, the more I see Eververse playing a role. Take mods for example. Why do mods exist, other than to allow us to get 5 over max light. But the more I think about it the more I think that they were actually created as something to pad bright engrams with. The same goes for shaders. The way shaders existed in D1 was perfect, use them as much as you want, never lose them, move them wherever. So why change them to single use? Again, something to pad bright engrams with. Ships, sparrows, and ghost shells were regular rewards in D1, but now they exist purely to pad bright engrams. So here we see the source of all Destiny 2’s problems: Eververse. I honestly wasn’t sure why everyone was uniting against Eververse the way they were at first, but the more I thought about it the more it became clear. Destiny 1 is a game that was built around being fun and empowering the player. Destiny 2 is a game that appears to have been built around loot boxes. Remember that Destiny 1 didn’t ship with a loot box system, that came later. Bungie needs to resist the temptation (or maybe pressure from Activision) to build their game around loot boxes and get back to building them around being fun for the player. I would love to sit down with Luke Smith or Mark Noseworthy and ask them one question: how would have development of Destiny 2 differed had Eververse - or loot boxes as a whole in games - not existed when you started on it.