Personally, I really dislike the seasonal model. I would much prefer an annual release that was more ambitious and more exciting to dive into. I’ll deal with the content droughts just fine.
I know many others enjoy the seasons and prefer a steady drip feed of story, activities and loot, so I’m curious to see how the voting goes.
EDIT: 10th July 22
Seasons: 302 votes
Content Drought: 510 votes
Pretty decent sample size of Bungie.net users shows seasons are less popular than I thought they’d be. I had assumed Bungie.net users as more likely to be engaged with the game between major releases, therefore more likely to be engaged with seasons. Lots of interesting comments below (people who enjoy seasons, people who want seasons to be adjusted and people who want seasons to disappear).
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[quote]Personally, I really dislike the seasonal model. I would much prefer an annual release that was more ambitious and more exciting to dive into. I’ll deal with the content droughts just fine. I know many others enjoy the seasons and prefer a steady drip feed of story, activities and loot, so I’m curious to see how the voting goes.[/quote] I would prefer content be released when it is [i]EXCEPTIONAL[/i]! If it isn't, don't waste our time. Problem is, Bungie is greedy af, and willing to waste all their players time just for the [i]chance[/i] of selling some additional bs 'content' to us. Games should either end (have a point where you are finished with that released content), or be so full of content that you never run out. Destiny does neither. They have enough content, but its all set up so you need a 'buddy group' to actually do the rewarding stuff. AND they sunset 4 frakkin worlds of content, plus the OLD leviathan (10x as kool as the new trash), and Oryx Dreadnaught, and and and... If they left ALL that in at least we would have stuff worth doing. Hey BUNGLE, you are being stupid! 70% of your players have [i]never[/i] done a raid! NONE of those players will [i]EVER[/i] buy your extra pay-to-win dungeons! Maybe instead of wasting time with content like that, you should... [i]FINISH DEVELOPING THE ACTUAL DESTINY GAME![/i] [i]By "Finish" I mean complete the development process. Either make RAID mechanics so intuitive they don't need instruction, or make the game teach people how to do them (like every other game developer ever). Then add matchmaking for every activity. Oh, and add in game comms that actually work.[/i] The initial Game Development concept for Destiny was awesome. You just let greedy, stupid people ruin what could have been.