Yup. We've essentially been turned into drones, we know exactly what'll happen and yet we still give them money. I think as a community we're probably -blam!-ed.
I'm worried because Destiny is not the kind of game that survives that.
If I buy a normal game, say Assassin's Creed or Fallout or the main Elder Scrolls games, I will inevitably hit a point where I've done everything. And that's fine, because they didn't market the game as more than that. They went out to sell one experience meant for one person, you experience the world and you're done eventually. That's their MO and that's what they'll give me. There's one primary market in gaming, however, that has to keep giving me more to do if I buy into their game; MMO's. It's not necessarily because they want to stick to just one game, but because the work that goes into running the one game will keep them busy enough that it's more effective to simply pour all resources into that one game.
And that's where Bungie went wrong. They've marketed Destiny as this living, evolving world(despite it quite frankly not being that) and assumed the obligations and expectations that come with it.
A shared-world shooter is different from the other popular FPS games. CoD and Battlefield have campaigns that are willingly overshadowed by their multi-player and that's what they advertise. Rainbow Six is even more extreme on the spectrum. Destiny is a game that only receives content influx acceptable for a competitive online multi-player game, and yet they mainly advertise the PvE aspect that they simply can't keep up with. Through the game's design and primarily their own marketing they created a beast of a game that has all the content flow requirements of an MMO, and left it to rot while they moved on to the sequel. That's either poor management or a horrible lapse in judgement, and it's already significantly damaged the IP. If they had waited to begin production on the sequel and prioritized maintaining the game they released, I think a good deal fewer people would think of Destiny as badly as they do.
I get it, you like Destiny. And that's fine. Lots of us who criticize Bungie enjoy or at least acknowledge the stuff they actually do put out for what it is. I personally can't enjoy the game much anymore as a whole because I hate how they've managed it. When you market a living world you need to ensure that it's not only alive during certain months. It's even worse when what little is left alive is a shell of its former self.