As bad as Anthem is, playing it reminded me of what we play for in looter shooter games. We play and play to increase our power, and not just by a made-up number, but to the point where you actually see your abilities and weapons increase In Power and absolutely devastate enemies. With Destiny our abilities and our weapons don’t get any more powerful, we just go up a number so they tune up the numbers on the enemies. That’s not engaging bcs it leaves for the same stale firefights. Instead of getting powerful exotics that make them feel actually exotic, we have to read about constant nerfs to them. Trench barrel on the Ikelos shotgun at one point felt like that power we fantasize about, but now it’s been nerfed to where trench barrel barely feels any effect and it shoots slower and weaker. I want to play to get more powerful not to slowly go up a number that actually has no meaning. Gambit Prime feels like it could be fun but we’re stuck shooting peas and tickling them with grenades and supers. The power fantasy is GONE!!!! I was really excited logging in today and had fun for a couple of gambit matches, but then I tried to make time to level up and it just reminded me what’s inherently wrong with the game and the way they force us to play it. TL;DR Grinding for a number Bungie artificially slows, isn’t fulfilling the power fantasy these type of games are supposed to give.