This forum’s definitely an emotional place. It’d be pretty hard to find any kind of post, positive, neutral, critical, or negative that doesn’t start a war in the comments. As someone who’s been playing this game nearly seven years and have only recently decided that I’m no longer willing to commit dollars to the game, it’s been a lot of things that have built up to erode my faith in Bungie. Some of them patterns over the years, and some of them the recent direction of the game. The biggest issues for me (in no particular order) are: 1. Lack of consistency in the game’s identity 2. Lack of consistency in the game’s systems 3. An overall poor handling of the in-game narrative 4. Focusing on having ‘something to do’ instead of something worth doing, aka, constantly putting in and stretching out barebones excuses for content to feed the people who are addicted to the game and can’t conceptualize something called “a healthy break.” Something the players and the game itself needs more and more as time goes on. 5. Because of the above, monetizing the game as much as possible to extract as much profit as they can during these seasons of stretched out content at the expense of delivering things as pursuits of playing the actual game. 6. Problems, some small and some foundational, that can go months and upwards of years before they are even acknowledged, let alone addressed. 7. An inability to settle on a healthy sandbox, in both PVE and PVP 8. The lack of options for many weapon classes, particularly once sunsetting kicks in 9. The erosion of the value of loot, started at the top with endgame rewards and has now affected all loot in the game 10. The delivery and quality of content since they became self-publishing (Shadowkeep and all of the seasons to this point) 11. Lacking the capability to make (if nothing else) a proper sequel, and pretending as though trying to soft reboot the game (sunsetting and content vaulting) is even remotely the same thing But what it really boils down to is that Destiny has and always will survive on how good the shooting feels, but Bungie as an independent is not capable (at least with current decision makers) of delivering a quality experience surrounding that gunplay that’s worth the asking price.

Honestly if you’re a new player, just go to one of the subreddits for the game. Far less toxic and people are likely going to give you advice as to what to do next. Try r/destinythegame or r/destiny2. (I recommend the former).

The game’s great, the forums are mostly toxic kids. I wouldn’t rely on them for much advice.

[quote]Well now that I’ve seen much feedback going either way I have to ask this next question after a statement. Yes, I’m a new player with that new toy feeling and I hope over time I will be able to continue to find positives even if something with the game doesn’t go my way. However for those that can’t believe I find positivity in the game or for those that think the games fun has worn off over the years, my question is this. Why do you have a negative attitude about a game that has so many positives? Here’s a bonus question. What happened to you that changed your attitude about the game?[/quote] once you run out of things to do, and you fatigue yourself, game gets dry. you start seeing all the “bad” in the game. it’ll be a while until that happens to you though. also forums are generally toxic so expect that and i wouldnt log on here for a positive experience ever

I can understand your post. I think I’m the long run it comes down to playing what you enjoy. Maybe if we gave more food back on what we enjoyed then they would continue to give us what we enjoyed. I would like to see more content and cinematic and such. This has been the fastest game I’ve ever got to the end game in. However with vaulting and exotic grinds it seems there is no end game in sight for me.... it just keeps going and going.

Double post, oops