I've been watching from the sidelines since Beyond Light (Beyond Lite) released. This is the first time I decided I wasn't going to obsessively preorder an expansion. My reason for not preordering was the concept of Vaulting & Sunsetting being put into play. It didn't sit right with me but more on that later. When you've had 6 years to try and create a winning game and you still have not figured out the simple question of what you actually want your game to be in all that time, it makes one lose hope that the game will ever bounce back. If you enjoy the game then that is great. But I keep thinking about the idea that there were days. Hours. Weeks chasing a specific god rolled weapon and that time has been blatantly disrespected with Sunsetting. But here is my major issue with it. Apparently there are weapons from pre Beyond Light that are STILL IN THE LOOT POOL AND HAVE A HIGHER LIGHT CAP. Ladies and gentlemen.... This is a problem. This tells me that bungie has decided to take their game in the direction of artificial grind with extremely minimal effort on their end. Why am I going to grind out a bad omens if I already had one from last year.... That's not power creep. That's not a new weapon replacing an old one. THATS THE SAME DAMN WEAPON?! This is a huge issue because it tells you that the devs of the game you are playing have grown stale and lazy. For years we have gone through the extreme shift in velocity pertaining to this game. Why is one fall expansion small and another one moderate and another one huge. And then small and small and small? Why is there no consistency in what we can expect? For years we have gone on a ride with a game that sports heavy identity crisses at every turn. Why do we decide to sunset gear, then decide that it wasn't a good idea. Then sunset again beteeen D1 - D2 with our vault being destroyed. Then revoke that and then do it again. Why are we reverting back to concepts that have been heavily voiced against. I don't want a dev I have to fight with. The bottom line is this. The effort being put into the game is lacking. It shows... You guys have no vendor refresh. You guys eliminated half the game because YOU GUYS can't keep up with maintenance. The problem is not the player base. The problem is you guys. Bungie is full of capable people. But you've all grown lazy and tired of your game. That's the bottom line. You're effortless and lazy devs at this point looking to latch onto any excuse as to why your game always boils down to being in a sorry state. Your game is full of bugs and no I do not mean the fallen. Your game is extremely bare bones now. And quite frankly. You're lucky Activision helped you establish a core player base of fan boys because they're seriously what is going to hold you up until they snap out of it or until something better comes along that will remove them from this game. I can't believe how much Bungie has fallen as a company but then again.... Not a lot of veterans remain there. You guys as a company should be ashamed of yourselves. Not even a new freaking race of enemies in 6 years. How sad is that. How freaking sad is that.... And nope. I'm not leaving the forums. :) I'm here to monitor and see things unfold. And if you tell me to go play something else. I already am lol. But I can forum as muuuuuch as I want.