The game isn’t dying, but it is struggling. Once again, Bungie lost sight of the kind of game they made…and the reasons why people play. They got so focused on making the game “difficult” that the (once again) exposed the games fundamental design flaw: insufficient loot. Plus they’ve made the game inaccessible to anyone but hardcores. I’m not going to waste hours trying to LFG a team so that I can try to complete these exotic quests. I’m just going to go play a more accessible game (Diablo 4). Had more fun beating Astaroth than I’ve had this year playing Destiny. Bungie made a wrong move, and needs a MAJOR course correction.

Go outside or play a different game. This is no different than any other year. Numbers go down then a new expansion his and they go up. Literally every game does this

Once the power level grind disappeared the game was further exposed for how shallow and unrewarding it truly is..Can you say insufficient loot? Yes, I knew you could. Still hopeful that Bungie figures things out but then again it’s Bungie so it’s anyone’s guess what will happen. There’s new games to immerse oneself in should this one not be much fun these days.

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I moved on from the game but a friend wanted to start playing. He bought Witch Queen, against my advice. That was about two weeks ago, spoke to him last night and he has deleted his character and uninstalled the game. His reaction was that while the shooting was fun he had no idea what he was doing or why. Being launched into missions with no warning. No explanation of what anything is. Being put on a tour of the tower with only the most basic of explanation as to who people are and why. No explanation as to who the races are and why they are there. Nothing on your character is explained. Things just happen and you are left wondering what is going on. No guide to upgrading your armour. Nothing to show you how to use materials, or even why they exist. He started Witch Queen and quit after about three missions after seeing how much it cost to purchase the grenades, aspect and fragments for his supers, when I told him what he would have to do upgrade Stasis and Strand should he keep playing and get those expansions he just quit as he said that the game was way too much grind and way, way too expensive to get into seriously. He also had to phone me asking why Champions are impervious to damage, I had to explain to him how to do that. He simply had enough of trying to work out what was going on for himself. He's now off playing other games and I no longer have to answer all his queries about things the game should be explaining to him. A game that loses nine year veteran's like me can survive if new blood is coming in. But they aren't. Existing players are either leaving or, in a lot of cases, drastically reducing playtime. That's bad for any game but when new players aren't staying that's only going to to end one way.

To some its fun, to others it isn't, potatoes to tomatoes.

As an outsider its really hard to take this type of feedback seriously when you are currently playing the game logging in to play the very game you find not fun. The best way to make an impact is by not playing. If you truly were miserable and not having a good time you'd have moved on and stopped playing. The fact is.. you like it enough to continue playing and really that's all bungie cares about. How do you all not see that by now? That said - I agree the game currently is not fun hence why I have not logged in since June.

The game is grinding to a stop . It is slowing down player count down listed at rank 17 now on steam that's way down also. They killed the game nerfing the players and buffing the ads and none stop respawning ads in the new content. They wont adjust the mechanics in raids for MM. They re run old wore out content that we all played to a burn out point. They wont fix MM or cheaters in this game using USB devices. They turn there back on us for all issues and problems listed above . And on top of that ask for more money for none stop cosmetics . My answer to Bungie is fix all above ,make the game have accessibly for everyone with or without a 6 person team. Or suffer the end of your game slowly but surly.

Anyone have a recommendation on another game to try? I’m not picky and could really use something to keep me occupied.

Literally the only reason the game is still alive is because Bungie paid human behavior experts to learn how to create a bunch of addicts.

I have been playing this franchise since its launch in 2014. And yes, I totally agree it is rn at its lowest. I am not even playing regularly anymore. If it weren't for that stupid competitive sniper and my pre-paid seasons, I wouldn't even be playing anymore. Bungie managed to move so much away from the original (beloved by the masses) idea of a simply FPS-RPG and rather went with too much complexitiy, too much FOMO and too much greed. At this point, not even the Free2Play-excuse satisfies me anymore. Kinda a shame that Bungie managed to become less competent than Blizzards WoW team. Because Blizzards WoW team is doing a lot of things in the last 1-2 months very right compared to Bungie. In all honesty, I really hope this game dies after Final Shape. Let it be gone and forgotten for good.

This game hasn't been fun for a long time. I just play it to pass the time.

Running around crucible with Peregrine and shoulder charge telling myself 'that's a least one kill right?' Proceeds to die 5 times in a row before the Shoulder Charge finally registers on someone.

Something for me have been off since Lightfall… and now I can barely bother. I have a ton of time and years invested in this franchise, done a lot, but yer spot on. Hard for me to be in a clan, bungo changed my name, and then this “content” and I have to say as a solo now ~ the player base. I used to just hop on and drag someone into trials, just to get our asses kicked and laugh, or load into raids 2-man, see what we could do (you’d be surprised)… That “fun” feeling is gone. I could criticize the game but it’s been far worse before….

Destiny has done something I personally have never seen it do before, it dropped off the first page of steam charts. I know it'll go back up on Tuesday, but I've never seen it on the second page before. I would like to say it's because the game stinks, because for me it's not in a good place. But I also have to look at how the season can be finished up earlier and there really isn't much that FOMO is pulling people in for right now (which is actually a good thing). I don't want to go back to a season stretched out for 10 weeks and adding 10 LL for no particular reason other than because. I actually enjoy taking breaks and playing other games instead of no lifing this one. Anyways, I can see why people are farming checkpoints. It's what I'd be doing right now if I wasn't leaning towards Diablo IV. I haven't done the new dungeon and I have a ton of raid weapons I need to get patterns for.

D2s target audience is those with addiction problems. The game has been a chore to play since they left Activision. All because Bungie cracked the code on exploiting the human mind. Kinda funny considering Bungie has a whole mental health resource.

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