So glad I did not buy TFS and the so-called Episode model. Tried to play a night fall yesterday. Got to the boss room and was literally overwhelmed as were the players I was with. Under the "old" difficulty I picked either adept or heroic cause I could do it. Here advanced is the entry level and it is much more difficult than previous. Bungie is gearing this game for a select audience. Hope that audience has lots of cash to keep them going cause I am keeping mine. Edit: I should have also mentioned that I left the nightfall before completion. Whether the other players finished the event I do not know. I left because The boss was constantly killing me right after I spawned. I could not do any damage to either the bosses or the two champions that spawned in. I used to be able to do basic nightfalls. WIth the new difficulty that is no longer true.

[quote] I feel ripped off and disappointed yet again. Which honestly sucks because they gave us such a fire release with the final shape but I would have been much happier saving myself $50 and just buying that rather than being sold false promises yet again.[/quote] I've seen a few posts/replies similar to this and I can't help but wonder why some people don't pay more attention to this developer's actions. You could have easily saved yourself the headache. It's been the same development for a few years now with minor adjustments. If you feel ripped off it's because you ignored what was always right in front of you. A developer that isn't interested in making their player base happy, they are only interested in taking the player base money and showing numbers. It's a good thing not all developers are like this one because gaming would be 10 times worse than it is now.

Timegating quests with only a few steps at a time including "go talk to" and "listen to message" is probably some of the worst that got introduced. It shows the lack of creativity and the laziness from the creators. Well except for vaulting content players actually have paid for, usually never to be seen again. Even with all past content, destiny would have a smaller file size than call of duty, but the problem is all the issues and bugs that would come from it that Bungie would not be able to handle considering the amount of current bugs and the time it takes to solve them without creating new issues and bugs because of conflicting data, code and etc.

I don't know if you are a long time player or a fairly new one. If you are a new one, I am sorry you got disappointed. You will learn soon enough not to trust them. After so many years I know this company well enough not to believe a single word of what they promise. I am glad I didn't buy TFS nor the episode, which I am not surprised to hear it's a disappointment for so many ppl who purchased it.

If Bungie's episodes model and new anti-solo direction is to farm logins......Then they have failed. I paid for the whole year and I will do it all every Tuesday for the 45 mins of content (If we are lucky) and filter out the pathetic secondary story. One thing though. Them patching the Dual Destiny double reward exploit has given me a warm fuzzy feeling inside. People were saying how wonderful the mission was and now they get to play it even more. I am so very happy for those people. They deserve it.

Sleight of hand, Bungie marketeers are great at it.

Doesn't look like they did anything close to what they said they were going to do. There is absolutely no difference between this and seasons. All they did was change the name and to make matters worse, increase the length. And the story telling? It's as broken and chaotic as its always been. And the excuse that this is just a "light" ACT because it followed the DLC is BS. Will the following ACT's be any better? We have to hope that they will. But then that's always the problem with Destiny, the player base is pretty much in a state of hope all the time. "I hope I can logon today", "I hope next season, I mean ACT2 is better", "I hope I hope I hope". They should change the name to "A Destiny of Hope". Will I continue to play? Of course, because I'm hoping the next season, I mean ACT, will be better... For reference so that everyone is on the same page before you comment this is what they said previously: https://www.bungie.net/7/en/News/Article/destiny-showcase-2023-recap https://www.theverge.com/23844068/destiny-2-the-final-shape-joe-blackburn-interview https://www.pcgamer.com/destiny-2-is-scrapping-its-current-seasonal-model-in-favour-of-three-episodes-per-year/ https://www.gamespot.com/articles/how-destiny-2-is-ditching-seasons-for-less-predictable-episodes/1100-6520642/

Triggered much? Blowing your top a little early. It’s been a whopping three weeks. You -blam!- people will look for any reason to -blam!-. That’s why no one listens to you.

Compared to Undying, Hunt, Risen, and Defiance, I'd say it's pretty good. The activity reminds me of deep rock galactic.

Is this really any different than any other major game developer currently? EVERY major developer releases minimal content for maximum $$$. It's simply just basic business strategy. This should not be a surprise to literally anyone that plays the games. If you want more content for your money, stop giving them your $$ to start with. They will make change when their product doesn't sell. Or even better, stop playing their game. No players = no income. The short of it: stop complaining and take action. That is the only way you will feel better, and if enough people do this, it will force action.

I'm going to respond to them in kind. By not purchasing anything else. Here's to hoping others do the same. It's gone on long enough.

How about wait and see what we actually get in the expansion before drawing conclusions? I mean, we have another 11 months to go for the expansion, and we are only 3 weeks into the first episode lol.

Have not finished the first act, yet. Is it really that bad? Many are complaining.

I knew it was going to be garbage, yet I still bought it. I only have myself to blame

Were we expecting something on the level of Final Shape immediately afterwards? Of course not. Were we expecting them to at least raise the bar for the bear minimum of Seasonal Models? Yes. Bungie if you're going to immediately regress back to your lazy, copy paste, time gated, boring and predictable Seasonal Model, then you better rethink your future plans.

It's also cheaper for them because they get to make less content. Not to mention the season pass which has double fillers and is time gated like the story.

Wait to see what you’re buying — simple as that.