This game is mostly now log in, do some Pathfinders and check off the Fortnite style triumphs checklist, for bright dust, the premium currency for Eververse shopping to buy stuff.

They built all these systems yet there is no new content besides 1 strike and 2 maps that never show up in rotation

Yeah, I haven't done a GM in years because they made the game so punitive, and because it's always a battleground, and not a strike.

Stop watching streamers who ask for the game to be made 'harder'. Starved of the oxygen of publicity, they will fade and leave, ideally making things better for all. Just my tuppence fwiw.

The reason the game is harder is because the player count is dropping. They know that the addicted players will make up the difference in hours played by increasing the time/difficulty/grind. It’s more of a statement of how the game is performing than them wanting to make the game harder for hardness’ sake. The true answer would be to make the game more fun and people would come back. But whoever is in charge is too short-sighted. Many games do this. It’s an industry standard. It really just drives more people away.

I get that some people want more challenging content. The solution to that is to raise the difficulty ceiling. However it seems that Bungie don't want players at the the lower end of the 'skill scale' playing their game (one of their now ex employees said as much a few years ago with his 'the game isn't for Johnny two thumbs from walmart' comment) so they raised the floor in an attempt to either get rid or to push them into using lfg/teaming with others. It seems like a kinda surprising approach given their financial situation.

I don’t blame you bud. It’s time to play other games.

If you on the forums? You miss it.

Personally I think that this game is hilariously boring. I've been taking a break and playing Final fantasy 14. And that has actual mechanics on top of doing your rotation correctly. The only thing I will agree on is the fact that the difficulty is artificial. Is tedious and annoying. It's not the good type of difficulty. "Let's make the enemies stronger and you weaker instead of adding actual mechanics" The game isn't hard just annoying.

One word for the game......Trash. This is a prime example of a game that was good and then sabotaged itself. If they cant fix PvP in this......Marathon will be just as bad if not worse.

Yeah, I sadly agree. Things have become too tedious with artificial grinds, time gateing, and artificial difficulties. Just really sucked the fun from this game.

Most of everything is [b]extremely[/b] weakness crept outside of specific builds. D1 never had such a narrow meta for the end game. Could use what you wanted. No so in in D2.

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i dont see how its so hard.... create a solid single player experience accessible to all givin time some will seek more to do then you have the hard mode several tiers to accommodate the try hards or speed-runs (time trial mode would be fun for a few people im sure) or play with a team to hit the harder modes for fast loot....and on loot no gate keeping behind super hard team only modes a lot of people dont have time and cant turn the game in to a second job... and to fix power easy power resets every season/episode older content is inherently easier ie season start your at 0 leveling up adds power(no cap) making things less hard so if your willing to put in the time most activitys should be able to over power them with play older stuff start at -5 and goes down by another 5 for each season that passes (includes raid and dungeons) allowing new players to catch up content should have tiers 10 25 50 ect as you play more and more things become accessible new raid night fall ect an option to turn on or off for matchmaking for all actvitys and power tiers to cap your power as you want.....rewards should be determined by the deference between your power and the activity power so if you cap the game at 50 and your power is at 50 for difficulty sake and loot will be at its base if your at 50 and game is at 25 making it easy your loot drops will be less likely but will be better than the base do to your over power and then game at 75 you at 50 it will be hard but it will rain loot cuz your under power rewarding the hard work higher power better odds on all actvitys....no lockouts on loot weekly daily ect and high stat / artifice and cats should drop at all tiers but the odds better at high difficulty/power.... iv played games for a long time makes sense to me...... a concerned and now nameless guardian