The problem with portal is that it tried to fix stupidity that could have easily been googled (doesn't make the new player exp not bad) however many complained that the director was difficult so they tried to fix it. You can for example, google which dlc to play first in chronological order but that requires effort. That and they indirectly sunsetted 90% of the game because not everything has tiered gear

Someone had to & I've waited days so I guess I'll do it 😆

who cares about the ui/portal... i like it to be honest do i like regrinding for items i got in d1 in d2 nope i have a favorite saying it goes like this [spoiler]come up with something new you unoriginal !@#$% [/spoiler] 99% of the time i do not follow streamers 1% of the time i do. if i am stuck on a quest or can't find a chest.

Yes so accept we have a maintenance Eververse sales mode completely coming Portal IS the maintenance mode idea Bungie came up with

Idc about portal, it’s just that activities are limited and for old players is like doing same thing over and over again… but at least we got poor exotic mission and exotic weapon which doesn’t even feel like an exotic “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting a different outcome”

I was wondering where you were going with that title, but you're absolutely right. Worst decision ever from Bungie. Quite clearly a pet idea from a senior designer who has no clue about the game or players.

Pretty mediocre exotic tbh. Though it makes for big funnies here and there

"the portal" would've worked if they didn't try using it as a replacement for the director. Having generalised loot pools that are updated and used to keep legacy content relevant is a good idea, but it cannot be the only loot that is put in. Ash and Iron brought Reclaim which has zero reason to exist outside of "its just another activity" it doesn't have any triumphs or unique loot or rewards. That is my biggest point of contention with this major update is that its lacking all the different aspects that a season would have that give it depth even beyond just loot. But this is what is lacking when they bring new content in as it NEEDS unique rewards to make it feel worth engaging with over the myriad of other activities outside the few runs to try it out because its new. You could take the main portion of the portal which are the Ops buttons and just bolt them onto the director and nothing would've changed except less UI bloat. I think its also quite problematic that the idea of the portal being to get you into the gameplay quickly is hampered by challenge customisation which is almost the anti-thesis to the portal because you got to stop and input modifiers that you want to get the reward you are looking for and depending on the activity it resets that each time you want to run it making it another hurdle just to shoot and loot. Best case scenario is Bungie scraps the portal in its current state and bolts the good parts onto the director. Worst case scenario Bungie keeps trudging down this road believing the current state of the portal is acceptable.

Its going to take them some time but they need to make it like it was before the portal. I'd cut them some slack but this was the exact same crap they pulled with curse of Osiris. They just tried to make the game easier for them to manage without thinking, "Will the client think this is fun?"

Yep. The ‘problem’ is that the ‘truth’ isn’t the same for everyone.

IMO the main issue that made portal a problem is that Bungie put way too much focus on the portal at the expense of the rest of the game The portal should've been an UI replacement for the "Core Playlist" with extra activities for more space for the directory There's no point keeping 2 systems that have the same activities just put Legends in the Portal. Remove all the extra activities and put them on daily and weekly rotation so players can just focus on a few then having so many at once giving issues with MM. Example Solo, Fireteam, Pinnacle,Crucible,Raid (Weapons and armor rotate daily) *Solo (Daily) - 3 random missions daily *Fireteam (Weekly) - 2 Nightfalls, 2 random weekly rotating activities of Onslaught,Coil,COE *Pinnacle (Weekly) - 2(Complete)Dungeons, 2 Exotic Missions *Crucible (Daily/Weekly) - 1 daily & weekly Crucible mode, Competitive,Trials,Gambit Raids (Weekly) - 3 random raids Each weapons and armor from the previous season that was in the portal are added to they respectable vendors for purchase, stop oversaturating portal loot pool.

The portal is fine, its the lack of content IN the portal giving it a complete lack of variety and for some puzzling reason instead of having everything in the game being a source of progression its portal exclusive items so you can't go do something else to upgrade besides doing old content for exotics. The portal in concept is fine heck it just needs more clarity on how player stakes work compared to just combatant modifiers because its so poorly explained since people overload combatant modifiers rather than player stakes. Not only that just do away with featured fearful legendaries and exotics put more effort in weapon frames and perks alongside Armor set bonuses and people will grind them at their discretion forcing players to engage with redundant and poorly implemented systems only exasperated the decline. But what i find funny is what people really want is new content. Everyone says go back to the old system when it functionally was the same as is now, but your locked out of gear for the week once your done is that what you really want? Rather than having more control over your grind? No, you want more things to do, NEW things to do.

You WANT me on that wall. You NEED me on that wall.

Your title is true, but your post is misguided.

So you see it now. I don't think it's all of BG, just a part of management and maybe some of the senior devs as well.

That’s a truth that’s hard to get mad about because at the cost of having the portal is nuking the loot you can get from outside of it without removing them from the game. A worse sunsetting than Beyond Light’s sunsetting because atleast in Beyond Light, the new loot used the same system as the old ones.