I've played games my whole life and there were some great games that really lead to my excitement over gaming. (Super Mario Bros, Tecmo Super Bowl, Super Contra, Mario Cart, Goldeneye, Halo 1,2 & 3) I came to love the experience of gaming from a social standpoint. Some of my really good friends in real life I met over Xbox Live playing Halo 2 & 3. [b]Bungie, I've always been a fan of yours. I've cheered and championed you as a team and a developer that cares about it's community. The bottom line is ...YOU SOLD OUT! [/b] There was a time when Bungie was synonymous with a company that cared about it's community. The developers were gamers to the core. The understood what real gaming was about. They created arguably the greatest game series of all time in Halo by accident trying to make a different style of game, but ran out of time and ended up with, IMO, the greatest game ever! ***For those that wanna say this is just hate or sour grapes, I've got well over 10 days of gametime in and have 1 level 30 a 28 and I'm leveling my third character. I've beaten the raid over 20 times legit on normal and 3 times legit on hard. I've paid my dues and had success... so this is NOT sour grapes*** Let me just start with a list of my frustrations with Destiny and your mindset behind it. - The release was awful, glitchy your party system never worked. You tried to blame it on Xbox (Microsoft), but it works with other games fine. I though that Grand Theft Auto V had a bad release with their online system, but at least they gave you a tone of content. The false promise and proposed DLCs with no real timetable are just as bad, if not worse, than what most people would argue was the worst game rollout ever! - This DLC concept is ridiculous. It took you 10 years to build this game and you still released a half-assed story and an incomplete game. You don't even have enough content to get 70%(rough estimate) of the users through the full first 2 months of your game. Yes, you've had map-packs in the past, but that was delivering stuff that the community was asking for. Not a greedy way to get more money for delivering parts of the game that should've been there when it was released. - Your drop system... Wow! That could sum it all up, but I'll expound. Your drop system is so ridiculous that it really is tough to put into words. The idea that the drops should be 100% random is the most absurd idea that I have ever heard. What you have done is push the community that supported you away. The community that believed you get rewarded for what you do. Higher skill gets faster rewards right? Nope, you have made a sci-fi version of Call of Duty that actually has a worse leveling system. I never though it was possible to have a worse leveling system than CoD, but, bravo, you did it! At least CoD is time based you put in the time you get rewarded. With Destiny you get???Ahh, who the hell knows! - Your servers are atrocious. You knew coming into the release of this game that there would be an enormous demand for the game, so we weren't prepared is NOT a valid excuse. You're so concerned with your "Raid" being "hard enough" that you fix the glitches and break the game in the process. Really?? Your servers are some of the worst that I have played on in recent memory. Worse than CoD:Ghosts in my opinion. - You want the game to have the social aspect of an MMO, but you can't communicate with anyone not in your fireteam, you can't talk to others at the tower, you can't talk to TEAMMATES in matchmaking, you can't trade guns between your characters without tediously bouncing back and forth between characters and the tower vaults, there's no ability to trade armor with your friends or randoms, you don't want farming with is a characteristic of MMOs, but yet you'll fix the most ridicukous glitches and exploits. [b]In my opinion, all you have done over the last few months is prove that you are way more about the money than the game. [/b] I know that this is a business and you have to make money. I'm not naive. You have taken it beyond being a business though. You've gotten greedy. You partnered with Activision and now you behave like them. Greedy pigs, that have no concern for the community that supports you. Activision has come under fire for years for behaving this way in the CoD world. I guess as a community we were wrong to think that you would stick to your principles and that maybe you would influence Activision for the betterment of the gaming community. Has that even remotely happened? Let me answer a resounding, "HELL NO!' What you fail to realize is that your arrogance, or maybe the arrogance born of the partnership with Activision, is going to cost you. I hear all over Reddit, industry gaming forums and even in your own forum, people saying how excited they are for other games to come out so they can sell or trade in Destiny for the other games. That's a shame because you could've done so much more and so much better had you stuck to your roots. You don't have much time to save the probably close to 50% gamers you are going to lose to other games like myself, so whatever you're gonna try and do to fix it...you better do it pretty freaking quick! Signed - Severely Disappointed Former Fan