While Bungie was designing Destiny, was the word of the day, 'grind' ? This is getting stupid. I grinded to level 3 to open up my options at the merchant, now I have to keep grinding if I want more gear. Getting tired of this bull crap. There is too many other games out there for this repetition. And we all noticed the lack of content in our first 'expansion'. I am a sucker for buying into all of this.

Bungie will not resolve any of the "issues" with the dlc screwing people over, let alone fix any of it by release on Tuesday! It took the over two months to "fix" bad juju by doing what? Taking away some smoke and giving it a few extra bullets? BE SMART ABOUT IT......speak with your time and your wallets! If nobody buys the dlc or downloads it on Tuesday or the servers are all empty THEY WILL GET THE MESSAGE!!!! Boycott destiny for three days and see how fast they scramble to change things. BOYCOTT PLAY FOR THREE DAYS AND ACTIVISION AND BUNGIE WILL BE FORCED TO CHANGE OR DIE!!!!!

Im just going to start by saying that I have with some hesitation supported Bungie in everything they have done so far. But this new Commendation addition is absolutely unreal. I have grinded to get my vanguard ranks to 11, 11 and 12 and my crucible ranks to 3, 3 and 4 on my characters. With my efforts rewarded with useless gear and single materials per rank up. I am also very close to getting my factions ranked up. All with nothing to show for it. I also have saved up 200 Marks to both Crucible and Vanguard in preparation to the new DLC. To buy some awesome new gear on day one. All of this to hear that my efforts were useless. I am now having to rank up my factions all over again before i can buy a single item? My playing next week will result in MANY wasted crucible and vanguard marks. and MORE grinding when all i want to do is play some of the new DLC. Come on Bungie My Proposition is to grant us on day one Crucible and Vanguard Commendations that correspond to our ranking. Getting one Commendation for Each rank 3. and For each rank thereafter. This way our already ranked up factions are not totally useless. And our time doing this prior to DLC is not a total waste. Please support this guys. Or something that actually rewards us with our time spent on this already repetitive game.

Sometimes I load up the game, go into Tower and look around, then I wipe the tears off my controller, pick up my TV and shut the game off. :( Sometimes it really feels that boring. Most high levels have 2 things to look forward to, the Weekly and the Raid, both of which can be done once a week. The rest of the week is Patrol and Bounties, all of which are pretty much the same. "Go here, kill this, go here, kill this this way." I've never felt so alone in such a vast open world game. :/

I love to see post like this. At least now the people didn't mind the fact that bungie is straight up running a false advertising campaign of the game, is now realizing the darkness that bungie actually represent. Guardians, if you really are fighting for the light, you have to stop playing, this is the only way to defeat the darkness.

What do you think the rationalization is for the commendations? I don't mean What is the real reason for commendations? We all know they are really there to artificially inflate our time in the game and prevent us from getting all the good stuff too quickly. What I'm asking is What horsecrap will they try to feed us to convince us it's a good thing? What will the 'party line' be? What story will they tell themselves so they can sleep at night knowing they just screwed over the die hards who have stuck with this game through all the turbulence?

I have kept mostly quiet about this aspect of the update, but you're correct, OP. The Commendation additional requirement to purchase a Legendary weapon that will be obsolete in three months is bullshit. As if it weren't taking long enough to get the proper Rank and Marks necessary to get a particular piece of equipment, now I have to have a goddamn "commendation" as well? What happens after a weekly reset, I'm only say... five Marks away from that new weapon I've been spying, but I have no Commendations? So I have to grab any and every bounty and grind worthless shit to increase in Rank before I can buy a weapon/armor? This is infuriating... No wonder they say your old Legendaries won't be obsolete; they made it almost impossible to get the newer, more powerful gear. Whatever committee thought that this shit was a good idea needs to be fired. Not berated or written up, just fired and kicked onto the street. I'm very unhappy with these changes.

The root cause complain on the XP reset, and the Commendation earning, is that both involve forcing players to do more of the shitty repetitive bounties Bungie seems really convinced that people will like playing their Bounties, if they keep tying some wanted reward for it. They don't seem to realize that nobody that has done those stupid things enough times wants to keep doing them.... in fact once our favorite weapons are upgraded... we just want to play stuff that we do enjoy like Raid which for some reason don't XP up any weapons or armor at all. Raid = No Glimmer and No XP Bounties = No Fun, and some self-loathing depression when self-realization hits about what you are spending time on

Yeah, not only will we continue to get screwed by RNG, now we have to hope for a permission slip from teacher before we can even buy some new gear. Fvck off Bungie.

"Become Legend by repeating the same thing everyday."

Here's an idea? Let's give everyone at bungie a promotion but reset their pay scale to entry level. That sounds fun right Deej? You just need a good recommendation from your supervisor who only comes into the office once a week and only reviews employees at random and then you can start to work on your raises again. Simple.

I don't mind too terribly if I can buy faction gear with anything other than crucible marks. What I hate most about it is that it's made it so I can't do a whole lot this week. I don't want to risk getting too much rank progress for fear I will go to the next level just prior to the update hitting, thus it taking that much longer to level the faction. I don't want to level anything any further, really. What's the point in doing anything pre-update?