I am being forced to write this here because in no way have I been able to contact Bungie support, which, given the 500 million spent (I believe it was the figure in the news) making Destiny I am amazed at a lack of ability to contact any kind of employee or official representative. My problem is simple. Today, whilst playing, my friend received a purple engram which resulted in a gold exotic weapon, lucky him. I then received an exotic bounty which allowed me to be excited and my friend set about to help me. First it was a strike, then it was farming the Hive, and then, the next part is basically impossible for me and I am truly surprised and legitimately upset that Bungie could do something so … short sited. It has told me that I have to get 500 points using void damage in the crucible with my favorite part, a penalty for death. So, here is my problem. The crucible is controlled by exemplary players, and good for them. What I don't understand is that whatever weapon I use. I can barely do any damage to them and they can kill me in 1 or 2 shots. This has resulted in me being able to get a score of about 30 (out of 500, the bounty requirement), only to lose it all immediately. To reiterate, it takes points away from the bounty WHEN YOU DIE. Any small gain I make (Say in 10 minutes) is gone within the next 1 or 2. On top of that, I am not a skilled crucible player and I won't ever be. I don't have the time, nor the ability. I am that player that always comes last. I always have a low kill count and a high death ratio. This hasn't really been a problem for me because I have been able to muck around with my friend doing strikes and avoiding the humiliation of the crucible. So, I really want to know, from someone official from Bungie, why they would do something so completely unpleasant. My friend got his exotic weapon doing patrols on the moon, that was all he had to do, and we only play for about an hour a day. Again, we only play for an hour a day, that's all the time we have, no MANY hours a day. Thinking the system was going to be fair for me, I was excited about the Exotic bounty but now I am looking at it realizing that it is impossible for me to achieve. I could accept him being lucky, that's the nature of the poor quality of design on modern games, but it's dangling my own exotic weapon in front of me that I will NEVER be able to achieve, not with any amount of help from other players or any way at all. In all honesty, this really makes me very put off by the game and I am sorry I foolishly spent $90 on it at release, I honestly wasn't expecting to be frustrated so incredibly by a part of the game that is absolutely impossible for me to achieve because of the domination of other players. My opinion of this is that it stinks, that the designers responsible for this are idiots and that Bungie are completely out of touch with mature, adult players that just want to enjoy a purchase they have made. In the end we all play games to feel a bit better, my friend is now having a great time with his exotic weapon and I feel completely and utterly demeaned in trying to get my own personal reward because of a requirement that forces me to be constantly humiliated by players that either have better Internet connections, more time to play a lot more or are simply more dextrous that me. Irrespective of the reason I just want to know, from an official person at Bungie why they think it's ok to place this impossible requirement on a part of the game I am trying to progress at. And in the end, given the monotony of the same missions over and over and over and over again, the only real sense of reward I can get from the game comes from a better item here and there. What I hate the most is that I can't even trade this bounty in for a purple item, or something that I can actually use, I will never be able to get good enough at the crucible to achieve this result and this experience has left me with feelings of negativity that are the absolute antithesis of why I play video games. Update: I wanted to thank all of you for posting your opinions. As I always stated, I wanted some kind of explanation from the company behind the product but that's no longer here nor there. I decided to take the most common advice, which was to get Aetheon's Epilogue. Prior to this I didn't want to bother with the RAID because I had limited time and a LOT of other things to do, but on Saturday night I decided to give it a try. I used destiny team finder to get into a group and will concede that I had a lot more fun than I ever expected. The players were funny, and interesting and VoG is challenging enough that I remained focussed and entertained, I haven't received Aetheon's Epilogue, but I did get Void of Confluence and Universal Remote which I'm told is quite an exceptional weapon even though I don't think I do that well with a shotgun. In all I feel more satisfied now. I really enjoyed the RAID and will do my best to set aside some time on an evening when I don't have social commitments to run through it. I am still quite terrible at the crucible and despite a lot of unnecessarily aggressive answers coming from certain people that lack empathy here I believe I have a route where I can have some fun with the game and that possibly the source of my unhappiness before was coming from a sense of progression and the frustration at having been denied this by a part of the game I have no real chance at. For those that lack empathy this is something you probably can't fathom and I can't help you. Maybe someone out there can and I would suggest you contemplate getting help. Even if this is just your Internet persona it shows that there are underlying issues in your psyche that could manifest themselves violently towards a spouse or even be causing you depression. Do not discount empathy, it is a very powerful part of human maturity and growth. Thank you kindly.