Dude, RNG caters to the casual. You can play this game for 2 hours a week and have just as much of a chance at getting the best items in the game as someone who plays 2 hours a day. 2 hours a week would be one raid, 3 nightfalls, 3 weekly heroics and a PoE. A skill based loot system would be based upon well obviously skill. A way to acquire skill is through practice and repetition. The more you'd play this game, or other FPS games like it, the better you'll get at it. The better you get at it, the higher your skill level. A 2 hour a week player will never compete with a 2 hour a day player when it comes to skill. The way a new player can pick up the game today and be at max level in about 25 hours of playtime just like those of who have 500 hours of playtime also caters to the casual. In fact, the only thing that this game does not do to cater to the casual is matchmaking. There's pros and cons there as some people can be outright trolls and dicks, and I can just see it now you get matchmaking into VoG and you have one guy who decides he's gonna let Praetorians repeatedly take the sync plate to even open up VoG.

I'm not leaving, just not going to give Bungie anymore $. They just don't deserve it

I'm not going to tell you to leave, but I will say that destiny might not be the game for you. Having said that, it seems that big changes are coming to the game. Let's see what happens.

One of the admins in my clan works at gamestop and said he hasn't worked a shift where someone didn't return a copy of destiny.

Nah

Bungie has not done anything new with the business side of video game development. Really, casuals like you dont understand the difficulty of producing AAA caliber video games, this franchise was a 500 million dollar bet, and the only thing that needs to happen is casuals like you should either give up on trying to get invested in games you obviously don't have the capacity to appreciate or start to actually understand that these are people's reputations and jobs at stake and they literally do the best they can. The only problem with this age of video games is the casual player doesn't value the work that goes into these games, as much as they should. This is my analogy, you shouldn't expect apple to turn around and sell new macs for 25 bucks because they want to win over low income customers. Bungie and activision, video games in general won't do that either, for guys like you I suggest picking up fallout shelter, and then you can feel like you got your money's worth.

Destiny is bad game get good game casuals

This post would have made much more sense of posted around October 2014.

Just gimme an option to turn on/off matchmaking

Lol @ made up statistics.

[quote]And before you simply tell me to quit, you should know that if you love Destiny, then you [i]need me[/i]. You need the casual players with some disposable income. You need the students whose parents bought them the game, and can only play around homework and chores. Casual players have bailed from this game by the millions, [i]millions[/i]! This iteration of Destiny may survive this hemorrhaging for a while, but unless Bungie starts catering to MY demographic - and to casual gamers, in general - any future Destiny products are doomed..[/quote] Do you know how to write an opinion? Are you unsure of its definition? And yes, you absolutely do fall for opinion articles, because you just called Paul Tassi a reporter. Go look at his forbes profile and please show me where he says hes a [i]reporter[/i] oh wait, since you're unsure of the defintion of 'opinion' i guess its feasable to assume you dont knlw the defintion of 'reporter' either. Please stop embarrassing yourself now.

Hey Carnival, didn't you put up a guide once to not being a noob in IB? If so you might want to republish it lol.

Dude, you aren't bitching about nerfing Thorn. You're never going to get Bungie's attention. Also, bump for brilliance. I'm a proud, dirty casual.

Who is this we ...?

[quote]Many of us construct articulate, thoughtful arguments regarding Bungie's baffling management of Destiny. Our complaints are not whining or crying. We are not children. We work for a living, have families, and real life obligations. We don't have hours to play every day, and we choose not to spend our weekends on the couch where the only human interactions we have are through a headset. We are willing to work hard for game gear, but finding a group and playing without getting [i]Attention Contacting Destiny Servers[/i] shouldn't be part of said work. And, when lightening strikes and we do hear from Bungie, the response is often snarky, insulting, and illogical. We have every right to complain: Bungie has turned what should have been an epic - and [i]epically FUN[/i] - game into a frustrating, confusing, and unrewarding grind. Their over reliance on RNG, absence of a skill-based reward system, and lack of matchmaking or in-game LFG is deflating and infuriating. Instead of an open world, we were sold endless loops. And before you simply tell me to quit, you should know that if you love Destiny, then you [i]need me[/i]. You need the casual players with some disposable income. You need the students whose parents bought them the game, and can only play around homework and chores. Casual players have bailed from this game by the millions, [i]millions[/i]! This iteration of Destiny may survive this hemorrhaging for a while, but unless Bungie starts catering to MY demographic - and to casual gamers, in general - any future Destiny products are doomed. Exactly! Edit: Thanks to proactive members of this Community, we got the attention of Forbes Reporter Paul Tassi, which, in turn, certainly got Bungie's attention. Check out Tassi's piece from yesterday: [i]If Bungie built Destiny around groups, they need to help players find them. [/i] June 29 Edit: I still love playing multiplayer with my sons, but have zero interest otherwise. I have a bunch of unleveled gear, that as far as I'm concerned, can rot. Now, my interest has turned to trying to keep Bungivi$ion's money-mongering, player-gouging tactics from becoming the norm for game publishers. The loudest noise I can make is that of my wallet closing.[/quote] You're an idiot. It can't be skill based rng because it would hold back the casuals even more. Dude. Stfu. You contradicted yourself over and over. Theres nothing confusing. So dramatic. What's confusing about doing missions and getting rewards. Sometimes its what you want. Sometimes its not. If you are a casual you shouldn't have to worry about getting the best itens since you're not on often. Its random. It shouldn't change ever. Level your shit up and do the end game content. Destiny is a long term game

Back to the front page with you.

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Sad. Just like ur pathetic job ur not for the challenge!