Being one of the last few reasonable ones on the forum is really saddening. My recent posts have really opened my eyes. (Forums, a lost cause?)
It's just so surreal.
All we do now instead of talk about ways to improve Destiny 2, is talk about how much we want to see it die.
And if you [i]don't[/i] want to see it die, or if you like Destiny in any shape, form, or fashion, then you will be chastised and ridiculed by hundreds. As evident by my recent threads.
We're so blinded by hate and toxicity that we can no longer see the good in Bungie's weekly updates.
They're fixing the game exactly how we screamed at them, and it is still met with senseless negativity on a gigantic bandwagon.
All of you.. We're better than this. As a community, we shouldn't be damning every single weekly update or community managers to hell because to be honest, if I were a developer and I had a community like the current one, I wouldn't like to speak to them either.
Be more mature. Show them we aren't animals and we can have reasonable discussion.
[i]Criticise.[/i] But don't [i]senseless hate.[/i]
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I've found that this forum becomes a lot easier to deal with when you realize that you can't worry about the behavior of others, only yourself. I put it on myself to be a pretty nice person in my online interactions, it's all I can do, if other people want to act like goofballs that's on them. Does this forum have trolls? Yes, so does every place on the internet, I can't find it in myself to care anymore.
Would I like it if we could all get along? Totes! I would love for this community to be full of nice folk who say nice things and can have a discussion with each other without resulting to name calling and everyone shared opinions on how to fix the game, but we don't live in Milks Happy Funtime Cupcake Mountain Palace, we live in the real world, and people are jerks sometimes, especially on the internet where you can say anything to anyone without fear of repercussion.
If a 30 year old father of two finds joy in being mean to strangers on an internet forum and calling people fanboy, cool. If a 17 year old gets his laughs of of trolling and starting polls to get people fired cool. If a stay at home mom wants to post "Destiny 2 sucks!" on every single post just to fish for responses, that's fine. That ain't me though. I can only be me, so if people want to act out, to those people I say do you boo boo, but I don't have time to be negative in the play pretend world of the internet, nor do I have time to try and flex on strangers and make them feel bad for liking a thing.
I like Destiny as a franchise, I want to see it succeed, and I don't think saying "destiny 2 sucks" is a good way of criticizing a product. If you feel like Bungie deserves to burn to the ground, fine, I don't and I hope Bungie can pull it together. I didn't give up on Nick Cage, I'm not giving up on Bungie.