Idk. I love having content every 3 months. But I also loved the annual feeling. Things felt better and less like I have to play now or I’m gonna have FOMO. I don’t know what I’d really 100% prefer tbh…

Destiny was hurt when D2 was created

If it wasn't successful they wouldn't keep doing it. Seasonal model is what most every game does.

Yes let’s go back to one big DLC followed by 8 months of nothing. Great idea?

Nah bro, I love being drip fed meh content at best every 2-4 months. Now excuse me, I'm going to go and do the copy pasted weekly mission for this week, being practically no different than any before it! Maybe I'll play some of the recycled seasonal event that hasn't changed in the last 3 years!

Seasons are pretty much only good for the most casual of all casual players who get on the game at reset, see something new, and get excited. They fall victim to drip feeding. Anyone who is a remotely dedicated player, a long term player, or even just a casual with some critical thinking ability is able to recognize how difficult to engage with content when it is delivered this way. I consider forsaken to be the best year of destiny 2 so far EASILY, and it isn't even just because of how good forsaken was by itself. Obviously forsaken as a DLC was stellar, giving people plenty to do and holding on to players for a long time, but what I look back on most fondly from year 2 was the seasonal model. It was not like it was now, at all. Not everything was delivered at once but MOST of it was; raids came out on day 1, seasonal activities were fully accessibly from day 1, the only things that were added over the course of the seasons was exotic quests and things like Heroic menagerie and Niobe Labs. I will never ever forget, the time I played the most destiny over a short period of time was the first week of season of opulence. I was on the game all day, grinding runes, doing menagerie runs for loot, and getting in a 6 man stack with friends to do the triumphs in a rush to level up the chalice and get Austringer and Beloved as fast as possible. It was FUN. And it lasted... I was doing menagerie runs to try out the farmable weapons up until literally the day before menagerie was taken out of the game. Same with forges, I was grinding for those weapons from winter of 2019 when it came out to fall of 2020 when it was vaulted. I played the game a lot but I didn't get burnt out, instead I had some of the most fun and engaging time Ive ever had on this game. There is nothing wrong with giving people what they want. Gamers don't want things in moderation, they don't want to be timegated or drip fed, they want things to do and they want to have fun. And if they do it all in a couple weeks and have no reason to play anymore? They can play something else! And they can look back on their time playing destiny, remember how fun it was and how much there was to do, and look forward to the next content drop with confidence that it will deliver the same experience. The problem with what I just said is the "Play something else" part... bungie doesnt want people to leave. Obviously. They live off of player engagement. So they drip feed little by little to keep people playing every week, like the game is some kind of addiction experiment conducted on a mouse that I learned about in Psych 101.

A filthy minded executive once told me that the capitalist economy is like selling a 6 as a 9 to buyers and hooking them into a 69 cycle... Destiny is a product and Bungie is the seller. Every product nowadays portray its ethos and company mindset. D1 was all about fun when it launched. People were happy to pay and buy expansions on quarterly basis until it declined. D2 had no ethos in it. Its just built as a product for mass consumption and zero passion in development. Its difficult to explain but try to imagine Elon Musk and Steve Jobs reflecting their passion in their respective product and then picture any Bungie executive doing the same. If your mentality is in synch with Tesla or iPhone passion then you won't mind splashing the cash. If not, you will probably shop elsewhere. Destiny has zero passion visible in the product and passionate people have probably been driven out but the finance department (imagine Musk being booted out of Tesla by shareholder who want more dividends). There is a sales model which appeals to fomo audience and it works because you need less quality and less quantity to make it sustainable (just like mobile games). The current season pass model fits the bill perfectly becuae it allows a forget and forgive strategy to the casual player and newbies while at the same time providing enough spare cash for Bungie to invest in recycled content. We are in the 69 cycle now and this will continue for a long time because the game is the proverbial carrot on the stick and we ate the ones chasing the carrot.

Of course the annual pass model was 100% better with a enjoyable activity every season people dont get all the good stuff wasn’t made by Bungie but Highmoon studios and Vicarious Visions

Bungie hurt destiny Anything can work if implemented the right way. They just did a poor job

How players view success and how Bungie views success aren't the same thing. We look at how much fun the game is. Bungie looks at the cash flow numbers. If they're making the money that they want then they will ignore any complaints. Luke isn't trying to make a good game, he's trying to keep his bosses happy so that he doesn't get fired.

Some people are addicts and like the drip feed. Some people have more self control and supplement their addiction with other opportunities when droughts occur. Either way neither scenario is correct. You just fit in one of the peg holes.

People are saying seasons are better than a content drought, but here in S14 we got both. Outside of GMs there's nothing really I want to do, hate EAZ so Solstice is way off the table. How many times can you do VoG before you're kind of sick of it?