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Edited by Master: 11/5/2014 12:47:27 AM
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My final server rant...

I have been a very vocal dissenter when it comes to this game's broken servers. A lot of my threads have been logical, damning critiques of Bungie's practically non-existent, insulting help articles regarding the various error codes thousands of us receive on a daily basis. And some of it has just been angry, snide remarks about the unplayable condition of the servers themselves. I was vocal for a couple different reasons, but mostly, I believed (with a fair amount of naive idiocy) that my comments mattered. Surely if I illustrated my ills in a mature, well-thought out manner, myself and countless other disenfranchised gamers would see some improvements and actually get to play the game for more than ten minutes at a time. I even got a response or two from Bungie as a result of my threads, which temporarily made me feel like I mattered. There have been multiple patches with server improvements, and yet, every day the help forums are saturated with thousands of new comments from people who cannot play the game. You knew enough about the state of the servers before launch that you were able to give every possible code a very specific name. So how is it possible that you continue to be so clueless about what the codes actually mean? You have actually taken to the forums to ask the community what sorts of fixes worked for them. It doesn't get much more embarrassing than that. I've come to realize it doesn't matter that you won't actually come out and admit your servers are primarily to blame. Why would you? Being honest about one's own incompetence is unheard of among corporations, and usually spells out termination or serious punishment to the parties responsible for the honesty. It's way easier to trot out a bunch of "help" articles that all implicate our network settings. Your recommended "fixes" are not difficult to implement, and yet they've offered no improvements to my experience (nor the experience of thousands of others who have followed your network recommendations). I feel compelled to mention again -- I have no issue with any other online game/app. It is limited to Destiny alone. And even after being forced to learn about static versus dynamic ip, port forwarding, NAT type, etc, my experience remains the same. Your fixes are smokescreens, distractions from broken servers that you knew were broken from the get-go, as evidenced by all the specific names you had already assigned for every error code imaginable. It's taken me two months, but I finally understand that the servers are not going to change, and that my experience will remain frustrating. I will continue to play the game in three to thirty-minute intervals, and then get kicked out for reasons that are entirely on your end. Whether you are unwilling or incapable of fixing your servers, you've obviously determined that the players who are unable to play are enough of a minority that they can be relatively disregarded (not counting, of course, cute PR moves like a forum response here or there, or a paragraph in a weekly update). That's understandable from a business standpoint. But it's a huge bummer for me. As I stated in the subject line, this will be my last extensive server rant. I finally get that I don't matter, and neither do the others who experience similar issues. Carry on without us. I imagine you'll hardly notice.

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  • Seriously.... If typical game console fans have to resort to learning about networks, static versus dynamic ip and so on, because Bungie can't comprehend the issue of their servers being so bad then Bungie needs to amass a total recall of this game because alot of typical gamers are very disappointed with Destinys final outcome. It's already bad enough that Activition forces Bungie to cut stuff out of the game to create more DLC's in the future so they can make more money. How greedy can people get?!? If this game is the future of Bungie then I believe this game is the sad ending of Bungies grand gamemaking adventure. It makes absolutely no sense that Bungie can control the servers 5 million players on the Beta but they can't control the servers with an average of 15 thousand players on the full game. They had nearly 2 months before the full game release to fix all of these issues that gamers were having and all they have done sense the full game release is made it worse. At least on the Beta Bungie took their heads out of their butts to help the system and fix error code problems people were having. Now that the full game is out there are more error codes than there was in the Beta. Typical Xbox and Playstation users should not have to learn about how to control the flow of their own internet connection on a computer just to play a game.

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