I have been. Only I've been cutting back.....rather than quitting cold turkey.
I've stopped playing PVP including Iron Banner months ago. I've now stopped playing Gambit now that I have Malfeasance.
...and I've cutdown my play form three characters to just one.
If I cut back any further....I'm gone.
Though I'm trying to get through to Bungie, before they push me into walking away entirely. Bungie....in their arrogance....doesn't seem to realize the neckbeards and the streamers aren't their real customer.
..and once they chase away the real customer, the streamers will abandon them to. SO many of them are lining up right now to add Anthem and Division 2 content to their channels.
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Dude, you and I haven't seen eye to eye on many things, but we've both spent years on these forums trying to make this game better. And they aren't listening. This game keeps cutting its player base in half. D1 sold about 22M, D2 about 12M ("sold" might be generous given the price cuts and free copies), and Forsaken's sales are undisclosed. I'm guessing it's around 5M. I have worked for a corporation, and I can tell you one thing for certain. When the money gets tight, they sef-destruct. You can tell them everything they need to do and be right about everything and they will not listen. You can watch them fail and say, "I told you so, you ready to listen now?" and they will not listen. They will do every stupid by the book theoretical business school flow chart bullshit thing. I managed a store and the owner wanted to save money by sending one employee home 2 hours early leaving only two employees in a store with thousands of square feet. I told him that he would save $13 a day and that if we had employees that couldn't sell $13 in two hours to cancel that out then we needed new employees. I told him that if the store had more than two customers in it customer service would suck and we'd lose sales. I told him shoplifting would increase. I told him morale would drop for those that lost hours and those that had to work harder due to fewer staff. Sure enough, everything I said was right, and the store lost way more than the $13 saved and lost employees due to the cuts in hours. You know what he did? He sent people home THREE hours early. The store eventually went under, myself and others lost jobs, yet somehow, that mother-blam!-er failed up and is consulting in DUBAI. Bungle is no different. They'll keep catering to streamers and content creators thinking they'll drive sales. They'll keep catering to the "hardcore" because they can't figure out how to compromise. They'll keep adding grinds through checklists to acquire an asset because it's cheaper than creating experiences. They'll keep bringing back D1 gear, keep re-skinning, keep shitty P2P hybrid whatever the -blam!- PvP, all because it's cheaper. And as the money gets tighter, it will all multiply, until even the "hardcore" gets tired of a grind rather than a game. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but this game is going down. It will be at least Sept of 2020 before D3 comes out and this game will bleed to death before then. I'm not trying to tell you what to do. I have OCD and borderline Asperger's, so letting go of a sunk cost fallacy is INCREDIBLY difficult for me. I'm actually really glad that Black Armory pissed me off so much that I quit. I can tell you that thinking about this game only once every three or four weeks when I check the forums to remind me there's no earth shaking news to bring me back feels -blam!-ing wonderful.