I agree, it saddens me to see vog, Croatia, poey now redundant. The rewards are no longer relevant to make it a viable investment of time. I do think bungie need to resolve this asap. They are in such a hurry to get new content out they are not seeing the bigger picture until people start complaining. Surely there should be a team working on the games entire relevance as new dlc's/expansions are released? Sadly there doesn't seem to be.

"I don't want to get off on the wrong foot". Proceeds to bash and patronize Bungie with the passion of a six-year-old whose favorite fire truck broke.

The black spindle 'nerf' was a glitch. Lets say weapon A has 3 perks and weapon B has 4. It is confirmed a glitch to have 4. Later they reduce the amount of perks on weapon B to 4. Does it 'nerf' its ability? Yes Was it a glitch? Yes Now apply that to black spindle and ohhh it was a glitch ti be dropping at 310... More importantly though, I believe they have lowered all rep gains and xp gains in order to allow tess to sell the old rep gains on a weekly basis for x amount of silver.

I don't know if I agree with everything that was pointed out, but somethings were true. Some bigger things were also missed. First let me address anyone saying this guy is completely wrong by saying, I don't understand how you can't see some of the major flaws that are created by some of the "balancing" Bungie tries to implement. Biggest example being this new Strange coin and Weapon parts nerf. I don't get a huge amount of Strange coins in the week and if you don't have many weapon parts to begin with then you likely wont ever have a huge amount, and now even less so. Nightfalls are for the most part useless now. I have seen a couple runs that gave my friends 3 strange coins... What kind of reward is that for a challenging event. I get that some of you want to do the Nightfall purely for fun, but how many times would you be willing to run it for "fun" without getting anything at all? It definitely gets repetitive after awhile. Let me share some of my views on the blatant problems with pvp. FIRST- Why do Stormcallers have a perk that allows them to get very short cooldown when they are near their allies on their supers? Is this so they can abuse it and use it every other minute to win the match? SECOND Why are there still sticky grenades that 1 shot you, and that will home onto your body so the user basically doesn't have to aim at you much? I don't remember such a thing being in Halo. I remember actually having to try and hit someone with a sticky, through aim and timing.THIRD Bungie why are you afraid to vigorously change weapons to bring some sort of actual balance in pvp instead of small changes across boards that just bring out different unbalances. I have killed and been killed by certain pulse rifles at medium ranges faster than a HEAVY MACHINE GUN can take some down....2-3 bursts to kill might have looked good on paper but it sure doesn't work in-game towards a balanced match Some pulse rifles do feel good, but there are quite a few who do more than a little to much damage. What annoys me quite a lot, and I know we as a community have been dealing with many changes to them for better or for worse, are shotguns. Why can't Bungie just make separate stats for PVP and PVE and completely rework how shotguns work in pvp. Even without shot package I can still be 1 shot by rangefinder across small room. Once again bringing up Bungies previous successful series Halo, I don't remember Shotguns ever being able to kill as far as the ones in Destiny do even now, but they were far from useless. I'm guessing the reason we don't have separate stats and all these other reworks is because Bungie is already under contract to put most of their workload towards Destiny 2 set to release fall 2016 as far as we know. Bungie should have known better than to take a contract like this when trying to keep such a massive first project step up-to-date. Some Auto rifles still feel underwhelming and unable to keep up with the damage of other guns, while others keep up just fine. Can we get some fine tuning of those few that aren't as good or are Bungie just to busy working on the next Unbalanced mess coming out for us to spend 60$ on. Do we all remember the fun hunt for the Sleeper we did trying to find out how to get it only for it to turn out to be a few tiny easy quests and a days wait to claim the gun. How bout is everyone aware how to get the Last Word re-skin called The First Cure? You do an easy quest, wait a week, do another easy quest... wait another week... then you get the gun which is quite underwhelming in performance in pvp actually. Oh and yes, you have to do 2 quests and wait for two weeks.... just wait and do nothing.. Are Bungie lazy now or are they truly to busy working on Destiny 2 to give this game much attention anymore? If they are to busy, then how do we expect the next few games to turn out if they are doing a new one every 2 years for a total of 4 games... So do we wait until the 4th game to see the effort that such a massive project deserves? I know there will be plenty who don't agree with what I said, but agree with this right now-> Bungie needs to become more active in our community, paying attention to what we say and actually giving us replies in the forums on a daily basis. They need to actively give us information on why they do or don't do things. I know a few large game studios that sit down and reply to people on their forums and do a live stream every single week were they explain why they change, add or don't do things and even answer some live questions. For a bordering on MMO game like Destiny, they absolutely need to start doing something similar to this or we will see suffer in the end.

People keep mentioning the drop rates for raids. My experience 4 raids, 1 with hunter 3 with titan Titan: Chest Boots Helmet (helmet and shell dropped at Oryx when I had accumulated 20 shards) Machine gun Rocket Shotgun (Infused into 1000 yd stare) 2 scout rifles (One infused into tread upon stars, 2nd is 308) Auto rifle (Infused into hawkmoon) Hunter Cloak Hunter Gauntlets 3 ghost shells Idk from 4 raids I don't feel as if the drops are crap. I got way less from Vault of Glass

I've been thinking, and my attitude over some of this may have colored my opinion...a lot. I'm starting to understand we as players are nothing. Bungie is a business and businesses make money, nothing wrong with that. However most businesses strive to keep customers, make them happy so they return and spend more. Seems like this concept has escaped Activision and Bungie. Instead its "get customers, get their $$, let them go and appeal to new base, rinse, repeat". I honestly think Bungie couldn't care one bit if we are happy. I think the changes we've seen bare that out. Who is happy with fewer weapons parts? Fewer coin, emotes? What logical reason was there to scale these down? What logical reason was there to bring Spindle down? Malice drops at 310, as does the sword. I think this is what we will see. Pay for your motes, coins. Neither are required to win, so they hold that line, but it appeals to newer players who won't know any better. Same for parts. I revisited the pay to win folks. I still don't think you will need to pay to win, but you'll pay to hit Xur, or quickly upgrade that weapon. Bungie knows we, as current players won't go for that. Sadly, they don't seem to care. Seems the attitude is that we can be replaced. I'd imagine this is all groundwork for the next iteration of Destiny. If they cared, they'd communicate. Period. There is no dialog between players and Bungie. There's a pittance of posts from Community Managers, but little back and forth...real dialog. It seems like its a "Our way or the highway" attitude. Nothing I've seen bares the "improvements" they trumpeted with 2.0. I don't see a smarter RNG, don't believe the raid drops are worth the effort (like Skolas), IB is a joke, and now these new changes. Sadly, soon, il be done. Just don't like the direction this is going. Even worse, Bungie knows there will be someone to take my place. Our will go on...and on.