All gamers matter

Your use of majority and minority lacks nuance. Hardcore players comprise the majority of the consistent player-base and play the game the most. Labeling majority and minority off of just player numbers is disingenuous in this case, as the hardcores are their core audience and are the majority when it comes to player investment, time spent, and money spent. That’s what a company should be aiming for. You don’t make a store filled with guitars and market it to a pianist.

Games always balance themselves around the top tier of players. You don’t see Overwatch balancing heroes based off what bronze or silver is doing. They balance it around the top tier of players. So does WoW, so does CSGO, etc. Not every game is made to be casual. Dark souls wasnt, WoW wasn’t, and Destiny wasn’t. If it was, raids would explain their mechanics and wouldn’t require mics.

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I'd rather a game favor hardcore players over casual players if I'm being honest. Who's going to stick around longer? The hardcore. Who's going to leave sooner? The casuals. Which makes them more money in the long run? The hardcore. Them shittily handling their treatment of the hardcore is what almost killed destiny and ANYBODY that came from d1 was either an average player or a hardcore one, not a casual. Just like Nintendo is eventually going to have to learn, favoring randoms over your fanbase is going to piss people off. As an example, I really like paper mario. My first one was TTYD and I've never had another rpg experience like it. So I see a brand new one coming out which based off the last 2 games that most of the actual fanbase of the game hated, i hoped they would learn that abandoning your following for a larger majority is a stupid idea. And it drops and i play it for 2 hours and got bored of it because there wasn't any challenge, combat was literally just a time waster and so many of the mechanics that drive an rpg were not there. They favored a casual experience, again, and many MANY people I can see were disappointed. That's not to take away from the fact that it was still going to be a solid game and it DID sell really well, but just like destiny 2 (which did the same shit, literally) it's probably been dropped by many people who enjoyed the game. Even IGN, kings of the "it has a little something for everybody," said it was just downright boring. Charming, but boring which is something the best entry from the game...did not suffer from. So what does that mean for them? Probably nothing because they care more about the casual experience anyways, but nintendo is a super juggernaut that can afford to make those mistakes. Destiny and bungie are not and a lot of people even now are distraught with the game because not even the hardcore can stomach the sheer lack of reason to play. Destiny needs to focus on its main audience, not some people who are always on the fence.

40% of players are PvP players Core players are the minority in numbers but probably have the majority of playtime. For the balance of the game a player only playing 100 hours a year should not count as much as someone playing 1000 hours a year . Destiny is one of the least ,,hardcore,, games you can find. GM nightfalls are a cheese festival. And everything else apart from trials is just as easy as every single player game you could find. We need hard mode raids. Change my mind.

You don't even play the game.

you have a very controversial title to this post. My two Miserable cents... Hardcore players complain about casuals, casuals complain about Hardcore players. Bungie have not done a very great job at finding a balance for both or all types of players... hell, they can’t find a good balance for much if we are being honest. This game is going to end just as it started. With us being like “ wtf is this”