Take a look back at Y1 (of D2)* for a moment. Beside all of the poor gameplay choices that Bungie made, they still managed to tell a great story for new players to experience.
Take a look at what we have now, and realize that New Players load into the Destiny 1 mission, only to be met by John Guardian, who proceeds to take New Lights under his wing for exactly 4 missions before dumping them at the Tower. Where is the direction for players to go? What story is there to experience that will convince new players to purchase DLC's?
Am I wrong to think this way? I've had so many people call me ridiculous for thinking this way.
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10 Replies1. Bungie is rumored to be hiring people to address this issue. 2. Bungie is between a rock and hard-place. a. New players are stepping into a world where there is almost 8 years worth of content and back-story. b. The limitations of the game's design, won't allow it to keep all of that content and still have the game run on PS4 and XB1. Other MMO devs are running into technical problems trying to accomodate these obsolete machines (They're 10 years old...and were underpowered Day 1....now they're practically museum pieces) c. Its "damned if you do, damned if you don't." If you keep all of the content, you'll intimidate and frustrate people who don't want to claw their way through years of irrelevant content and just want to play with their friends. If you get rid of stuff, then you'll frustrate players like yourself who want to experience that so that they know the full story of the game. Then throw in the fact that the more old content you leave in, the more you break the immersion for current players. Because the world doesn't really change in response to what players do. So while I understand the frustration of newer players, one thing the DCV has done is vastly increase the feel that the game is an evolving-and-changing world. So while I'm sure there are BETTER answers to this than what's in the game right now...I don't think there are very many good answers to any of this. Not until enough PS5s and XBS X/S's are sold to actual users, so that Bungie can drop support for PS4 and XB1