I loved it, and it introduced me to online gaming so i could never hate it..however I feel most of the decisions bungie are making in regards to this game arnt helping to make a better game....it seems like it is all there to artificially increase playtime and has made the game a terrible grind instead of the adventure it was...I can't run on the hamster wheel anymore, it has helped illuminate some of the bad business practices game developers will use when they don't have the content to back up there claims...I'm hopeful that HOW will fix this and get it back too what it was...bungie don't really seem to give a shit about integrity anymore and it's a real shame

I love the game, I'm getting sick of the developers.

In the name of science, let me say you have too few options. You need a "both" category or a sliding scale, like "I love it 10% and hate it 90%" and so forth. Rarely are emotional reactions completely one or the other--love or hate. I love many aspects of the game--the shooting mechanics, the beautifully designed worlds, the very cool (at least to me) names of the guns and the quirky descriptions for them, the ease of progression from level 1-20, and so on. But I also really dislike (maybe not hate) a lot of things as well: the economy system with too many currencies, the repetition of the bounties, the lack of sufficient vault space. I also seriously hate the glitches and bugs. VoG, which can be really fun and interesting, almost no matter how many times you've played it, sometimes gets so buggy you just have to quit and try again later--usually after dozens of failed attempts due to bugs. So, for me, it's not love OR hate. It's love AND hate. I think this will be true for a lot of players which is why the forums have so many angry hating posters. They love some parts of the game (or else they wouldn't still be playing it and taking the time to write posts) but they also hate, so very much, the flaws in the game. Good luck on your paper.

I love the gameplay ( gun, movement ) mechanics. I hate the game. No story, no LFG tools in the game, the grind starts way early, repetitive, small. I have the pass. I will play out HoW and leave.

I love the game overall but after you have collected everything it is quite boring. I've found myself playing way more pvp lately due to that.

I like Destiny for what it is, I hate Destiny for what it should have been.

First off, I think that the commercial, social and critical reception of Destiny will make a great book someday, so maybe you should grow your essay into that. I'd be happy to contribute if you liked. I hate the game for many reasons (feel free to journey through my comments from optimistic noob to exasperated sour patch). I will repeat a few of my thoughts here though: * From the title through to every element, Destiny is nightmarishly economical. The title itself is a lowest-common-denominator for "hey kids, adventure time!", the character designs are lazy Halo / Warhammer 40K ripoffs, the weapons are the most basic of the basic classes found in the FPS genre (pistol, machine gun x2, heavy machine gun, sniper rifle, rocket launcher, shotgun... token energy weapon) and of course, the story is leaner than a side salad. * lazy. There are elements of the game in the first mission that are never seen or heard from again, as if they simply forgot trip mines and peril were in the game. Other things such as ships are simply undeveloped, and so modifying these load-screen distractions is pointless. * patronising. Bungie have laboured for years on this thing, put out something that still feels incomplete, and when we ask for anything at all they talk to us like we're stupid. They have paid for an IGN podcast to hype their tired two-day experience, and even the cast struggle to be enthusiastic on many occasions. The most recent episode simply seemed to run out of anything of merit to discuss, opting to dissect the puny topic of which bounties we like / don't like. Also, Destin stuck the knife into the community for daring to tell Bungie what we want (without us this car crash wouldn't exist, Destin). So, we are force fed vomit shaders and expected to grind for weapon skins through the same minuscule content ad infinitum and find that fulfilling. There are no MMO elements here. There's nothing to explore, but if anybody wants to tirelessly retread five levels for a rocket launcher, go right ahead. * outmatched. There are better games already. I returned to DCUO and haven't played Destiny in months. I dunno if I can add much more, I got tired of banging the same drum as many others a while back. If they don't want to listen and give people what they want (and it's all common sense that should have been done anyway given the time and money) then they can perpetuate this oddity without me.